The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-26
TORRENTS OF
WATER SWEEP
DOWN VALLEY
Many Lives Lost in Texas and
Oklahoma by Reason
of Floods.
PROPERTY LOSS WILL
REACH BIG FIGURES
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HOME
LESS AND APPEAL FOR AID
is NECESSARY.

= Fort Worth. Tex, May 25.-After !
receding steadily since Sunday night y
= water in the Trinity river began to =
rise again late tonight The flood \
Is likely TO greatly increase the =
damage already done. Hundreds who y
= fled from their homes in the bottom =
mad prepared 10 return. but tonight y
they look fresh alarm and none are y
= sleeping near the water tonight eX- =
= cept The recklessly venturesome. \
y Dallas. Tex. MAY 25-Four lives
are known 10 have been lost. more =
= than a million dollars worth of prop =
efty destroyed and 4.O00 people rem :
dered homeless by the overflow of =
trinity river last night and today. y
Inc Hood al nightfall passed the rec =
ORD made by the rise IN lS66-fifty- \
y two feet.
= Only one street car line is operst- ;
= ing TO a part of North Dallas The .
= WaterwOrks plant is out of commits =
SION and the light plant is swamped. 3
Mayor Hay has issued a proclama- y
ton closing all business houses from =
y 80 o'clock tonight until o'clock to =
= morrow morning. Funds were raised !
= this afternoon for the relief Of the =
homeless. /
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Dallas, Tex. May 95.-The worst flood
conditions in years prevail in Dallas to-
day. Trinity river rose from twenty-eight
a
half at O'Clock this morning, and is
still rising. Much distress is likely to
result as the water and light plants are
flooded and have closed down.
One man. name unknown. was drowned
and the dwelling OF one family was
washed away
The village Of West Dallas. across Trim
lily river. is partially inundated and hun
dTeds Of families are being forced TO seek
higher places. The Commerce street
bridge. that spans Trinity river, has been
partially washed away and there is no
travel between the city proper and SUI
burbs on the west banks Of the stream.
Bridges Under Water.
Street car bridges are under water and
traffic over these lines has been sus-
pended.
Traffic on the interurban between this
city and Fort Worth has been disOn-
Jinued.
A section Of the Texas & Pacific rail-
road bridge has been washed away and
service 10 the west has been abaH-
dOned.
4 section Of the Santa Fe railroad bridge
has gone down and the traffic over this
line has been temporarily discontinued.
The financial loss Will be heavy. PEG
pie living along the river below the city
were not prepared for the rise. Il came
without warning and during the early
hours of the morning there were many
narrow escapes from drowning. Owners
of livestock were forced 10 remove their
animals from the river bottoms. A num-
Der of cattle and horses were swept away
by the flood.
was caught under the Commercial Street
bridge about > o'clock today and lost her
pilot house.
River a Raqinq Torrent.
At 10 o'clock today the Trinity river had
become raging flood. Hundreds Of peo-
pie have been caught in the lowlands and
are being taken off in boats. II is re-
ported that a number have been drowned,
but II is impossible TO verify this. From
the banks of the stream men can be seen
clinging 10 the trees and roofs of houses.
They are being rescued as rapidly as pos
sible The city is without water. The
Continental Gin company's plant caught
fire early today and lines Of hose were
laid 10 the nearby stream and water
pumped from there.
The fire was eXtinguiShed after dam
age amounting TO several thousand dollars
had been done
Growing Worse Hourly.
At o'clock today Trinity river had
reached a stage Of 5l3. the highest ever
known. The situation grows worse every
hour Ricn farming lands have been
overlooked and farmers have lost heaVliy.
InlS afternoon every dNdildDlc empty
of the city was called out 10 assist in
the rescue of the people Of the flooded
district.
c. H Chamberlain. an engineer Of the
Texas & Pacific railroad was on the
bridge when il went down. He had
narrow escape but was taken out of the
river by passing skiff
Patrolled by Militia.
Tonight two companies OF infantry ana
one Of artillery are patrOlling the streets
of the city under the direction OF the /
police and TO one is permitted to go on
the streets without a permit from the
authorities In the residence sections the /
patrol consists of two volunteer citizens
from each city block. This was made
necessary by the Gripping of the wa
terworks and TO prevent incendiary fires I
All objectionable characters were given ]
until shutdown To leave the city and many I.
OF these had TO walk out. There is not /
a street light burning in Dallas tonight |
one hundred special policemen were /
drafted and sworn into service.
The noteworthy feature OF more than /
thrilling interest today happened this /
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