Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-27
STORM AND FLOOD.
A Foot of Rain in Texas in
One Week.
The Damage to Property Will
Be Immense.
A Terrible Storm Passes Through
Arkansas.
A Cloudburst in Indian Territory-The
Situation on the Lower Missis-
sippi Not Improved.
Associated Press Dispatches.

ST. LOUIS, April 26.-Additional ad-
vices from Texas show that the great
rain storm which prevailed during the
week has covered nearly all the northern
and western sections of the State, reach
ing out as far as Big Springs on the Texas
and Pacific, and almost in the Panhandle
in the Northwest. Nearly a foot OF
water has fallen since last Monday, and
all the rivers and streams are at food
height, and the country is practically
inundated. Five freight and one pas
senger trains are laid up at the Colorado
on account of washouts. A part of Abilene
is flooded, and the creek running
through town has risen over twenty
feet and people living in the low bot
toms were rescued with difficulty. The
Trinity river rose twenty-seven feet and
is flooding large sections of country. The
Brazos river also overfowed and is doing
great damage. All the roads of the
northern and western parts of the State
suffered from the washing out OF the
tracks, culverts, bridges, embankments,
ETC., and it will take several days to re-
pair the damages. The rain has been
the heaviest ever known in Northern
and Western Texas.
LITTLE Rock, April pa destructive
wind and rain storm occurred in Wood
ruff county this morning. The village
OF Yorkville was almost entirely blown
away and the disaster is very great.
Houses, barns, fences and structures of
all kinds were taken up and carried some
distance. Several families had narrow
escapes from death by houses overturned
by the force of the wind. Hundreds of
cattle and stock are reported killed. but
no loss of human life. The rainfall was
four inches and added to the damages
very considerably.
ENGLISH, I. T., April ga cloud
burst struck this town this morning and
the water rose rapidly and flooded the
streets and many of the houses to a
depth of four feet Within fifteen min
utes it began to recede with a rapidity
equal to it's rise. Much damage was
done to property here and the surround
ing territory.
New ORLEANS, April 26.-The Times
Democrats Morgan City special says ::
The water in the Atchafalaya river is
level, and it has began to invade the
above the mark of yesterday. Merchants
are removing their goods to places of
safety. The flood will entail very
heavy loss upon people living on the
bayous and in the swamps near here.
A great many of them will be compelled
to leave their homes to the mercy OF the
water, sacrificing their crops and prop
erty and probably in some cases their
cattle.
>. BAYOU SARA, La, April 26.-The
water of the river is only about a foot
below the crown of the levee, which is
twenty-six feet high. The break in
the Morganza crevasse is now l 800
feet wide, and caving off at the lower
end at the rate of 300 feet in twenty-four
hours. Every effort will be made to
protect the remainder of the levee as
soon as possible.
BATON ROUGE, April 26.-J. II. Fergu-
son arrived here tonight from near
Pointe Coupee parish. He substantiated
the rumor of the loss of life in the back
country, and states that a family of five
negroes named Watson, were swept out
of existence. Ferguson came in skih
and saw the body Of an unknown negro
floating in a swamp. Hundreds Of
drowned stock were passed, and suffer
ing is terrible in the interior.
VICKsBURG, Miss, April 26.-The Mis-.
sissippi Valley railroad reports the water
falling or stationary along its line from
here to Bogue Fataya. 1t has thirty
yards of track washed out below Carey.
The saw mill and gin houses of Christ
Lawrence, situated near Rolling Fork,
Sharkey county, were burned last night,
fifty or more negroes having taken refuge
there from the floods. Seven were
drowned in attempting to escape from
the building.
MELVILLE, La, April 26.-Everything
loooks gloomy. There are now one to
six feet of water in our town limits, and
not sign of land anywhere except q
small strip of levee on the river front
The water is now within two inches o1
the top OF the levee, and no more ma
terial is obtainable, the earth here
abouts being covered with water. 1t has
been raining torrents all day, and botf
the river and backwater are rising.
TEDIOUS ROLL CALLS.