The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-04-26
36PERS0NSREP0RTEDDEADIN
W0RTHFL00D AND AREAS
ARE BEING C0MBED FOR BODIES
City Gradually Emerging From
High Water of Trinity River
Which Flooded City
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CITIZENS ARE SWORN IN
Made Special Policemen to AS
sist Authorities in Preventing
Looting
DEATHS TOTAL AZ

DEATHS TOTAL ~
Dallas, Tex, April 26.-Forty.
seven persons were unacco united
for or were known dead today as
result Of flood and one wind
storm in Texas in the last 81
hours. The list was Fort Worth,
So missing; Breckenridge, re-
ported drowned; Sonora, one
drowned; 6elton, one drowned;
Mountain Creek, I man reported
Killed in windstorm yesterday.
Actual casualties will be known
only after the flood waters 40 L
down and the list Of missing and
the reports Of drowning can be
verified.
Fort Worth, Tex, April 26.- -G1,adu.
ally emerging from the high waters
of the Trinity river the flooded areas
OF Fort Worth today were being comb
ed for the bodies of dead. Forty-six
persos are included in the first unof.
ticlal list of dead or missing.
RESCUE workers are laboring tire
lessly in bringing relief to flood suf.
Lerers and attempting to rescue the
flood stricken from their homes: The
entire city has united in this work,
With boiler rooms or the city power
and light company flooded residential
Forth Worth spent the night in dark.
ness. No water has been ayaf&kiey
since early yesterday morning and It
is believed that the entire city will be
without lights or power.
Water stood three feet deep in the
stock yards and was only a foot from
the Livestock Exchange building last
hight, but these waters are expected
to quickly subside.
Worst in History.
The flood is the most severe in the
history Of the city, according to old
time residents. Trinity river stood
at 36.7 feet at noon yesterday and
was still rising. The guage measured
only feet yesterday.
Coming on the heels Of nine.inch
rain, the heaviest in the history of
Fort Ncnth, a wi1kl and electrical
storm, the flood took scores Of people
10y surprise. Men, women and chill.
dren were rescued off tree tops and
the roofs Of houses by police in boats.
An aged couple was taken from the
uppermost branches of a tree. One
family was saved when police sawed
a hole in the roof of residence In
Which the family was Gagged.
AIS the flood waters spread, people
living in the lowlands were forced to
vacate their homes, seeking refuge
in tree tops and high points. Drench-
ed and chilled, many clung to places
Of safety for hours, awaiting the ar.
rival of rescuers.
.... Business Is suspended.
Women with small babies in their
arms, many clad only in thin night
clothing were severely chilled when
found.
Business was practically suspended
all day yesterday.
A man took refuge in tree early
yesterday. He cried for help seyeral
times, but officers and rescue workers
were unable OF locate him. Shots
were fired several times in the dark
ness but the man was not located
until dawn. When he asked who was
firing the shots, the rescue workers
told him they were shooting in an
effort to locate him. He told them
that limb of the tree, in which he
took refuge, was shot off and he mar
rowly escaped being struck by the
charge of the gun.
Five hundred citizens were appoint.
ed last evening as special officers to
aid the police in preventing looting
and to guard approaches to the levees
and lowlands.
Dynamiting Reported &
Evidence Of dynamiting of the lei
wee along the Trinity was not found
today and further developments in the
report that unknown persons caused
the break in the levees were lacking.
Flood workers along the river ex-
pressed the opinion that the report
was started when shots were fired yes
terday to warn people in the low
lands.
111IIlOuEu LIdA q AANAO0 VI
rain fell last night bringing the to-
tai rainfall here to 1859 inches during
the past 36 hours the Trinity was re-
ceding rapidly and the worst of the
danger of additional damage and loss
OF, life was believed past. The river
this morning was 1871 feet, a drop of
nearly six feet from yesterdays max
imum.
Many dwellings that were inacces-
sible yesterday have emerged from
h1 flood today until they may be
reached dry-shod. The flooded area
near the packing houses has been re-
duced by several square miles.
THREE ARE DROWNED
Breckenridge, Tex, April 26.-Three
persons are reported drowned in the
sudden flooding Of Gonzales creek
here today.
SWISS WAITER