The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION.
Accounts From the UvaIde District
Grow More Alarming.

St. Louis, Mo, Sept. IA special from
San Antonio, Tex, to the Post-Dispatch
says that the scene of destruction and
desolation in the flooded district for a
distance Of 100 miles east and west from
here and extending south from the
southern Pacific railroad to the Rio
Grande, 200 miles away, is simply terri
BILE.
Thousands upon thousands OF acres Of
pasture and farm land are still under
water. II is estimated that the damage
TO crops in the valley of the Leona river
will reach $500, 900, while in the valleys
Of the Saco and Sabinet rivers the losses
will be fully as much more. Many thou
sands of cattle, horses and sheep were
swept away. Up to midnight last night
all the kilograms received here by the
Southern Pacific railroad officials and for
the press came by the roundabout way of
Ell Paso, Pueblo and Kansas City, all di-
rect communication with Uvalde and
other flooded towns being cut. off
Reports received this morning are
more alarming than the earlier ones. 1t
is still a matter of uncertainty as TO the
number Of lives lost, but additions to the
list of drowned are constantly coming in
About one half of the houses Of Uvalde, a
town of 2, 300 people, were carried away
and there is much suffering there, but no
more fatalities are reported there.
Nothing has vet been heard from the
settlement of seventy-fve families several
miles below UValde, but there are still
grave fears that many, if not all of them,
were swept down by the torrent.
The town of Batesville was entirely in
undated, and there was heavy loss Of prop
erty, but no lives were reported lost
There are several other towns in the
flooded district, but they are away from
the railroad and telegraphic reach. All
construction officials of the Southern
Pacific, however, have gone to the scene
of the principal disaster. and several
train loads of material and men have gone
west TO repair damage to the tracks and
to reconstruct bridges.
THE UvALDE FLOOD.
San Antonio, Tex, Sept. THE food
OF water which visited the country west
of this city about fifty miles distant, was
one of the worst catastrophes that has
visited tho state since the lndianola
calamity, when all the coast towns we're
swept into the Gulf of Mexico. The mum
Der of deaths is not so great, but the dam
age will probably exceed that at In
dianola. Among the bodies recovered
and identified are those of Miss Matte
Edwards, Mrs Joseph Hatch, child OF
MIR. Haley, and two Mexicans. 1t is de-
fnitely known that at least six women in
the town Of Uvalde were drowned, and
three Mexican families numbering twelve
living just outside of town, also found
waterY graves. it is thought many other
persons were drowned
CAUSED BY QUAKE.
San Antonio, Tex, Sept. lit is now
said that the deluge of water at Uvalde
did not come from the clouds, as has beer
at first supposed. but that it came out of
the ground. and it's bursting forth was
caused by an earthquake which rent the
earth, as at several places along the Le-
ona river, near Uvalde, the cracks in the
earth, with the water pouring therefrom,
are still seen. The Leona river, so-called,
is a dry stream ten months of the year,
but it is known that a subterranean basin
and stream of water exist underneath the
dry bed, as flowing artesian wells are OBJ
tanned by boring 100 feet It is supposed
that this artesian basin Of water is now
escaping through the cracks caused by
the earthquake. The shock of the earth
quake was distinctly felt at Uvalde and
at points for many miles around.