Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-04-07
BIG FLOODS IN TEXAS
A Disastrous Rain Storm That Last
ed Three Days Causes Great
Destruction.
LARGE AREAS UNDER WATER
Many People Abandoned Their Houses te
Flee to the Highlands Considerable
Losses We're Sustained on Many
Cattle Ranches.

Losses Were Sustained on Many
Cattle Ranches.
Dallas, Tex, April IA disastrou
rain storm prevailed the last three days
The worst results have been in western
and central Texas. The Water vale
on the COncho river in Tom Green coun
ty is reported to be entirely swept away
Three hundred inhahitantg fled to farm
| houses on the highland nd consider
| able property losses were sustained OF
cattle ranches by the overflowng of tn
Concho. The Brazos, Colorado, Trinit.
and their branches are all rising.
A DAM BROKE.
Bolton reports the Little Brazos ant
it's branches very high and still rising
Much damage is feared. Temple reports
high water at Killon and on the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe road The au
| thorities are unable to get any detail
| of the damage in the Water valley sec
| ton at 1890 p. m. All the telegraph ant
telephone wires between Dallas AM
Austin are gone. They cannot get
word direct. A bulletin from Lagrange
seventy-five miles below Austin, says
1T was reported by telephone at moor
that the dam in the Colorado river al
Austin broke at 11:2O a. m., and the flood
water released washed away the power
hn,1cn Tho oil hn tar ,,f
of the river are fleeing for high ground
Smithville reports that the people OF
half the town are nearly crazy with
fright"
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Austin, Tex, April IA cloudburs
occurred to-day, and the entire county
is inundated. Colorado river here rose
II feet in three hours, and is still rising
at the rate of feet an hour. The storm
was the most terrific on record, sweep
ing everything before it. The bridge OF
the International & Great Northern
railroad, seventeen miles north Of here
was washed out, wrecking the ST. Louis
south bound cannon-ball train. The
engine, a mail car, one passenger coach
and one sleeper were ditched. A num-
ber Of people are reported burned, but
list of casualties is not Obtainabe
The damage from the storm in this Sec
ton of the state will amount to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. Another
flood is feared, as cloudburst is in the
path of the immense food of last spring
which wrecked millions of dollars
worth Of property. The Austin an6
Northwestern railroad, operating to the
northwest from here along the Colorado
river ridge, is serious loser as a result
of four bridges being washed out and
much track washed away. No trains are
being operated to-day. Unconfirmed ru.
mors say that a family of six negroes
living on the Shoat river, west of here
were drowned. The people living in the
bottoms had to leave their homes the
water having.fooded them to a depth OF
3 feet. 1t is feared that this city's ST.
100000 water and light plant and dam
feet of the danger mark.
STILL RAINING.
Dallas, Tex, April 1.-THE Brazos riv
err at Waco has risen 10 feet to-day ant
is still coming up, also the Trinity a.
Dallas. The rain is still falling all ovel
the state. All telephone and telegraph
lines are in trouble, and railroad train:
everywhere are delayed or tied up.
bulletin received from Bastrop at moor
says: "The Colorado is very high, ant
the water is running over the railroad
at Fayetteville and washing away mucf
of the property. At German, the Leor
river Is as high as during the flood o.
July a. 1899. The Brazos and other small
streams are going up rapidly"
ACLoUD BUsST.
Austin, Texas, April THE country
southwest of here was visited by "a clout
burst last night. The Nueces river an(
| other streams were converted into rag
ing torrents that overfowed thousand
Of acres of growing crops. The South
ern Pacific railroad bridge at Loste
was washed away and several miles o
track are under water
HOUSES SWEPT AWAY.
| Austin, Tex, April Fully 10
houses were swept away. The occu
pants barely escaped. Ten men on tn
sand bank just below the dam were pre-
cipitated into the river and swept away
Over 100 houses have been counted pass
ing here since 10 o'clock. 1t is feare
that reports from above will bring tn
news Of great loss of life and property
EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED.
Dallas, Tex, April This Afternoon
City Marshal Love, of Taylor, fe,
miles north of McNeill, telephoned
Express train wrecked near McNei
this morning, and it is feared it is los
It is feared that the passengers are a
WHOLE TOWN WASHED AWAY.
| A bulletin from Taylor, Texas, thl
afternoon says the town of Circleville
washed away. The place had 100 II
habitants. tits feared some are drowned
Albuquerque Items.
Mrs. Isadore Griegos, aged "a year
died yesterday. She leaves four sor
and two daughters.
Mrs. Louise Thompson, formerly I
Salt Lake City, died yesterday Sh
, was aged 54 years. She is survived b
q daughter.
Mrs. Jane A. Williams died Thursda
. at the home OF her daughter Mrs. WI
liam A. Sanders. She was a native
New York City and was aged 81 year
The Democratic county conventio
will be held In this city on the 11th {
April.