HomeMy WebLinkAbout1935 Brazos River Flood S — THE H - TDNTES' MAY 22, I' MS
- -- -- . 9 r�A of farm dead between El R^no and
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• added t AT Lp�LAND ' Geary, th0 main body of the ewirlirig
• 'Q PCJST Y FI ®0 1�t LI( �. ILjNGRILY I`
C 1 t Chaff duced red flood waters moved slowly toward
y Oklahoma ity Tuesday night.
he L'uard: W. P Iluh11� B' _�...
• 'resident; A. E. Ciarkw"' effr
"the ere. will not strike Oklahoma
G : Stags, Ueneral Manager• „ ` that orecastei Ha
1 o ui V 1 eredge, Managing Editor.
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P - ,:> . _ .. d�cAer air sueevs a 1 otbp'tnmRcre 1
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p ear at the Houston, Texas d alo g
T ongress March 'l, 1879 n rt, s stations e
as T� oar:° h b
p'ver banks.aT c
tin
bflsud fin t
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he Houston Prinrin! :
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and Dowling Street, I :.�,
Texas. s i. ,. ', a ver�nlahoma Citynand El
A slow ri
Goodwill Part
E ;` Reno.bTheeriver barely left its banks
Y ACH EICHANG . " F; <: duct at be edge of the city
s, - :;:, < . : . .. at a via
Swollen Ri
vertu
REPRESENT/ K...
and was six indbes from the flood
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• New Yo- r :c'•ft` stR a at Wheeler park, just inside the
Trade Tri aa.
' :'"r: ?t city limits.
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- :':.. .:. .. :..: . r hue across the river,
,x e,. t .` :� s A large serve
he FTail.tf.n :::. ;:,.✓ ;;.f, `;:. :c', ftdta.
Thirty four :..: < . , subn w
members o, ,, :'s '::
s x• F a itol H511, a rb ae
s P, used by C P
Cliamb d wi11 party g :: t:; .. ne star
ear of Cammerc 9t its su orts.
e ,.. i;;.,:. !r:: ;,,• 4�- sa^gin on PP
d flo :::, R
heal e e v at od :; F• ¢ •` unity
d the ..
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acts :,: :x2 !..:. ,: a sit tapered to re-m
R v k As Oklahom y P
.to a t] 7teaae ethos t,
fi to.v„ ::> .;, newyve my
t•r.. :. r :;:;`<';; h an9diRn flood a
Tues t -: :vt:. ' :;, ::,
a° �, ceive the Mort C
d :; s '#""" '` esition of rel]Pfrays be
o%t' demanded aft
��yy ,, tto r rt managed to area
DIemhr t _ 1 F p r difs Rnd
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z. N•::.. :.: n a burried call far me
,•x _, agencies wl
peas r T..R/re and Colorado ed Cross South.
f s f::' was sent to the R
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tc t t,, t w : , :: :. r :. s: x y.:r,;,;.; cal supplies
rivets y t d.-c irtng oa he ay s,.. r ;.;:.<.;:.:
rum a nearby valley flood• I am
r f'. urant f
up b c t ,o detour at Colum :, ::�-.:, n inion
: ";,•zt c os.•`. > ed ••iver. P
c a'<;; ed by the R
bus rt tt tri when it wa. .:;•.;. aa• :<tt .
,.:.< •�;:� t.. ' ics facedt a life
.f,� pp c :^ <t>!'y t as c' T}e request said 100 famll
fo:e t c uto Led leaped it. t,,.::
a: `.; : . °:..% >' '. r y :"i` the possible danger of contractin ty-Pinion
b_r, d that pout. 6!...: .. ::>:: o:� sD
.' ` G >' :»<:N' �wk '`:: w' . hold fever from drinking the brackish tntry-
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1• ('uln;flr.:t it-od waters wars ;G, . . .% .c,,�; w. P
ri t. •I. fin the highway east of
t.. %'; $:"'r r ,` `i'� 'PbC` A t ! v!; ,c• ." -3:. ,.0 WAYP T.
