The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-07-08
MOODS DESTROY CROP !
rEy,s FARMERS SUSTAIN LOSSE S
AMOUNTING TO MILLION DOLLARS
rho Railroads arc Losers to Amount OF
Million, Also--Thousands of Acres G u
Rich Farming Lands submerged''Man ,
People Drowned, and Bridges DeS'F0'0O''


r;cb Farming Lands Submerged--M""''
,>,o Drowpcd, and Bridges Destroyed'5 "
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Houston Tex. - The remarkably o
,oovv rains Of last week in Texas haze +
7ora damage which will amount to t
,rr5rods If thousands of dollars. X ALL r
road traffic was completely suspen ded E
in southern Texas because Of the nm +
orons wasbouts and many bridges arei
gone, Every stream in this sectlcn OF
the state was above high water 1narR
and the angry waters have destroyed
thousands of acres Of cotton and corn
and cane, besides houses aid cattle AT
Calvert the rise was so sud den th''t the
water went through the to Tn; seVeral
negroes were drowned and(fvD bodies
have been recovered. It iG rumored
that manv farmers, white aud colored'
living in the Brazos bottomSt have oeen
drowned. The big and little Brazos
rivers have joined at NaTasotaP where
they are ordinarily three nj les apart
and the whole country betW cen is in
rnin; it is mostly cotton and corn land
No accurate news has been re-
c,ived here regarding loss OF
human life, but it is reliably stated
that one family Of six people was
caught and all persisted. The loss in
cotton and corn ale one will reach q mil
lion while another million willtnot COW
or loss to railroads and other proper IT,
The Brazos river reached the high
est point at Waco, Friday. that has
heen reached in fourteen years. Crops
in the Brazos bottoms are inundated
from six to fifteen feet and in most
, case5 are at total loss. Hundreds Of
: people fed from the valley and haW
taken refuge in Waco In East Waco
' the main street was six feet deep II
= water and the business houses stock
O arc completely under water and, ar
s ruined. Trains going in WacolhaV
% been stopped, the tracks having bee
v, washed away for several miles. Th
~ water stood six feet deep in tho I.
e G., passenger depot. The river is slow
&c ly falling.
tx Information from Hood county, or
", ~ Of the northernmost countless tributal
to the Brazos river is that it was Hoo
ed and coming on down thrOughBosq'
st falls, Robertson, Harris and McLennc
ay counties, all tributary to this river, al
SN s the very center Of the big farming /
terests Of the state. The reports @
7 that everything was under water al
or- thousands upon thousands of acres
y, land we're submerged and crops enti1
no " ruined. The valley Of the Guad
IA. upe and lower Colorado rivers are
'no the same condition.
ca Reports from every section Of
state show that the railroads hf
-" been heavy losers by these Hoo
The San Antonio and Arkansas P
owe has had something like 100 miles
con- its track from Yoakum west on
dis, Wallace division washed entir
c' it, away. The Gulf, West Texas &
TtTs cifc and the New York, Texas
E ttio Mexican are both heavy losers by
rains, something like fifty miles
' each road being entirely washed
by the rains, including several la
( in bridges
don The Santa Fe, the Missouri, Kar
wing g. Texas, the International & Gl
sell Northern and the Houston & Te
Central were tied up by the wash(
,ntly and high water and mails accumulf
. 50 rapidly as to food all local p
Offices None Of the roads opera
through trains and only few local
- visions remained in operation Bri
d" river, however, was two miles wild
e." places and rushing like mad, so thu
The may take it several days TO get /
has. into it's banks, 50 that work Of rep
the ing bridges on railroads can begin
hing,