The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-07-13
SEA IN TEXAS
500 MILES LONG.
No Relief From the Horrors of
the Great Flood.
DEAD MAY NUMBER A HUNDRED.

AAo0eOAs Lex July o--1ne lex
as sea is 500 miles long and so miles
wide Underneath the waters of
the Brazos, which have wrought
such terror and damage during the
last six days, is what was once the
fairest portion of Texas, are probably
100 bodies and destroyed property
worth from $1,000, 900 to $4,000.
900, according to various estimates.
II late reports prove accurate, the
dead may be 100 more. The loss to
the farmers is from S5.000,000 to
S15,O0O,000. The other loss is on
railroad property and bridges. It is
said that 100000 bales of cotton
have been washed away, that corn
in the submerged area is total loss
that 1000 ears of melons worth
100000 had bsen ruined
The rivers which have caused the
frightful destruction are the Big
Brazos the Little Brazos, the Colo
RADIO, the Trinity, the Guadalupe,
the Leon and Nueees. All their
tributaries have overlooked.
The region which has suffered
most from the food is the famous
Brazos bottom land between the
Little and Big Brazos rivers.
The rivers run parallel for a dis,
lance of 80 or 40 miles, the tongue
of land between them being from two
to five miles wide.
The foods from the two rivers
came together and covered the land
between the rivers except the high
knells. 1t is estimated that 10000
acres are covered.
The following plantations in this
section are reported under water:
The Adoue, Brown, Garrett, Brock
man Anderson, WaYland, Whately,
Lewis and Peters places, along with
many others down the river toward
Hearne.
The food news and lack of news
is still disheartening. Calvert is
still In the center of the sea that fails
to dimninish though not rising, and
but one train has reached the town
in a week. Communication with
Dewey Station and Brookshire.
which was lost yesterday, has not
been restored and the damage in the
neighborhood can only be copjectur-
ed. The river at Dewey station on
the Missouri Kansas & Texas is ten
miles wide. Dewey Station was
small, but the country around it 10
thickly settled with truck farmers.
A Postal Telegraph lineman was
stationed at that point, but when the
water began to creep ever the levee
which had been built TO protect the
village, he left. At that time 15e
people were stationed on an island
near where the town stood and the
water was gaining rapidly. Wher
he left there houses were floating by
some of them with human freight
and the earcasses of cattle were nu
m.rous. He was the last man oai
of the town and says that the people
who live ca the new made island car
not escape if the water comes fur
Their. He knows of no lives that
have been lost.
Breokshire sent cut an urgent APP
peal for help. 1t is two miles from
the river ordinarily, but its streets
are now evsrfowed with water, while
the whole country is sea-
One rumor places the number al
ready drowned at these points at
thirty, unless boats ara dispatched
at once to rescue ths unfortunatei
in the bottoms the loss Of life will
go into the hundreds.
The list of dead in Robertson Go
has grown to forty. Aost of them
are negroes The fetal number oil
dead accurately reported from al
points has reached sixty two. The
river 10 still rising at Walls and al
Richmond
Calvert refuses efrrs of aid aud
saws the town can take care of The
situation
Bryan, Navasota and Hearne arr
still iaolstsd.
T,a last report received froH