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Show FLOOD WIPES OUT TOWN: CRY MADE Fdyiij. EL PASO. Tux.. Aug. lit. Flood waters which wiped out Virtually every ev-ery building In tho town of Hatchj New Mextcb, yesterday, causing more than two hundred famlllo to be mado homeless and destroying-thousands of Uollaru worth ot properly, were stilt soreral feet deep in tha town today, according to mosAigw received by thb El Taeo Herald. ' 'Heavy cloudbursts throughout this section early yesterday ond Wodnov day nlgrt calmed rivers and'cTcwka to rise high and rushing torrents were sent1 through rich farm , lands and 'through Hatch. 1 Women and children of Ihe town ar6 'su'f'rtfing frthi oxpos'uro, "accord-' (rig to'K. F. Fldldness, of llatch who felophoh'ed Ihe conditions to the El ?2io Herald 4od'aj-. Ho ' asked"' that p'nys'ie'lan's 'ttf.stnl to taltf cWe. It w-ymVeditiUiy ';; ' r FilVuffieJsk:'sald' Over the ' telephone li'e' 'wad'slatftTlnB'ln a foot of'Vjvl? Vn a'telcphin'o booth In enc" of tiio flv'lluHW yet' standi irWho town. j;''' i'-" ili5vcr 206" people hatfi blttJl-VJ-h-derrd.hpinclejw by the flood and they jUC'euf ferinji ," 1 Jiw said. 1 i. 1 , Wo-traust Uavo food ttniLbBdrflng; frqirj tho outside for ourprnplo hfl wcifo ., unable , to save lltt)pif nx-.thing nx-.thing whan they had to- flee. 1 ;i'The houses wore lalmpst i9) ' adobo and-tiicy crumbled nipldly 1 when,JJio watur camo downrora the ; foothills and flooded tha towm Tha water has receded only a few Inches." Hundreds of persons In tho upper El Paso valley, who werti forewarned drove their stock from the lowlands into tho foothills. There was a contlnous all' plght procession of men, women and children chil-dren moving from tho vnlloy Into tho bills, carrying load after. load ot provisions and household - furniture. Many slept on tho hillsides and nlong tho high roadways, without any bedding. |