Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-09
CORPUS CHRISTI.
The Great Floods In the Southwest-Streans
Booming, Bridges Washed Away
and stock Drowned.


Special t. tn. Gazette.
Corpus Christi, September s.-The
damage by rain anu high water tc
this section was much greater than
reported yesterday. All the beds oil
creeks west of here, which have been
dry during the entire season, sudden.
" became raging streams of water
from twenty TO forty feet deep, n ,d
spreading across the country washing
everything before them. Houses
cattle and sheep were floating down
with the current by hundreds. Wind
mills and out houses were also taken
The loss to stock cannot now be .sti
mated, and nearly the entire ccmmu.
nifty is flooded. The Texas g. Mexican
railroad lost over eleven bridges and
culverts, and several miles of track
within Il distance OF sixty miles. Tel
egrams received to-day from rena sta
tlun 100 miles west OF here, states that
the situation IL very bad On section
II half mile of read bed and track are
the situation is much worse.
On Tuesday it rained fourteen h urs
in torrents, accompanied by high
y
| daily since. retarding the work of re.
pairing very much Supt. Lister tele-
graphs agents along the line TO assure
passengers and shippers that every.
| thing is being done 10 repair the break
as speedily as possible, bat can give nc
definite date OF completion, but it is
hoped communication viii be restored
by Monday. Along the coast line
southwest of here the damage isreport.
ed to stock rs much greater than
above, rs various streams debauche in
the Cayoura Madice, and the country
being so low and fiat with no protec.
ton from the rising fi0oGs, but sand
drains, the waters sweep and carry
everything before them AL Capayra
| "a telegraph repair station sixty miles
southwest OF here, the Kennedy pas
ture ranch company is reported
flooded Yesterday two horses with
saddles and brides on, and mule
tied to the tail of the horse
swan ashore, and II is supposed The
riders were drowned while striving t.
cross the fierce current No loss to
HE iias heen reported ss yet. AS the
Mexican butts are situated in q spaisely
settled district, communication be-
| tween them Is interrupted, and the
damage 10 them will nor be ascer-
tanned until the foods have entirely
subsidized. The rains during the past
week have nonplussed the Oldest in.
hahIiants, as they cannot recall SINH
lar Instance, Nearly ali the tanks dug
Tor watering stock have hurs.ed and
inns item alone amounts to consider
able, besides the drowning of stock
The train that left Tuesday morning
has just reached Laredo
The steam laundry run by colored
men, after months trial, collapsed
to-day for want of patronage. 1t could
not compete with Mexicans and coll
ored families.
IN looking over the assessors roll for
this year find that Capt. Richard
Kings property In this county
is rendered at 1923 600 besides the ada
cent counties. Next on the list Is the
Texas Land and Cattle company,
which rendered $4,000; Texas Mexi-
can railway company, 1850, 900; A Z.
Rachael SlA4,000; n. G., Collins. $780,
900; A, w, Shafier $l23, 900; n. Gus
sett, tll2,009; G. l.. Rogers, SOS, 200;
Doddridge q Davis, Si02,0 600; render
ing, $40 geo and over, four persons;
over $4,000, twenty-nine; between
$50 900 and $4,000, thirty-six.
Bridge No. 81, at San Diego
was swept away ut l'onr O'Clock this
afternoon, 1t was four hundred and
fifty feet long. and considered one oil
the strongest bridges on the Texas and
Mexican railroad. San Diego Is fifty
four miles west of here. This post
poues connection with LAREDO for a
much LONGER period.