The New York herald., 1921-09-11
DESTRUCTIVE STORM
IN TEXAS ABATES
Only One Fatality Outside of
Flood District Reported.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept 10.-High winds
and heavy rains which swept south
Texas late yesterday and early to-day
in one of the most severe storms In sew
eral years. causing property damage of
thousands of dollars and injury to num-
bers OF people, had subsidized late to-day,
according to reports received here.
Only one fatality. that of Brakeman
Wagner, who was killed near Noonan in
the wreck of Southern Pacific No. 227.
has been reported as resulting directly
from the storm. excluding the persons
who were killed in the flood at San
Antonio. The train. a mixed passenger
and freight. was derailed when 1t
plunged into washout between san
Antonio and Eagle Pass.
Near Austin property damage esti-
mated at $4,000 was caused and eight
persons were injured by tornado and
cloudburst late to-day. Owing to
demoralized telephone and telegraph
service, il has been impossible to esti-
mate the damage wrought in several
towns within O radius Of is to 20 miles
Of Austin.
Hardly had the force OF the tornado
spent itself in the sparsely settled out
lying districts of Austin when heavy
fall of rain commenced. The torrent
soon LlfleQ Lie StiSSeS' = tS'o
and buildings.
During the twenty-four hours ending
at A. M. to-day, 1928 inches OF rain
fell at Austin, the Federal weather op-
server announced, the greatest precipi-
tation for that length of time ever re-
ported there.
All trains from Austin to San Antonio
and Dallas are held up. Railroad Off
cials expressed belief that service could
not be resumed before tomorrow High
WAYS leading to the capital are impass-
able.
Reports fromCameron, south OF Waco
said that the Little River there mas
broken it's banks. causing much havoc.
the damage being confined principally to
crops. ( The Santa Fe Railroad trestle
over Little River was washed away. tne
advices added Rain totalling ll.4o
inches fell there.
The town Of San Marcos was under
water this morning and without light
or power, although later reports SAID
that the water was receding. Several
houses there were washed from their
foundations, but with this exception,
the damage was said to have been
slight. The tracks of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas and the lnterna-
tional and Great Northern railroads
we're torn from the roadbeds Tor sew
eral hundred feet.
Although railroad officials at Hous-
ton were without definite knowledge to-
dav as to the extent Of damage to
tracks OF the various systems. 1t was
indicated that the most serious was
confined between Austin and Elsln
and at San Antonio and West.
An announcement made by the
Texas-Mexican railroad at Corpus
Christi last night said that eleven
bridges and 5000 feet OF their track
had been washed out between corpus
Christi and Laredo. Service between
these points cannot be resumed before
tomorrow, 1t was said
The pontoon bridge across the RIO
Crandp. between Laredo. Tex, and
Nuevo Laredo. Mexico. was destroyed
by flood waters, reports stated.
In last advices the business district
of Laredo was reported inundated by
food waters
At Georgetown and vicinity fourteen
inches of rain swelled streams out oi
their banks, causing much crop damage
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road tracks for five miles north o.
Georgetown are washed out and tive
railroad bridges and stretches of traci
between there and Austin have beer
carried away.
The southbound Texas special was un
able TO detour on account of washouts
and reported wreck on the Interna
tional and Great Northern Railroad.