Evening star., 1940-11-26
Boats Take Hundreds
To Safety in Texas
Flood; Rains Cease
Seven Persons Missing;
Amarillo Digs Out
Of Its Ice Covering
By the Associated Press.

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DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 2e-Rescue
boats carried hundreds of persons
to safety in f1ood-swept South Texas
today.
Cessation of torrential rains
throughout the State aroused hope
the major threat of high. water
would abate.
Seven persons missing near
Brookshire still were unreported.
The death of a fishing camp en-
ploye near Galveston was the only
known fatality directly attributable
to the storm.
Amarillo, Berger, Pampa, and
smaller cities in the panhandle re-
mained partially in the grip of the
ice coating that has paralyzed the
area since Sunday morning.
Reports of missing families sifted
In steadily to rescue workers in
the Houston area, but there was
no confirmation that any person
had been other than marooned.
Many Fed at Schools.
Throughout the flood area, which
extended along the coast from
Liberty to Victoria-aproximately
200 miles-the Red Cross and vol
unteer relief agencies, National
Guardsmen, city and county off,
cials, Joined in wholesale rescue and
relief expeditions.
Many persons removed from
homes in lowlands were fed and
sheltered in schools and other pub
lie buildings. Virtually every creek
and small stream in the entire area
was out of its banks, in addition
to the major streams and pouring
flod waters toward the Gulf.
Direct communication with ANA
rillo had not been re-established
at midmorning. Most Amarillo res
idents spent their third night by
candlehght.
Coast Guard ships and volunteer
workers were searching for Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Mueller, their three
children and a family named Smith,
missing since the Brazos River
washed their homes away at Brook
shire, 80 miles west of Houston
The Galveston section poked out
OF f0-inch rain which fell in "a
hours-heaviest in Galvestons his
tory. Coast guardsmen and Red
Cross volunteers reported at Calves
ton they had saved hundreds of
lives in the Sealy section.
New Flood CreSts.
New crestS swept down central
east Texas streams toward the in
undated southwestern area.
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
officials hoped to establish two-way
communication between Amarillo
and Fort Worth today by means of a
portable transmitter sent to the
Panhandle.
Power was restored to Amarillo,
isolated beneath its ice cap since
early Sunday, in limited downtown
area last night and crews labored to
restore full power for pumping
water.
Temperatures above freezing and
mist started the ice melting last
IilSllJy CIcdbiiS d lldDdIu lOT ptQeS-
trians as the chunks fell
As the Little and Leon Rivers,
which previously had fallen slightly
under abating rains, sent new rises
toward the Brazos, the City Councils
of Angleton, Freeport, Alvin and
West Columbia met jointly to discuss
plans for removing to safety persons
who may be marooned.
a..-. Rivers Rising.
The Brazos was tanning out over
1owlands of the Gulf Coast area.
Many Southeast Texas towns and
communities lay in the path of the
overf1owing Sabine, Trinity, Brazos,
Colorado and Guadalupe Rivers and
their tributaries.
Goose Creek, Pelly and Baytown
faced isolation from the rising San
Jacinto River.
Automobiles operated with diff
Guilty over Amarillo streets, choked
with tangled wires, ice-fallen poles,
and trees.