The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1915-09-02
The Great Storm in Texas
Livingston, Texas, Aug. 10.

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Mr.. w. J. Crafts on the evening o.!
the 7th and spent last week visiting
with him and with August Heuszel and
G. w. Brooks, who are all old Taney
county residents. ! found them all
very much pleased with the country
and all doing we'll here. AS they only
came here last spring and all had
houses and barns 10 build and the land
to clear and think they have all made
remarkable showings with their places.
Mr.. Heuszel is building large, mod
ern dwelling house which will be one
OF the finest rural homes in Polk county
when it is finished. Two Of Mr..
Crafts children came very near having
pneumonia just after they got here
from exposure during the the move
but all are very healthy now. Mr..
Brooks is especially we'll pleased with
his choice for new home and says it
would take good deal to get him to
make another change.
II seems queer to me to hear people
planning for what they call their win
ter gardens" They are planting
beans, peas, potatoes (both white and
sweet, melons, cucumbers, and, in
fact, about all the garden stuff we put
out in the spring there in Missouri.
I just heard that warnings have been
sent cut by the weather bureau to pre-
pare for big tropical hurricane which
will reach Galveston about 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
10 O'Clock P. M. As there was con-
siderable excitement over the report oi
the coming storm l went down stairs
to hear the news and learned that the
people we're leaving Galveston for
Houston. Every train crowded and
people on loot, with orse'drawn We
hicles and autos, getting out as last as
possible. By 8 O'Clock the wind was
70 miles an hour and the waves were
coming over the seawall, By a o'clock
the last trains were leaving and at 6
o o'clock the water was over the cause
way. By s o'clock the wires were
down and we could hear nothing further
from the city. The storm has struck
Houston and plate glass windows are
going out and some houses have been
blown down. By $3.50 the wires were
down and we could not get any more
reports from the south.
The storm has struck here. The
wind is not very high, but such rain.
1t is simply coming down in sheets.
Lots Of people will not 90 to bed in
this town tonight.
Rill, Mo-, Aug. 25.-WelI, I did
not finish your letter down there in
Texas. 1t rained all night and all day
Tuesday and most Of Wednesday, and
I Just mad to stay at the hotel until
things got to going again. The creeks
and rivers we're out Of bank, the wires
were down and no trains running, and
as was ready to start ior home and
everybody was talking about the storm,
I just neglected writing entirely. !
could not have mailed it anyway. The
storm did very little damage in the
vicinity Of Livingston. Some trees
we're blown down and few sheet iron
roofs taken off. l heard that the big
timber suffered severely and the lum'
Der companies were damaged thousands
Of dollars by loss Of timber.
By Thursday some trains were run
ming but with no time schedules.
finally got away as the road was opened
as far as Shreveport, Louisiana, ant
made pretty fair time for home. ! at,
supper in Texas breakfast in Louisiana
dinner in Arkssas, supper in Oklahom
and breakfast in Joplin, Mo. That
certainly changing boarding place
some. OF course I had to miss tn
train out Of Springfield for Chadwic
and lay over a day. l didn't min
that so much, but I was afraid th'
Jane river or Findlay creek might G,
, to going and take part Of The railros
) with them, and I never did like S2rini
: field as a place TO live.
Well, things didn't happen to Il