El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 125, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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Cl Faso Daily Times, Thurel
Men’s and Boys’ Snmm
HERE ARE
FOUR HINTS
THAT YOU
MAY PROFIT
HATS:
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DERBYS
CRUSH and
STRAW
BY
mu
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varieties.
SECOND HI
SUMMER S
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WORST
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CRASH.
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Linen and Duck P
R. C. LIGHTB
A Bicycle for 25QS?
t THE RAGING
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shop, an d it will be worth all you
pay for it.
You can get a full size, up to
date
Orescent Bioycle
for $50.
And it is worth all you pay for
it. It is made throughout in a
Bioycle Factory—the largest in
the world—fully guaranteed by
people who can and do make their
guarantee good.
W. Gr. Walz Co.
MUSIO STORK,
BICrCLBASETflKa MACHINE DEPOT.
We Want to
Ca'ch Your Custom.
OUR
Native valley straw berries.
Every berry ripens on the viua.
Contain fresh avery morning-.
FOR
A good cup of coffee try our
fresh roasted Mexioau throe
pounds tor one dollar.
FOR
A coolior iiimmer drink why
not try our Wild Cherry Phot
? —
hate? There is enough In a
5 cant bottle to maka 16 quirta.
WE’VE
Alto got Hlr 8 “ready to driok”
Root Bear, carbonateJ, at 10c.
par bottle.
]. B. WATSON,
Groceries and Provisions.
San Antonio and Stanton Sta.
Phone 151.
The Most Destrnctive Flood
Ever Known to tlie
City of El Paso.
CHIHUAHUITA FALLEN-
Cloae Cell Tor Ibe Santa Nn Strut Bride*—
RacorOar Patta-son Loses Hie Home-In
Best Kl Faso—Tnlk of Batreatluc to
Fonrtli Street—An Open Letter to the
Mayor—On Watch Lest N1*V,
»r !h 5, 97.
(too Fr.»n-
,\»g jour
>rnnna-
,»• take
hat we
l both
I Moth
f *nd
(cdiool
•11 else
item out
'Irfhlly ra-
ke public
Notwithstanding the reports from
above that the river was falling at
Rlnoon and other points In New
Meiloo, It continued to ■ Ise at Ell Paso
all day yasterday. Yesterday morn-
ing seepage water nndermlned the
approach of the Santa Pe street bridge
on tha Mexlosn alda and It began osv-
log In. Bat Suparlntandont Limonr
of the street oar company went to work
with a will to repair the damage, as-
sisted by the officials of Jaarez,.and
by nlgbt tha oave-ln had bean sab-
etanttally obeoked and filled np with
rook acd sacks of sand. Tha break,
however, oansed qalte a soars In Jaar-
ez, and tha balls were ringing an
alarm to warn tha people who woald
have been fltodsd had the waters got
the beet of tha fight. The Mexloan
soldiers were oalled oat aod pat to
work on the oave In, and Oolonel Al
Limonr enjoyed the dlstlBOtlon of
commanding the troops, and yet It
did not make him vain and boastful.
MORE HOUSES 00.
A few mlnate* after 12 o’olook yes-
terday the levee aroaod the boases of
0. B. Patterson, P. Oandelarlo and
Oemetro Madrid gave way and the
reoorder barely escaped from his boose
alive. For three weeks they had been
making a good fight to keep the river
oat of their homes, bat tbe force of
the oarrent finally washed away the
embankment and Rtoorder Patter-
son's hones Is now a oomplete wrsok.
However, he take* hie misfortune
philosophically and eaye that he oan
oow give hie attention to hie Seoond
ward majority whloh he says Is being
soatteraa over the feoe of the earth.
The water Is mooing over tbe Stan-
ton streat oar llna twenty five feet
north of Teylor’e house and eooth of
the oanal bridge. When the reporter
visited the plsos at 5 o’olook yesterday
aftarnoon the break waa very slight
bat was growing and promised to cause
trouble to the dyke at tha foot of El
Paso strset, In front of the bide house
aod also to the Mexloan jtoals now
protected by dykes on the east side of
Santa Fe atreet near tha river.
All day aa army of men were stretch
ed along tbe entire water front from
Santa Fe street to tbe sewer pomp
hones, and they wara making dirt fly.
