Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-05-27
TEN DEAD At FORT WORTH
Crest of Flood Expected There Some
Time During Day.
RAILROADS SUFFER HEAVY Los:
Four Thousand Persons Homeless N
Dallas, where water f. Reced-
inE-seven oklahoma
Fatalities.

FORT WORTH, Tex, May 26-With the
waters Of the Trinity river still near the
summit Of the banks. another great volume
Of water began pouring from the west
fork Of that stream toward this city late
last night Early today the river Is rising
at a rate Of six inches an hour and with
such conditions as already prevail the out
come when the crest OF this second rush
Of waters reach this city cannot be fore
told. That considerable additional property
loss and suffering will result is considered
certain.
From Sunday night until noon yesterday
the river was recedlng but slowly. During
the afternoon the water was at a stand
still Last night the second rise, the crest
Of which should reach Fort Worth by late
today, began.
The number Of dead here stands at ten.
Two of the bodies Of those drowned Sat
urday night were recovered yesterday. One
was that OF a man named Welch, an en-
ploye Of a saloon. and the other was of
a farmer. Pople The railway situation
shows but slight Improvement. The Rock
Island is making no effort to run trains
in any direction The joint track of the
Texas & Pacific. Missouri. Kansas &
Texas and Cotton Belt will not be opened
for traffic before Thursday at least. The
Missouri Kansas & Texas is making no
efforts to run trains north and the Frisco
is stopping all southbound trains at Car
rollton and turning them back.
The Fort Worth & Denver hopes to put
a train through today. but its success is
uncertain.
Railroads Lose Million.
Communication was attempted yesterday
with Dallas over the Houston & Texas
Central by way of Ennis, but the trains
could not proceed further than the last
named point. Only the International &
Great Northern and the Houston & Texas
Central had their tracks open yesterday
A considerable estimate places the losses
OF the railroads at s1.OOOOOO.
A serious situation has developed here in
connection with the city water supply. The
mains are filled with black. muddy water
unfit for drinking even after being boiled
and settled. The city authorities declare
It may be a week before they can restore
the normal water supply. In the mean
time those who can afford 1t are buying
water from private arteslan wells and
those who cannot afford it are drinking
the water that comes from the mains.
Thrilling rescues were reported from
Currowton and Grapevine. Thirteen men.
women and children were caught in the
overflow of the Denton river.
Their condition became so precarious that
they were forced to hold the children upon
their shoulders in order to keep them from
drowning. These people, stood IN water al
most to their necks for ten hours until res
cued
Thirteen railroad employees engaged in re-
nairfnR a hridgp AZ uvera
in by the rising waters on Monday. They
sought refuge on top Of big water tank
and at last accounts were still on the tank
surrounded by four miles of water. An
effort will be made TO day to rescue them
Water RecedinE at Dallas.
DALLAS. Tex. May 26-After doing
damage Of over HOOO,OOO. drowning at least
three people and rendering 1000 people in
Dallas homeless, the Trinity river today is
falling slowly. It is believed that when
the water has receded it will be found
that the number of deaths will be increased
All Of the workmen who were carried
down with the Texas Pacific bridge yes
terday have not been accounted for
Frank Edwards lost his life last night by
falling into the backwater on Mckinney
avenue in the heart of the residence dis
| trict.
Dallas business men are raising funds to
succor the distressed and homeless. The
city is still without light and water, the
plants being inundated. few street cars
are being operated by the power furnished
by private companies. All the railroads are
practically tied up. but few trains being
able to enter or leave Dallas.
Record for Brazos at Waco.
gE rTt.
| is higher here by two feet than ever known
Thousands Of acres Of land have been over
| flowed and the damage TO crops is heavy
| People living in the lowlands have been
driven from their homes. Five inches Of
rain fell in ten hours. Railroads have been
washed out badly. Tributaries of the Bra
zos river are extremely high and crops
along these streams have been damaged.
seven Dead in Oklahoma.
| OKLAHOMA CITY. okL, May 5.-seven
persons are dead, from four to 500 are
I homeless, thousands of acres OF lowIands
are inundated, hundreds Of houses are
washed away or damaged. railroad and
wagon bridges are gone over a large area
OF the southern part Of the state; several
OF the railroad bridges are damaged and the
! tracks OF nearly every railroad company
] NAfNAHe+AAb ~ NA-c SN6NN arc elluGE washed
( away entirely or disarranged in those sec
tions visited by the heaviest rains and
most disastrous floods. The dead:
/ WILLIAM T, LINDLEY, Anadarlo
! THOMPkINS CHEEK, SHAWNEE.
/ W. B. HALLERS, wife and child Fred
1 erick.
NEGRO, downed at Guthrie
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, body found
| floating In CimarroD river near Guthrie.
Near Davenport both the Frisco ana Katy
tracks are washed out. Near FL Reno 800
feet OF the Choetaw track is gone. On the
Santa Fe near Guthrie the tracks were
damaged, but thave been replaced. The
Rock Island near Apache and near Fort
Cobb has been damaged in the locatirz
OF bridge tents. The tracks OF the Wichita
Falls and Northwestern In the Big Pasture
are unsafe and trains are delayed. The
Oklahoma Central has practically aban-
doned its service.
More than 500 houses in West Guthrie
are submerged. The feed has fallen, Su,
the bottoms are still submerged and water
four feet deep Is running through the
streets. Hundreds are homeless and
transportation from one part Of town 10
another is by means Of boats
| Along the valleys Of the North ana Sub