Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-09-29
SMALL BREAK
MUCH WATER
OWING TO WASHOTT in LENEE. RE
SAGA WEST OF TOWN SENDS
FLOOD THROUGH CONSIDERABLE
AREA ALONG RAILROAD
DEPOT SURROUNDED. INTERNA-
TIONAL BRIDGE CUT OFF BOARD
WALK PARTLY SCBMEGED- DAM
AGE SMALL HOWEVER.

-A'IE4 NAi - III IlONN IL i.h.
4 method for reliving the Frisco
Yards and the residence sections cont
gouS there to the water that has collect
ed IN the past eighteen hours as the III.
salt. o. the overflow from the re~ac
west If the city. was adopted This AZ
ternoon. 1t IL proposed to cut several
bitches through the road leading TO thc
International bridge and 10 also tear up
some lcyce work nus uff0rding IN out
lct fer ne f God waters. a great portion
Of Whi n is three feet higher than IN
river The water viii be allowed thus
to flow back into the Rio Grandc al
various points between the ferry and
the international bridge.
The method was suggested 10 Mayor
A. y. Cole and r. A. Hothcrfori this
afternoon a~ they watched water that
was flowing through such a cut made
q>t night by gang O. men under the
supervision of :. a. Tucker. The 0ulict
rs about five feet wide and three feet
deep, but il is not large enough 10 per
nit thc water to pass out into Tie river
faster than ii flows into the low lands
in that section.
The flood fronting the United States
immigrant II station are extending across
the Frisco passenger platform the Frisco
park. up st. Charles street nearly to
Tcllth. and out Tenth to the Peoples ice
plant WAS caused ~ the river howirg
through 4 partly washed out l-vce ami
into i rcSaca about three hundred yards
southwest Of the Frisco freight dep t
The resaca filed and yesterday moraiig
N ! o'clock flowed out under The lrc>tlc
approach To the International bridge.
flooding loWlAnds between the bridge and
he Frisco freight Yards
Pr badly thirty families were forced
to avacuatc their iacals i'm that section.
li Of them having been in from two 10
three feet Of water Household goods
such they owned were piled on the Fris-
20 tracks some + which nit the timr did
good service aS lcvccS and STAYED the Cow
of The waters toward tie freight Yards.
When the lnWland. between The Frisco
passenger station ~ anG the bridge be-
came filed the water flowed thrO~oh
bridges ana filled the flats Wing lust 10
he south OF The WIg n approach t0 the
bridge. At Z o'clock the water found Hn
outlet through Il ten foot opening in the
Icyee about three hundred Yards up the
track from the passenger station, and
soon vcrcd low portion Of the Inter
national bridge roadway. Bv O'Clock 1T
night had spread over The tracks fronting
the Frisco passenger station and was
flowing in the Frisco park
1t is claimed by some that if the open
ing had been filled ~ son Is discovered
with bags VI dirt. the water thus lct cut
could have been turned back tn the river
with small trouble. In fact this was fin
ally what vas done by :. g. Fucker and &
r Eialacl NJ the Peoples Zee \ NHnlfac-
turing CO. which firm stood in great
danger of damage. With big gang Of
men they spent practically III Of last
night III damming the break with bags of
dirt stretching from the railroad over to
the International bridge roadway. An
outlet was cut through the roadway and
through i lcvcr and thus an opening into
he river was made. and instead Of flowing
to the FriScl park and that section. The
water was turned back into the river.
Fully thirtv-fvc hundred bags Of dirt was
lSrd in making the dam.
Early last night the Ilinklcy garage. To-
Gated at The foot Of Eleventh street. was
forced 10 remove al Of its ears. storing
them in he Young garage on Levrc street.
Two ar three business houses on the
board walk approach 10 the ferry land
INC were also damaged Ia some extent one
having removed its entire stock. Several
wards on ST Charles street. between
Tonth and the Frisco depot are undc-
from ne t0 three feet of water and some
~ he residents have been forced to carry
their household goods to the second Stor-
les Of their homes.
The waters became ~ high ip the vicin-
itv If the plant Of the Pe0n'c'S Zee
Manufacturing Co. that three bales Of
cotton standing on 4 platform were
foafed into the street The plant was not
entirely flooded. however.