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APRIL 27, 11
VOL- XXIL
DALLAS :
BRING FROM FLOOD
MVEEAL PEB80NB BEPOBTED DROWNED- WHEN GREEK AT
NACOGDOCHES GOES OUT OF BANKS—LEVEE ON
MISSISSIPPI BREAKS NEAR NEW OR- *
'• LEANS—LOCAL FLOOD NEWS.
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, April 27.—
Tin Trinity “rtvar wu wall within Ita
bank* this morning, the gangs show-
ing a drop of slxtoon foot over night,
registering only 17 foot Street ear
qervloe has been restored to *11' the
flooded suburbs. The dead and miss-
ing now number forty-nine.
An examination of ‘the Ifvee em-
bankment along th* Trinity rhfdr has
- bean started by Investigators of the
levee board in an effort to determine
whether the levee had been dynamit-
ed. The board announced an offer of
8600 for Information loading to the
arrest of any person convicted of II
legally dynamiting the levee system
during the flood.
M. F. Ward, wife and three children,
who were reported missing wore lo-
cated this morning. Mrs.' Leonora
Ferguson, 81, has boon Identified, the
body having boon dieoovehed with tnat
' of Mrs. 0. W. Petti, age #0. The body
of W. C. Gentry, 28 has boon reqg
•rod.
It Is estimated that fully 1,800 por.
sons wore mad* homeless. Many hs-
tels of th* city and hundred* of resi-
dences were offered as shelter for the
flood sufferers. «•
Flood waters practically surrounded
Fort Worth to the west and 6l«er
Fork of the Trinity and inundated
Trinity Park, greatly damaging the
Chevrolet automobile plant and swept
away many homes to tha north and
northwest. The W#*t Fork of the Trln-
Ity brought. down torrents whioh
broke tWj Jiv*# system near tha P*n-
Ra ther baseball park and flooded the
larg Industrial arts,'doing great dam-
watore from the Mississippi river
have poured through the rapidly wid-
ening crevasse In th# levd* thl# morn-
ing and entered Forrlday, La., four
miles from the break. The crevasse
in Weecsma laves, four mile* above
Friday, has widened to 1,800 feet
liberty dump, and it wag with ax
noma difficulty that tha family, was
rescued- After reposted efforts to
cast a rope to the porch, bad failed,
a young laan, erbooe name we were
taxable to learn, voionteeeed to iwtm
the raging flood and carry the rape
across. Going op stream • distance
he piuageg, to and Bxcceadsd tu
catching hold of n wire fmxce to
front of the bouse, and from 'there
was style to carry the rope aero**
to the house. The occupants were
pulled across one at a time, until
all were safo except two young moa
who stayed in the house, and finally
made their way to the ban, to an
attempt to save lire stock. A trunk
and automobile la the lot war* safer
ly anchored Just to time as tbs rto
lng waters turned them over
over untU the v wires
NEW ORLEAN8, LA. April 27—
A break In the Mississippi'river lave*
has occurred at Poydtaa, ten miles
south of here. A section of the levs*
about. 100 feet wide blew out Ap-
proximately $60 families are fleeing
before the flood waters.
sad to nearly every
t, an crop* wtl lhare
case ra- as the track is repaired at Sanches
to M re creek, trains will be operated between
planted. > i this city and Abilene, detoured over
Light tervlee Damaged. j the Santa fe to Cleburne and thence
The heavy lightning Tuesday night r to Fort Worth,
played on the light wires of the efty Small ’quantities of U. 8. mail ar-
and several circuits went dark during I rived today on the Senta Fe from Cle-
the early morning hours.. The lead
Una supplying the western pert qf
the city, including west Palo Pluto,
Brtgge and Spring streets was burned
to two somewhere, sad up to soon
tbs damaged wire had net been lo-
cated. The wire ffrobabty Is damaged
where the Insolation is good sad the
Ite* has not fallen. The curryut was
-cut oft at noeu and a craw of men
tried to locate the trouble. This
will probably be located and repaired*
before night.
Ttys transformer at ttys corner of
e wire* taughteubft. | Joeepblne and Elm streets in the
Cow8 were swimming to the lot, aad ’ soutbweater npart of the city was
others were standing to water with J damaged, and ell the lights are out
chly their heads above the danger in'that section. It Is probebte that
line. It is ssJd that there were 1$ the transformer has been damaged
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in the Watkins home, and that the
waters had surrounded the bouse
before daylight Tuesday morning.
