The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-31

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I'd, Strauss, groceries and hardware go
J. W wright COnfectioneries, etc . l5l
3 y. Harris, saloon ..,..... .-,,........ &
Holloway & Falkner groceries ...' So
\. q Wright groceries ......... ....... "a
i. e, Falwell boa!ding -.u............ iOC
L; NJ. scroggs, residence. iO1
WIN. Bell groceIies.....; ................ Il
Mobley Bros, drug, and groceries. 600. lOJ
Branch Watkins, hides and wool ~ ron
Joseph lloyd, dry goods and groceries 500
". u. wallace, groceries and feed ....... 500
y. J. Eyerley, saloon and meat market co.
W, J. Cassiday mill and machinery 500
A il of these people were damaged
by the water coming up into their
houses. In Mr.. Boyd's store the water
WAS six feet deep. In the building
occupied by Messrs. Wallace and Ey-
crley the water was five feet seven
inches deep. This was three feet
higher than the flood of Nav, 1884.
The heaviest dam .ges are TO the lum-
Der yards, brick yards, the compress
aud business houses which alone will
reach between 100000 aud $4,000.
Mr.. j. NJ. Harris damages will reach
$4,000. This includes everything,
his brick yard, wood that was washed
away and houses which were rented to
workmen.
VIM. Cameron Il Co.'s loss will
fully equal this amount, and probably
more. a fire, which was caused by
Stacking lime, burned up $4,000 feet OF
lumber, and two.car-loads of lime was
ruined.
Joseph Male estimates lis loss on
lumber aud damages to compress, at
$4,000.
j. w. Mann & Bros. will lose $l5.-
600 on their brick yard and damages
to the Brazos mills al d other prop.
erty.
MIR. j. Il. Bakers loss is estimated at
$4,000 to $4,000 on his brick yard and
other damages.
Mr.. A. j. Caruthers will lose 5000
on his lumber, which in many instanc-
cs is completely swept away.
SCENES IN EAST WACO.
Perhaps Mast could come as near
making a sketch of the wrecked city
on yonder side the Brazos as any liv.
ing man, but he cannot picture the
expressions of men and women, who
ON returning to their watcr-sOaked
houses, and found almost everything
ihIhths huh. iHuh.. ~ was I'llllu
sight to see the mother and father a.
they opened the door to find the neat
cottage of SUNDAY afternoon, which
was aglC W with happiness, as the child
rem played around the hearthstone
all covered with mud many inches
deep, and the household effects dam.
aged and ruined by the water These
people are not to be discouraged, how.
ever. for they have gone to work
scrubbing and cleaning up again
Some of their homes will never be
what they were; and in some instanc'
"a the houses will have to be rebuilt
Many of these people who left theil
homes Monday morning will not bt
able to return to them before to-mor
row, or perhaps Tuesday. As they
are badly scattered, and are occupying
houses with their kind neigh
bors, the reporter could not get thu
names of all those who had to mov'
out of their homes. The following il
II partial list =. Volts. Mrs. Bowdcn
Geo. Clark, w. j. Casslday. MIR. Ellis
Mr.. Mills, L. c. Balwell, Mr.. Woods
l.. NJ. Scaggs, Mrs. J. l.. Cornish, I
Il. johnson, j. w. Mann, j. b. Baker
Mrs. Couch, 5. &. Baucum, Douglas
Brennan. Chas. Munroe and e. W
Cook. Besides these there wcr
nearly one hundred negro families.
BARRoN's BRA NCH.
The families who had to remov