Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-07
AFTERMATH
OF FLOOD
The Tie Up Of the Santa Fe Sys-
TEN South Of Lamy to Be
Broken Tomorrow.
MORE LIVES LOST
Belated Stories Of the Havoc Wrought
by the Angry Waters in Northern
New Mexico.

! In the future all floods in New Mex
leo will be compared with the great
| flood of September, 1904 More Incl
dents telling of the unprecedented
force of and the devastationwrough by
| the high waters on last Friday are be-
ing, reported.
Two women and boy We're drown
ed in the Red River, below Springer.
according to report which reached
here last evening. The body of Mrs.
Villarael was drowned in the Mora
on Wednesday,. A number Of bodies,
however. of persons known to have
been drowned at Watrous, have not
Iyet been recovered
1 In Leonard Wood County consider
able damage was done to hay, beans
and other crops at Tanos and Alamo
gordo At Santa Rosa, s. A. Stills
store front was badly damaged and
the rear end of Harrison & Williams
store settled to such az extent that It,
will have to be rebuiltS Nearly every
adobe house at Santa Rosa was more
or less damaged. The bridge over the
| Canadian River on the main line of the
Rock Island, was damaged, but the
bridge over the Canadian on the, Daw-
son escaped injury, although the river
was very high. The bridge between
Tucumcari and Palomas was weaken
ed to such an extent that it is unsafe.
considerable loss of property is re-
ported from Springer, Colfax County.
At Shoemaker, the salvage from thes
store property of Murphy & Glass does
not amount to 5000.
The big iron bridge over the Pecos
at Santa Rosa had narrow escape
from destruction. Although the high
est railroad bridge in New Mexico, the
river rose until the waves washed
against the girders. A long train Of
heavily laden coal cars was run on the
bridge and this weight held the bridge
securely in place.
The Turquillo Valley in Mora CouR.-
ty, was utterly ruined by the high wa
ters. The valley is cigar-shaped and is
about eight miles long and a mile wide
in the center. 1t is noted for its beau
tiful meadows and fine crops of wheat,
oats, barley and corn. The valley Is
surrounded by mountains from which
canons open into it. On September 26,
the storm commenced and lasted with
out interruption for four days. The
Canon CAIRO commenced to send down
a flood on September 27. This increas-
ed until September 20, when the other
canons also sent down immense floods,
covering the valley with water, so that
only the tops of thousand or more
hay stacks were visible. Grain and
hay were carried into the Coyote Riv-
er, the loss amounting to $1,500. At
the upper end of the valley lake COW
ering 500 acres was left, the water
finding no exit and likely to remain
there for many months.
General Manager H. U. Nudge and
Superintendent Easley, of the Santa
Fe system, have made their way from
Trinidad, Colorado, to Albuquerque.
Mr. Nudge travelled to Ration, by
trolley to Starkville, thence by light
engine for distance. The remainder
of the journey to Ration was made by
wagon and handcar. A work train
brought the traveller near to Springer.
After a transfer over the river by wa
gon and drive of some distance, they
maker Messrs. Nudge and Easley
walked the nine. miles through the can
on to Watrous.
From Ration to Springer Mr.. Nudge
reports the new line in good condition,
the damage near French having been
repaired. The bridge over the Red
River, just this side of Springer, siif-
fered severely and couple of days
will be necessary to repair it. The
bridge at Colmor, long trestle, was
also taken out Other small bridges
will need attention.
The iron bridge over the Mora near
Shoemaker was twisted around and L
moved for some distance. The ap-
proaches were entirely gone. The
work of rebuilding the approaches to
the Watrous bridge over the Mora has
already begun. The Lantry engines
and machinery were moved into Shoe
maker canon and considerable force
began work under the supervision Of
Engineer Bisbee on the big BLUM which
must be leveled to enable read bed
to be located. BY the time the general
manager arrived at the bluff fifteen
holes had been sunk to a depth Of Y
feet. Others are being
drilled. A whole mountain viii be lift-
ed with one tremendous blast. There
are a number of places in the canon
where the road must be rebuilt.
ssNever in the history Of the SANTA
re has any such flood disaster cosne -
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