Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01

worth, the Water is ruHulnh siA mOuoS
deep over the track, and is over a mile
in width. At Big Elm creek
the bridge is reported insecure. and
the track is inundated. The train last
evening was two hours and fifteen min
utes late, and the train hands re-
ported the road SO unsafe that the cannon
ball was taken off for last night,
and the incoming flyer was held over at
Whitesboro. No train viii come over
the road until the extent of damages is
ascertained beyond psradventure.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grsnde is
hurt some. A bridge is washed away
not far from the city, at point which
could not be ascertained last night. No
train came in over the road yesterday
morning, but the incoming passengers
were transferred later in the day, and
reached Fort Worth at o'clock last
evening.
The Cotton Belt is also a victim.
Besides the inundation of her track at
Fort Worth she is also injured at Plano,
so that transportation is impossible.
It is understood that efforts were being
made last night to secure facilities for
transportation of her passengers over
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, with
what success could not be learned.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and
the Santa Fe are troubled with washouts
in the Indian Territory, and others are
reported on their lines in Texas.
At o'clock this morning the waters
north of Fort Worth were rapidly reced-
ing, with every prospect of normal
| state of affairs obtaining as quickly as
possible if no more rain falls or no heavy
floods come later from up the stream.
AT COLORADO CITY.
| Special to the Gazette.
! COLORADO, TEX, April 25.-AnotheI
Noah's flood seems to have set in
over this country. Last night another
heavy rain set in shout shutdown and
continued almost all night, according tc
the signal service records three and
| ven-hundredths inches of water having
fallen between dark and daylight. The
| river and creeks are all full and railroad
operations are necessarily suspended
| The west-bound mail tram got II
| at $3.50 last night and il
still here, and five freight trains
are also tied up in the yard. The east
bound passenger train has not come in
i all, and will probably not arrive INIT
i tomorrow. The bridge across Morgan
i creek, five miles west of here, is mucl
damaged and is impossible. The tract
across Iatau valley is from one to tw'
feet under water. The company is doinI
all that is possible to renew travel, hav
ing three work trains out between her
and Big Springs, but with the rail
still descending IN torrents not m uch cal
be accomplished.
At2 O'Clock this afterno on anothe
tremendous down-pour sat in and, con
tinued several hours. If 1t was general
as from all indications it was, 1t is good
bye railroad trains for couple of days
There have been no wrecks reported
far.
AT ABILENE.
Special to the Gazette.
ABILENE, TEX. April 24.-The citi
zens of our little city were awakene
from their slumbers last night by the fire
bells at a. M, during the raging of
terrible rainstorm, which had been fall
ing all night, only to find that the alarI
was sounded to call them to the rescue
not from fire but from water, whose roe
could be heard for fully one mile. tn
scene of distress was in the fiat in II
eastern portion of the city, where II
mighty waters of both Lyle and Ceds
creeks had united their forces, havin
risen over twenty feet since last night
After hard work everybody in the fl
we're awakened and taken to hight
ground for safety. A family consistln
of seven persons were rescued after
hard struggle with the rushing waite
: only through the noble efforts of Il
firemen. The boiler-room and pumping
house of the city waterworks are und'
water, and several houses are partl
submerged. The Pioneer mills are safe
2 although they have been in great danger
Great damage is also being done in Il
: West End, where the three creeks, VI;
= Catclaw and Big and Little Elm, hay
united their forces, and are still risir
:, very rapidly. No trains have come
~ to-day, and the tracks are covered wit
81 water west of the city for over one milf
I i Yesterday Is west-bound passenger is no
ri side tracked at Colorado.
About nine inches of rain has fallen
1.-the last week, three inches of which fe
last night.
:. A terrible storm, accompanied by
Cyclone, is reported west of Colorado II
i, evening. It has been raining with
. vengeance the last two hours. and pro
= poets are good for the night.
AT TERRELL.
g Special to the Gazette.
IS TERRELL, TEX. April 25.-The raj
g are simply awful. The rain has be-
: pouring down since early this mornin
= Creeks, branches and ravines are swoll
= to their banks and overlooking.
: AT QUANAH.
: Special to the Gazette
QUANAH. TEX. April 25.-The hithel
: multifarious parsonage who has so 10
= retarded the development of the Pc
h handle country, by the assertion tt
is "it never rains in Texas has SUI
!, away from sight, presumably benea
the fields of mud and water which n
constitute the Panhandle country.
- three weeks past Jupiter Pluvius
been opening his flood-gates at short
! tervals, deluging the greatful earth
IA copious outpourings OF natures great
N stimulant-pure water. HIS effo
"a terminated yesterday in one of the m
extravagant displays of lavish generos
=, the Panhandle has ever experienced.
i short, it has been raining i
= "sheol'' IN the Panhandle sir
~ and tO-dQv