The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-15
MOSCOW PEOPLE ARE
SAFE At SAN ANTONIO
WORD RECEIVED FROM EARL
DAVID DESCRIPTION OF FLOOD
STRICKEN CITY.

Earl David, now a resident of San
Antonio, Texas, and his wife, accord
ing to awire received by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. A. David of this city,
escaped injury in the recent flood
that devastated that city and caused
the loss of many lives. There are
number of Moscow people now living
in San Antonio and a brief descrip-
ton of this city will be interesting.
San Antanio is the largest city in the
state having population of some
100000 people, 10000 of them being
Mexican. 1t is one of the oldest
cities in the United States, and holds
many interesting things of historic
value. Here in the center of the city
is the Alamo, kept as a national mem
orial to fallen heroes 1t was defend
ing the Alamo that David Crockett
gave his life when attacked by Mexi-
cans, and within San Antonio and it's
environs today is still preserved the
ruins of our oldest Catholic missions.
No city in America holds more of in
terest for tourists, and here may be
found today one of Americas most
wonderful winter resorts, being sur
passed only by Los Angeles. This city
is built on a great plain, the country
being generally level, with small ele-
walton or ridges rising here and
there, giving a general impression of
slightly undulating ocean. In one
section of San Antonio one of these
elevations is now it's most select resi-
dental section, and another is occu-
pied by one of our oldest and best
military posts. In the western sec
ton of the city great flowing springs
of crystal pure water breaks from the
earth, forming one of the most
beautiful small rivers in the United
States, and it was this wonderful
water that attracted the early set
tiers, and around which there grew up
the old Mexican COW town of San An
tonic, with its narrow, winding cow
trail streets. Many of these old
trails may yet be seen, flanked on
either side with modern fire proof
sky scrapers, while the streets, as
straight as the letter "S', are paved
out sometimes hardly 80 feet wide.
with cement sidewalks three or four
'eet on either side.
In the past few years, since war
conditions and the discovery of oil
helped to transform San Antonio
nto one of the most modern cities of
he United States, some of these
III SStoS ii1NC OCCIl WluCilSu az CiiOIHl-
'us expense to permit of street car
ervice, and to accommodate traffic
n a city 10000 larger than Spokane
The little river winds down through
he very heart of the business section,
md the recent flood waters poured
own into San Antonio, with the
magnificent Elks' temple and mon
ter modern hotels right in the course
f the torrent. No wonder the re-
orts tell of damage reaching more
han million dollars, for we can
yell understand this when we think
f the Spokane river rising ten feet
eep in Riverside Avenue in Spokane,
looding her great stores and business
locks.
In the lowest sections of the city is
he Mexican quarter, with its miles
f novels and shacks, where 10000
1exican people live. Here was where
he greatest loss of life occurred, and
D one acquainted with the city the
uprising thing is that the loss was
ot greater.