The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-12-07
DEATH TOLL WILL
LARGELY INCREASE
Hundreds Refuse to Heed
the Flood Warnings and
Many Remote Districts
Have Not Been Heard
From-P e o PIE Spent
Days in Trees and Upper
Floors Without Food.
nv Ass0rTATED PRESS S.

Bryan, Texas, Dec. 6.--Ninety- one
drowned, scores OF others reported lost
and a property damage of four million
Is the toll of the floods that have been
sweeping the Brazos and Trinity river
valleys since early in the week. Thou
sands were driven to unper floors and
trees for days in the flood district in
central and south centralt Texas. The
floods in both the rivers tonight began
passing into the gulf through the last
hundred miles of the river courses.
The Colorado, river also is on a
rampage and is causing trouble. An
increase in the death list. is expected
when the remote districts are heard
from AS hundred refused to heed the
noo6 warnings
Estimates of the death toll increas-
Cd Tonight by reports from near Well
born and Nayasota, the center of the
BrazOs overflow. Twelve negroes and
one Mexican are believed drowned on a
plantation near Navasota and twenty
FIVE negroes near Welborn. Several
p's4's' INTENSE I SUFFERING
Cold weather lazk night caused IN !.
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river bottoms where hundreds of flood
refugees have spent nearly As hours
in trees. Most of these involuntary
tree dwellers were negroes driven from
their cabins in the night, often with
practically no clothing. The death list
which was placed at about fifty last
AlEff n1Q not DGSIls lHIIGASGAs Dy Tile
early morning reports.
More boats arrived in the bottoms
from the gulf coast. strengthening the
fleet of hastily made, leaIy and risky
craft used yesterday to pick refugees
out of the trees.
The river today began falling in this
section, giving promise that before
night most of the urgent rescue work
will be completed as far south as Ma
vasota Below there, however, the
ca oxr Tr a Tlv.a
zos rises by two or three feet. It has
been Impossible to have all the negroes
to heed warnings and many of the
white people refused to leave their
property. During the night more le-
wees near Navasota. went out.
The feature of the floods has been
the large loss of live stocks. The loss
fell heaviest on small farmers, whose
few horses, mules or cattle We're wiped
out. The loss of ginned cotton has
been heavy. In lots of so to 500 bales
1t has been washed away by sudden
rises at towns scattered all over the
state. With the best staple selling
around $40 per bale, it is feared the
damage will reach hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in this one item.
WHOLE FAMILY DROWN.
At Marlin, Searchers following the
receding Brazos as ii dropped back
from the city limits toward its banks |
across five miles of intervening farm
land, discovered that on Wednesday, |
Anderson Stewart, q white farmer. his !
wife and four children had drowned, |
when a skin in which they were at
tempting to escape from their flooded |
home capsized. Joe Cooper and his |
SON had drowned in front of the porch |
OF their home, on which Mrs Cooper /
and the other children stood helpless /
to give aid Cooper had rowed a skiff |
into deep water to see whether it was
safe to try to transport his family. An /
eddy upset him. The son plunged in /
to help his father and both drowned. /
A dozen other persons near Marlin. /
mostly negroes, were reported missing /
and some OF them were known TO have /
drowned.
Navasota, about noon. reported one