The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-05-28
LIST Of DEAD
SIX OR SEVEN
Fate Of Many on Bois dare Is
land Unknown and Causes
Apprehension.
DALLAS FIRMS BIC LOSERS
OF Total Property Loss, Over Six
Hundred Thousand Dollars Is
Reported. County Bridge
Goes Down.

Dallas, Texas, May 2S.-lt was
said at the sheriffs office last night
that so far as is positively known
only six or seven persons have lost
their lives in the river They We're:
John Grow, West Dallas
Mr.. Oldham, who was carried
away in a house in which he lived on
Ben Wright's farm, one mile north
east of Cement
Frank Edwards, who was drowned
Monday night on Mckinney avenue,
near Cochran street.
Hubbard Hall, colored, who was
drowned opposite 207 Cochran street
Monday evening.
Two or three unknown men who
were on the Texas and Pacific trestle
when that structure went down on
Monday morning.
Hubbard Hall, colored, aged %
years, was drowned in the backwater
in the rear of 207 Cochran street,
Monday about two blocks from the
point where Frank Edwards was
drowned the same evening. The body
was recovered yesterday and turned
over to Undertaken Donovan. Hall
stepped into a hole where the water
was beyond his depth, and being un-
! able to swim, he went down.
Following are estimates of some of
the losses resulting from the flood:
Southwestern Telegraph and Tel
ephone company, $40 900 to $15, 900.
Max Hahn Packing company, ST.
| 900 to $4,000.
| Dallas Brewery, $40 900.
/ The II. W. Johns-Manville COM
pany. $4,000 to SIS, 900.
West-Cullum company, $4,000.
Dallas Cooperage company, So
900 to $4,000
| Dallas county, in bridges, SIS 900.
F, Harry Bros, several thousand dol
Waters-Pierce Oil company, 81
| Armstrong Packing company, S10,-
600
| Trinity Cotton Oil company, s5,-
| 900.
! Griffiths & Co., $500 to $4,000.
| Arbuckle's Elevator, $500.
! Padgitt Bros, 81 900.
| Dallas Electric Light and Power
company, $4,000.
! Dallas Bcttling company, $3.50.
| Electric Appliance company, $500
or S410.
| South Dallas, exclusive of manu-
| featuring plants, 100000.
| North Dallas, exclusive of manu-
featuring plants, $75, 900.
| Railroads, $3.50, 900.
/; The total accounted for Is consid-
erably over 100000, and this is
probably about two-thirds of the to
i tai amount lost, which was in the
4 l. L. q n
Reports reaching the city yester
| day from Seagoville and points south
of there on East Fork are to the eff
| feet that many lives must have beer
lost on Bois dare Island, the high
est ridges of which were for the first
time in the history of the country
several feet under water.
People on the mainland on the
east side report that Sunday night
and until Monday afternoon they
heard reports of shotguns at regu-
lar intervals. They readily under
stood the firing to be signals of dis,
tress, but were without means o1
offering relief The island is thirty
miles in length by about one mile iI
width. On 1t are many well-cultivate6
farms and gardens, and the inhabit
ants numbered several hundred. l,
is not known that any escaped.
1t was reported from Seagovillt
that a party of hunters from Dallas
and Terrell were caught on the Is
land. 1t Is supposed that these hunt
ers retired to the high land as ths
water rose, and exhausted their am
munition in the hope of ATTRACTING
help.
No News Of Escapes.
/ j. L. Ard, vice president of tn,
bank at Seagoville, who was in thu
city yesterday, confirmed the repor
that Bots dare Island is entirely un
der water. He was not aware tina
any of the inhabitants of the islant
succeeded in reaching the main
land. The report that party of hun
ters were caught on the island, h
said, was current at Seagoville.
Dallas Man Heavy Loser.
| Mr.. Ard reports extensive damag
lin East Fork bottom, the heavies
loser being c. C. Cobb OF Dallas. MI
Cobb has 500 acres In alfalfa. Tn
crop, harvested several weeks age
was flooded and ruined in the barns
and the second crop, which wa
about ready for harvest, is entirel
funder water In the fields, and conse