The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-06
TIMELY WARNING WAS A
but THE TENANTS IN rHv
DID NOT HEED H. "
Hampstead Has Her HAM. =
Taking Care of the str,c,'
of that vicinity.

Hampstead. Texas. July 5.-Tha 4.
in the BRACES bottoms now is hs,.
scription; the negroes are nakea y
and crying for bread. The clt,,.-,
making up a purse and the Farue,,' !
tional bank heads the list with ;ioa ~
are proporticnately as liberal.
The distress at Brookshlre cana. !
row. but Hempstead's aid ia n d
needed in this immediate vic,n,,. !.
nothing but sympathy can be fu,,,s
County Judge Hannay wired to Brocl.,
early enough that this overflow =. !
above the 1885 mark and that al.
earliest movements would save IN. !.
destruction, but his advice seems I. 3
been UNDECIDED.
The Hampstead Bellville wagon 4.
was the Mecca of slghtseers yee..
This structure, generally fifty fect \
water level, Is now one foot aboye 4,
| defying the current, unshaken IA
parently uncomfortable. wonder q !.
ern engineering power. 1t takes !. ,
to get to the bridge. but hundred i,
without fear and the universal ysras'
that the bridge will triumph.
To save cattle in some places ran, i
to be built and in the hurry most AZ n
RATS have been overloaded. They \
down in many instances in the Az
water and can be seen struggling "a
| their heads above water.
| 1t is reported this morning by rs,,
people that boat near the Buesr
place picked up white woman WIN
been lost from boat near Bryan AMI
held on to log for twenty four hour
The river fell four inches last nies
w. c. Conner, commercial agent a.
Frisco; Ike Rosenfield and Sid Coz a,
mers, all of Houston, at the risk Of /,
lives, came here from Bryan at II ID,
night before last, having been on thu
twelve hours and traversng twenty n
of water. They were wet LOOKING,
and stated that had they known 4
they would have to pass through, 4
would most likely have stayed where 1
were. In the bottoms they heard
firing of pistols and cries for help, M,
to listen TO, but the trio needed hep
themselves and more than once were M
in danger.
Hundreds OF railroad men and l,hs,
are here ready to go to work as sor
the waters recede. The Southern p,;
which has suffered but little, has sent
bridge gangs over here and they tos I
be utilized on the Central, but the i,
forces on hand make the town look
mining camp.
The large planters. who have laki
some ca.ss over $4,000, are magnanlna
ly feeding the starved and hali.rii
negroes and their children, whether b
are their own employees or not Anil
justice to these poor negroes be Il i
that when the food was wiping ID
everything they ignored their own hsz
hold goods, all they possessed In
world, and risked their lives. swins1
among the cattle TO save dumb brutes d
perishing. though not one of them ii
they call their own.
The loss in this county will 90 ers
quarter of a million and will be itA
years to come. The high water mari
1885 is passed by eight or ten feet anti
water now is within one and halt |
of the flooring on the railroad and Hz
stead Bellville bridges and one must n
the height of these bridges to apprt;l
what that really means.
A popularity of the present overnp.
the clearness of the water. Former n
flows were of a reddish color, depo.E3
alluvials, beneficialito the soil, but "
to all existing vegetation. Some plM1
argue that cotton will in this case q
up again If the water don't stay upI
long; that the clear waters will deposit
coat of alluvials and allow a resprog1
of the seed.
Whether these theories are corresl
not. only the future can develop
Three darkies and a Mexican were ~
from a pecan tree in the bottoms
starved and shivering; they had not u
mouthful in nearly three days.