The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-26
FLOG1 PASSES AL RECORDS s dation is Critical in
 Texas. SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST Over a Million Dollars Worth of
 Property Destroyed.
Thousands of People are Homeless and Telephone, Telegraph and Rail- road Tramc is Suspended
 Poor are Suffering.

Dallas, Texas, May 25.-Several lives known to have been lost, more than a million dollars worth of property de- stroyed, 1000 people made homeless and telegraph and telephone wires west and southwest from the city out ot commission, are the results of record breaking overflow of the Trinity River last night and today. making the great est volume of water ever known in this city.
 The flood at nightfaIl passed the res cord made by the rise in 1866, fifty-two feet. when business houses situated in what is now poorer residence section of Dallas, were swamped. The same section of the city tonight is under several feet of water and thousands have lost their household effects. while the residence section of North Dallas is cut of from the business part of the city So far as street car lines are con- cerned. Only one line is operating to part of North Dallas. The water works plant Is out of commission and the light plant is swamped.
 Mayor Hay has issued proclama- ton closing all business from TO o'clock tonight until s o'clock tomor- row. Funds were raised this after. noon for the relief ui the homeless.
 Military Patrolling Streets.
 
 and one of artillery are patrolling the streets of the city under the direction of the police and none is permitted to go on the streets without permits from the authorities. In the residence sec tion, the patrol consists of two volun- teer citizens from each city block. This was made necessary by the crip- bling of the water works and to pre- vent incendiary fires. All objectionable nha nf fara kr. leave the city and many of these had to walk out. There is not street light burning in Dallas tonight. One hun dred special policemen were drafted and sworn into service for three days. These constitute the police reserves.
 The noteworthy fsa 44sa bf mora than thrilling interest today happened this morning when. pressed on the north by tiies weight of debris and probably un- derininded on the south by the whirling eddies of the main current of the Trin- ity river, the tretsling west of the steel bridge of the Texas and Pacific rail road gave way and ten men were thrown into the water in full view of 20 900 spectators that lined the bank for half mile down stream. Seven of these men were rescued at great hazard. The names of the three men drowned are unknown and their bodies nave HQL OGGn recovered at a late hour tonight. The other death occur ed about 1 o'clock this morning when an unknown man was drowned.
 Street car service was greatly ham pered during the day.
 Reports that many negroes had been drowned cannot be verified as the ut- most confusion prevails in that quart CT.
 This morning sheriff Ledbetter, of Dallas county, accompanied by squadron of deputies, pressed into ser vice the steamer Nellie Maurine and rescued over two hundred people who were clinging to the tops of their houses and perched in trees at points ins West Dallas and along the Eagle ford road.
 Tonight service has been resumed on the Fort Worth. Dallas and Interurban as far as Oakcliff from which point passengers are conveyed to Dallas by boat.
 Another Rise Expected.
 The gauge at 8 o'clock tonight show ed SPA and at that the river had be- gun to recede. Reports of rain later tonight however, along the river north of this city give rise to fears that an other rise will follow.
 At mass meeting held this evening $65, ,000 was raised by personal sub scription for the aid of those made homeless. Citizens of Oakcliff. the ninth ward, have arranged for a mass meeting to be held in that section of the city Wednesday night at which plans will be formulated for the con struction of a viaduct across the river and intervening lowlands into theis city, to be based upon the present stage of water. If this is carried out. 1t will mean that the viaduct will be over a mile wide.