The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-07-01
FLOODS IN TEXAS
The BrazOs River OverfiOwed
the Country Around Waco.

Waco Eox-, June So-TEs DrsDos river
reached tho highest point TO-DAY II has
attained In Il years. Crops In the Bra
sos bottoms are inundate- from ak 20
-. zen feet and ! nmost cases are a totiI
loss. Hundreds Of people have fed from
the valley and have taken refuge IN
this city In east waco tho NAN street
"a six feet deep and the business houses
are completely under water and AIS mar-
chaudlse Is ruined All trains entering
this city have been abandoned, the tracks
having been washed away for several
miles. The water tonight stands six feet
deep In the passenger depot. The river
IS slowly falling but the rain continues
Houston. Texas. June S0.-rhe remark
able heavy rains OF the past four DAYS
| IN Texas have damaged which viii amonnt
TO hundreds OF thousands Of dollars Rail-
road traffic n suspended in south Texas
because of the numerous washouts ana
many bridges are gone. Every stream ! n
this section OF the state Is above bigh
water mark and the angry waters have
DESTROYED thousands OF acres Of cotton.
corn and cane. besides houses an cattle.
At Calvert the rise was 20 suedan that
when the water went through mo town
several negroes were drowned ana dEo
bodies have been recovered. IL Is rumOf-
ed that many farmers, white ana soiorads
living In the Rrazos bottoms. have been
drowned, but neither names nor reliable
particulars are yet obtainab The big
and Little Brazcs rivers have joined az
Navasota where they are ordinarily
three miles apart and the whole country
between mosAy cotton and corn land, II
ruined II "a reliably stated thai one fam
ly OF six persons perished. The loss n
cotton and corn alone will reach Aniilion
dollars, while another million will not COW
or the loss TO railroads and other property.
Austin, Texas, June S0--As a result OF
heavy rains during the past three days
along the Brazos river bottoms through
the central portion Of the state and along
the valleys Of the Guadaloupe and Lower
Colorado rivers in the 8outhwes3erN por-
tlon OF the state. fully 900 miles OF rich
farming land continues under water to-
night and many Of the railroads are ef-
fectlvely blookaded by high water and
wrecked roads.
The Brazoa has been on a boom since
Tuesday and has been rising rapidly all
png. reports received ronngn9 state
that the counties OF Hood Robertson
Brazos Washington. Harrs and Nc Len
nan are AL swept By the foods These
counties comprise the very center Of the
big farming interests OF the state Several
thousands acres Of land are submerged
and crops a.e ruined The valleys Of the
Guadalupe and Lower Colorado rivers
are in the same condition
Reports from every section Of the state
show that the losses to railroads have
bee nenormous The San Antonio and
Aransas Pass has had 100 miles OF It's
track washed away and not a train is
moving on tho oak n division OF that
road The Gp.. West Texas ana Paci-
hc and the New ork Texas and Mexican
are both practically tied up, something
| like nfty miles Of track on each road
being washed out by the rains. These
lines have also lost several large bridges
The Santa Fee Missouri and Texas, the
international and Great northern and the
Houston and Texas Central are seriously
crippled by reason OF the rushing waters
None OF the roads were operating any
through trains and only a few local di-
visions are 1 noperatiou.
The waters are receding tonight and II
believed the situation vii rapidly m
lprove