The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-12-19
III WATERS FLOW Y.
INTO THE GULF
..prsT ESTIMATE PLACES
{ Ts.s At ABOUT ONE HUN
paEp AND NINETY
| PROPERTY loss SlO,0OO,O0O

+ nNfMl lUOO q'o'OOO'OOo
..,,. and Relief Committees
! ! s's Now ABLE to EpedIte Their
e work, and Things Now
Look Brighter
80 victims ......''''''' .,o ooo nm
=, .,.,,y damage $4,000 600
4, crest Of the flood has now pass pass
l'ps s. the bottoms of the COLO
]. lp. ~ Branos rivers out into the
y .reat aftermath problem Of
e ,eesord.breaking flood that now now
!. 's - citizen is the feeding and
y ss,u = Of the hundreds upon hun,
n. slll'I & people left in the devastated
Entry. a.. roi,road traf.
'Pls ssroash the flooded valleys OF
I. ~ central Texas ought to be re.
.Slisbed within about ten days
4 s,itbin four days to a week altel
s ',.star has subsidized and the rivers
& returned to their beds. mat Is
: salgment Of railroad men VINO
ss MT If the flooded district Sun
night. o,f,on
ss,,b millions of tons of overflow
sIsrs pouring their muddy torren
S. fbe Gulf of Mexico, the floo'
q n the upper Brazos and coio
| n valleys are being steadily low
= d much as two feet in twenty
n, hours at some points, less a
s, And as the vast tide SINK
1, a inch stretches of twisted raj
3 track are emerging to the ey
81 the higher ground. Alread
s &, gangs are working from Tn
tb and south toward the center
lie desolated country, driving pie
q -. II ~ ~
ere bridges have been washed GU
tightening tracks that have pee
6ed over, ripraping at culyerts an
Iasting everywhere.
s il fsr as known, no large rallroa
ACES have gone out, and this ia,
I count more than any other Il
resumption of rail traffic on Il
sta ne, Southern Pacific and Kat
the great flood shrinks and Il
tn shows its wrinkled face on
svs tie seal Of death is on it. He
d there in fence angles and thicke
Ipses are massed, CHASTITY remlr
81 the folly Of people who we
hed to flee and took no heed, a.
5lkefs who. fastening out OF t
iIoodgates, we're overtaken a
allowed up BY the remorseless tid
bis savage inland sea.
ba II the shadow of death hove
FL the waters, out of their cold e
g6 energies serene the figure
aIage, and the light of its preser
the sodden valleys. Tragedy
utterly desolate when high he
ID goes along, and the story OF
eo Of 1913 is no less emblazor
Ii deeds Of self-sacrifiee than
bOged With suffering and berea
sl
alter doing more than $500,
mage; By some estimated as high
apaeaO. and taking about 100
llges, the last of the Texas flo
ii an end. The Colorado river
lhle rival Of the Brazos, has b
Sing into the gulf and stric
les and towns in its wake are
- IL.
4Aiag rehabilitation, while Il
Ids 81 homeless persons are be
.ea ief The same conditions,
ne prevail in the Brazos va
saN Marlin and above the pres
zone Some towns in the va
unable care for the great n
ol peFst 5 saved from the fl
pp|ea rail adj service to and +
!ls oi these towns makes the 81
g more pressing.
b alataat General Hutchings,
Rosenberg from Sealy, REL
the governor that condit
ap!dly returning to normal
achle Governor Colquitt
to think that the estil
lElQ 900 Hood loss is an {
pil He declared that lii
buttons from Texas people
70 compose the stu;
Ast % more funds from
Red Cross Society woul
The losses from the floo,
las governor, fell mostl
splasrs Of the railroads.
5nulsf however, that the
latAer heavily. The tot.
" isEnls in South Texas
sllaatsd at 100000 Loss
l'laal subdivisions born
s. aIld eities-i large. d
Qstion or deprGeiatio
sad the carrying avs
Fmers hava lost CON
sls q cropsf.as most 8
algeadg had been d
:. d I q 81 y hseesz.sf u /,