Two babies were among the number
and they were rescued by parties
holding them under one arm while
BRECKENRIDQE, TEXAS, April 26. the other S^ped the life line and
—Three persons are reported to havq,
been drowned by the sudden flooding
of Gonzales Creek here this morning,
ousting 300 sleeping residents from
their homes.
Two prisoners left the county Jell,
built rafts and assisted. In rescuing
persons from tho water which sur-
rounded their homes One man was
rescued after being In the water for
three hours.
age. Among th* Industrial plants In-
undated were the Home Oil A Refin-
ing Company, the Fort Worth Power
A Light Co., tho Abnor Davis refinery,
th# Grow Good refinery, the Fort
Worth Monumental Works, the Owen- that *varytbln* ,B wa8hM away’
wood Oil A Refining Co. end the Bow- the way ot 8ma11 ^cea
dry Maohlne A Tool Oo. Several a,°Bg th*Creek bott®mB;
Starting at 11: Of o'clock Monday
night, the great eat rplg to (he history
of Parker county, aooofdtof to some
of the old timers, fell over the entire
county, and from the meager reports
coming in. th* rain aaama to be gen-
eral over this part of the elate. The
rain guage at the First National
Bank registered seven inches at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning,- and the
rain still falling in torrents. Bridges
In town are washed aiway, Town
Creek Is said to be higher than ever
known, and gardens and track patches
are literally- ruined. There lg no
telephone communication with Aledo
or Fort Worth, but parties- who have
bean as far east as Clear Fork say
string* of ell tank care and box care
numbering probably mere than 100
were an the 'siding In this area and
were almost covered by the flood, wat-
ers. In the northeast and east the
Trinity rlvtr below the junction of tha
two forks spread over a fertile coun-
try and destroyed hundred# of acres
of truck garden* and farm crops. In
this .section -Sycamore creek reached
a stage of fifty feet and flooded both
tha Dallas and Cleburne Interurban
tracks.
The property damage probably will
be $2,000000, It Is estimated, when
Judge Sullivan and Commissioner
Gilbert went out to Clear Fork Just
before noon. The water 1b pouring
over {the highway embankment at
Willow Creek, but Is fordable .In a
car. At Clear F6rk they found the
creek a mile wide aad pouring over
the highway aad bridge some two
or three feet deep.- They could not
approach the bridge any closer then
the hill Just vreet of John Tinsley*
store. Mr. 8uliivan said that the
Tinsley store building is more than
half submerged, and the water
Is pouflng over the highway opposite
the building. It ta believed that the
hrooJto*n<
extent of
and others are flHed with mud and
dabrla, the furniture ruined and the
house* damaged beyond repair.
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have washed away, but this cannot
lie determined until the creek runs
down. After the rain ceases it will
__ require five or ,slx hours for the
DALLA8, ’ TEXAS, April 27—The ^tere to subside enough that the
creat of the Trinity river flood passed dam&ge can be estimated.
Dallas at 8 otlock this morning, » was reported from the Prairie
reaching a maximum depth of 424 Station, two miles east of town
feet, according to reports of the Unit- that Willow Creek wae running
ed States Weather'Bureau. Reports through the engtae snd boiler rooms,
are that the water jwlIF continue to Ahd all pumping had ceased. There
. fall thaoughout the day unless there l" » dam across tha creek at this
, are hard rains In the north. The rlv- P°Jot. but Is only three feet high,
er win rise to 40 feet at Trinity, be- a“d does not control the waters after
low Dallas, within the next few days, the rise has reached the top of the
It was said. Authorities ere tending *ma11 dam.
warning# to resident*. i A ro*d truck ot the Merchants Mo-
' Scattered showera fell over the state l°r Line left Fort Worth at 11 o'clock
last night, with the exception of the Monday night, passing Marys Creek
west coastal regions. about 13:30> <*me on to Weatherford
Report* to th* sheriffs department &nd went to Mineral Wells, arriving
state thaPthere are 1,800 pacpls home- there about 4:00 o'clock thl* morning.
Use at Eagle Ford, six miles west of The truck loftd®d end leaving Mineral
her*. In the flooded area 800 homes w«lis at 6:00 o'clock, reached Rock
were abandoned there. The refugees Creek bridge, two miles west of
are being cared for by neighbors. Millsap, at the foot of th* mountain
___ , about 7:00 o’clock. When they got
- EHREVEPORT, LA.*April 27._8*v- there they found the creek out of
- oral persons hav sbeen killed and * bank* and pouring through the home
number of small houses washed froth of John Watkins, Just beside the
their foundations when Bonita Creek, highway, close to the creek, and the
at Nacogdoches, Texas, 78 miles c&tire family marooned on the porch
southwest of here, went out of banks calling for help. The truck m#B
last night, flooding th* lowland* ao- came on to Millsap, secured help
cording to a telephone massage re-
ceived'hare today.
in tha.way of ropes and lines, and
some thirty men went back to res-
«»• Rally. A awlft current wae
NATCHE* Mias., April 27—Flood flowing between the house and the
were towed to safety.