<. to ed however,
r? h o illness had date p m
( l:nc;. !^o, embers of ::R s « rF '1 V t.. N Y
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t and m aF ;yet c ^an to recede Tnes-
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-w: y w,.t, a o r c s. ci`'p 3 : r" d the water he out
t, cad t der u b, « ,.:
t;' :.
••1 ,Vta:r s•ven miles south of x os' "' �: '' s 0 � ' _:f ,::5{' y -�' dap night. after inundating mote than tton
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10(10 acres of growing cro s and
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Sirepard Mourned. t '-
hh }f drowning approximately 150 head of rm
;.rd will party left Houston al A
cattle. ire
e. tt? T arsday and arrived is Bren- i' r >$afy `,r - X. i At its peak: the r�cer reached the -
ii rr i' :1 A, in. to find that thriving • highest stage since 1D i
cbrouded in gloom over the . - 4` � ks< b3 o 'f ; �i?r' 1 Streams in Northeastern Oklahoma
_' h . Frank Shepard. 48, financial r a s y p tit ' receded after reaching flood stage and
edi' ,r 'the Houston Post. o/ x� x ��- sy> ��}�� � �� �, families n ere mooing back `� their
,! �,aepard was a native of Bren- z ' w r lowland homes. - •
halt , :.d grew to manhood in that com- 3 # `., t; ra$f ; k - '
munity. '%V. W. Searcy, 75, fin uncle '. r `r iza:...x�as"ooze c : c riffs A `3 � aa�.N; c . I F
- ARDTF.RS FLEE
of DIr. Shepard and a resident of
•``- ,,;«•«•::>�::!•za%:ice,"• ,. ,:..•tkc'�oY +:a^.#x•Y'4.41,',^.......;
Brenham, and Mayor Reese B. Lock-' - "»» , ,HWINF IN FLOOb.
' r 'FIFI I� 2" (�
ett, Loth expressed their bereavement
"^ ;^ ' ' """"" oodwatc rs f om athr DArkansas and
over the death of Mr. Shepard• - •• Dtinnescah ricers s read over lowlands
The Houstonians, headed by G. L.1 F'0-r.:::. :: :y.
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Childres;, chairman. G. \P, Dentler, " f 0 ord ue
he )
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w re they join north o xf T
chairman of the ?clay trip, and T. W. ` si om f p ration:
x? their homes
Archer, Chamber of Commerce official, Qi- " r and'easing aasipen ono o e
ltrocecderl on to La Grange after leer- eq
in the Chu chill oil field.
z
1ng Brenham. —�-
Ou arriving in La Grange members is ARIiA.\`RAS R►VFR
of the party were welcomed by Mayor _
C. G. Robson and taken on a minor ,t ^. $: .e1p, -x7 ,
:: AGAIN ON R[5F
tofu of spots of historical interest. .ot>� ' •'' "`' "` '
PONCA CITY, Okla., Map . -
Members of the party had lunch in The Arkansas river here reached ite
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Schulenburg and after a brief stop at °'�' ' highest point this spring in a new rise
Weimar proceeded on to Columbus. ."_,. .
overnight Several hundred acres o
Water Risin �' ' lowlands Were under water Tuesday,
g, oa 't .fif e t but U. S. highway 60, which crosses
Residents of Columbus said the
Colorado river at that point already "` t the river here, was not in immediate
has reached the 3114 foot flood stage to rains in Kansas
a Agar
and said they believed the water still '
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i d of being covered new rise
Wa feared due
Mon ay night
wait rising. ::::'
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The good will trippers viewed the c "':ij. RAIN SWI+Li.S
raging waters from the Columbus f KANSAS RIVER,
bridge and discussed the flood with
ram. � CHANUTE, Kan.. Diay 22.—(fP)
farmers. 'Phone present said the Water "" < A locally heavy rainfall here Ttlhshad
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bead has flooded numerous farms ^" .......;;,`'"' `
& Y :«:,:.�<i ::; :!N,,v .: >a r caused the N eosho rn er, whi
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w..:,,.,.::.:;.::.::-. w.,,000y.. „,. <:>:?<>ix>>.:<% • Les to a
in the vicinity but indicated they be <<kk
)laved the peak of the flood had been
h s, �, .r ;>: been falhnR, to rise 10 ins
°°°°°°°"°a•f" „ '� height of 22 feet, again flooding low-
rcachud• e� ' °... coeoo< c:;> t : 5� lands.