Mayor Magoffin and Olty Engineer
Wimberly were onhorsebaok directing
the work and kaeplnga sharp lookout
for weak points In tbe nswleveea. At
Galennle’s bones on Foarth street, the
water was going toward tbe pomp
boats with a rash. Mr. Briggs’ and
a number of other hoaees la that
vlolnlty are flooded. That part of the
olty te thronged with wagons moving
people oat. Bat the danger looks more
threatening and serious between El
Paso and Kanaae street. Mr Galen-
ole has teams and sorapars doing good
work between Taya and Torolllo
streets.
agent at Sslden that there was a fall
of two feet at that point yes’erdsy.
Bat It does not appear that El Peso
gate any benefit from tbe falls above
as tha river oontlnass to rise at this
point.
DEPARTED GREATNESS.
Oblhaahalta Is being deserted. Like
rate leaving a sinking ship the poor
Mexloans are deserting their little
homes and are pltohlog their tents In
the foot hills and on vaoant lots all
over that portion of the olty north of
Ban Antonio street. And were U not
so pathetlo their mode of moving
wonld be extremely fanny. One
family passed np Stanton street and
at the head of tbe little prooesslon was
tbe basband and father, sitting
as'ride a burro and carrying in hU
arms the dinner table. Following on
foot wee the wife oarrytng a baby and
several bandies and after her came
three or foar children loaded with
household and kltohen furniture.
They were golDg to the foot hills.
No littleoonsteroatloa was occasion-
ed among people residing sooth of
Foarth street near Tays, when they
saw men at work with teams throwing
up a levee on Foarth streat. They got
togethereQdarged8.il. Newmia to
go to Mayor Magoffin aod big of him
not to abandon tbe first levee and tbelr
homes to tbe mercy of the flood. Tbe
following Is a oopy of a letter whloh
was sent to the mayor last night:
A LETTER TO THE MAYOR.
Hod. Joseph Magoffio, Mayor: Dear
Sir—Maoh to the surprise of the pro-
perty owners la my neighborhood,
some ten sorepere were pat on Foarth
street this afternoon to balld ap tbe
levee whloh yon told me this morning
yon were not going to balld. Etlyltg
apon yoar promise, whloh 1 repeated
to my neighbors, we began oertaln
levees of oar own to strengthen tbe
general system; and the completion of
the Fourth street levee for one blook
more will destroy the valae of all oar
work and leave ns all, without excep-
tion, In a pooket from which there will
be noesospe. I enolosea rough map,
showing the situation, and beg of you
to stop work on tbe Fourth street levee
east of Virginia streat and oonoentrate
yoar force apon tbe line yoa^promlsed
this morning or apon the existing
levee, whloh has been oonetrnoted at.
eo maoh oost and whloh has not failed
to hold tha water and will not fall If
fifty men are kept apon It ander In-
telligent management.
Every dollar expended on the Fourth
s’reet levee Is worse than wasted, for j Xho
the reason thit It oaoDOt be completed j 0f
In time to hold the water, while at the
earns lime diverting that maoh money the 00|
and work from tbe existing levee. 1 1
As a
last rc
the pei
the vlo
oonsldi
calved
Mayor
addres
end pr
tbelr
Tbe rei
follows
May
Olty—I
are dot
not thi
stbly |
days w
now on
present
ueoessi
The
favorat
that b;
point,
protro*
truly,
T< X *• Al
The f
from sa
1st
Glass
11.70
A.
*1 01
Boot!
Hints
care 1
New Or
Lawn
Momsei
larlzini
know what 1 am talking aboat when 1
•ay that the existing levee oan be made
to bold three feet more of a rise If a
hundred men and ten sorapars are
kept at work on It and the banks are
properly patrolled and people forbid
dan to walk on the banks or oross them
on foot or with horses or to nee boats.
I mean that that number of men oau
hold the water within present boonds
olear ap to Stanton street, even If It
•hoald become neoeesary to carry the
banks np three feet higher. Dirt was
made tn hold water; and If a levee ten
feet wide Is hot snffiolent It Is only
neosusery to widen It to twenty feet or
fifty feet.
