Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-12-09
FLOOD DEATH LIST
Goes TO 100 MARX
~ NORS on nm DROWNING Or
HUNDREDS COILD NOT BL
VERIFIED.
MANY heroic RESCUES
ihrcc Young Bryan Business Men
Lost Ihcir Lives in Attempting
Rescue Work.

HOUSTON. Texas, Dec. S-Tha
verified death list in Texas floods went
to l5O tonight, When an Associated
Press correspondent came In from "A
trip over the thrty mile levee section
about Bryan, whore for two days
there have been rumors Of hundreds
Of drownmgs and reported so Inown
deaths u that territory A few or
these had been previously reported
Lieutenant L. A Brown, u. S. A..
in command of the relief in that dis
trict after thoroughly investigating,
said he saw mo- reason 10 believe any
moro drownings would bo found
The great danger tonight was 'reez-
ing ana starvation For the second
successive night ice was forecasted
over the thirty district, where
! 500 persons mostly negroes are
marooncd in cotton gins and half
flooded residences, win little food or
fire
Hampstead was reported to have
had loss of twenty persons, but
Rosenberg and Brookshire. where
there were drownings over night, and
where conditions were about the same
as at Hampstead, reported that the
day had passed with no more fatal
tiles. The San Felipe section, where
last night fears were expressed for
several hundred persons marooned on
| a slight elevation, received a ship
ment of motor boats from Houston,
which rapidly removed the refugees
| to safety.
Need Food and CiOtbing.
Pressing need for blankets and food
| was both reported and verified all over
| the stricken district from central
Texas almost TO the Gulf coast. A
train load Of provisions was ordered
from Austin to Cause on the BraZOs
for 500 marooned Close 90 Simonton
near the Brazos' mouth fifty persons
were shut up I'm potato warehouses.
but without potatoes or anything else
to eat
The Brazos' crest went through
dam near Richmond today. flooding
a state convict farm The prisoners
! had been removed.
The Colorado river danger seemed
over
Texas cities today began pouring
money and supplies into the flooded
! district Houston raised $4,000 in
cash
seven Heroes Dead.
About four-fifths of the deaths re-
ported were negroes A feature OF
the deaths among the whites was the
loss of the lives of seven rescuers.
five Of them in the vicinity of Bryan,
all lost I'm flimsy boats while trying
To- carry food and clothing to refugee
camps made up mostly of negroes.
one Of the most heroic sacrifices
/ was that Of three young Bryan bust
| ness men. all of whom died in tree.
north Of here, from exposure, after
/ their two motor boats had capsized
/ Thc4, three. Howard X Cavitt. Cliff
ton ;lzie and Asa j. Robbins, started
saturday noon with Tom Evans, an
other Bryan man, to carry provisions
To- a point about twenty miles north
of here Their boats overturned on "A
suag Roberts tayitt and Evans got
into tree together. with Ellie In
. tree uft, wards away Tn, overturu
cd boat was IN reach of the trio I'm the
I tree but they became so exhausted in
trying 10 right it that Robbins could
not climb ont Of the water and Ca
witt could not pull hIm mp. So they
tied him with a rope with his head
above water Ellie then swan to
their tree. where CaNiu and Evans
tried 10 warm him with their bodies
without success All three lashed
themselves To the limbs.
Saturday night Robbins. who was
still in the water. died Ellie died at
noon SUNDAY Cavtt died in convul-
sions early This morning This after
noon, negroes in passing skin. heard
Evans faint cries. and rescued him.
! lie was brought here seriously III.