The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29
WORST OF The FLOODS
IN TEXAS YET TO COME
Heavy CIOudburStS Have Changed the Placid
Rivers Into Fierce and Raging Torrents.
Residents Along the BrazOS Have Been Warned Of Their
Danger and Flee For Their Lives.

Waco. Tex, April 2S.-The flood sit
uation remains practically unchanged
from last night. Conditions could hard
ly be worse. Every available wagon,
d1'ay and float was brought into use and
the entire night was spent in moving
hundreds Of families out of the sub
merged district.
There are no new names added to
the list Of fatalities today, but reports
OF persons missing and who were last
seen. in the overlooked section are nu-
merous. A call for aid. signed by the
MAYOR and manV prominent citizens,
has been sent out, and a mass meeting
OF citizens of Waco will be held Mon
day night to devise means to aid the
suffering and those in need.
The local weather bureau gives the
rainfall for the past twenty -four hours
as 4.05. the heaviest on record. 1t
was believed that the worst Of the
overflow was at an end until the gov
ernnent bureau posted the following
bulletin today: Excessive rains
throughout the BRACES drainage basin
viii probably cause decided rise in the
BRACES river, overficwinS much low
land from McLeusnan county to the
gulf during next ten days. Please
warn residents along the river"
Farmers Are Warned.
Much anxiety is felt now over the
BRACES overflow. and runners have
Been sent to notify the farmers in the
lcwlands. The flood yesterday was not
alone confined to this county Temple
and Bolton. thirty miles south. report
ed vast damage by over1iOws, the rain
fall at Temple being 5.94, by far the
heaviest ever known.
Specials from Bolton say: mot since
rif viz
visited by such a doWnDour Of rain as
fell here during the past two days The
Salioo river broke all previous high
water marks and destroyed the fine
iron wagon bridge at this place. At
Summersville the school house was
carried away and the dam washed out.
The large steel bridge at Little River.
on the main line Of the Missouri, Kan
SaS & Texas, is wrecked. The Leon
river is OUT of its banks and the cleo
trio plant is flooded, the city being in
total darkness"
A Fifteen-foot Rise.
Calverts reDorts ffteen-foot rise in
the river there. The Navasota. at
Courtney. is within two feet Of its
high vvateGe mark, and with large
creeks is pouring hOUcs. into the ssy.Si :
len BRACES above HemDstead. At that
point the river is out Of it's banks and
rising fast. The bottoms viii be full
of water before morning.
At Chapel Hill the river is booming
and backwater covers a large section
of fiat lands. The same conditions
prevail at Saley.
At Richmond the river is ten feet
higher thar yesterday from local rains,
ard the water above. is still to come
Columbia reports the river near the
tops Of the banks ard rising fast. The
country is already Hooded and the
river is expected to repeat its perform
ances of last July and spread half
across Brazoria county. No loss Of life
is reported. but the universal report of
correspondents is that crops are ruined
beyond hope of redemption, and farm
ers will have to begin all over again on
their years work.