Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1891-06-19
TEXAS FLOODS.
PERSONS DROWNED IL GREER COUNTY
Also In the Indian Trrrttsry-cattis swept
Away - Desth-aany Acres sf Fias
Crops Rulned-Rep2irtnE
bridges

GAINESVILLE Tex, June ia-Ncws
was received here to-day from Frazier,
Greer county. Of destruction to life and
property caused by q terrible water
spout accompanied by a windstorm,
which visited that town and vicinity
Tuesday night The rain had been
falling several days. and Tuesday night
AT II o'clock a waterspout burst and in
a few minutes the streets were four
feet deep in water. presenting the APP
pearanee of a raging, angry river. All
the business houses were flooded. Men
secured buggies, and with great diff
Guilty succeeded in hauling the women
and children To- places of safety. Tur-
kew and Salt creeks, two streams in
that locality, overlooked their banks
and carried death and destruction In
the wake OF the food Three persons
were drowned in Turkey creek
Pomp P~oindexter, a young farmer.
his sister and a young man named Al
bright The family Of Capt Phillips
were In their dwelling, a very large
house, when il was struck by n large
wave, which lifted IL from It's founda-
ton. II was carried onward by the
waters nearly n mile, when IL was
hurled against a tree and wrecked.
Phillips and one of his daughters caught
on to some floating debris and were
washed ashore half a mile from where
the house was demolished. Mrs. Phil
lips and her babe caught on 10 n plank
and were washed into the branches of
Il large tree, where they caught and re-
manned till the next day, when they
were rescued by parties reaching them
in a boat A large number of houses
were blown down and many others
washed away Dug-outs were filed
with water and hundreds OF people rem
dered homeless, and all their live
stock, crops and other property
swept away. The damage done by
the overflow of Red river in the
bottoms along the north line of
this (Cooke) county is much greater
than first supposed. In Warren's and
Sivel's Bends 10, 600 acres Of fine crops,
cultivated by some fifty families, were
destroyed, houses swept away, work
stock, cattle. hogs aud chickens
drowned, and the families barely es-
capped with their lives. Ayoung farmer
named Burdone, while trying to reach
the shore In a ferryboat, took fright at
an approaching high wave, leaped from
the boat and was drowned. IL is re-
lated that a horse was standing hitched
20 u small grocery store in Sivil's Bend,
when the water struck the house and
the pressure was SO great 1t broke the
hitch rein. In II few minutes the ami
NAL gained the crests of the wave, and
an old SOW was balanced on the saddle,
having been washed there by the wave.
The horse swan ashore and the SOW
dismounted and lost no time in getting
out of danger.
The Santa Fe bridge over Red river,
seven miles north of Gainesville. has
been repaired, and trains passed over IL
yesterday for the first time since last
Saturday. All the washouts ON the
road in the Indian territory have been
repaired, and trains are now running
through to Kansas City.
A FAMILY OF THREE.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, June t2.-Parties
in the city from Leon, !. T., near Red
river, thirty miles northwest, report
the finding of the dead bodies of n man,
woman and babe in the bottoms, all oil
whom had been drowned. The baby's
body was embraced in the arms of it,
dead mother when found. The bodie.
have not been identified, and are sup
posed to have been washed down sew
eral miles from above during the higl
water in Red river last Saturday ant
Sunday.
W. w. Lynn, Il farmer residing TWEEN
ty miles north Of here, while endeavor
ing to cross Hickory creek was drowned
The creek was very high, owing t.
heavy rains, and Lynn undertook Il
ford the stream on the back OF a mule
but lost his life in the attempt. TIL,
animal swan to the shore.
TIL RED RIvER DELUGE.
BoNHAM. Tex, June 12.-Red river il
the northern part of this county i
higher than it has been known to b,
since 1876. The plantation of Col
0liphant, comprising l,2OO acres, is un
der six feet of water. Large number
of cattle and other animals have beer
drowned. So far as known no human
all jewellers on the lowlands having es
capped to the hills. Untold damage ha
resulted to crops.
Boys Fatal Debauch.