The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-09-02
Port Arthur, Tex, Aug. "a, 1915
Residents Warmed Bv Wireless.

Port Arthur, Tex, Aug. "a, 1915.
Residents Warned BY Wireless.
well, we have had some expert
ences in the past week. Suppose you
have read in the papers of our tidal
wave. 1t was sure some doings. On
the morning of the 18th, Mr.. Butler of
the Texas Co., Marine Department
called me up about 4 o'clock in the
morning, and asked me what was
lying in bed for, sleeping when every
month"; autos, wagons motorcycles,
and any old conveyance; and on foot,
any way to get out of town. He told
me that the Texas Co., mad been in
formed by wireless that there was
hundred-mile gale off the coast and
that it would strike Port Arthur
about noon and that l had better
leave town. He didn't have to tell
me twice. l got mother and the kid
up and we got some breakfast and
took Mr.. Ryan's car and hit the high
places for Beaumont. i succeeded in
getting back Friday,-no trains, no
wires of any description, no water Il
mean for drinking purposes). l came
and went back that night, coming
down the next day with the machine.
We ran in water about half of the
distance from twelve to twenty inches
deep. The rest of the way to town
it was waist deep, and is still in the
same condition. The water hasn't
fallen more than two inches in the
past forty-eight hou-s. 1t is being held
back on account o. a fourteen foot
rise in the Neches and Sabine rivers.
The water in the Neches at Beau
mont is two feet over the city wharf.
1t is higher than it has ever been
known.
Water Still Deep In Streets
From Mr.. RyAn's out toward Beau
mont 1t has run of and the street is
dry. but from there to the office the
water runs fror, eighteen inches to-
three feet In the house in which
we lived. on Proctor, there was two
feet of water on the first floor, and
down on Friday on one of our tugs
as you come down town the water
reaches a greater depth. The people
don't seem to be discouraged in the
least. All the business houses are
open for business, clerks wading
around knee deep, waiting on custo-
mers. have to wade from the house
(Mr. Ryan's) to the office up to my
hips and It is sure a long and hard
pull 1t takes me Just an hour to
come or go The water is hot, salty
and covered with oil, but you will
see the streets full of women, children
and men, wading, with all kinds of
suits on, from bathing to Palm Beach.
You will see quite a number of motor
boats and skiffs running up Proctor,
also, and when a man wants any
provisions for the family he will take
q wash tub and tie a string to 1t, put
his groceries aboard, and use It as
q boat. There are lots OF amusing
sights as well as sad ones, but Port
Arthur came out well. There was
only one house unroofed but lots of
windows blown out, and there were
not over eight or ter persons drown
ed,-all niggers e,;cept one white
woman and child. They burned four
niger men and tvs women yester-
day who were drowned,-so badly de.
composed that that was the only way
to dispose Of the bodies. Hundreds
of chickens. cattle, horses dogs, cats
and snakes were drowned. heard
OF one man losing three thousand
head Of cattle and another one fifteen
hundred, along the Trinity, Neches
and Sabine rivers.
Roofs, Now the Abiding Place.
You can see rugs and furniture
piled on the roofs Of houses and
porches all over town pssumont is