Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-25
WATER REGEDES
! AND DANGER OF
FLOOD IS OvER
bikes Are Holding and River
Is Going Down, Thus Re-
lieving Anxiety of People
for the Present.

Unless an additional flood should
come down from Colorado it is be-
iieyed that the danger To Albu-
buerque from the rise of the Rio
Grande has passed The river be-
can TO fall at 4 o o'clock Monday
morning and while at noon it was
reported 10 have been hlSher IN
some of the inlets, had recedeu
about four inches on the average,
while at 6 o'clock ii was estimated
that there had been a drop OF from
10 TO - inches. The dlkes al Ala
media were fe-enforced yesterday
and are holding. The road this side
of the Belen bridge has been cut
off. Don j. Rankin, former county
engineer, has been appointed 10
direct flood work, 800
A volunteer force of about 2Oo
men and boys worked until early
Monday morning, and throughout
the day Monday along the river
banks and on the bitches and bikes
from Alameda TO below Aulsco'
and managed hold back the water
and to repair the weakest parts so
wat with the fall of the no
Grande the danger of any inunda-
tion OF the city was aVerted.
County surveyor Edmund Ross
renorted last night that the river
mad fallen six inches yesterday al
ternoon. and that there was no fur-
Their danger. The property loss,
however, will amount to thousands
81 dollars and there are thousands
Of acres under water. Damage ~
bitches and to bikes, as wei as ~
roads and bridges VIII cost tie
county thousands more. -,
The head gates of the Shalni" "a
ditch. this side of Alameda, Went III
Monday morning, and upon peIi.S
advised of this the city coHihl9 .
sioners sent a volunteer corps out
who attempted to dam the nov
with sacks. The sacks disappeared
as rapidly as they were thrown III,
however. and only when the inner
hank of the ditch was dynamlled
was the water diverted into an nn
cultivated area. The end of the al'ch
was then damned =,
One hundred boys from the IN
dian school worked at Alaneua'
toqether with a large team OF hlsh
school bows. and there We're my
Lnvs from the state university
which offered the city the services
of the students. One hundred Is
leta Indians worked at Ranchos ue
Atrisco, upon request OF Pueplo
SUPERINTENDENT Crane that they
give help. Two squaWs were lelt 10
0nard the Isleta bridge, so all the
men were away.
A. the dixie north of the CITY,
near the Jacobson and Williamson
ranches there is a large llooueu
area and the road leading from
old Town known as the boulevard,
was flooded yesterday morhlh5
several inches. a good many acreS
of alfalfa of the Dietz rancn Were
under water, and water had collle
"a within fifty feet OF the house'
and Mrs. DietZ was READY 10 Hiox'
out when relief came by dyhaiii''-
ing an outlet in the cltch so tila'
the water could escape.
Water covered the Reynolds ad-
dition for an area of two miles.
The section known as Rio GRANGE
mark and a part of Barelas are In
Guided in this. A crew of Volun-
teers headed by Nick Napoieon
and Ricardo Sanchez worked I'M
til noon yesterday on the banks at
Barelas, using nearly a thousand
sacks to repair the dixie. Although
the river was still flowing with
considerable current right up 20
the bikes at the Barelas bridge
yesterday, it had receded several
INCHES,
The Barelas bridge is guaded