The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-28
TEXAS AGAIN SUFFERS
DEVASTATING Transforms m NORTH
AND WEST SECTIONS
RIVERS ABOVE THE DANGER LINE
Many of Them Already Out OF Their
Banks and still Rising-The Colorado
Expected to Reach a Higher Mark at
Austin Last Night Thar During the
Flood of Last April-Immense DAM
age to Crops and Other Property Over
a Large Area.

Flood of Last Aprfl-Immense DAM
~ to Crops and Other Property Over
a Large Area.
Dallas. Texas. September 24-Trinity
river Is higher tonight than IL has been
since 1890 when il broke all records-
The water tonight lacks only six feet
OF reaching the 1880 mark and Is still
rising. Owing to the heavy rains IA
night and yesterday on the Elm Fork.
the West Fork and the Clear Fork, all
Of them emptying into Trinity river
above Dallas, b prospect is for the
stream going past the 1890 mari some
time tonight. No lives have been lost
in the immediate vicinity of Dallas,
but cotton and live stock. notably
sheep and hogs, have suffered heavily.
The county commissioners OF Dallas
county met today. They estimated the
loss OF county bridges at $25, 600, indie
pendent OF the numerous small bridges
and he street damages in the county
of Dallas, which Will be nearly as
much. The item OF damage to roads
and bridges alone in he dozen or more
counties Of northern Texas will be
about $3.50, 600.
A bulletin. received here this after
noon from Fowler, in Bosque county,
says:
"Brazos river out of its banks; higher
than in twelve years n going higher.
A big rise VIII reach Waco tonight"
Fowler is fifty miles north of Waco.
Austin, TeXa September 24@Gov-
ernor Savers wired tonight to all points
south of here warning notices that the
most terrific o in the history of
the Colorado river which flows by this
city, is now surging down through the
mountain gOrgeS to the northwest of
here, and it is expected at this place
by midnight. The warning was sent
out by Governor Sayers in responsG to
the following telegraphic warning:
"Goldthwaite, September "a.
ITO Governor Sayers:
Notify all towns on Colorado river
and have towns notify country points
that river is ten feet higher than eve
before known and is still rapidly rising.
Very urgent.
PHIL. II. CLEMENTS.
state Representative"
The river has been rising very rap
idly at Austin since 4 O'Clock this af-
ternoon and reports from Goldthwaite
at s O'Clock tonight say that water is
still rapidly rising there. The rise
at that point was reported ito be fifty
eight feet at dark. Along the Colorado
water sheds very heavy rains have
fallen during the past four days and
the rise reported coming down now Is
twenty feet higher than the one that
broke the Austin dam and wrecked
the city's light and power plant last
April. 1t is expected that the advance
of this great rise will sweep by Austin
about midnight and all parties in the
lowlands to the south of the city and
all points reached by either telegraph
or telephone We're communicated with
by the governor with the warming to
escape before the fiood arrives. Great
alarm is felt As to the result of the
rise.
Governor SayerS left here tonight for
Galveston to inspect the work being
done there by the various relief COM
mitteeS.
Houston, Texas, September 24.-The
town of Brownwood has not been Sc
, riouSly damaged by the overflow of
Pecan bayou, % have any lives been
lost. The water flooded the town n
| some damage resulted from this cause.
| Trains will be running through tomor-
row over the Santa Fe and the Rio
Grande. The rise in the Trinity has
| not yet reached the lower river and
the PEG lie in the towns have been
armed by the newspapers. There are
few telegraph stations along the course
of the Trinity n it is difficult to get
reliable information of the damage
. OOI1t. liz IISS III Lie oIoZOo 4AS%o
reached Hearne and people in the
bottoms have been warned hat an
overflow is possible, but not probable.
The greatest damage has been to cot
ton open in the fields. Correspondents
at all points in north Texas report this
loss as heavy. The reports from west
; Texas are Gag as ito damage done
by the Neuces river. The country is
; sparsely settled and it will be some
days before ccurate information is
obtainable. 1t is reported that thirty
or forty Italians employed on sheep
ranches We're drowned.
Houston, Texas, September PA
special from Goldthwaite says there
has been no loss of life but that h
rise in tho Colorado has swept all
bridges avay and destroyed cattle n
crops. Many houses have been de-
! stroyed and a hundred families are
! homeless. though they escaped TO the
highlands. A special from Llano says
| the Llano river, a tributary Of h
| Colorado, is feet above nor
mai and done much damage in the
| valleys. No loss of life has been re-
ported. Reports from various points
in west and north Texas are ia the
! effect that all the small stream are
greatly swollen and are sending a
large volume of water into the larger
J streams.
Austin, Texas, September GA tel
| ephone sSa received here tonight
by the chief of police from Llano says
that San Sabas, forty miles north Of
that place, containing about 1000 peo-
pie, was partially swept away by n
flood in the San Sabas river which was
| still rising 1t is feared there has been
| great loss Of life in the bottoms. as the
| rise was in the night Ind came with
out warning.