Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-07
JOINT NOTE TO CHINA STORM WORKS. HAVOC
Representatives of the Powers De- Cudbus nunda the Country
mand Suppression Of Boxers" Around Austn Texas.
Two MONTHS IN WHICH TO COMPLY TRAIN WRECK AZ A. WSHOUT
Audience March Said Colorado River Rising at Rate of
! Have Been a Farce. Three Feet Hour.
EMPEROR IN RAD SHAPE REPORTED LIFE
Cloudburst Inundates the Country
Around Austin, Texas.
TRAIN WRECK At A VlSHOUH
Colorado River Rising at Rate Of
Three Feet an Hour.
REPORTED LOSS OF LIFE

AUSTIN, Texas, April This section
was visited by cloudburst this morning
and the entire county is inundated. The
Colorado river here has risen eleven feet
in three hours and is still rising three feet
an hour.
The storm was the most terrific on rec
ord. sweeping everything before it. AS a
result of the storm bridge on the inter
national and Great Northern railroad sew
enteen miles north of iiere was washed
out, wrecking the st. Louis south-bound
cannon~ball train, ditching the engine the
mail car, one passenger coach and one
sleeper. Quite a number of people are re-
ported burned, but the list of casualties Is
not obtainable at present.
The damage to this section Of the state
will be in hundreds of thousands.
Another Flood Feared.
Another flood is feared as the cloudburst
is in the path of the imnense flood of last
spring, which wrecked so many millions of
dollars worth Of property.
The Austin and Northwestern railroad,
operating to the northwest from here along
the Colorado river ridge, is "a serious loser
as result of four bridges, being washed
out and much track washed away; no
trains are being operated today.
Reports from all sections tributary to
the Colorado river reported great damage
to property.
Cnconfirmed rumors say that family of
six negroes living on shoal river west of
here were drowned.
Quite number of people living in the
bottoms had to leave their homes. the wa
ter having flooded the houses to the depth
of three feet.
Fears are felt that the food will he dis
astrous to life and property hera. Reports
from the Concho river above here show that
the worst storm ever known is now raging
there, attended by loss of life aud property.
All the water falling there will have to
pass here, and it is feared that this city $
million and half water ard light plant and
dam will suffer. for the water is now with
In two feet of the langer mark.
Dam at Austin Breaks.
DALLAS. Tex, April 1.-THE Colorado
river has risen twenty-seven feet since mid
night. The Brazos and Trinity are also
rising. Five serious washouts on the Aus
tin and Northwestern railroadar reported
and traffic has been abandoned. 1t Is still
raining and news of great damage comes
from many points in central and southern
Texas.
At 1890 pm. all wires between Dallas and
Austin failed. A telephone from La Grande,
seventy-five miles below Austin, says the
big dam across the Colorado river at Austin
broke at 11:25 o'clock and that the food
of water released washed away the power
houses and destroyed all wire conlmunica-
ton No loss Of life has been yet reported.
If the report is correct, the damage will
reach hundreds of thousands of dollars, as
the Austin dam was one of the largest and
costliest of its kind in the country.
An immense property damage is antici-
pated both in the city of Austin and in the
valley below.