Folsom, NM Storm and Flooding, Aug 1908 - Scores Drown

Scores Drowned As Result Of Cloudburst

Trinidad, Col., Aug. 28.-Twenty-three persons are known to be dead, and scores are missing, as a result of a cloudburst which sent a raging wall of water eight feet deep over Folsom, a New Mexico mining camp of 3,500 people, situated at the foot of Mount Capulin, forty miles south of Colorado on the New Mexico line. The identified dead are: DANIEL B. WENGER, proprietor of the Wenger Mercantile company, and his wife and daughter, Daisy, and LUCY CRAIGHTON, a young lady living with the WENGERS; T.W. WHEELER, a mine operator, his wife and two babies, and a sister-in-law and baby, living with WHEELER; DELLA ROOKE, telephone operator, washed away at her post of duty.

EDWARD WIGHT, president of the Trinidad National bank, who was visiting the Wengers, is missing, and is thought to be lost.

It is impossible to estimate the total loss of life, which will probably reach thirty-five or forty before morning.

Manitoba Morning Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 29 Aug 1908