The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-08
TEXAS TOWNS SWEPT
BY 4 RAGING TORRENT.
Many Lives Lost and Immense Damage Done TO
Property and Growing Crops Along
the Rivers.
Austin in Darkness and Dread, Railroad Trains
DitChed, Shipping Wrecked and $3.50 "a
Houses Swept Away.

| train from st. Louis, on the International
& Great Northern, due at 4 a. M, was
wrecked at Mcneil nine miles above here
as the result of a washout. The engine
and cars plunged into a culVert, damag
ing the engine, the mail, baggage car,
| two day coaches and :one sleeper The
cars left the track and rolled over on
| their sides in four feet of water, but for
| tunately no lives were lost, nor were any
of the passengers badly hurt This is at
tributable to the fact that there, were
not many on the train, and 1t was run
ming slowly at the time, owing to the
bad track. The mail clerk, Oralvis, of
San Antonio, was seriously bruised, and
Engineer P. F. Mahan of San Antonio,
and Fireman c. M. Stanley were slightly
injured. l.s..t< 10 s..s
The Austin & Northwestern road operat-
ed no trains today, due to the fact that
five of their bridges were washed away
during the night
MANY DEATHS REPORTED.
WACO, Tex, April Reports of loss
OF life and damage, caused by flood due
to the incessant rains during the past
three days, continue to pour in from all
directions, and indications point to rep
etitlon of the disasters of last year The
loss or life TO great extent has al
ready surpassed that of previous years.
Both Geographic and telephone service all
oyer the state is completely Frustrated,
and details from the flooded districts are
very meager. All streams, including the
Brazos' and Colorado rivers, are over
moving the lowlands, and rising very rap
idly. The crops Of cotton and corn are
nearly completely submerged, and will
have to be replanted. Railroad traffic
is practically suspended on all railroads
running into this city, each reporting
washouts along the lines, with indefinite
delay to traffic.
RACED WITH FURY.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April THE
heaviest rain and electric storm in thirty
five years visited San Antonio and the
entire Southwest last night, beginning in
san Antonio at midnight, and raging with
dreadful fury until o'clock this morning
destroying all street lights, flooding
cellars and overlooking San Pedro creek
and San Antonio river.
Two fire engines worked all night TO
save the $4,000 electric light, ice and cold
storage plant in the basement of the Men
ger motel, with only partial success. With
the exception of an estimated damage to
this part, the damage to overlooked prop
erty in the city will reach several thou
sand dollars.
The only train into San Antonio to-
day was on the International & Great
Northern, from Laredo No trains have
gone out. The International & Great
Northern railroad reports two bridges de-
stroyed between Taylor and Austin. On
the Arkansas Pass railroad GuadaIoupe
bridge is gone on the Kerrville branch.
! and the Cibolo bridge, on Gulf shore road.
The Salado creek bridge on the Corpus
! Christi line, had its approaches washed
away, and several washouts are reported
! on the Waco line of the Arkansas Pass.
and the bridge on that road over the
Colorado river, at West Point, was swept
away by the flood from the Austin dam.
as was also the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
bridge lower down.
SHIPPING SUFFERS.
The storm was particularly furious at
corpus Christi and Rockport on the Gulf
coast schooner is reported lost at
the latter place.
The rain is reported to have done much
damage to growing crops and garden
truck. No telegraphic communication
can be had west of Del Rio, on the South
ern Pacific, and the damage beyond that
point is not known. 1t will be, many days
before trains can run to Ell Paso.
In Rockport many houses were blown
off their foundations, and chimneys, sheds.
fences and windmills were blown down.
Shipping suffered most. Out of about
thirty boats lying at anchor in front of
the town. only three rode the storm SUI
fering no damage.