red over the :: 4.; a �.,ts:;•: ., ' :' ',,; -
Thc Colorado first you ..,.
-..::.. , _.. :..:.:r�-Age °'':;%°"' -..v ..,: i4" a, >
n a and °.:.::. .;.; x:,•u.ot. R
it near Columbus bu d y
ht hw _ M° ::::: ..... :, 'x& .,•: : E sl ?`:::;>,<:t:< .w:• LAID FO
rasa :.:. ......_:.,
x y>o .af t e x :;w;:'s, ; ... ��' MEDICA
the water has r .
smc' that time ....:.::, , s.
1 4Y3:: as# y RFFUGEES URGED
steadtlt until it now is about three — _
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west ortion. ,C : ,ce::.. .::5 .. ........_. _.. .: ;:; < "`''s, CF, "` 11
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feet deep over the to p
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hers o H..:.. _. a&. ..... . :. i ;;c>t:;>.;:;;>;::.r.,..
caun Columbus meet ";x :``
L R : ._ . <> ;,•t„<;::, j M the Bed river
. c,. ..".r < : ::h,...>.. :.•'sr}:::>`:<idt a valley flooded by
d to tech : .':...... ::.. 1. :Y.::n..y:;t:.,.,..,,.:.... :F,tF o-
ood will party detounie ,K,,,,,..
F >•><;••,...;.. Mall ; :�. ' `, {I asked of the
:.....:, :<,.,.t h re was
ro :::::,. k..F...s ,.:Y.as>?:;>x:• :::•:;,»..a6 :...:: : :.: > • •, t, �•: southeas
gg ^b lake and after a brief stop, p z
Lam 1 _ ,,,oia"" :. :... # < F ?;;#--r•,:;r F .. o.Y;. as feared
.. ._....,.::na `0°:......_:.._:... ... 1.....: ........'::: - ::::. .. ..:::: s..•.;:: .;• .,.>. a.:£. ,:;.,: :+c•:: a..<-'• ay when it w
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ed(d on to Hou t _ ._._ ..... ,.. :, :ter
ce _.. ,:,. ., :ate :> r s .;.t->,,::�,•:>•:•: .k- :. : trz ' unless the w
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s:.::: ?c crest of the
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bif Gcor e . B c..,....•.......: „..-. :.,: y:.: v'•f
Bint R ., :>'<` t :. .:: a eached the af-
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T . Eubank. uevyg6ab°t? .:.::::.:. ::.• ;>.-
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^ . .. ,,;:. . ., ,:. : < :.•. ... ? ' }. onda night, sendintt
:. ro >.,iia i:.:,... y ::`' . -,. ys �< > '"< r.. '. ' ed area M y
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tt oho Foster, J. D1. as:. fF.. o, iR u, �..:;:-:::;::;:•>: . :;_::. ?w :.;: us ,.:x .. ..,..::. •..... 7.,.Y .• ;<z feet
L. L. I ate , J ,:.: r, a ,fx :y v';a..
,,,:: ,. till ° «..,>: ;r>: ..x enison Texas
.....,.'�'..> ::.,...:-- ..... .. .. ... .. ..F�::?;.Ya;:n'.;,;. , .rZh•`;•:; h:. •:v-,:' '`.., 'y t '' feet at th
1 n E. L. H w A . • _...., :•.c. :::>:.,•:.tlY:-> -,a..f•z <,•:>t ,:,9€'fi:..,o.,�:::.::: . river to 2cJ
Gtasti. Jam,s A. Hera so •,a ., •.,,. ,, baxe."..:..::,...
