The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-10
MORE DAMAGE FROM FLOOD.
Loss OF LIFE REPORTED FROM
OTHER SECTIONS.

Several Families Reported Wiped
Ont as the Result of the Rise i'm
the Texas Rivers-At Austin the
River Is observation-disclosures Held
There 40 Take steps to Secure
Water and Light-Aid Given to-
Flood Sufferers.
Austin, Tex, April 9.-'The flood situa-
tion here is improving somewhat, but tho
reports from points below indicate thac
the full effect of the immense volume oe
water is being felt in Wharton and La
fayette counties, everything being inun~
dated, and much loss of property and
something like fifty washouts and losses
of bridges are reported by the railways
Advices from the area surrounding this
county seat of Bastrop county are to-
the effect that there has been some loss
of life among the farming class, but outs
side of an unconhrmed report that eight
lives were lost, nothing can be learned.
In the southern part of this county sev-
eral people are missing, the number reps
resenting family of six Italians and two
negro families. 1t may be that they hava
escaped, but as their homes have BEEN
perished in the rushing waters.
The river is receding rapidly at this
po.nt and above, Notwithstanding the fact
that another heavy rise was reported ears
ly this morning on the Concho, 125 miles
north of here
Reports tonight from LAGRANGE I'M
Fayette county are TO the effect that
while much of the lower portion OF the
town is under water, the property loss Ia
small. No one is missing
The International and Great Northern
Railway and the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas have been seriously crippled by the
floods. The first named road has had 50J
washouts aud lost bridges on its road
from Hearne to the Rio Grande.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas is likes
wise a heavy loser, having had 10 aban-
don much of its track altogether. 1t is not
believed that the damage to the cotton
crop will be of great extent as the season
Is yet early, and all the crop can be re-
planted.
Meeting Held in Austin.
All the citizens of this city held a mass
meeting to-day, at which the consensus
of opinion was that It was not feasible to
rebuild the dam and power house, all
| though no definite action was taken.
| A proposition was made to the meeting
! by the old water company, whose plant
! has likewise suffered much from the food,
| that they would take all the piping and
wiring of the city plant and such of their
apparatus as could be recovered from tha
wfeckage, pay fair value from the same
and rejuvenate their plant here and fur
nlsh the city with water and lights within
| two weeks. The proposition was handed
over to a committee of twenty citizens TO
| be considered.
In the meantime the Water and Light
| Commission met and instructed its super
! intendent to at once secure from New
! Orleans or some other available point, a
steam engine, by which it is hoped that
the city can operate one of its big pumps
which remains intact and furnish the
city with water until some more definite
| arrangements can be made.
Much fear is being entertained with re-
| gard to the sanitary situation of Austin,
as the city is already beginning to show
| the effects of lack of drainage water.
Gov. Sayers to-day gave the city $500
out of food sufferers fund, to be expend-
ed in behalf of the poor of the city who
have been made homeless. All such ara
being well cared for.