Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-08


and had to be reballasted before traf
ffc could be sent over it."
The Mckinley Republican, speaking
Eof the rainfall at Gallup says: "The
heaviest cloudburst that this city has
seen for some time occurred in the
hills east of the city. The north Pu
erco was the highest that the Oldest
inhabitant has ever seen it. The
stream was bankfull and carried with
it everything in it's way. Live pigs,
timber, etc., came down the stream
For a while it looked as if the bridge
would be washed away. About 600
feet of track at the Thatcher mine
was washed, the loss falling upon the
Caledonian Coal Company"
The Socorro Chieftain says:
"Socorro has been blessed with sew
eral light showers this week that must
have raised the total rainfall for the
last eleven months to fully one inch. -
According to the Pennington Hust-
Ter Heavy showers have visited nearly
all parts of the county this week, III
some places they did considerable dan.-
age to bitches"
From the Carlsbad Current:
"The surrounding country was
blessed with rain Monday to greater or
less degree. Out toward Monumen:
and on the San Simon range, as we'll
as up McKittrick draw, the precipi
tation was heavy enough to greatly en-
courage the stockmen."
Says the Texico Trumpet:
''It rained again Sunday night and a
little more Wednesday, which was fine
for the growing crops. A little wind
accompanied the rain Sunday night,
and distributed things promiscuously
over the prairie"
The following is from the Ration Re-
porter:
"a heavy rain occurred on the other
side of Barela mesa last Sunday night.
At the little village of San Miguel the
water came down the canon six feet
high, washing away three small
houses, the inmates barely escaping
with their lives. One little boy was
washed down the canon about fifty
yards but held to log until rescued"
A dispatch to the Denver papers
says:
can Ell Paso and Northeastern train
ran into a washout at Jarilla, Otero
County, Saturday morning and an en-
gine and one car were derailed No
one was hurt Traffic was delayed sew
eral hours, but. trains will be running
before morning"
Letters in other columns from San
Rafael and Mountainair show that Va
lencia County received it's share of the
precipitation.
Says the Socorro Chieftain:
"There was a tremendous rainfall
on the Magdalenas last week and a
larger volume of water swept down the
canon than had ever been seen there
before"
According to the Colfax County
Stockman Heavy rains at the head OF
the Cimarron and Rayado rivers made
those streams navigable for several
hours"
From the Deming Graphic:
During the heavy shower which Wis
tied this region on Saturday evening
the wires Of the Deming Ice and Elec-
trio Company were struck by lightning
and part Of the insulation Of the ar.
mature of the large dynamo was
burned of, leaving the town in dark
ness for a couple of nights and putting
the company to considerable trouble
and expense"
Thus almost every town in the Ter.
ritory reports and even Lordsburg
comes with the following plant in the
Liberal "The wet weather we have
been having for the past three weeks
has bred an enormous number of flies,
which have added to the discomforts
of the wet weather.
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