The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-31
FLOODS STILL RAGE
TEXAS SITUATION SHOWS No I'M
PROVEMENT.
RAILROADS IN BAD SHAPE
TROUBLE is GENERAL OVER THE
STATE.

several Hundred Wood Choppers in
creek Bottoms Believed to BE in
DauUer-RaiIroad Beds SOftened
and Operations Much Interfered
with-FIood Conditions in BrnxOs
valley Growing Worse and River
Il Again Rising at waco-PrOspect
of Large Cotton Crop Endangered
by Floods and Appearance of Boil
Worms.
Dallas, Tex, July So.-Advices from
the state at large do not show i'm
movement in the flood situation to-
night.
A resort comes from Hillsboro that
between four hundred and five hum
bred men were chopping in the bot
toms between Richland and Post Oak
creeks, when the heavy rain fell Sat-
urday, and it is feared that some of
them were drowned. as no commune
cation has been received from them.
The long continued rains have soft
ened the railroad beds in many places
where trouble has never been expert
portion of the state particularly is
suffering. The International and
Great Northern, entering San Antonio
from the East, is almost completely
tied up and the NJ. K. and T.
road has abandoned that route
Texas also had trouble to contend with.
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washed out between Dallas and Green
vile, and trains are being detoured
via Farmersville. 1t is expected that
this damage will be repaired tonight.
The water is over the tracks at Elmo,
on the Texas and Pacific east of Dali
las, but travel will not be interrupted.
There was a cloudburst at Greenville
last night. Trouble on the Santa Fe
was confined to the Little River dis
trict near Cameron and the main line
of the Houston and Texas Central
seems to have suffered the least of any
of the roads. Trains are coming
through both on that road and the
Santa Fe. The Texas and Pacific is
running trains west as far as Big
Springs and as far east from Ell Paso
as Stanton, where transfers around
the washouts are being made. The
Texas Central has washouts between
Whitney and Dublin.
The flood conditions in the Brazos
valley continue to grow worse. The
river is again rising about Waco, and
the crest of the flood was only a short
distance below that point this morn
ing.
The weather has been fair in the
Dallas district all day, and railroad
men hope the worst is over. The rains
have damaged the cotton crop ma
terially. The present crop promised
to be the largest in the history of the
state, but boil worms are developing
rapidly and farmers are becoming APP
prehensive.
Five Lives Lost.
Up to midnight no further commun
ication was had with the woodchop-
pers, cut off in the bottoms of Richlapd
creek.
A special to the News from Austin
says five lives were lost and hundreds
of head of live stock were drowned
in the flood which struck the district
located forty miles southeast of there
yesterday, and the night previous. The
district referred to is in Caldwell and
Hays counties, distant from telegraphic
communication, and therefore reports
are meager.
The towns of Martindale. Staples
and a number of smaller settlements
located in the valley of the San Mar
COS river and all tributary streams
were inundated and many houses
swept away.
So far as known five lives We're lost.
Two of them were negroes living be-
low Martindale on the Lueban planta-
ton, and the other three lived near
Upland, on Plum creek.
Five bridges are said to have been
wept away. The storm in Plum creek
struck the Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as Railroad with all its force, wash
ing away nearly a mile of track.