:o dQ.<•! :•::;'' "i5, ;l1<edd7,, s„x,,x ,� :x; .i<a : ...\ t F o, a } �i'a �i'
a ear R'. Jackson.
\cal Ho.fait J :wi;a "-:.:.:::::::::...... - :.,`• ...:.:,::, •e•:..: .:::_ <:..,s• ": ':`• } ` < f., .. < .f, , bridge, covering hundreds of acres of
$ail, .....:..,�.;..;,• ... .... v.,x; ':,-.; ..4w"�:,,,•::.,:r- `; ,: ;; .i•. a F ?;::. t y. ;::i .VtSlc?:;:
G a.a. ........ :.••::.� ", :;%>:,r•:...>...<::t� '?°E:::..•E:..:j ' x :: 4,. fine cro sand drowning many head of
1ti. 1. Iva , John H. LeRoy, E. :. air ,��g�
R :.4,,•:_._ ••::;.-... ... a;,.• kk,;c::. ••;'.' ! e> ao' !wv. `.: P ma side
?h c o0 3,oa°°, y �,: ecz:.. ''i i ? K r� le tra ed on the Oklaho
DMcAlcaaudei. Ueoige B. Meyer, J. H. ,mlk ,:
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Tamtsun R. L Dlur hy, P. T. Pearce, _:.. o ver.
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. Rose T. L. Saaen �.. s.,.
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me er, e G. 'ti �,:ia..,..>:::: :.;•• t . >..a.... •.., §, ,.... ry z EACHING
mayor, Ben Schnitzer, Lynn Centres, * :zs•:;,: :: : s ° , a` . .
o Ste hen, Jlm Tag>;art, Herbert U. < ""''
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. ,,,.-,� ,ea.,,, . • ''� CItFSTDIN OKLAHODIA
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Turner. R. C. R'erner, Crawford �1"il w ' —
• wo ,oe� (> TMTLSA, Okla., Diny 2° ( )
lianis, 1). D, Peden. ~ -
x, ,¢ n o°� a, ,� : ti ,> f' Northeastern Oklahoma streets T tea
------..+_ <.A " ° " ~ ar `, day apparently had reached the crest
. '` " " .. F:fi resulting fom the latest talus and
FLOOD— Lx�3a �.,. . ' �' v s;?.: r• had caused no extensive damRge.
c a _, ------ - -
ar
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-, The river rose tti ]".]a
(Continued from Page 1.) 1 .. ^ ArkansAS
ee
t uring the n ght to hies st it
,. r F. ••r:`: . ' bns been in eight tyea'rsthnt still fr.nt`
w ac rising at the rate of half an inch �'
:::"
t• a f =m NRcA- ;,.: ". a Plnochadiflrccedcdtttndil
an b- A l,t a ral r ad r I .. : a. , morning ribs fie
° F
-s as /: F /�. f
rota to :;rcuham ma rla ed �,�tative of {�
t ^« , > ;eek% Mr;. , , ? #•,' u'nrPtvcbenkR ihfidf mot ed�out n Len
1 lnpnu,y 1:.<._,,„ 1:�.,n ]n \}u,htn-_t. a .. ,'. s, -r< tThe
county. t than i` . t �- k t water backed into their homes.
i L• c ., ` ,: �' i i hAt Dliami, the Neosho river was at
,n la(.- river was � - dlsti
in i'= lo= • -•' ter•-',• p T � f r" -1 a standstill after hitting a 15-foot
works ip... ,.,"
ervie r k.
