Southern Messenger (San Antonio and Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 22, 1921 Page: 2 of 8
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Hundreds of San Antonio citizens
within a few days after the flood.
Line up with the wise investors.
Bring us your money, get a Cer-
tificate and watch for the Postman
Our preferred stock is not water
soaked or damaged,
Call. Investment Department,
Crockett 315, we’ll take care of
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Come and Let Us Greet You
Whether You Buy or Not.
Good Bread, Rolls
and Cakes.
Pratt and Lambert Var-
nishes and Enamels.
Yes, our plant had several feet of
water during the flood, but we have
removed nearly all the traces of it
and are again ready -for business.
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of the 259 Popes, from St. Peter to and including iT
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St. Peter and His Successors
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San Aiitooto Gflice and Sample ffeotn—Russell Bldg.
ALFRED J. CARLE, Mgr. Phones: Office Cr. 2934; Res. Cr. 5022.
ground, at Villita, the little town,
or neighborhood, just east
present
Plant.
always considered safe heretofore,
and last and saddest, human life
has been destroyed.
"Every obstruction placed in the
river, so as to interfere with the
free clear passage of the water, has
a. tendency to add to the rise of
water in a freshet. The effect which
would be small in a quiet flow of
water, is multiplied by the sudden
rush of flood, the channel becomes
choked and the water forced out
of Rs bed to seek new channels,
and destroy what is in its way.
"The late freshet has been pit ex-
traordinary one, and it is beyond
human power to avoid all the effects
cf such rises. It has caused de.
st ruction in other localities, Some
inconvenience and loss must period-
ically be expected by such floods.
But it becomes a serious question
whether the effects of these floods
have not been increased by a want
of foresight and causes which
. might have been avoided, and if so,
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are drawing their quarterly divi-
dends from this company.
The victims
were all given free graves and Cree
funeral services.
The records translated into our
vernacular run in this wise:
"In the city of San Fernando de
Bexar, on the ninth, day of July,
1819, I, Don Jose Dario Zambrano,
pastor emeritus, having at present
charge of this parish, gave ecclesias-
tical burial to the following bodies:
Concepcion Davila, a widow; Per-
fects Hernandes, maid; Maria de la
Cruz Hinojosa, widow; Maria Guada-
lupe Zambrano, widow; Francisco
Montoya, unmarried man; and Jo-
sefa Varela, a widow. They did
not receive the last Sacraments for
they were drowned by the flood,"
Then fellow the names of the ten
Indian children: Juana Climaca
Hernandez, Jose Nepomuceno Rod-
rigues, Jose Guadalupe Zamorano,
Francisco Zamorano, Dolores Ram-
irez, Concepcion Bastilles, Miguel
La re; Juana Laro, Jose Remi gio
Huiz and Carmel Hernandez, "All
these and the above mentioned
were given tree graves and free fu-
neral services.
(Signed)
"PADRE DON JOSE DARIO ZAM-
BRANO." J
Historical Illata.
Texas in those days was still a
Spanish province, a part aud parcel
of the Kingdom of New Spain.
King Ferdinand VI1 occupied the
Spanish throne, and General An-1
tonio Martinez was Governor of the
province o£ Texas. I
During the flood of 1819, the i
waters of the San Antonio River
and those of San Pedro Creek came
together on Military Plaza and Sole-
dad Street. A number of houses
around the present Main and Mili-
tary Plazas were washed away in.
that flood. These houses were sub-
stantial constructions similar to that
of the old portion of the San Fer-
nando Cathedral which has stood
the buffets of storm and stress for
nearly two hundred years.
The cause of the flood is given as
a "Culebra de Agua," in the Olmos
Creek; a serpent, or snake of water,
which means in plain English c
cloudburst.
The flood of 1819 wrecked and
ruined the following buildings: One
at the corner of Main Avenue, then
known as Acequia Street, ax><? Main
Plaza; several houses on Corbelo
Street, now Soledad Street; one on
the East side of Main Plaza about ,
half way between Market and Com-
merce Streets; another near the
Southeast corner of Dwyer Avenue,
then known as Quinta Street, and
Dolorosa Street; also several on the
East and South sides of Military
Plaza opposite the site of the pres-
ent City Hall.
Saa Fernnsidc: ChnEch Under :
Water. :
The first San Fernando Ccme- ;
tery, which occupied the Eastern I
portion of the old San Fernando i
Church grounds, was covered with :
water to a depth of five feet. •
In what is now Main Plaza, then •
Plaza de las Islas, «r Plaza Mayor,
cm the South side of Market Street,
extending to Galan and running
southwards to Dolorosa Street,
there was a row of stone, buildings.
Two of these buildings were washed
away.
In Military Plaza, then Plaza de
las Armas, there were four rows of
stone buildings. One row an the
North side from: Flores Street to
Amargura Street, and Routh of
Presidio, now ■. Commerce Street.
::8 This js where the: main mi 1 itary har-
racks werH lacated. : A aecdud TOW ’
:'-:5 extended . soistliwafd:?tUong thfl. West
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Street, and h-foarth was situated
on the West eide : of the plaza from
Dolorosa . Street' : to Presidio, now
Commerce Street;’ Theas -were oc-
cupied as dwellings by the officers
1 nf the garrison.
The schoolhodse, with one other
building in the East row and sev-
eral in the South row, were demol-
ished by the great flood of 1819.
The waters; of the San Antonio
River left their/western bank above
Presidio, now Commerce Street, and
flowed into Curbelo, now Soledad
Street, into and ’across Main Plaza,
In a South and wester!" direction;
thence through Trevino and Galan
Streets into Military Plaza, where
the waters of the river met those of
San Pedro Creek.
New Barracks on Villita Street.
