The Prescott daily news., 1908-05-27

Know. There IS no Chance To 20 back to work in the coperage shop, and I'm old and can't get work anywhere else"
 The same thing applies to Harry Bros. plant. where some twenty-five men are employed in the manufacture or galvanized iron cistcrns. Mir Harry estimates his loss at about 36.Ooo. but after a trip to the scene this morning. said that the office and workshop seemed to be intact, so that a resump- ton of work may be had as soon as the water recedes. L
 Mr. Harry got the books and valu- able papers from the safe in the office on Monday morning about o'clock He says that when he first went in the water was up to the bottoms of the windows. and by the time he got out, 1t was s8irimins Tho papers were floated out on an improviscd raft,
 The Dallas Cesperase company's plant formerly stood just across the tracks from the Harry plant. but as stated above, two of the buildings have floated away off down towards the Max Hahn Packing plant. All of the buildings were still under water to the depth of some. eight or ten feet al- though mark. on the buildings showed where the water had been some four feet higher. Max Hahn's packing plant Is still inundated. and no idea of the damage can be made as yet Here. too, many men are thrown out of employ ment.
 Frank Hamm's brewery depot. locat- ed in the same district. also remains under water. and from the present rate that the flood is receding, will be for another two days
 It would be an impossibiIity at this time to make anything like a correct estimate of the damage done by the present unprecedented rise in the Trin- ity river. In fact the man who makes the attempt to tell the story of what has resulted in the ihape of damage, suffering. loss of profsrty. and. though none has actually been confirmed as yet. the undoubted loss of life, can make but feeble one at best
 There are thousands Of people home less; there has been millions of dollars worth of damage to property done people who had just about made a new start after losing nearly everything from the last great flood. have had ev- erything swept away for the second time, and have about given up the at tempt to make new start: hundreds of workers have been thrown out of employment by the shutting down of the plants in which they were employ ed. with no prospect of a resumption for weeks to come
 Coming without warning, as it did, the great fiood-the greatest that tte oldest resident has any Knowledge of. caught persons unawares so that they lost practically everything they pos sessed. Even where the houses in which they lived were not totally de- stroyed or floated away. the interior furnishings have been completely ruin ed. and the occupants in many in stances, consider themselves fortunate in getting out alive. On three sides of the city-north west and south. this damage has been done. with probably the greatest suffering and greatest loss of life on the west. across the wide flat through which the river runs. in the we'll settled suburbs contiguous to what Is called West Dallas.
 And there. too, when all is known, it is not at all unlikely that the great est loss of life will be discovered So far 1t Is impossible to tell what has been. No man Is able to say with the confusion which resulted from the quick rise of the water, how many lost their lives, nor who they were.
 Believe Many Drowned.
 Rescued from the tops of houses from trees, from every conceivable po- sition which would give immunity from the fiercely rising and rapidly rushing flood. hundreds of people have been taken of fin small boats, and carried to higher ground. It is not possible that all have escaped, and the belief is entertained by those who have been engaged in the work and who have seen the conditions which existed, that many persons. physically unable to stand the Of fny ,.ali inf have been swept from their temporari- ly safe positions and gone down be- heath the flood.
 No less than a dozen persons were brought out of West Dallas just before noon to-day, after having been ma rooned, in various positions during the last thirty-six hours. Destitute they are, having lost practically everything they possessed. but according to the statements of all of them. their fami- lies are complete with none of the members missing, All of them escaped with only the clothes they have on their backs. and with only one idea that of self preservation.
 It was after o'clock this morning when the big gasoline launch Nellie Maurine left the Commerce street bridge for & relief trip te West Dallas. carrying food. and clothing to the des- titute In West Dallas. It returned just before noof, with About a dozen persons on board who had been rescued. On board the boat, representing the citi- ssns' relief committee organized at the mass meeting yesterday were R. l.. Winfrey and Walker Edwards. who had charge of tho expedition. Upon the re- turn of the vessel 1t was reported that there were many persons still over in West Dallas. who. since they have seen the water receding, refused to be taken on board. but said that they would stay with their homes in order to get to work a. soon as possible fin putting things to rights.
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