El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Cause Big Damage Through
out The State Of
Texas
VACO'S CUP OF WOE
Not Yet Filled, All Railroads
Tied Up South Of Dallas,
And Telegraph Wires
Down

AUSTIN, Texas, April 2S.-TeXas
suffered worse from the furious storm
yesterday than in years. Floods and
cyclones, accompanied by cloud bursts
and water spouts swept the state,
Devastating property and lives.
Waco was flooded and several
people drowned. the victims being
William Walker, Tom Capps, Abe
Prather, Emma Decker, Rose Chap
man. Property loss in Waco will reach
fully $4,000 and the disaster Is not yet
ell passed
The tornado at Blum WAS more dis
assrous than at first reported. The
worst sffl cted section is through
johnson, Hill and Bosque couuties. The
regions about Houston and Dallas
also suffered immen sely, the greatest
damage being to crops and railroads.
Altogether, over the state, it is thought
the death list may aggregate score.
HEAVIEST RAIN EvER KNOWN
Noon advices show that the rain
over the state the past twenty-four
hours has been the heaviest ever
known. 1t Is falling in continual
torrent and has not yet abated.
Streams are OUT of their banks every
where, the food being greatest In cen
trail Texas. A number of deaths are
reported in Campaign.
Up to noon bodies had been reco.
vered at Waco where people had been
caught in the rush of the Waco creeks.
Railroad tracks there are washed out,
bridges gone and many houses wreck
ed, A nine foot rise in the Trinity
river is due to reach Ft. Worth late
this afternoon and people in the levee
section are moving out to escape the
over How which is certain to come.
Al Galveston the electrical and rain
storm last night wa1 ths sevsrest in
years and the streets today are flooded
from curb TO curb. 4 terrific hail
storm yesterday afternoon aud last
night broke hundreds of windows,
| caused many runaways, killed stock
and ruined crops.
SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING.
| At Belton the heaviest rain in 30
years fell last night, aud yesterday.
The streams are overlooking the low
| lands. The lower part Of the city is
! under water; nine houses have been
| washed away and four big bridges are
gone.
Seven persons were shocked by
lightning and many people have led to
places of safety. Trains ere all an
nulled. Many school buildings and
| factories IN this county were washed
away and a man was drowned last
| nie ht near the city.
The Fl. & K, 7. track sshed out and
all trains are running into Austin ten
hours late. At Deniscn II has poured
rain for As hours with no statement.
There IS the heaviest rain ever known
in Nor thern Texas ana IUdiau terrific
ry. Crops are ruined and railroad
traffic tied up.
The last dispatch from Waco places
the number OF dead there at II to Is.
A ! telegraph lines are gone south of
Waco, isolatiug more than one half
the state.
Railroad movements are absolutely
suS pended on ell lines south of
Dallas.
The loss by the focd and hurricane
since yesterday morniug il is estimRt-
ed will reach from three to five million
dollars, including the damage to the
railroads aud crops.
ANOTHER BREAK IN THE TRACKS
Special Dispatch to the HERALD.
SAN ANTONIO, April % The Colo
RADIO river is again high aud is dealing
destruction to objects that stand In the
way OF or retsrd the power of the food
waters. Last night l25 feet OF the pile
bridge OF the G. II. & $. A. was car
ried away. This structure was put in
after the food of two weeks ago that
play ed such havoc with the big steel
bridge that spsnned the river.