OCR Text |
Show CLOUDBURST CAUSES DEATH OF FIFTEEN AT FOLSOM' Little New Mexico Town Burled Un- dcr Twelve-Foot Wall of Water While Inhabitants Slept. Trinidad, Colo. A flood In tho Cimarron Ci-marron river, following a cloudburst, washed nway a number of dwellings nr. Folsom, N. M., Friday night, and . fifteen persons are roportod to have' been drowned. Twolvo bodies havo boon recovered. Two miles of tracks nnd twolvo bridges on tho Coiurndo & Southern railroad wero washed out. Folsom, which has a population of nbout 500, Is In tho nortlmastorn part of Now Mexico, near Itaton, on tho Santa Fo road. Its elevation Is nbout 7,000 feet, nnd It Is constantly In uanRer of floods which sweep down from tho mountnlns whenever thcro Is a cloudburst or heavy rain In tho hills. A twelve-foot wnll of water rnmo down tho canyon whllo tiro In-l In-l nbltnntn slept. Tho homes of J. W. Wenger nnd N. W. Wheolor woro completely com-pletely wrecked. Soveral othor houses nnd stores wero partially wrecked nnd many persons had narrow escapes when swept from their bods. Scvornl I hodlcs wero found fifteen miles down I tho Btrcnm. I |