TOWN SWEPT AWAY.
. ♦ FLOODS IN NEW MEXICO. (uKinn miss association —bt blectbic TELEGRAPH —COPTRIGHT.) (Received September 26th, 9.50 p.m.) VANCOUVER, September 26. News from El Paso (Texas) states that the town of San Marcial was swept away when the Rio Grande overflowed. Only two buildings are left, but no lives were lost.—Australian Press Association, United Service. fSan Marcial is a small town of some 2000 people in New Mexico, on the upper reaches of the Rio Grande, about 150 miles from Mexico.]
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19735, 27 September 1929, Page 15
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