Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-01
The Trinity a Wide and Wild Ex-
panSe at the Metropolis. y
No Trains Leave the Burg Except the
II. and P. East-The Damage in
the Hundred Thousands.
The steel Bridge Over Red River Belonging
to the TeIarkana and Fort smith Rail-
way Washed Away.
GREAT DAMAGE IN BOWIE COUNTY.

tect of the floods throughout this entire
section. Many of the bridges have been
washed away ana travel bY wagonwayris
cut off IN several directions. Red river
is on boom aud indications are,that we
are to have disastrous overflow. This
(Bewie) county has frontage on the
river of more than 100. miles and in that
area are fncluded someof 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 ard Fort
Smith railroad has been swept away
This was q 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. 1t has not rained
here in the last twenty-four hours and
mas turned cold. The Fort Worth train
was six hours late to-day.
DEVASTATION AT DALLAS. So
erecIelto 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. It had risen
several. feet since the afternoon previous.
Those who know the history of the
river said: t'Tbe end is not yet. -
The samP 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
oh l., l.x.,, at. So
ABOVE THE Low MARK.
Since it left its banks 1t has become
wide andfwild expanse of swift-runniug
water, Having ruin aud devastation in
the wake of its murky current. 1t is
now more than four feet highesskhan the
high water of July Inst year, and is
nearly up to the highest point reached
by the flood of 1866. Inasmuch as there
lie more property i'll its path now than
ever before the damage is greater. Many
a man wha locked forward to the sum-
mer in the hope of reaaizing gosSfhar-
vest OF. 8. good prQti. ON his business is
tonight crippled, II not
wELL-NIGH PAUPERIzED
by the disaster that has overtaken him.
Tits not easy 20 set forth in detail ali the
damage that has beeHs done. It will
reach many hundrsds of thousands
of dollars, and much of
it will be the heaviest on
those least nble to bear it. The prinoi-
pal sufferers are the railroad companies,
whose bridges have been carried away,
roadbeds 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 ties were left suspended
about six feet above the water, and over
these the mail and passengers of the
morning train from Fort Worth
were conveyed this afternoon.
Several othsf bents of the work
are in DANGEROUS condition. The dam
age cannot we'll be repaired until the
water reeedss, nor can travel be re-
sunied. ~ 81
The Santa Fe bridge are also gone,
and thatroad is unable to get tEaius out
oftfe caiy. The sonth-bound train over
the Houston and Texas Central arrived
from the north on time this evening and
stafted' for Houston. When 1t 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
aud Pacific east. aud those irregularly.
Oak Cliff Is entirely cut of from Dallas.
The water is running over the tracks of
the Dallas aud Oak Cliff road to
depth. of two feet, and considera-
BILE portion of the trestlework is said
TO have washed out. Or. 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 of
the bents. He says the road lie
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
built was supposed to be above the
danger line. The new elevated rail-
road which Mr.. Marsslis Is building will
be ten feet above the grade of the pres
ent road. AS soon as il is ready to
operate the present. road will be raised
TO Tue same grhuo. LIS cchers OF
the Dallas brewery are flooded, not
the efforts to keep the
water pumped out by the fire engine.
AZ engine is now at work trying to pump
the water out of the old Parker mill eel
lar, now occupied as Rstorehouse for har-
vesiing machinery DEDsboTne Co. In
Rpsssy's brlckyard the3 water put
ont. the fire of a burning kiln.
One kiln nearly ready to- burn
and fhFEe quantity OF brick on the. dry
ing boards are total loss. tnega<1 being
several feet under water. The basement
aud the arst floor OF the Dallas ELEVATOR
are under water. The daDageF there
is light. One hundred apd fifty
houses in the second ward known
as Frog Town and about hftys4n South
Dallas
ARE UNDER WATER.
So also are all the brickyards along the
river and the cotton compress The
engine is again submerged.
The new county bridge below the
Marsaiis road which was sup
posed 20 be eboTe high water