Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
A SECOND DELUGE.
North Texas Inundated as a Re
suit of the Heavy Rains.
Heavy Loss of Property and RumOrs Of
5Ruined Crops in All Parts
= :. 9rafficSDelayed
The Trinity Broadens into a Lake at Fort
wOrth-The Surrounding Country Cut
o6-f6test Dispatches.
pailr aaze & .l..r -

LIS IhlAS " IANh AAoNS
Worth during the last two days are o..
most unprecedented in the matter Of
precipitation in the history: .of;the ;:city.i
and the effect upon the Trinityehas been
almost as great as at the time of the
foods of June, 1889.
Immediately after the furious storm OF
Thursday morning the Clear Fork began
10 show evidence of an unusual REIN
forcement and poured through its chan
mel with ever increasing force and guam
titv. Steadily. the volume of water IN
creased and BY 10 clock she had reached
point Iwenty-two feet above the low
water RIark. Then 6 subsistence began,
aud bySsaayligEt a drop Of tTTelve'f feet
But another delugs came, the sub
sfdeuce was checked and the increase of
volume, with greater ,rapidity. than be-
fore began again. All through the day.
with but slight intermisslons, the
precipitation continued, and the
rise was at the rate of q foot every ten
minutes for time. still the river held
its tide. - =,
At 2 S'olock yesterday afternoon,
howevera the news spread in he city
.4pat the Eater, was getting over ITS banks
O1.tnG ldhoAEN.S ~
pie texxed tpta the Worth Fort Worth
bridge. Drawing .;-.rffe heavy rain
which fell all through the after
noon, to see the inuldation that
vas fated to occur. At the slough
directly north from Main street the first
break was made, and then the water
tSaured over NorthFFort Worth from all
sides. still the rlvdr rose, and further
add farther spread the waters.
Midstream was a. raging + torrent,
THAT could be heard halfss;A mile away,
and the water spread over the low lying
tract with marvellous rapidity.
All this time the West Fork
had attended strictly to its
own business. 1t rose several feet
but at no time did it
Snow signs of an unusual flood. Grave
Eumors were afioat that an immense tor
forthcoming down that branch, carry
ing ..away aqO5dges and washing out
= houses, leaving desolation broad
!" cast .oveET1. its e route; and 1t
was sezyssoted that when this
flood Joined its forcefwith the Clear Fork
the overflow at Fort. Worth would be the
greatest ever known here. fortunately
the rumor had no foundation, or If any /,
the flood was delayed by washouts aid
did not arriver on schedule
time. The Clear Fork. is due all the
credit for the North Fort Worth oyer
flow Yesterday.
By 8 O'Clock in the afternoon the
water had taken possession OF
all available space on the North
Side. The only question was, how
deem would the inundatioR becomei
The Cotton Belt yards were entirely COW
cred and the depot was inaccessible. The
North Fort Worth bridge ran into moth
ing but water apparently, like the
sliding plank at the Natatorium.
The people living in the overf1owet
district got out without personal danger
though spnne. of them lost few house
holdsuteRsils which they had not time Il
remoss,F- Below, the bluff at the head Of
Main street the cottages were flooded Il
q depth of six and eight feet, according
TO location.
At o'clock at night nothing could b
seen,that would indicate life north O
the scity, except at the waterWork
pumphouse. There, cut off from lanC
on every;7ide, With the raging river a
its back door Sand level sheet ofwate
extending to the bluff ON the front
expecting every moment that the flool
would burst the building and dnundat
the machinery, a full 'aforoer of mel
worked all day and all night, wfsh light
shining through every window to let tn
world know that all was o. k.
1t was at II 80 last night that the foo
reached its climax. At that time it ye
lacked ten inches of the height in June
1888. Then it began to subside$rom tn
face of the earth In half an hour !
, had fallen four inches, and later pegal
\ tc 10 down faster,
Is West of the cry heonIy damage in tn
20 N-Fn M fKy-f- Worth
done. There the temporary bSdg
erected for the Arlington Heights stree
railway was carried away early in the &c
ton, and SO complete was the domolitio
of the structure that not stick was LEI
to show where it stood. The Chamber
slim people have already instituted pro
= ceedings to replace 1t.
Damage to crops in the country sur
rounding Fort Worth cannot be est
mated ,1but they are thought to be quit
heavy. No such precipitation in sue
short space of time
remembered 4 byR the oldest III
habitaut of these parts to have occurre
in Tarrant county before. AS il was i'm
possible, by the rain that was falling
for couriers to conveniently reach Il
city from the country during yeI
terday, little authentic informs
ton about these matters coul
be procured. A dispatch received fro
kzle says the damage to crops will
great, as the whole country is flooded
and an oficer who rode oil
beyond Birdville brought the informs
ton that the land was al besogged, ar
had the appearance of having bee
washed out in all directions. People
the city fear the worst.
The railroads have suffered great
and some of them will lose heavily by Il
storms On the Texas and Pacific ever,
thing seems 20 be all right to the east
Fort Worth. The west-bound a
rived at the Union depot la
night an hour and three-quarte
late; but passengers who arrived on
said that there was immediate danger
Village creek, about nine miles cas-
ward, where the stream was rul
ning several inches over the track
West from Fort Worth there is brea
Il IS about three-qusrters OF mile II
side OF weatherford where fine bird
is reported washed away. Passenge
are transferred and brought in. Ma
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