Imperial Valley press., 1913-12-06

hotels are jammed with residents un-
able to get to their homes in the resi-
dence districts. Theaters and schools
are suspended, the schools being
thrown open for the public. Deliver
ing fuel is serious as result of the
strike and the temperature is falling
During the morning, by frantic ex-
ertions, shoveling crews opened a mile
of street car track and the first car
in thirty-six hours was moved. The
company officials said it would be i'm
possible to get the remainder of the
system in operation for week. Sew
eral fire alarms sounded today, the de-
partment being unable to use the ap-
paratus. The men were compelled to
make the runs on foot, floundering
| through drifts with axes, water buck
cts and ladders. Only one railroad is
operating trains and there have been
only two trains on this line since We'd
nesday. Twenty passenger trains and
many freights are stalled in the vicin-
| ity of Denver. No mails are moving
There are no known fatalities here
Fourteen are unaccounted for, but are
believed to be safe somewhere down
town, unable to reach their homes
The hospitals are making frenzied ap-
peals for fuel and provisions. Under
takers say there can be no funerals
before Wednesday. Several small
buildings collapsed today from the
weight of the snow on the roofs. There
was little damage from this cause
however.
Houston, Texas, Dec. 6-Henry
Martin, vice president and general
manager of the International and
Great Northern, was drowned at Val
ey junction in the Brazos river
floods.
This information came in a brief
message this afternoon. Mr.. Martin
vas possibly experimenting efforts to
estore service in the flood region.
Dallas, Texas, Dec. 6-When the
5razos river levee, thirty miles long,
pposite Bryan, Tex, protecting 55,-
GO acres in parts of three counties,
roke, hundreds of negro farm ten
nts were caught in trees, on house
ops and little knolls, where they
await rescue.
In Waco the body Of A. M. Bier
man, aged seventy-nine, was found.
He had drowned in his store, which
he had refused to leave.
Many of the dead reported since
asst nights estimate of 26 were ne
'roes, whose bodies were seen float
ng in the lower Brazos river today.
An unusually heavy rain began
.gain last night at Waco, where the
situation during yesterday had shown
! market improvement. Every down.
town street was reported flooded.
The rain is general north of Waco
md reports that the river is four
'eet higher than Thursday morning
It Grandbury has caused renewed
apprehension.
Appeals for aid from Hearne, 12O
miles northwest of Houston, caused
every available boat to be rushed to
that section on a special train. Five
hundred persons were said to be ma
nooned in trees.
Last night the last of the 1O5 pas
sengers who had been marooned by
the water since Wednesday on train
near Marlin were rescued.
Austin, Waco, Cameron and sever
al small towns have had no train
service for two days. Near Terrell,
a mile of track in the Sabine river
bottoms on the Texas Midland, was
anchored" to trees by means of
chains.
At Vernon, on the Oklahoma line,
several of the Frisco railway bridges
over the Red and Pease rivers went
out.
Vernon Hayes, a rural mail carrier,
turned safely after being held up by
high water on his route for "a hours.
Dallas, Tex, Dec. 6-With the crest
of the flood that has been sweeping
through north and central Texas for
the last two days now centered in the
Colorado and Brazos rivers about