The last report from the Rock
Creek bridge waa that the bridge wag
still holding, but that the damp I*
fast crumbling away and two or
more large cute have been completely
decimated. This road will be Closed
to traffic for several day* or until
the dump can be re-fliled.
In Weatherford, the damage will
be considerable. Tonga Creek wu
flowing through the office of tfcg
compress on Fort Worth street, and
flowing Through the grounds and
buildings of the ice factory. The ogL
lar, or pit in the Bradflah elevator
is standling 14 fefet in water and a
email amount of grain danfagqg.
Drlve-ln bridges, from streets to prity
vate residences, are washed out U1
over town and in many instances
are resting in- the middtty of the
•tree's* Numbers of Cantatas of
colored people moved oat from the
Town Creek waters between the
compress and Santa Pe track*.
A telephone communication from
the Woodhouse and Luther Martto
ranches in the southern part^of the
county, gay that the biggest rains
ever known have fallen In that Beo-
tian, but no serious washout dam-
age# are reported- »
Rsil'oads Paralyzed
The Texa# & Pacific railroad re-
ports three washouts between Beh-
ind the Aledo raster tank, the
the damage unknown at
this time. The track from Annetta
to the Aledo tank is said to be com-
pletely submerged and it la not
known If any, track left or not. Tlfrs
is id the Clear Fork bottoms, and Is
a. solid lake ot water for several
miles. Nine hundred feet of T. A
P. track between Millsap and Ben-
netts has been washed away. The
dam at the Lambert water tank
broke, reiecsing a flood of pant up
water
The Mineral Welle Road 'reports
GOO feet of track gone in the vicinity
of Rock Creek, one mile west of
Garner, apd a mile and * half of
track under water three miiee east
of Mineral Wells.
Three passenger trains, east bound,
have been tied up hfere since early
morning. Orders were received Just
a* we go to press, for them to detour
via the Satyita Fe to Cleburne, thence
to Fort Worth. A small washout on
the transfer track between the
T. & P. and the Senta Fe, to
this city. Is being repaired In order
to switch the trains over.
Agents Myers has received a tele-
gram from the Louisiana division
placing an embargo on all freight
and passenger business until
further notice on account of high
water. Other Texas ft Pacific'trains
are detouring via Cisco and the Katy,
to Waco and Fort Worth.
The latest report from the Clear
Fork bridge is to the effect that
the water hae cut away a big slice
of the highway and is ' pouring
through the gap with a rush aad
roar. The damage will probably
amount to several thousand dollars.,
From reports coming In, It seems
that the cardinal road* are not, dam-
aged so much as are the field* and
farms. In th* west part of the county*
Jn'that section,
the tnmstormer
beyond repair and to that case It will
likely be several days before the ser-
vice will be restored. As soon as the
rain stops men will make an exami-
nation and If raiairs can be made It
will only take a short time.' In case
a Mw transformer Is neeeesry, the
company will be forced to await the
restoration of traffic between this city
and Foil Worth and Dallas, and that
may mean a delay of several days. . .
Heavy Damage to Streets.. "'J-
Mayor Queen stated at J o’clock
that his previous estimate of the dam-
age to streets was too low and that
ha now believes It will require 88:900
or 119,000 to restore the. streets- to
practically ail
w
borne, Including * small number of
state paper*.
Reports from over Parker county
are that hundreds of fields have bet
washed to a serious extent Crops
will have to be replanted. Hundreds
of acres of bedded watermelon land
have been leveled and washed.
Town Creek has not caused any
further damage, so tar as Is known.
Th* total rainfall recorded to this
city since Monday night is an even
ton Inches.
Bud Varner was to from his farm
on Willow Creek east of the city
Thursday morning, and he said the
flood waa the worst he had exper-
ienced daring the fifty years he has
been living to that community. The
water got two feet over the Willow
Creek bridge on the /Dicey road and
he never before aaw the bridge under
water, farms lying along the creek
banks have been badly damaged, and
all crop* rained, he said. Some of
the farms were washed practically
clean to the bard day, while others
Ving where eddy water covered them
have been tilled from six lnchefe to
toot or - more. Very
as much as a iw u. -■
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few If aqy of, the crops will survive
the. Good he Mid., to the low lends
the .damages era'-hardly-be estimated
as It i\ impossible to get over the
fields. With fair weather it wfll be
their former condition. The streets * mopth beftfie work can be resumed
suffering most are Josephine, Akardi in valley field*. aqd It; trill take
Palq Pinto, Alamo, Brasos,. Lamar.
