The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-27
Floods Play Havoc With
 Property. RAILROADS WILL LOSE
 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Thrilling Reseues of Women and Children Reported. Conditions in Oklahoma are RepvrteA to Be Much Improved, Aithesgh Railroad Trafic is stiil
 Paralysea.

Fort Worth Tex. May 2e--Fork Worth continues In the grip of the most remarkable hood which ever swept down Trinity River at thia Ooint.
 North. east and west, not a railway is moving. Every energy of railway of- ncials Is being bent toward saving the tracks and bridges in the viniclty of Fort Worth. Trinity River sweeps In great arc around Forth Worth. sur rounding the town on three sides. Across 1t there are dozens of railway bridges and today none of them are considered safe for traffic. The em- hankments are crumhling. trestles are being converted into Enaried and twisted driftwood and the efforts >1 thousands of men are being laughed to seorn by the waters as the havoc pro- ceeds. The waters show no disposition to recede and every hour piles up the
 Hundreds of cottages and humble homes in the lowlands along the river are yielding to the greed of the flood and are floating down stream. The situation of hundreds of these people. as they stand impotent on the high biu1s bordering the stream and watch their simple earthly possessions sweep by. ts pitiful.
 Hundreds of men are being employed to divert drift from steel railway bridges and so far none has gone. but they are all in imminet peril
 gap was cut from the high trestie of the Rock Islad. Dallas branch. and a whole train of coal cars wns pushed into the breach in the hope of saving whas was left. The heroic expediank failed and water is now cutting around the edge.
 In the Rock Island addition to Fort many of them will be utterly destroy ed. Thousands of acres of growing crops are under water and will be ruin ed, entailing enormous losses.
 Sixteen bents in the approach to the Santa Fe bridge. over Red River are gone. and it will be days before the main line is open for trafac.
 There was no loss of lifo today
 The number of dead here stands at ten. Two of the bodies of those drown ed Saturday night were recovered late yesterday. One was that of a man named Welsh. an employe of raloou. and the other was a farmer named Pople.
 Only two International and Great Northern and Houston and Texas Gen. tral had their tracks open yesterday A conservative estimate places the loss of the railways at a hundred million. A serious situation has developed here in regard to the city water supply. The mains are filling with black mud dy water unfit for drinking even after being boiled and settled. The city au- thorities declare 1t may be a week be- fore they can restore the normal water supply In the meantime. those who can afford it are buying water from private artesian wells and those who can not are drinking the water that comes from the mains.
 Thrilling rescues were reported frsm and Grapevine. Thirteen men. women and children were caught in the overflow of the Denton River. Their condition became so preearioua that they were forced to hold the chil- dren upon their shoulders in order to keep them from drowning. These people stood in water almost to their necks for ten bours until boats rescued them.
 Thirteen railroad employees engaged in repairing a bridge at Grapevine were hemmed in by the rising water Sunday morning. They sought refuge on top of a big water tank and at laA1 accounts were still on the tank sur rounded by four miles of water.