Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-28
AWFUL.
The Trinity a Wide and Wild Ex-
panSe at the Metropolis"
No Trains Leave the Burg Except the
Z. and P. East-The Damage in
the Hundred Thousands.
The Steel Bridge Over Red River Belonging
to the Te1arkana and Fort smith Rail-
way Washed Away.
GREAT DAMAGE IN BOWIE COUNTY.

GREAT DAMAGE IN BOWIE COUNTY.
Special to the Gazette
TExARKANA, TEX. April 27.-Sad ac-
counts are being received here of the eff
tect of the floods Throughout this entire
section. Many of the bridges have been
washed away ana travel by wagonway is
cut off IN several directions. Red river
is on boom and indications are that we
are to have a disastrous overflow. This
(Bowie) county has frontage on the
river of more than 100 miles and in that
area are included some of the finest farms
IN the state. An overflow of this stream
means devastation and ruin to the thou
sands of acres of corn and other
crops now growing. Information was
received that the bridge work on the
Red river of the TeXarkana and Fort
Smith railroad has been swept away.
This was a steel bridge costing many
thousand dollars. The piers have been
erected some time, but high water has
prevented its completion. 1t is sad
blow to the enterprise. It has not rained
here in the last twenty four hours and
has turned cold. The Fort Worth train
was six hours late to-day.
DEVASTATION Al DALLAS
Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX. April 27.-AbOut mid
night last night your correspondent went
down to the Commerce street bridge and
took a look at the Trinity. 1t had risen
several feet since the afternoon previous.
Those who know the history of the
river said: ''The end is not yet. -
The same can be said tonight
notwithstanding there is nearly six feet
of water in the raging stream more than
there was last night. The river is still
rising and is likely not to reach its high
est for the next twelve hours. In the
main channel it is now about sixty feet
ABOVE THE LOW MARK.
Since it left its banks it has become a
WIDE and wild expanse of swift-running
water, leaving ruin and devastation in
the wake of its murky current. 1t is
now more than four feet higher than the
high water of July last year, and is
nearly up to the highest point reached
by the flood of 1866. Inasmuch as there
is more property in its path now than
ever before the damage is greater. Many
q man who looked forward to the sum-
mer in the hope of realizing agood haT-
vest or a good profit on his business is
tonight, crippled, if not
wELL-NIGH PAUPERIzED
by the disaster that has overtaken him.
It is not easy to set forth in detail all the
damage that has been done. 1t will
reach many hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and much of
it will be the heaviest on
those least able to bear it. The prinoi-
pal sufferers are the railroad companies,
whose bridges have been carried away,
roadbedsI washed out, and whose travel
and traffic have been for the time being
suspended Travel over the Texas and
Pacific was stopped this morning by the
washing away of several bents of
the trestle about mile west of this city.
The rails and tiesyswere left suspended
these the mail passengers of tie
morning., train 3,front Fort Worth
were oepxeyea52 this, afternoon.
Several otheSs 6ents OF the work
are in a dangerous condition. The dam
age cannot well be repaired until the
water recedes, nor can travel be re-
sumed.
The Santa Fe bridge are also gone,
and that road is unable to get trains out
of the city. The south bound train over
the Houston and Texas Central arrived
from the north on time this evening and
started for Houston. When it reached
the Trinity the bridge over that stream
was found to be
UNDER WATER AND UNSAFE.
and the train was turned back. The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
is also washed out between
here and Denton. No trains
are running except those over the Texas
and Pacific east, and those irregularly.
Oak Cliff is entirely cut off from Dallas.
The water is running over the tracks of
the Dallas and Oak Cliff road to a
depth of two feet, and a coneidera-
bic portion of the trestlework is said
TO have washed out. Mr.. Marsalis, the
president of the road who came over
from Oak Cliff this evening in q skiff,
thinks that the trestle has not washed
away either on this or the other side.
Some of it mas slipped off
the bents. He says the road il
built very solidly of seventV-pound steel
rail spiked to each tie. The grade of the
road is the same as the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas and the Santa Fe, and when
Quilt was supposed to be above the
danger line. The new elevated rail-
road which Mr.. Marsalis Is building Will
be ten feet above the grade of the pres
ent road. AS soon as it is ready to
operate the present road will be raised
to the same grade. The cellars of
the Dallas brewery are flooded, not
withstanding the efforts to keep the
water pumped out by the fire engine.
An engine is now at work trying to pump
the water out of the old Parker mill eel
lar, now occupied as storehouse for har-
vesting machinery by Osborne & Co. In
Russey's brIckyard the water put
out the fire Of q burning kiln
One kiln nearly ready to burn
and q kaEsa quantity of brick on the dry
iRs Boards are total loss, the yard being
Several feet under water. The basement
and the first floor of the Dallas elevator
are under water The damage there
is light. One hundred and fifty
houses in the second ward known
as Frog Town and about fifty in South
Dallas
ARE UNDER WATER.
So also are all the briokyards along the
river and the cotton compress. The