Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-03
DEATH RIDES TEXAS STORM
Series Of Awful Cloudbursts Nearly
browns Waco
EIGHT LIVES ARE LOST THERE
Streams Leap from Bounds aud Form
an Angry sea-Bridges Are swept
Away and Business District Inundated
-Four Drowned At BIackshear.

Waco, Texas, April Ca cloud
burst, accompanied by high wind,
descended upon this city at noon Fri
day, and the result is that eight peo-
pie are known to have persisted in the
city limits and property valued at
several thousand dollars has been de-
stroyed or injured. The known dead
are: Mrs. Nancy Caudle. Miss Clara
Caudle, Rosa Chapman, Emma Decker,
Thomas Caps, Frank Walker, two I'M
known negroes.
The downpour of rain commenced
about noon and was incessant until
dark. 1t was in the shape OF water
spout and the rise in the creeks and
branches was so rapid that it did not
give the inhabitants time to fee. Three
persons. two women and man, all col
ored. were drowned within 100 yards
Of the city hall. Their bodies were
washed into the Brazos river and were
not recovered. There were several
people, mostly negroes, standing on a
bridge watching the rapid rise of Bar
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structure, gave way without warning,
precipitating them into the water. In
the southern part of the city, where
the two white women, Mrs. Caudle and
her daughter, lost their lives, the rise
was the highest ever known. 1t is
impossible to estimate the damage
done by the storm, but 1t will be
heavy. Relief committees are at work
already and succor is being afforded to
the sufferers. The business streets
were converted into rivers. Such n
Hood was never before seen here. The
bursts.
All points along the Brazos and
Colorado rivers have been notified, and
while much damage to property may
result from another rise, yet 1t Is be-
lieved that the timely warning will en-
able those who live in the valleys to
fully protect themselves.
Reports from Bolton and Rockport
state that the storm was especially
severe in those sections, but no loss
of life is reported.
San Antonio, Texas, April 30.-A
runner from Blackshear canyon. in
Dimmit county, has reached Medina
with the news that a claudburst at
noon Friday had flooded large sec
ton of the northeast corner of DIM
NIT county and swept away the little
settlement of Blackshear. Four lives
are believed to have been lost and
eight houses were demolished. Two
bodies have been recovered. A herd of
goats and large number of cattle per-
ished in the food All west Texas
streams are up and overlooking their
banks. A small cloudburst on the Oh
mos creek. which forms the head
waters of the San Antonio river, sent
the river on sudden boom. Horses
fording the stream were drowned and
carriages were swept away, but no
lives were lost. The average total pre-
cipitation for west Texas for the entire
month Of April to date has exceeded
fourteen inches. something unheard of
in this arid section.
Blum, Texas, April 30.-A tornado
passed through the eastern part Of this
place, destroying several residences
and two-story school building. Two
persons were seriously hurt. one Of
whom, Euniee Hanks, will die. She
was caught between two timbers and
received internal injuries. Fifteen
others We're slightly hurt. Robert Nc
Cluskey's business house and the Bap-
fist church are among the badly
wrecked buildings; l.. l.. Robertson's
residence was demolished and Robert
son probably fatally injured; Mrs.
Robertson was hurt about the head.
Lincoln, Neb., April 3O.-Reports
from Denton, small town in this
county, ten miles west, tell of a violent
wind and hail storm. Hailstones fell
in such volume as to cover the ground
for several inches, killing young live
stock and beating vegetation into the
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