The enolosed man will show yon that
tbe line you promised us Is at least 100
feet shorter than the proposed one on
Foarth street,ap to tbe point of tuter-
Imoatl]
in El P
against
Jose J
ooaote
stolen c
Omar
with th
KiOfq
burglar
Sllnki
G U. &
ponrt.
The o
White, i
oourt.
Old p
section of tbe two; and 450 feet of suoh m®8?!^1
Hud the
IN EAST EL PASO.
Height,
rijAioB atreet.
lack & Co.
Bole Agents.
The water waa rising rapidly In East
El Paso yaatarday aftarnoon. It had
o'.lmbad np and flooded the home of
U. C. Thomas, who was moving his
family and furniture oat at 4 o’olook.
Tha watar waa alao ap to Mr*. Brldg
art' beck yard and oraaplng toward
Mre Riley’s housa. Mr. Jamas Hib-
bard was In obarga of a squad of man
who wara at work with ebovels and
apadaa throwing ap dykei to obeok the
tdvaDoe of tha waters. Without his
koowladga soma of ths msn began
throwing ap a dyka along the road-
•Ida north of Mra. K ley’s house which
woald leave her home oat In tbe pen
n*d ap water*. She gave notice she
wan'd take a‘hot at tb* first person
who attempted to throw ap a dyka In
front of her hoasa. It Is need lass to
■ay that tha dyka builders ohaoged
thtlr hereof operation* to the sooth
of Mrs. Rtley’a.
HOW IT BOSK
From noon to 7 o’olook last evening
the register at tha head gate of the
oanal showed a rise of one loob; and
at tha Bsnta Fa bridge the regleter of
tha Inspectors showed a rlaa of thraa
quarters of an loob. Mr. Trail, of the
Bents Fa waa Informed by the road’*
levee means two or tbiea fall d»ys'
work with all the sorapars at yoar oom !, f8, J
mend. Two or three days delay to 1 .
balld tha extra 450 feat may oaase tbe | [ntox,oa
destruction of El Paso. And, by t*r8tlv*-
building on tha llna tndloatad by you ! ,
this morning and saving that much 1 ,,, 8 VJ
time, you will ba saving $15,000 more ?8
of property and promoting tbe olty „ „
bitter and qaloker and oheaper and i„
hart no ona whloh tha proposed llna l a p*°
baaed s. Respetfully,
8 Newman
The Times reporter was shown a oopy
of Mr. Nawmao’s map and It substan-
tiates tbe statements oontalned In bis
latter. If the prsssnt levee Is aban , , ,
donad and a new lavas oonstrno'ed on ! ?r ',0?“
Fourth streat ths hornet of 8. H.| 1
NewmaD, Mrs. Lina, Sam Gillespie,
Mr. Shay, Franolaoo Barela, Paul
Jonas, Mr. Stsff, Joa Fernandez, Loots,
tha drlvar, the hoasaa of two Maxioans
aod two nsgroaa will ba laft oat la tbe
flood, entailing on tbe owners a loss
amounting In the aggregate to 115,000.
they n
per bott
- holcsal
Mr. J
that last
with Ls
serious t
Pana ooi
seamed
-nmpllo:
Discover
1’, be too
surprise
from fire
bottles n
trial boti
wbolasal
ON THE LEVEE LAST NIGHT.
At mldDlght when the Times re-
porter visited the river last night there
ware hundreds of spectators gathsred 1 King's
on 8 entoo, El Paao and Santa F# tion, Oo1
streats viewing tha waters. Men | do th
carrying lanterns wara petroling every
foot of tha two mtlea of lavas whloh
has bean thrown np along tha watar
front; and lights were flashing bare aod
there far oat over the broad expanse of
watar. They wara the lights of Msx-
loana who ware trying to save soma
thtog from the dabrla of their wracked
homes. No song, laughter or mtrry
o»ll waa heard. The psopl* wara
moving about aa silent as spectres.
The river waa atilt rising and avery
ona-waa listening, with anxious hearts,
Tba Bi
Bruises,
Fever 8
Ob II brat
’tons, an
pay reqa
perfeo’e
Prloe 25
W. A. I
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 125, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1897, newspaper, May 27, 1897; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth582196/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.