The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-04-28
FORT WORTH IS
SWEPT BY FLOOD
Eleven Die as River Jumps &c
Feet in IL Hours.
ABOUT 1900 ARE HOMELESS
Nine-lnch Fall of Rain mandates
Many Other Lone Star State Cities
Trains Are Marooned When
Bridges Go Out.

Bridges Go Out.
Fort Worth, Tex, April 26.-At least
eleven persons have been drowned and
$1,O00000 property damage done in the
worst flood in the history of Fort
Worth.
A seven and one-half inch rain that
started at night and continued through
the day brought 1 20-foot jump in u
hours in the Trinity river. A stage of
33.5 feet was reached and the waters
swept the city
The seven dead include:
Two women swept out of a tree in
which they had taken refuge
Two women drowned when a rescue
boat capsized.
A man whose body was seen floating
near the Van Zandt viaduct.
Two persons drowned in the Van
Zandt school district
Many Rescues by Boat.
Five others are reported drowned
along the course Of the river through
the city. AT least $4,000 are homeless.
Large areas of the city are under
water. Families have been rescued
by boats
The Cameron Lumber company's
plant was destroyed by fire with a
loss estimated at over 100000. Fire
men were unable to reach the plant
because of the flood
The water short circuited telephone
cables and wire communication with
the outside was cut off.
Interurban traffic with Dallas was
cut off and number of street car
lines were discontinued. One of the
water works plants was flooded.
Water Breaks Levee.
The levee protecting part of north
Fort Worth broke and lowlands in that
section were quickly inundated Sew
eral houses were washed away
Sycamore Heights, on the opposite
side of the city, was also flooded and
scores of houses were surrounded py
water Thousands of persons resid-
ing on Arlington Heights were cut off
by the food and could not reach the
business section of the city.
Dallas Also Flooded.
Dallas, Tex, April 26.-Torrential
rains, approximating five inches in
this city, flooded vast areas in this
section. Many railroad and interurban
connections are severed
The water was higher than ever
known. Five miles of tracks between
this city and Fort Worth are unde~
water. More than twenty families are
marooned here. Property damage, it
tS estimated, will run into the hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars.
Flood warnings have been issued 10
families along the bottom lands of the
west fork of the Trinity river between
Dallas and Fort Worth.
Raj! Bridges Out.
FOrney, Tex, April 26.-FOrney was
marooned as the result of heavy rains
with washouts in two places on the
Texas & Pacific railroad, and with wa
ter covering the Forney-Dallas high
way for more than a mile in the East
Fork bottoms. The Texas & Pacific
bridge over Brush creek, east of here,
has been washed away and the bridge
over East Fork has been carried more
than 100 feet down stream. Other
bridges are out and wire communion
ton broken.
Trains Are Marooned.
Ennis, Tex, April 26.-Nearly
dozen WashOuts on railroad lines lead
ing from Ennis to Dallas, Fort Worth
and south are reported here A num-
Der of trains have been marooned and
thousands Of dollars damage has been
done.
Katy Flyer Flooded.
Waxahachie, Tex, April 26.-The
north-bound Katy Flyer is marooned
1t the station here, with water run
1lng over the drive wheels of the loco
motive and along the bottoms of the
coaches. Many of the passengers
we're removed by the fire department
IN ladders set on top Of the coaches
md extending to the interurban via