Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-06

time before the loss of life in the Who'll
valley can be told for certain.
The report that the big MonteZum
hotel had been washed from it's founds
tions is erroneous. The bath hous
and bridge went out and the old hote
was undermined but the new hotel i
intact
The rainfall covering the period o
the flood from Wednesday evening
September 2Sth, at 6 o'clock, to Frida.
morning at 6-thirty-six hours-as re
corded by the government weather bu
reau, was AGA inches at Las Vegas
The reports indicate that the downpou
in the mountain districts was almos
twice as heavy.
Last night a special work train car
rying lot of cars laden with men AM
material, and also a pile driver, wen
to the gap beyond Watrous. The roat
was rebuilt 40 the channel last nigh
and work on the temporary bridge owe
the Mora was begun this morning.
Two civil engineers declared that II
their opinion the current of the Gal
lines cannot safely be turned. The
only way to make the property on the
flats safe is to widen the channel in
| such manner as to give the river a
| straight course to the bridge at Las
Vegas.
A committee of Las Vegas citizens
was before the county commissioners
of San Miguel County on Tuesday in
the interest of the residents of the east
and west sides affected by the recent
flood disaster. Their plan is to have
an engineer go over the ground thor
oughly and make estimates of the cost
of turning the river into the old chan.
mel and making such improvements
along the banks thereof as to make the
channel permanent, the expense to be
divided between the county of San Mi.
guel and the town of Las Vegas and
the city of Las Vegas, the Santa Fe
Railway Company and the citizens.
The county commissioners signified by
resolution their willingness to assist in
the matter, to the extent of one-fourth
the cost thereof, provided the cost does
not exceed the sum of $4,000 The com
mittee will take the matter up with the
railroad company, the mayors OF the
city and town OF Las Vegas, and the
citizens affected with view Of enlist
ing their aid as soon as the engineers
report is made.
Every man that can be picked up is
being sent to the Watrous washout.
A half dozen hobos were turned out of
the Las Vegas city jail and sent UP the
line to work. They were offered the
choice between working on the streets
for nothing and working at Watrous
for $1.40 day. The work of making
temporary bridge is going on rapidly.
The hardest work, however, is beyond
the bridge in the canon where the To-
eating Of new line will be matter of
extreme difficulty.
Cello Rosehwald, of the firm of
E. Rosenwald & Son, who returned to
Las Vegas on Saturday, reports one of
the most remarkable journeys which
he ever made in New Mexico. The
rain caught him at Romeroville, an
hour after he left home on Friday a
week ago and for six days it rained in
cessantly and heavily. Cerrito, forty
miles to the southwark was his desti-
nation, but he was forced to turn aside
and wait at Chaperito till the flood
went by The crest of the water,
which passed the ranch of Trinidad
Romero on the Upper Gallinas about
IL O'clock Thursday night and which
struck Las Vegas about 1880 Friday |
reached Chaperito, forty
miles to the, south at about 2 o'clock.
The flood at that point, says Mr.. Rosen-
wald, was three hundred feet wide and |
fifty feet deep and the waves dashed |
twenty feet high at times. The valley |
was swept clear of all crops, orchards
and vegetation of any kind. In an or
chard at La Conception of a crop which
had been estimated at 25,000 pounds of
apples, there was not an apple left.
When the waters subsidized, Mr.. Rosen-
valid abandoned the remainder of his
trip and hurried home to see what was
left of Las Vegas.
A letter from Rociada says. The
of the oldest settler in this
place does not recall an equal to the
amount of rainfall and volume of wa
ter which poured through the little |
stream, Manuelitas, from Thursday |
night at 5 o'clock until Friday night at
II o'clock without entirely stopping for
a space of fifteen minutes during the
whole time, which was twenty-eight
hours. During this time the rain gauge |
registered 1872 inches of water fallen
from the sky. Nearly all the crops
which had been cut and shocked up or |
stacked we've either washed away or
soaked to such an extent as to damage
them about fifty per cent. The roads
are all washed out so that wagon can
not get one mile from the town in any |
direction. All the bridges are gone
and fields are plowed up by the flood,
In some places making arroyos ten feet
Deep No lives nor stock we're lost in
this vicinity as far as can be learned