The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-28

reported above could be learned.
Other houses damaged in the city
are: &. Robinson, dry goods, Austin
avenue; leaking badly, no estimate OF
the loss could be made last night.
The rear parapet wall of the build.
ing occupied by Mr.. L. w. Pew as q
saloon, on Bridge street, fell in, and
Mr.. Eubank came near being killed
as he had started out Of the door as
the bricks fell to the ground.
One of the chimneys on the court,
house fell between Q and 10 o'clock
making very loud noise
Nearly one hundred signs were
blown down last night, and they lay
scattered all over the city. Hundreds
OF shade and fine fruit treets are blown
down.
No estimate can be placed on the
loss by last nights storm, but ii will
go up into the thousands of dollars.
FROM THE COUNTRY.
The EXAMINER has heretofore at
tempted TO make everything as bright
as possible in publishing Information
from The country; that Is, we have
printed statements of farmers who
took sober, thoughtful look at the
prospects, aud gave them to the pco-
pie just as they were told, but this
mnrninO we p'lst cav 49," a"tlcoi '.
gloomy. All day yesterday the re-
porter inquired of farmers he met
who had just come in from the coun-
try, aud he received anything hut en-
rouraging news. The wind which
accompanied the rain that fell in this
city carly III the morning, was not
general throughout the county, but
the heavy rains laid small grain fiat
on the ground. Many whole fields of
golden wheat, which was ready for
the reaper, is now in such tangled
mass that il cannot be harvested.
Corn, which was, on many farms, as
tall as n mans head, is laying flat OH
the ground, and some of il will never
straighten up again, for ii has been
blown down twice before. Cotton, in
many fields, has been washed up by
the roots, and nothing remains but a
clear spot OF earth where few hours
before fine crop of tie staple plant
was growing. About eight miles
down the river, several hundred acres
of fine farms, on watch are grow
ing crops, are
SOLID SHEiT or wATER
as far as the eye can reach. Farms
belonging 10 Gen. l.. :. Ross, Senator
Richard Coke, and DIR. Daniels, arc
completely submerged. The water is
higher than was ever known TO anyone
now living in this county. A greater
part of this delugc of water
IL, L..
southwest of the city Flat creek
Cottonwood, Castleman and Bullhide
are all booming and carried every.
thing before them. All of these
streams empty into the Brazos river
not a great distance apart, and thcyhav,
Hooded the farms spoken of, besides
many others. The water down there
is not crushing, roaring torrent" sc
to speak, but is standing like great
lake, and with another rise coming
from the Brazos river the damage Il
these crops cannot be estimated; n
the outlook is now they will be
completely ruined.
THE RAILROADS..
All the passenger trains on tho
Missouri Pacific were lew minute,
bchiud time yesterday. The two
trains due last night nj l:20end Dos a.
M, were discontinued.
The Gatesville train on the 4. Il ST.
l.. come and went as usual. A pas.
senger train left for Texarkana al
ll.45 a. III. yesterday, and n special
from the east arrived in this city at ,
O'Clock in the afternoon.
On the Central the train for the
west arrived and departed Oh time
The delayed passenger for the cas-
left here at 5 o'clock p. M, went Il
Bremond and returned at IL O'Clock
last night.
AS last nights storm has been gen
cral there is no telling when Other
trans WI leave the city. No doubt
there are serious washouts on all the
lines Prd they cannot be heard from
until sometime to-day.
UP THE COUNTRY.
The Ely AMINFR made every eflor
TO get some information about tn
storm north of Waco, but the new
received is meagre. At Alexander
on the Central, the hardest storm o
ind and rain ever known TO any on
living there, struck the town at
O'Clock in the afternoon, aud tn
wind completely demolished sewers
houses. The water is higher tina
! ever before, and the Central track
completely submerged. About th
, same reports come from other town
along the Central road north of Wac
AT lredell the BosQue is sewers
; feet higher than ever before; man
: A., haI n, nf thn N
d ley to higher land. They are care
}. for by kind neighbOrs The win
II and rain continued for several hour
o aud was very heavy,
i AT Morgan the storm was Il
: hardest ever struck that village. III
roof on the residence belonging
the Central agent was blown ava
Steel's creek and other streams a
:. out of their banks.
! WACO CREEK RAMPANT.
|, At II O'Clock Waco Creek was o
: of its banks, and was at least o
a. fourth of mile IN width. Famili
: residing oh the lower portions
Il South Eleventh and Twelfth stree
in were compelled to flee from th,
~ homes TO higher ground.
~, The negroes living on the bottoI
hc were compelled TO move out and tn
homes were swept away by the ri
he ing waters.
nj Fifth street bridge was swept aw
and it is probable that the bridges
40 Third and Fourth are also gone,
or they were lower than the one
IN fifth.
Of The almost Egg ptian darkness
the night adds TO the terrors of
10 flood, aud renders II almost impo
nv Bile to obtain anything like full
IL count of the extent of the disasters
ON SCENES IN EAST WACO.
ny The EXAMINER reporter visited
nd river at IL O'Clock last night and FOL
me II within four and half feet of be
OF as high as last years great rise.
Dot people in East Waco, living betw
the Central track and the river b
of are moving out to higher grol
ere Water from the country has filed