Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-24
MORE FLOODS.
The Red River in Texas Rising
Four Feet Per Hour.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FROM AcYcLoNt
A School Torn Down and One Girl
Killed and Several
Wounded.
LAsELLe RIVER, KAN, ON A RAMPAGE.


DESMsox, TEx., April 2s.-In conse-
quence of heavy rain and wind storm
causing washouts endsngering bridges,
railroad traffic on the Missouri Pacific
north and west Of Dennison is impeded.
The south. bound passenger train is derailed
at the city limits. The Red river is rising
four feet per hour. Fears are entertained
for the safety OF the Missouri Pacific rail.
road bridge. 4 freight train OF eighteen
cars is reported wrecked near Cary station,
Indian Territory, no one hurt. Lon HoL
land was iniurn.d by q falling building
during the cyclone yesterday. He died tbs
morning. A family Of emigrants encsmped
on the fiyer BORON was suddenly sur.
rounded by water last night and sought
safety in the trees. They were res cued to-
day.
A special from Mexis, Texas, says Prai'
rie Grove neighborhood, eight miles south
of Mexia, was visited about two clock yes
terday afternoon by severe cyclone, csus-
ing serious results in life aud property. A
two.story school house, in which were about
fifty children was blown down and torn TO
pieces, killing one and wounding several
other children The casualties are rs fol-
lows
Fourteen.y year old daughter Of J. R.
Swing, killed.
Estelle Cooke, leg broken.
Two children OF 4. Herring leg and arm
broken.
Two children of Mr.. O HAra, legs broken
and injured internally.
The house OF s. Mckinnon was blown
down, seriously injuring Mckinnon. The
storehouse and postofice, owned by 5. ID.
Hughes was demolished, and the goods pro-
miscuously scattered. The residences Of NJ.
K. Cox, H. Thompson and S. j. Williams,
were demolished. Larkin Gentry's house,
some distance from the village, is also re-
ported demolished, and himself, wife and
child killed. Other serious results are
probable, as the country is thickly settled in
the storm took
A Night Flood.
A Gainesville Tex, dispatch says About
? clock yesterday morning citizens we're
awakened by cries for help by the shrill
sound of the alarm whistles and the roar OF
rushing waters. Rain had been falling in
torrents all night and Pecan creek had risen
to an alarming extent. Many families in
the vicinity OF the creek were awakened to
find themselves surrounded by water and
many houses we're overthrown and washed
down the stream. Help was promptly at
hand Ropes were thrown ont and every
possible means used TO assist the sufferers,
hut the intense darkness hampered the Ia
borers. Many persons had taken refuge in
trees, and the air WAS filled with shreks OF
women and children. Mothers with babes
in their arms remained clinging TO limbs OF
trees for hours ill rescued almost dead.
When day broke the banks for great dis
lance we're strewn with debris OF all descrip.
tions. The scene on Elm. Creek, west OF
the city, was equally distressing. Several
families had been caught By the water and
were lodged in trees, and were in danger OF
being drowned.
The Work of Rescue.
Men, women and children were discovered,
some swimming and some clinging to trees.
Rats and boats were launched, but were
broken TO pieces or sunk by the c''r'nt. In
one instance negro succeeded III letting
woman and her two children into boat,
when j. upset antthe frantic mother saw
her children sink 10 rise no more. Alter SIX
hours labor the rescucrs succeeded IN saw.
ing the majority of the sufferers. 1t is i'm.
possible to estimate the damage done to
property. Many families above AM below
here are in great distress, and many lives
are reported lost. RCscuing parties left
here, but have not yet returned Old resi-
dents say the food is the most disastrous
ever known in this part of the State. The
water is two feet higher than it WAS 70 years
ago, when there WAS food which caused
grt at loss fliie and property. All the bridges
in the city were washed away and the east
portion Of the town was entirely cut Of from
be business section. The rain continued
all day yesterday and the rivers have risen
rapidly.
General washout.
Parsons, NAN, April q "A heavy rain
set in here about 10 o'clock Tuesday and
conir ued unaba,ed until midnight. Thr.
teen inches of water fell; it was the heaviest
rain since 1873. The whole surrounding
country is vast sheet Of water. The La
Belle river, usually small stream, is now
three.auarters OF mile wide. Four wagon
bridges and three railroad bridges located
on this stream are either swept away or
rendered unsafe. Traffic on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad is wholly sus-
pended for 100 miles both ways from
Parsons. passenger train going East
from here Yesterday on the Fort Scott and
Gulf road xas wrecked one mile out. A
large amount Of stock was drowned at the
Missouri, Ksnsas ard Texas Railroad stock
wards on the La Belle river mile north Of
here. 4 few farmers walked into town on
the railroad yesterday, and reported great
destruction 10 fields and herds. Judging
from their reports and other indications, it
would seem evident that thousands Of hogs
and cattle have been drowned.
Owing TO the rapidity with which streams
rise in this country it was impossible 70 res.
cue the animals At about dark Tuesday
evening large number Of negroes from the
Exodus" settlement on The La Belle river
aa,s. deserted their houses and came into
town reporting the others ia precarioas
condition. Teams and boats were secured
end after many hours work all the i'm.
p4riled people were rescued.
Life and Property Lost.
ST. LOUIS, April 23.-The Wichita road
is badly washed. A freight train on the
latter road went through the bridge at Clear
Water. and Frank McDaniels, the engineer,
was drowned. At last account the water
was subsiding. Advices from Kingman,
confirm previous reports Of great damage
done in the town and ten lives are supposed
10 be lost. Other dispatches state the
storm extended into western MiS
fouri, snd that many streams over.
flowed their banks and much property
destroyed. Advice, also come from North
ern Texas noting very heavy rain falls over
large sections. AT GAINESVILLE recsr ana
Eln creeks oyerfowed their banks Mach
| uroperty and several lives are reported lost.
Women and children ciupg 70 the branches
of trees for hours before they were rescued,
and in some Instances vbcie families vere
swept away in their boase.: but in most in
aspces were rescued. Streets in Dallas
we're deluged and the high wind turned over