8prtog. Water, Ball, Vine, North Elm
and Second. Third and Fourth streets
op the North 81de. The scenic drive-
way it practically destroyed especi-
ally the drive coming from the hill by
the tee factory. The bridge on East
Jtoeka Is practically gone, culvettrf
on Palo Pinto and near the cemetery
are washed away. A crew of menl-fgji
have already started to repair - the
damig*. '
With an additional two Inches of
rainfall Tuesday night, streafns ahd
riters in this sectldn of the state re-
gained their previous high uapk an<)
th* damage continues to Increase as
reports are coming jo-'
A section of the Bankhead highway
%t Clear Fork, nearly 100 feet wide,
has been swept away and the fill ex-
tending across the bottom grOatly
damaged. ...
It 1* reported that a sectioq. ot the
fill on each side ot Rock Creek bridge,
near Millsap, has ibeen washed away
and traffic will detour for' several
days. So far as reported, automobiles
have passed between Weatherford and
Mineral Wells by using the SHnerat
Wells railroad bridge across Rock
Creek. No one has attempted the old
Mineral Wells road.
Extra gangs have been working
night and day on the washouts on th,e
T. ft P. and Mineral WaHh road. The
T ft P. Is now clear -between Millsap
and Bennetts, snd the work of refilling
tha dump at Sanches Creek tank is
going forward. The track fill at this
point was used as a dam for, the lake,
and was washed out from beneath
the track. This work will be com-
pleted by midnight, unless more rain
falls. , '
There are tour breaks - between
Weatherford and Fort Worth. Extrh
gangs from the west end are working
ntar Anneta. but owing to ttye west
yard* of the T. ft P. (being flooded, no
assistance can be had from Fort
Worth. In fact no accurate estimate
of the damage between here ahd Fort
Worth can be given at thla time. In
all probability trains cannot use tha
track under 48 hours, and perhaps
longer. The Mineral Wells railroad
stated that repain are being made
and an effort -will be made to run a
train to Minaret W.ellg some time to-
night or early. Thursday
AH streams to Eastland county are
swollen and tracks washed oat and
trains delayed. Wichita ft Southern
train* are detouring to Cisco. The
RingUng road ta not operating trains.
Sunshine Special No. 1 out of Fort
Worth, detouring via Waco and up the
Katy to .Cisco, ran into a cloudburst
hear DeLeon and-is now marooned
fcetwqpn two reriols washouts near
that city. ‘An effbrt Is being made to
fields are, to some instances com- ('repair the track to relievo the train
a week tor ten days for the' ground
on higher lands to dry sufficiently
for working..; “ -.
John. F, Sentell, who liveg r
Padgetts Crhek, paid Thursday thaj
t/e had lived to that community for
sixty years, and the community as a
whole suffered greater flood damages
the peat week than ever before. The
'ektent of the damages to this
section- cannot be ascertained aj this
time, AH fllljjg end .pastures are
boggy, and It will ;be several days be-
fore the farmer* can even get over
their Xlelda. * -
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, In places, Mr. ‘Semen saia. the
fa rail had bepn waghe^ to the hard
clay, - especially Is this true* fcbere
watermelon beds .had been throvrn
np on lands net c^irOly level,- He
mentioned several fields In, which
th* flood waters had* carried practi-
cally an tke loose beds Into tha creek
and'left d Itches Hn the place of f the
beds. Th* crops will an bnve to be
replanted. The roads in the vicinity
of Padgett’s Creek have been badly
daqaaged. Many ot
carrying qhovels in .their can and
making repairs on the road and to
that way the roads are being put 1n
Just passable condition.
Mat Sisk, who lives couth of'the
city, on Sanchez Creek, reports that
damages have not been as great in
that section as have been reported
from other parts ot the county. The
creek was not as high by two feet
as it has been, however the bridge
but little mail to
toabtity of th
regulations require
make thetr ra
The carrier on route 2
ty Tuesday, but was able to
the -round ail right on W<
The carrier bad to detocc oo
6, but reported all
the use of other baza*.
There were but very few
in town on Thursday, but the gen-
v fields an badly
washed to every section of the conn-.
ty. J. E. Guerry was in fro*. Pees-
ter, saying that his place waa ant
washed very bad, but there ar* ether
farms in that community that an
damaged to a (great exetnt. T. B.
