The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-29
Residents of the Brazos Drainage Ba-
sin Warned to Look Out for
the Next Ten Days.
FRIDAYS STORM
WHOLE STATE WAS SOAKED WITH
TORRENTIAL RAINS.
Precipitation mt Waco and Temple,
the Greatest on Record. Off,
cialIy Given as Six nch

WACO, Texas, April 2S.-The flood situa-
ton remains practically unchanged from
last night. Conditions could hardly be
worse. Every available wagon, dray and
float was brought into use and the entire
night was spent in moving hundreds of
families out of the submerged district.
There are no new names added to the list
of fatalities to-day, but reports of persons
missing and who were last seen in the
overlooked section are numerous. A call
for aid signed by the mayor and many
prominent citizens has been sent out and a
mass meeting of citizens of Waco will be
held Monday night TO devise means to aid
the suffering and those in need.
The local weather bureau gives the rain
fall for the past twenty-four hours as 4.O5.
the heaviest on record. 1t was believed
that the worst of the overflow was at an
end until the government bureau posted the
following bulletin to-day: Excessive rains
throughout the Brazos drainage basin will
probably cause decided rise in Brazos river.
overlooking much low lands from McLen-
nan county to the gulf country the next
ten days. Please warn residents along
river
Much anxiety is felt now over the Brazos
overflow and runners have been sent to
notify the farmers in the low lands. The
flood yesterday was not alone confined to
this county. Temple and Bolton, thirty
miles south, reported vast damage by over
flows, the rainfall at Temple being 5.94. by
far the heaviest ever known.
A dispatch from Bolton says: mot since
1852 has this city and vicinity been visited
by such a ~downpour of rain as fell here
during the past two days. The Salido 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 Lit
tie river, on the main line of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, is wrecked. The Leon
river is out of its banks and the electric
plant is flooded, the city being in total
darkness"
Calvert reports a f~ifteen-foot rise in the
river there. The Navasota, at Courtney, is
within two feet of its high water mark and
with large creeks Is pouring a flood into
the swollen Brazos above Hampstead. At
that point the river is out of it's banks and
rising fast. The bottoms will be full of
water before morning. At Chapel Hill.
the river is booming. and back water
covers a large section of fiat lands. The
same conditions prevail at Saley. At Rich
mond the river is ten feet higher than yes
terday from local rains and the water
from above Is still to come.
Columbia reports the river near the tops
of the banks and rising fast. The country
is already flooded, and the river is expected
to repeat Its performance of last July, and
spread half across BraZoria county. No
loss of life is reported, but the universal re-
port of correspondents is that crops are
ruined beyond hope of redemption and
farmers will ave to begin all over again
on their years work.