When the barracks were wrecked
Governor Martinez decided to move
the soldiers’ quarters to higher
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Later Floods.
In 1845 there was another flood
which caused considerable damage to
the city and played havoc with the
houses near the banks of the river.
The A yun tain lento, or City Coun-
cil, decided to move the Pueblo to a
higher altitude, where Franklin
Park is now located. But public
opinion did not favor this move be-
cause the new site was too far from
the church and from the old pueblo.
Public sentiment prevailed.
In 1852 there was another im-
portant flood when the waters rose
some twelve feet.
Flood of 1885.
On March 16, 1865, another flood
swept San Antonio when the angry
waters rose to a height of eighteen
feet. There was also a terrific hail
storm, the most disastrous in the
city’s history.. The damage caused
by the freshet was estimated at one
hundred thousand dollars. Horses
and mules, dogs, cats and ch'ckeus
were killed by the hailstones or
drowned by the flood. The crops
were a complete loss. Mr. Tannen-
berg was drowned in Commerce
Street, as were also the St sack- chil-
dren and others.
Floods of secondary Importance
occurred in 1868 and 1869. Then
follows in order of importance the
flood of 1913 when several people
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In 1914 there was another flood,
which, however, did not claim any
victims.
A Living History,
Mr. Thad W. Smith, doubtless the
, best informed man on the history
of San Antonio, a noble specimen
of the chivalrous lies pita! Ity of the
South, and who In the recent flood
gave shelter to hundreds of storm
refugees, in his younger days knew
and interviewed several eye-witness-
e:-i of the flood of 1819. Among
others he interviewed on several
occasions the hero of the Battle of
San Jacinto, Captain Antonio Meu^
chaca, who was baptized in San Fer-
nando Cathedral in 1800.
Mr. Smith was also an eye-wit-
ness of the flood of 1865. Formerly
the County Clerk of Bexar County,
Mr. Smith has kept and saved from :
the County Archives many inter-
esting and valuable historic data
that, but for his care and diligence,
would have been lost to history and
posterity.
Proposed Retention Dam on Olmos
Creek.
The project of building an Inter-
locked dam on the Olmos Creek is
not a new one. Mr. Charles F. King,
mayor of San Antonio in . 1346-7
and 1853, and Mr. Sam Smith,
mayor in 1847-8-9, repeatedly cham-
pioned the idea as the only effective
means of protection against the ever
impending danger of flood.
On April 31. 1865, in their report
Messrs. A. Giraud, former mayor of
San Antonio, and the architect who
built the new pert of the Cathedral,
G. Schleicher, a member of the
United States Congress, and V. Con-
siders nt. formerly city engineer, laid
before the City Council the imme-
diate causes of the flood of 1865,
its effects and consequence a and the
beat means to prevent their recur-
rence. With prophetic foresight
they warned the city against twist-
ing and narrowing the natural chan-
nel of the river, lest in revenge na-
ture eventually assert her rights.
Their words, written six and flfty
years ago, are Just as vital, apposite
and true, aa when first uttered:
"We are aware of the deep feel-
ing produced in thia community by
these late disasters. Many fami-
lies have lost their homes,
chants have lost their goods,
erty of. ail descriptions has been
lost or injured, even in localities
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"I have no hesitation about giving this picture my approval/' g
—J. Henry Tihen, Bishop of Denver. 5j®H
To Whom It May Concern: fWs N;
We have a copy of the picture, "St. Peter and His Sucea- ‘
sors,” and regard it as the best Catholic picture ever publids-
ed, as no other work praseuaa in so striking and as forcible a |
manner the claims of the Catholic Church to Divine authority. J
It is educational and instructive and should be in every CathoUS; !
home, schoolroom and lodge hall.
—Knights of Columbus, Denver Council, No. 539.
T. J. Donnegan, Secretary.
Order Tour Copy Now—
Price by Mail, Only $1.00
CATHOLIC SUPPLY COMPANY
30S Symes BIdg._ Denver, (W
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE.
(By Rev. Esgene Sugnanes, &M.)
Under the stress of the last event-
ful days when death, wreck and rtrin
seemed to reign supreme, many are
apt to believe that the catastro- -:v“-
phe that visited our fair city during 'JN s'i5r5B°u'
the night of Friday-Saturday, Sep- Tba ^hoolbmisi
tember 9-1 ff" was the most frightful
and disastrous in the annals of Saii
Antonio. As a matter al fact the
1921 flood was neither the first nor
the worst ia 9an Antonio; but it
ought to be, it must be, nay it shall
be, the last.
“Withstand the beginning; after
remedies come too late,” soys the
old proverb. So let’s get down to
brass tacks and tackle the trouble
at the very source, either by dam-
ming up the Olmos, or diverting its
waters into ether channels, and thus
removing the danger of future floods
for all time.
W«M Flood In the History of San
Antonio.
The worst flood that ever swept
the City of the Alamo was the one
that befell the sleepy old pueblo,
the “Villa de San Fernando," and
“Royal Presidio de San Antonio de
Bejar,” on July uth, 1819,
The 1819 flood stands out as an
established historical fact. After a
long and painstaking search through
the dnst-laden archives of tile old
San Fernando Cathedral, the writer
hud the good fortune of finding the
record of this flood, the memory of
which lias been handed down to us
from generation to generation.
The document is written in Span-
ish and appears-In the “Death Rec-
ords," "Libro de Dlfuntos," of the
parish, numbers 956 and 957, Ac-
cording to this record, the flood vic-
tims were sixteen, six white grown
persons, “Gantes de Razon,” and ten
Indian children. They were ail bur-
ied from the San Fernando church
in the first San Fernando Cemetery
which was located in front of said
church. The flood occurred on the
5th of July. The record states that
Padre Jose Dario Zambrano had
charge of the parish.
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