-It L ilchnt:: ferry uo.a.aucd � � as 6: A` Littleadamageflwas donei.v
w P
a'
ate. Ferry operators s:d a -i-. of
natal more fort v 111ii Ic-.nacPs4et'- E>'rs1�' ' a ; �` .'ti; , Rain continued over night in the
f .
before the fat ry would be disc unflawed. I l " �h< M
two districts One hundreth inch of
t '
1'Le crest of the Bra>.t rise passed } `:` sy
�: rain fell here early Tuesday morning.
3 `' ' ' S1,. o' s� t.;.. At Miami there was one-eighth of an
�'ui-ley Junction, on the Dlilam And o
: f
Etohurt.ron county )lase, early Tuesday r ` "�'. ]nch of rain overnight and a light
cith the gauss registering 4R,5 feet t drizzle falling'1'nesday.
as com tared to 47 feet in 1i122. "° '
1 -
Highway Is flooded. .;t, a. .i a RATNR N:NDANGbat
C. F.. NOl'(lUPct, in charge of the cx AI)013F. Rb;ti1DENCF.S.
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AOS N. D ., —
Floustau weather bnrcan, issued a < eturesque tuwn,eyhemmed)inby
ores tst Tuesday afternoon in which
'. P1
he predicted the crest will pass Wash- e
m ton in R'Ashington count west of '• I'uebloallud sus andplan artist colnnOe
g so Thnrsda with aysta a of i s endangered 'Puesday by continued
F.t,c . >: was
\eta ta, y R �. 'Ykir.Fso- < 13F heavy rains.
IS feet, would reach A stage of 45 e?`., w:a >�....:..'
°set at Hempstead by Friday and 38
::
'set at Richmond by Smlday or Dton-
More than 200 families were home-
r i s adobe shouses tot there ound lord week-
day'• ened the homes so much as to make
Fbr the second time Within 10 days >` them uninhabitable. The national
the Brazos left its banks Tuesday be- , f ;':.,<>?
wPcn East and Rest Columbia in i
t '7 if' Glard armory horsed the homeless.
Braz�ria county and flooded the high- . ear r F R
1 b I %{ 4. pledged every skater aid pit sibie,tDud�
way th-re. 5t to fo
The backwater from the river stood ;i .i ' ]P,y Frank, F ERNA admini ra r r
i
Lea
a foot deep for a mile along the high- a arm era g for fug t
1 to
way east of East Columbia Tuesday 1 < t
s,
afternoon and was rising slowly. Traf-
''• w Mexi o, a n ed
.:: .... he or .
c
fie was being routed by Rosenberg to :;•
r y
IIouston, although sot to cars were " " t _
" MILITIA GUARDS
crossing through the flooded section. _
LOUISIANA DAMS.
(tr a site Bryan the river stage was „ "(.
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estim:aed at 4ti feet Tuesday and still ;
/P) National guardsmen were placed
fry on duty Tuesday in Natchitoches par-
rising. The crest was eapected Wed rs s' F <<z <' fah, below here, in the Red ricer t al-
t.
nesday, Y#t ley flood where officials said threats
dam
The inundated section from which r had been made to dynamite two e
�, {° along the Cane river to release exces-
the farmers fled Dlonday and Tues- i .. 's.
day includes both banks of the river x<hF ., sire flood waters.
for a distance of about 10 miles above
<y '� Dlembers of the Natchitoches com-
and L'0 miles below Bryan. -
«; a�� {i� \y �� tint(IutYtnri guRrdalt eadarn.er one 1of
Some Hope Seen. s
The Little BCa'LOa river, nhich
% ' }? ' t which is loeated et the juncture of the
€; to and the Red rivers Officials ea-
drains a basin northeast of Bryan, ,; , : ►;. $ �'
also had m'erflowed Tuesday and for °t" " even
a :. c ": < 3 p ;h> S hoiot�y,tandmwas ntendedeto prevent
d
many miles above the junction with a a c s ales ,
the Brazos had spread across the area
n, �F L tt m rt at vend m
' of fertile bottom land which separates �� 't< l ��/u<
s F ' W I:F.Pti
", n y I
the stream heels. �1s"
,� FT.00D S
Some hope for an early lowering of ' r, —
S LOUI`IANA TOWN.
