Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-06-20
STORM At SANTA FE.
Bridges Damaged and Much Property
Destroyed BY the Flood,
ALL JUNE RECORDS BROKEN.

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Sunday that city started to take a
bath and wound up byl going swim.
ming. For short time that af.
| ternoon rain poured down in such
| quantities that it seemed as though
there had ben a cloudburst, arroyos
and irrigation bitches became SO full
that 1t was impossible for them to car
ry off the water. streets looked like un.
usually wide bitches and considerable
damage was done. With the rain. hail
pelted down for awhile and beat
against windows as If determined to
break the glass. The precipitation yes
terday as recorded Mt the local office
)f the weather bureau was 10 inches
and for Saturday night was .12 of an
nch, making a total since Saturday of
l.22 inches. This breaks all previous
records for June, as the total rainfall
Tor the first fourteen days of this
month has been 3.57 inches or more
than the total for the entire month
slncea record has been kept.
The water rose so rapidly yesterday
and came down in such quantities that
much damage was done. Within a few
moments the water in the river and
many of the tributary arroyos rose
bank full and but light fall more
would have caused them to overflow.
Many of the posts which marked the
channel of the river as surveyed by the
city, were swept away and the water
paid no attention to the official chan
mel. The strain on all bridges was
great and today the only bridge which
teams were permitted to be driven
across, was that on 0aiisteo street.
rhe bridge on Don Gaspar avenue was
open to foot traffic, but IT was deemed
unsafe for vehicles.
The bridge over the arroyo Sais was
swept away and a number of smaller
bridges over arroyos were carried out.
A dangerous place was left on Don
jaspar avenue east OF Manhattan ave
nue, where the water washed out a
new channel across the street and let
one end of the bridge fall into the deep
arroyo. But few bridges over arroyos
were left in good condition. The foot
bridge on Canyon road is among those
carried away.
The Delgado street bridge over the
Rio Santa Fe was damaged and q
large amount of dir at the end OF the
Don Gaspar avenue bridge was washed
out. At Galisteo street by the end of
the bridge. was large pile of dirt
which has remained from the erection
of new buildings in that vicinity. This
was to q great extent carried away and
there were several small land slides
Much damage was caused by the
food water which poured down from
the hills north of the city. Grant and
Washington avenues for time looked
like incipient rivers and the water ex-
tended over the walks as well as the
street. This morning the vacant lots
south of the Palace hotel and east OF
Washington avenue resembled lakes
with the water standing in them.
The house owned by Lehman Spieg.
elberg on Washington avenue. was
greatly damaged. The water came
down from the hill above In such vol
ume tnat In a few moments ii rose al.
most TO the height of the window stills.
st. Vincents hospital did not escape
The breaking of an acequia permitted
large amount of water To flow di.
rectly towards the building and there
was over two feet OF water in the Gel.
lar In consequence. Many trunks were
stored in the cellar and so were dam
aged. Four rooms In the frame build.
ing were flooded. The water rose so
that IL flowed through the rooms but II
was seen coming in time to permit the
removal OF carpets. Men were kept
busy all night pumping water from the
callars of the buildings. Some damage
was done to tn new residence OF Hon.
Arthur Seligman by water getting into
the cellar.
A vast amount of annoyance and, In
the aggregate. quite a heavy loss, was
caused by water beating under win
down and injuring carpets and furni-
ture. II has been long time since
Santa Fe has had such food and the
damage end loss from It will aggregate
quite a large sum.
The storm demolished q stable In
which were twenty goats belonging
TO Manuel Montoya and Leandro Iowa