The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-06
HUNDREDS OF LIVES IN PERIL.
Many Will Certainly Die of Hunger and
Exposure.

!
Exposure.
ST. Louis, July 5.-A Post-Dispatch
special from Dallas says that at 1o:45
o'clock Deputy Sheriff swearingen of
Austin county made the following
statement over a telephone at Sealey:
"Relief has not yet reached the flood
victims in this section. Thirteen dead
bodies have been recovered near Brook
shire Forty-five persons above Sea-
ley are reported missing and given UP
for dead. Seven were drowned in
boat seven miles below Sealey. About
400 persons are isolated on a small
piece of land in Brazos bottoms, three
miles from Brookshire. Several hum
bred more are similarly surrounded at
San Philippe, three miles from Sealey.
Unless relief can soon reach these two
isolated places, 800 lives will be lost
Many will die, it is expected, from
hunger, exposure and exhaustion. The
s. lives reported lost here to-day were
in a radius 20 miles north and south
of Sealey. We are completely isolated
at Sealey, but this town is not in dam
ton beyond the limits mentioned. The
whole face of the country here is
sea. The channel of the Brazos river
has shifted about three miles and the
water here is Is miles wide. The rail-
roads are destroyed for miles. Immense
washouts occurred on the Santa Fee
south of Sealey this morning. This
t1-
munication. The Kansas & Texas, the
Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific are
all completely stopped g
Galveston, Texas, July 5.-The Texas
flood situation results from four days
steady rain, beginning June 26, which
at some points partook of the nature of
cloudbursts. In some cases the rainfall
was 20 inches and at several points it
was reported as eight inches. In the
central part of the state the flood
reached its height Saturday and Sun
day. The Brazos river at Waco flooded
a part of the town, but there was no
loss of life. At Hearne and Navosota
the same was true.
The Brazos valley at Calvert, Robert
son county, was flooded so suddenly
that planting hands could not reach
high grounds.
Reports were circulated that so peo-
pie were drowned. AS the waters re-
ceded near Calvert the facts are found
to be that IA lives were lost.
All the victims were negroes except
one. Many head of cattle were drown
ed. On Monday the railroads in the
central part of the state were in fine
condition, roads were resuming through
traffic when, on Tuesday the floods
reached the southern part of the state.
Tonight the flood condition in the
lower Brazos valley, at Brookshire,
Wallis, Richmond, Rosenberg, Thomp-
son, Duke Arcolo, Fulshear, Chenango
and Columbia, is very bad.
Wallis reports the Brazos 10 feet
higher than in 1885, and the backwater
one and quarter miles from town is
10 feet deep. The San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass bridge at Wallis is two
feet under water. The Southern Pa
cific road west of Houston is washed
out near Rosenberg and Richmond.
The Santa Fee is washed out near
| Thompson. 1t is feared when the rise
now at Wallis gets to Rosenberg and
| Thompson the consequence will be Sc
rious. At s o'clock tonight the river
| is rapidly rising at Thompson.
The International & Great Northern
| is open north and will be open to San
Antonio tomorrow morning.
All communicated from Galveston
and Houston via the Santa Fee, Calves
| ton, Houston and San Antonio and An
ansas Pass and the NJ. K. & T. railroads
are cut off. The only lines open are
the Texas & New Orleans; Houston,
East & West Texas; International &
Great Northern and Kansas City, F. &
G. The little town OF Brookshire, in
Waller county, where the Missouri,
| Kansas & Texas railroad crosses the
Brazos river, is surrounded by water.
Many hands We're caught in trees.
Those driven out of the valley fiocked
to the town and are being fed. The
citizens of Brookshire appealed to Gov
ernor Sayers for help. Governor Say
ers appealed to the citizens of Houston,
Galveston and San Antonio. The first
carload of provisions were sent from