The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-11
CONDITIONS TERRIBLE
Is Report From Flooded
Sections of Texas.
THB DISTRESS UNDATED


up&ss
ernment Life saving Crews Co the
Rescue-Army Rstions lssueo.
St. Louis, July "a special to The
Post-Dispatch from Dallas, says: Al
IL o'clocr today a short Dispatch
received from a lineman at Dewey. just
across MS Brazos river from Seaisy. 1t
read: River falling slowly since J
O'Clock yesterday afternoon. Conditions
here terrible. Everything in country
swept away Large number ~ lives
lost in bottoms. Looks like starvat on
for those left. Situation not been ex-
aggerated. Several days before line re-
repairs a be made wiki anything x
system"
This telegram was received over the
first wire that has been working into
Sealey, telephoned at noon: There Is
no Improvement in his scctfvn Of the
food district. II anything. the sltua-
ton is growing worse. No relief boats
have yet reached here from Houston or
Galveston Sealey and neighboring
towns have about exhausted their re-
sources. Another negro family was
near here today. SeveraA 9TH
er i've have been lost since las night,
especially among the refugees on the
mound near Old San PHILIPPE. A num-
Der of negroes have fallen exhausted
from tree tops, after hanging there
three days and nights, and were drown-
ed. A rumor Is current here OF great
loss of life near Richmond, Fort Bend
county. AS We are cut of from all that
southern section, definite information Is
unobtainable; but the situation NATURAL
ly must be as bad as here"
THE WHOLE COUNTRY FLOODED.
Galveston, July 6.-James Collision.
superintendent of machinery for the
Santa Fe railroad, arrived in Calves
ton on the last through train the road
has been able to run. The Brazos riv-
er at Rosenberg, is running Wild. Mr..
Collision ~ but with regard TO the
ultimate damage, he is very optimistic.
He thinks the damages are greatly
over-estimated and that the loss OF
crops in the bottoms will oe counter
alanced by the increased yields on
the uplands. He ieft at noon on a spe-
cial train for the flooded district, car
rying provisions for the destitute.
AT S~unnyside, twelve miles from
Brookshire, the Brazos river is ordi-
narily 200 yards wild About parallel
with this two and a half miles away is
Elm creek, which is seldom over thir-
ty feet wide and in midsummer often
dry. The two streams are separated
by low bottom lands and are now unit
ed, making a river between five n six
miles wide and from sixty 60 seventy
feet deep. Along the currents nineteen
people were rescued yesterday in a skin
StHL ITOIl f1OuSlOH. people were Ue-
molshing their sheds and outhouses
and making boxes that they used for
boats. Cattle were found resting their
heads in the boughs of trees, making a
pitiable struggle for existence. AT one
point two houses We're seen coming
down the stream. In one of them was
a man and TWO women and pm the 9TH
er a woman and five children were
clinging for life and calling for help.
one OF these was a fine two story af-
fair and the other was a smaller dwell
ing. They passed on with the foaming
current and may have struck an OBJ
Struction and been smashed to pieces
! or found their way into the gulf.
Twenty-Five row boats, fully manned
n proviSioned, left here today for the
section overfiowed to assist in saving
life n property.
Governor Sayers has been asked by
Representative w. II. Ellis to call a
| special session of the legislature to re-
1ieve the distress.
The Santa Fe main line trains have
been abandoned between Galveston and
the Brazos river. The Southern Pacific
and the Missouri and Kansas City and
Texas bridges across the Brazos river
are reported to have been swept away
this morning. Reports from a special
correspondent Of The News Indicate
, that while ms property loss by the re-
cent floods has been enormous, the loss
of life has been greatly exaggerated.
HIGHER THAN FLOODS OF 1885.
Every year the Brazos and Colorado
valleys suffer from foundations. Up to
the present flood the greatest destruc-
ton from the annual foundations was
in 1885. This year theh high water mark
of 1885 has been surpassed an Washing
ton, Austin, Fort Bend, Waller and
Brazos counties, in southern Texas. The
Brazos is falling rapidly in the central
part OF the state, the scene of last
weeks food.
The God reached the southern part
of state Sunday night and Monday.
The planters had received ample warn
ing, but many negroes remained in the
Brazos valley, believing the water would
not reach higher than IN 1886. From
1,500 to 1000 co7ored people were caught
in the valley. in Austin. Waller and
end counties, and were forced 10
take to h trees and house tops.
Governor Sayers at n suggestion o!
Congressman Haw1ey. appealed to thu
war department to send government
life saving boa from Galveston. Per.
mission was granted, and a specla
train left this afternoon for the fioode<
district, carrying several government
and a number Of private boats. 1t II
believed that nearly all che peopl
lodged in trees and on house tops hav,
been rescued, but the boats sent from
S "&A h0AAoA ~ ADp41
districts and make a thorough searcl
for straggiers-
ARMY RATTONS ISSUED.
The war department has authorize,
Governor Sayers to distribute 10000 ar
my rations among the fiood-sufferers
|, q rations TO be furnished h gov
ernoc from San Antonio. In additio.
: 10 h war department rations, Hous
. ton and Galveston have sent several ca
|. loads OF groceries into the flooded dis
tricts.
r As 10 crops, cotton Is I(lost. It
entirxay washed out in some places, br
on the whole. more good than har1
!. has been done TO crops by the food
= Cotbo1 will be replanteed In most case
4 Corn has soured IN most cases. bur n
: crop Is not an entire loss.
= Bismarck's Iron Nerv,
Was the result OF his splendid healt
Z Indomitable VIII and tramendons :,
: ergy are not found vhere Sto-.c
: Liver. Kidneys and Bowels are =,