Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-01
EX=MAYOR SPARKS
HAD LONG WALK
Arrived Late Last Night After Tramp.
ing Thirty Miles From
EspanoIa.


He had rather interesting time on
his trip home and was as he called it
dead tired" when he arrived here.
The rain storm of Wednesday and
Thursday last extended north into
southern Colorado. The train he was
on was delayed three hours north of
Alamosa by landslide which was
brought about by the heavy rains in
that vicinity. The train arrived three
hours late at Alamosa and then pulled
out for the south, making slow time
on account of small washouts, until it
reached Espanola and there real trou-
BILE commenced Several bridges be-
tween this city and Espanola were
proceed any farther.
Fourteen of the passengers on the
train, among them two women,
concluded that they would walk south
until they reached some of Blossoms
buggies and carriages sent out to meet
them They employed two Indians on
horseback and sent them out as scouts
to look for Blossoms teams. Then
they walked bravely on for six miles,
and stopped for a short lunch The
teams could not be found and after
consultation six of the intrepid pedes-
trians decided to proceed while eight
walked back expecting to find lodging
at the Denver & Rio Grande section
house this side of the railroad bridge
across the Rio Grande, distance of
26 miles from here The other six
proceeded towards Santa Fe in pairs
and some of them were fortunate
enough to find wagons. Mr. Sparks
and one companion, however, had to
use 'shanks mare" all the way in and
he describes it as not very exhiliarat-
ing ride. He and his companion were
not only foot sore and weary but also
very hungry. Upon reaching home he
was glad to find that his residence had
not been swept away although desert
ed by the family, Mrs. Sparks and the
children having gone to spend the
night with friends on the south side in
fear Of the house being washed away.
The wagon bridge across the Rio
Grande above Espapola went out yes.
terday and is complete wreck The
river from Embudo down was very
wide and the fields and orchards in the
entire valley were under water. At
Espanola, he was informed that in the
memory of the Oldest inhabitants no
such amount of water as was then and
there in the Rio Grande had ever been
seen before. The crops were greatly
injured and the alfalfa and corn fields
especially suffered.
Judging from the great volume of
water coming down the Rio Grande at
Espanola, the Rio Grande Valley be-
low White Rock must be a great suf
ferer as there the waters were bound
to find an outlet and spread over the
low country from the White Rock Can
on to Albuquerque. At noon yester-
day the water in the Rio Grande at Is
pamela seemed to be falling and had
probably gone down two feet from the
height it reached the day before. The
rain seemed to have been general over
northern New Mexico as all the
streams tributary to the Rio Grande
were carrying heavy columns of water
and were running at great velocity
probably from ten to twelve and more
miles per hour. The rain which fell
throughout the entire day on Thursday
was very great and at times it assum.
ed the proportion of cloudbursts.