The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-07
The FrcSsreaS I'm Texas.
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: A letter dated 9Th INST, River Bank
, Plantation. ON the Lavac1, says they
have been completely drowned ont BY
the late trt>hpts, The high wate, swrp,
every thing before it, taking fences, out
houses, and destroying the cotton and
corn crops in the low lands.
Mr.. Tom MONEYS cotton fcctorv, 4
very larg" and costly building, situated
on the San Marcos. at Prairie Len, has
been swept away by the overflow in
that stream.
The San Antonio Herald; of the 18th,
has the following:
The first mail received III ten days
was received yesterday { Tuesday from
New Brauntels. From the New Braun
fels Zcitung We learn that on Monday,
the 9Th inst, the Comal rose 395 feet
above its usual level. On Tue day the
Guadaloupe rose AZ feet, causing a
backwater in the Comal, increasing its
rise to 395 feet. The damage done iS
great, houses and fences being taken
away by the water. Large numbers of
cattle were drowned and Mr.. Thomas
Schwab is mentioned as losing num-
ber of sheep.
The mills of Messrs. Landa d Kocs-
ter are greatly injured. Torrey's griss
mill and c5tton factory suffered great
damage, the water rising into the second
story of the factory, damaging the spin
ming machinery, and carrying off the
wooden portion Of the mill. The wool
len factory, through the efforts of the
workmen, did not suffer very much.
| The bri &c across the Comal, one Of
the most creditable in the State, was
destroyed, which is no slight loss 10
that enterprising place.
The ice factory was "smashpd up
by the overflow, aud the Herald says
the barkeepers complain very Seriously
that there is not half so much guzzliug
of whiskey as before.
The Medina rose during the last
storm so that the water came up into
the town of CastrovIle, and as high as
tie second story of Vance's store. Great
damage has been done in the valley Of
the Medina. At the Quihi settlement
the waters of the Hondo rose so high
that the people had TO climb trees to
to save their lives, and that at least
sj0Os damages has been done in that
place alone.
The following is condensed from the
San Antonio paper, dates to the 10th
inst
We hear cf the loss Of both the mills
on the Guadelonpe near Segnin-that of
ErskiEe and the one owned BY Mr..
MILLER, Tie mil of Dir. Rhodius, on
tie Upper Guadaloupe, is also washed
away. We also learn of the destruction
Of several mills on the Upper Medina.
Of the damage below San Antonio,
the Herald says:
The corn crop o.. all til" lower lands |
along the San Antonio River, though |
the crop is generally made, will prove
damaged beyond computation. All the
cotton on the bottom lands. it is believed
has been Inundated, and in some nstan-
ces destroyed. Fences have, in many
instances, been swept off: Many of the
uOuSCS OIt tHC lLF eli UuflkS were
in the water four and six feet deep,
aud those in the bottoms back from the
river have been Well nigh submerged
The whole country west of the outskirts
of San Antonio to tie Rio Grand has
been flooded.
The express reports that at San An
tonic eighteen houses fell down under
the recent heavy rain. They were built
of stone or adobe,
The town of Pana Maria was inunla-
ted, with the exception OF the church,
which stands On high eminence. The
Cibolr and San Antonio came together
Dir. Navarro says the corn crops were all
ruined along the banks of both streams.
We much regret to learn that great dam
age was done by the high water en- the
Nueces; the corn is almost entirely
destroyed, and a great deal of stock is
reported to have been drowned,
The Columbus Times says the Colo
rado at that point, during the late en-
bryo food, rose exactly 46 feet and y
inches, grazing the cord of the railroad
bridge, being higher by several feet than
the great rise OF 1852, and higher than
ever witnessed by any one Of the old
' three hundred"
The Austin Republican, of the 18th,
says that Mr.. Henry f. Barber, of Noun
tain City, who has just arrived from
Abilene, Kansas, states that the inunda-
ions are general. Abilene was in about
the same situation as Austin. Houses
washed away, stock drowned, etc. 1t
seems that the food extended from Brit
sh Columbia to the gulf of Mexico.
The editor of the Lavaca Commercial
1as been shown letter from planter
IN the Lavaca Riyer, from which he
quotes:
"The late overflow has been very dis
the corn on the Navidad and
Lavaca Rivers, as a general thing. is
damaged. About one half the crop of
;otton is covered with water; it is not
killed, but the squares and hollis are fall
ne off. One halt of the fencing has
,een washed of, but parties have been
cry dligent in repairing the fence, and
'ery little damage has occurred from
he depredations of stock
The Galveston News says; Col. J.
3. Banks writes from LaGraDge to
Gentleman in this city that the loss from :
'verfow will not exceed one-fourth of
he crop. It is confined to the valley of
be river; the crops op the uplands are
be finest be ever saw. The people say .
heydo not need assistance.
An Irishman who was asked to fur
'ish proof of his marriage, took of. his