Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-11

PARTICULARS
Concerning the Damage Done by
Flood at Mora, Rociada and
Outlying Districts.
TRAFFIC is RESUMED
California Trains That Had Been Delay
ed at Las Vegas For 8 Days
at Last Move.

| The copies of the Las Vegas Daily
Optic which reached Santa Fe last ev
ening, bring the following additiona
items about the flood in San Migue
County in the immediate vicinity O.
Las Vegas, as well as in the more re
mote parts:
"The big shower on Friday after
noon, followed by a rattle of hail, filled
the hearts Of train people and citizens
with CONSERVATION At o'clock the
heavens were almost cloudless. In half
an hour it was raining sea. The old.
est inhabitant has buried himself in
a haymow and threatens to commit
rsuicide. There isn't pretext of a
precedent for any such weather as this.
"There have been many inconven-
fences and many hardships consequent
upon the detention of large number
of passengers at Las Vegas for over
week. There has been one case which
calls for genuine sorrow. Mrs. Mary
Marty, aged eighty-two, who was trav-
cling to Los Angeles with thirteen
members of her family, fell in the train
the other day and severely injured her
self. Several strokes of paralysis fol-
lowed, and ON Friday the old lady pass
ed away. She was buried Saturday af-
ternoon. A number Of the passengers
attended the funeral
Charles F. Rudolph arrived on Sat
urday at Las Vegas from Rociada, and
said the flood had done more damage
at Rociada than at first thought, as
they had found that the hay stacks.
owing to numerous rainfalls, were wet
clear through, and that in its present
condition the most of it would mold
and ruin. The farm lands are washed
so badly, they are practically ruined,
and all the plastering on the jacales,
or log cabins in his neighborhood was
washed off, leaving the bare logs show
ing. The roads are in bad condition,
but the people of Rociada are repairing
them rapidly, and will soon have them
in good condition.
"W. J. Pochel, wife and children,
who have been spending the past six
months at Beulah for health reasons,
left there overland on Friday morning
for Las Vegas and reached there Sat
urday night. Mr.. Pochel says the road
to Beulah is almost impossible as in
GOV ho hod %o frov for n, i1nc
through fields and gullies. At Beulah
the flood did considerable damage. S.
l.. Barker lost several hundred dol
lars in injury done to his crops and
houses and mill Theodore Hainlen's
mill was also badly damaged, and the
bridges over the Sapello River were all
washed away.
"a letter was received Saturday at
Las Vegas from Sanchez, which gives
the following account of the devasta-
tion wrought by the flood at that place:
The recent food played havoc here to
houses, farm lands, fruit trees, and the
roads. About twenty-five houses have
so far been reported washed away, and
several persons had narrow escapes
with their li3es. Hundreds of acres of
fruit trees were blown and washed
down and are completely ruined, An
tonic Sanchez alone having lost five
hundred trees. In fact, very few peo-
pie living on the heights escaped with
out heavy loss.'
"Andreas Gadard is at Las Vegas
from Mora. He says the road to Upper
Mora is destroyed, that twenty-nine
houses in Mora were ruined and that
the damage to the farming country has
been tremendous. The Walton Hotel
was badly damaged. Joe H. Harbere
| and his little son were swept Off their
feet by the water in the street but were
rescued. Mr.. Gadard says the only Ill
which befel Sheriff Tito Melendez was
that he was pitched from buckine
horse"
From Albuquerque comes the news
that the first trains from the north fol
ten days reached there Saturday even
ling. These trains had been held at Lai
Vegas and Lamy since the beginning
Of the flood. They were sent west Sun
day morning. Four trains from the
west are now waiting for the opening
of the line to Ell Paso, that division
having been caught again on Saturday
by washouts between San Marcial and
! San Antonio. All wires are dowr