Last Monday about noon rain commenced falling and at two in the afternoon the streets of Carlsbad were like canals the water in many places being a foot deep. Water continued to fall all night and Tuesday morning Reclamation Jim found that 5.12 had fallen. This was the heaviest rain in twenty years or more in Carlsbad, and it extended west to the head of Dark Canyon and, including the rains of the past few weeks or, since July 27, over 11 inches having fallen in Carlsbad. Both the Pecos and Dark Canyon were up and the only damage done was to the Tansill dam over 150 feet of the embankment on the west having washed away, which went out about daylight Tuesday, causing the river to run around the west end of the concrete structure and will probably necessitate an expense of about $8,000 to repair with concrete which will make the dam about 600 feet of all concrete. This will carry floods of much larger proportions. In talking with the superintendent of the company Mr. Ritchie, it was learned that the water was higher than at any time previous all other floods having failed to reach the floor of the power house while the water was near two feet deep in the power house, last Tuesday morning before the embankment washed away.

The whole country on the west and south received heavy downpours for it was impossible to cross Dark Canyon until Wednesday evening. That great water course washed away the approach at the north end of the railway bridge across the canyon and it was impossible to run trains south until yesterday. Down at the Harroun farm the Pecos flood took away a portion of the dam and about 700 feet of the canal embankments leaving some 1,000 hogs in a bad condition for water, but none were lost. Will Sprong went down yesterday to install a gasoline engine to pump water for the

hogs and other stock. The bridge at Blue Springs twenty miles south was washed so badly as to render it almost impossible. Trains on the north were delayed by several hundred yards of track having been washed away and the "Polly Wog" tipped over at Lakewood and the engineer Ralph Eversole received a broken nose and hip bruised when the engine tipped over. The brakeman Phifer was also pretty badly hurt. Several passengers were also more or less injured.

The fine concrete bridge at the Sam Jones place on Rocky was taken out completely and much other damage done by the flood.

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