El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-01
DOWNP0UR IS
SEVERE TEST TO
ROADS SUNDAY
Autos, Trains and Cars Ma
rooned by Heavy Week
End Rainfall.

Jup. EluEiuS. who turns the ocean up
side down and drops Il on the earth,
went on a spree Saturday. When the
clouds cleared away Sunday, Fl PasO
ana the surrounding country was a big
ihuupudQle- Every railway In the city
mad begun TO hand out the late sign
on It's trains; the government weather
mans gage showed IS OF an inch rain
ran; housewives were busy sweeping
OUT the traces of muddy shoes automO-
pies We're being washed-and II ralned
again Sunday night
The above mentioned incorporate
turned on natures water faucet early
saturday evening and forgot 10 turn It
or until daylight sunday. Crowds Of
pleasure hunters were caught down.
town and The automobile business
DoOned- II was a rainfall for the taEis
so TO speak Many social functions
were IN progress-the Country club
dance, the high school pageant Mrs
HammettS annual Children's party at
the Elks, the Paso del Norte roof gar
den dance, the nickel struggle" at the
Auditorium pavilion and the Saxon club
dance Besides these. a number Of par
ties and dances were held in private
homes
MarOOned IN n Taxi.
AS a result dozens OF dancers were
marooned at different points until long
after midnight waiting for automobiles.
taxi carrying two young women
rum a udAlNE 10 AlE4L ADL4EH on NORM
Oregon street about midnight baked"
and the occupants stayed inside until
nearly a m. when bigger car came
to the rescue Their home was only 100
feet away, but the mud was more than
ankle deep.
Miniature Rio Grandes, coIored exact.
II like the real one, raced through the
downtown streets, 10 the great discom-
fort Of low shoes and silk hose. Street
car service was crippled to some exc
tent on every line in town.
Ranehers Happy.
Ranchers in New Mexico and west
Texas welcomed the wet stuff but rail-
road officials, IL is rumored. compared
it to Sherman's famous definition OF
war. The government weather bureau
score keeper got busy and figured out
that by the Saturday deluEe Fl PasO
is So above her normal record for rain
fall since March l. According TO past
performances. the city should have 81
OF an inch rainfall from March 1 TO this
time, but this year she has a record OF
1.75- And the prediction today is "oc-
caslOnal showers for west Texas"
The Texas & Pacific suffered more
damage than any other railway enter
ing Fl PasO- Several washouts on the
line between Van Horn and PecOs tied
up through traffic and trains are only
running as far as Van Horn. Repair
gangs are hard at work and officials
say through service may be resumed to-
night Since Saturday all T. & P trains
en- route here have been handled by the
Orient railway from Sweetwater TO Al
pine, where the G. II. & s. A took them
and hauled them as far as Sierra
Blanca. From Sierra Blanca they are
brought to Fl PasO by a stub" train
made up here
WnshOuts Reported
T. & P passenger no. 5. due here at
$50 Sunday night. arrived at 10 a m.
Monday. A washout on the G. h Sat
Urday night near Finlay. Tex. delayed
all trains four hours Sunday morning.
This washout has been repaired and
traffic is moving. although late
Soft track on the 2. P. & 9. W.
north and west Of here has caused
nearly all Southwestern trains to be
late Southern Pacific train No 1872
from the west. was two and one-half
hours late on account OF bad tracks
near stems, y n The Santa Fe IS hav-
ing less trouble probably than any
other roads