The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-26
FORTY-SEVEN
MISSING In
TEXAS FLOOD
That Number Unac-
counted For Or Known
To Be Dead Today AS
Result of Floods and
Windstorms In Texas
the Last Twenty-four
Hours
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated PreSS.D
Dallas, Texas, April 26.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Forty-seVen per-
sons were unaccounted for or known
10 be dead today as a result of the
floods and one wndstorm in Texas in
the last twentyfour hours. The list
was:
Fort Worth, sc missing; Brecker"
ridge, 8 reported drowned; Grand
Prairie, missing; Palmer, 2 reported
drowned; Waco, I reported drowr'ed;
Sonora, drowned, and Belton, I
drowned.
Mountain Greek, near CIeburne, one
man reported killed in windstorm yes
terday.
TT. Worth, Texas, April 26.-(By
Associated Press.)-Search for the %
persons carried on an unofficial list
of dead and missing today as the re-
suit of the overflow of the Trinity
river was started at daylight when
searchers were sent out to comb out
the woods where the flood waters had
begun to recede. The unofficial death
list now stards at 20.
Ft. Worth, Texas, April 26.-Rain
continued to fall here early today and
flood conditions became more menac-
ina with continued rapid rise in the
overflown Trinity river. Fears we're
expressed that the death list placed
SO far at approximately 20, and the
property damage estimated at several
million dollars, would be increased to-
day
The flood, however, is far from
city wide, although extensive sections
on the northwest and southeast sides,
known as North Fort Worth, Arling-
ton Heights and Sycamore, are in
undated.
Major L. G. White, in charge of
the forces policing the city, has issued
an urgent appeal for help. Hundreds
of men will be needed in relief and
rescue work today, Major White said,
expressing the belief that suffering
will be terse. A report to the police
said the Trinity had raised two and
a half feet from 10 O'Clock last night
until this morning.
Swept away by the swirling current
no bodies had been recovered early
today. For that reason no casualty
list has been compiled The death
toll is based as yet largely upon re-
ports Of missing persons although sew
eral persons We're seen to fall into
the swollen river. The missing include
the mother of r. A. Pettis: Mrs. Sam
O. Bradley and three children and a
son of G. w. Pettis, all believed
drowned.
Resuonse was awaited todav to the
anneal last nieht Of Mavor E. r. Cock
rell and Hphb Diggs. of the local Red
Cross. for s4O.0On with which to care
for the flood sufferers. Food for the
homeless probably will be needed for
ten DAYS, Mr.. Diees stated, while
many are in need of clothing.
Request for an investigation nv a
grand Jury of the alleged dvnamiting
of levees along the river bv unknown
persons was expected today. John H.
Mccain. chairman of the levee board.
declared last night that levees which
broke Yesterday flooding the lowlands
were dvnamited
The heaviest damage is on the north
side of Fort Worth. where TWENTY-FIVE
square miles of land is under watr.
portion of the, city are cut off. In
other sections of the citv the situation
is nearly as serious. IT. is feared Svca-
more Creek. abetted bv recent gains,
will again go on a ramnage and fam
lilies within the danger line have fed
tn higher ground.
Tho railroad bridge ot the Fort
Worth and Denver and Missouri. Kan
sas and Texas. has heen sweDt awav.
Relief work was hindered last night
nv inkv darkness. bnt rescue work
ers continue 10 comb the flooded areas
in search of bodiea. Although the boil.
or room of the light COMPANY was
flooded. power was obtained from a
line from Waco. 1O0 miles away, thus
giving the city LIGHTS.
Telephone service is crippled and
street car service has been suspended
in parts of the cities. Sentries walk
ing posts with rifles on their shoul-
ders. were almost the onlv persons
on the streets earlv TODAY Thev were
members of the American Legion CO.
operating with the police department
in nrotecting the citv The city is
divided in four districts for this pur.
nnse ard about 25A service men are
patrolling the streets.
FIT. Worth, Tex. April 26.-The
Trinity river had fallen to 1874 feet
at a.. M, the lowest in twenty-four
hours. This ID only three feet above
the flood stage, Municipal ofiicers will
be able to set water Tor AL purposes
into the city hy night, relieving acute
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