Riddle, of the southern part of the
county, was here Thursday, saying
that the farms were injured to that
section, but not aa seriously m at
first believed. - /' ■
Parties in town from Dennis Thurs-
day morning say that the Brasos
is not ytt out of the second banka
bat is steadily rising. The fields In
that section are washed very bad
and the road* are to had fbape.
Commissioner Gilbert said Thurs-
day morning that be bad written a
letter to each of his overseers In-
structing them to warn out their man
and make such repain as possible at .
this time.
Bud Varner stated, that he has
been living on Willow Creek tor fifty
years, and the waters were two
aver before to Mb
t
if'J
fast higher .than
knowledge.
Springtown Mai) Hack M*k*a Trip
Wes Graham came to from Rpring.
town Thurdgay morning, for the first
time since last Monday. He mad*
t}>* 'trip by Carter, the jro*dS from
here to Springtown direct, being Im-
passable. The bridge across the
slough at Clear Fork was washed out
by-’tha high wtaerB, and it will be .
several days before it can b* repaired,
"tylr. Graham said the damages to
the farms in the Springtown section
did not seem to.be so great as It
has been nearer Weatherford. Tha
corn crops have been only slightly
damaged—not ''enough to cau*A them
to "be replanted- The cotton lands
have been washed and where tha
crop bad been planted it is, probable
some of . them will have to be re-
planted. v
Mr. Graham said that Springtown
had boon shut off from tha world
for several days. Trips were mads to
Northt Fort Worth Wednesday for th*
first time.
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pletely washed away. In the PpoIvUl#
county, It is said that farms washed
before night Passengers are o. k.
T. ft P. officials report that as soon
A ,
V ' it
on the Baich and Harmony fond baa
been damaged. The farms' have
been' washed and in some cases crops
will have to be planted over.
L..M. Dill wee to from the Clear
Fork, Thursday and whan asked as
to flood damages to his neighborhood
he paid that to places it was bad.
He ahd some ol hie neighbors lost
their corn crop*. The grain. Mr. Dill
said, did not seem to be seriously
damaged but It would be several days
before the damages could, be esti-
mated. Some of th* new alfalfa fields
have been ruined, while some pf the
old.flelda will probably he saved, but
the crop which would have been
ready for cutting in a few days waa
lost on probably every farm.
The Chamber of Commerce propos-
ed to hire a truck to go to Fort
Worth, Thursday morning after the
United States mall, bat after com-
municating with the Railway Mail
Superintendent, found that all Weath-
erford mall had beep forwarded via
C reason and cam* ta on the Santa
Fe, today. The - poatbxaster at Mill-
sap brought hie outbound mall over
Wednesday via auttomobile and took
back irith him all m*U for that city
and surrounding country.
* '
•- The rural route carriers have bean
makthg their rounds daily. Although
•mall detoUra were necessary to
some instances, It is reported, that
/
The Santa Fe train from Cleburne
due here at 1:30, brought a targe
quaqtUy of 'mail for Weathertagfl—
th* farmers are the second- lot received from tke east
.....--—since Monday‘night. On Vfedneaday 1
'Jwfternoon a very small amonait of
mkii came over the earn* lyut*. '
’ Thursday morning the Chamber of
Commerce 'through Secretary Blan-
ton took up the proposition of send-
ing a truck from this city to Fort
Worth and the transportation division
1-at Fort Worth said that Weatherford
and-possibly Other west bound mall
had been dispatched via Frisco to
Cfesson. \
The first mail was also received
from Mineral WeH*» Thursday morn
lng. The Mineral Wells train making
the first trip since Monday. Thla
train brought a number of passengert t
who were water bound In the Weils
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P°olvlll* News Letter
Poolville, Texas, April 26,-^We were
visited by a big rain and a terrific -
electrical storm early Tuesday morn-.
tog. The precipitation being about 4
inches. This with, * 2-inch rain Sun-
day morning has delayed farm work
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and done some damage tq farms and
crops. There was but little wind with
the rain, bat the lightning Old surely'
flash and the thunder roared. Very
little cottop has been planted and
some of those who have planted are
expecting to plant over, but we now
have a good season and aa soon aa the
ground gets to proper condition to
work, there will be something doing
to the farming business. V
►Work Is progressing nicely on the
oU well. The drillers having exper-
ienced some trouble with a crooked
hole and other setbacks, but every-
thing Is straightened out now and
drilling is going on day and night and
the well la going down pt a rapid
rat*.
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