tLe flood near Bryan was seen in re- ,.: t SIIRl9VEI'ORT, La.. Map r
putts that fife Navasota ricer, while :> _ "' j (fP)—Back water from Old Ricer and
� �
flnrnled, was not at an exceptionally �f ,,: heavy rains combined to inundate the
x ;
town of Cy Press, 15 miles south of
high singe.;
Daring the 102S1 flood the \Acasota F ia4.•; Natchitoches, Tuesday. The town
em into the Brazos � s: school waspclosed when it was flooded
h
poured a heavy sti a foot dee
et �a1-asota, :10 miles south of Bryan, •....i� ^�' _
and caused the Brazos flood to re- >
main at R high stage upstream for Houston Youth
several days. 'i'
More than 1000 farmers and their
milies, most of them negroes, Tues MelMirn are shown In the boxcars where they slept after they fled from the floodwaters. Center right: Debris struck by Truck
ay had evacuated the threatened area F'loodtkaters of the Brazos and Trinity rivers Tuesday inundated thousands o[ acres o[ fertile farm lands In the and ,• Trinity river near Crockett. Center left: The swirling Brazos and a mass of debris floating down the stream ,
►rind Nevasnta. Bryan, Navasota, Brenham and Crockett areas, cowling heavy damage to crops and sending hundreds of lowland "I 1' 3ryan Lower right: An excellent view of the main road to Fast Texas from the east end of the Trinity river
:any of the refugees came into dwellers a vaso a, r higher ground for safety. T'pper right: Two horsemen are shown surveying what was left hri„r• At: Trinity. Water was on both sides of the highway but had not covered the road late Tuesday. Lower Clifford Amerson, 17, of 5003 Gib.
':sofa, but others stopped with lP wide Brazos at Old Washin ton. The river at this point flows between the steepest banks in that sec- son street, was injured seriously late
ads in the hills edging the hot- of a premising cotton crop on the Hoppe plantation near Welborn just after dawn Tuesday. The waters of the iefr: 1, is not expected to leave its banks, except in the lower regions_ --Staff Photos by Jack Miller. Tuesday night when he was struck by
Brazos at this point rose steadily during the day. Upper left: Negro families driven from the lowlands near Bryan•tion anc a truck while crossing the street in
r. highway between Navasota Rnd
am was closed to traffic at noon harton. Hi hway 71 from the north draw tolai;,�;cr ground. Hundreds of than 8000 acres io cotton, with en thoyes were aiding motorists to cross the . M block , rive mgton avenue,
when the flood waters stood that sloughs and cultivated Arens of tion of the traffic to East Texas was \C g were under water. estimated production of 500(1 bales, the bridge on highway 27, Luling to H. Di. Moore, driver of the true
Y tvas not interrupted. acres already have been destroyed. Onion loss was San Antonio. The West approach to reported the accident to police fin
s over the roadway on a dump the bottom ]Ands will be overflowed. reported Tuesday. lehita Falls and Paris estimated at $100,000. this bridge was t>s8er one foot of said that he was traveling at a Toll
Washington. The flood waters Already were The crest of a rise which originated A party of good-will trade trippers IIoR �''r, i ate rote of speed when the hris
e were that the dump was Red ricer within its a Rod ri were evacuating homes in water. stepped off the curb in front of his
h urrent of the creeping out through creeks Tuesday above Dallas SRturdsv w-as sweeping from Houston reached ('olumbns report•d the their sections. the Red river bottoms near Clarksville, truck. He said the accident was un-
u way as t e c but all residents of the section had down the stream but the effect on the Tuesday afternoon by way of Bren- banks a sin in,ett battery D, 131st Live stock had been removed,but farm 300 FADi1LTI'S
rt•ed out into the lowlands lower reaches could not be predicted ham and La Grange. At R•u•khur"Cichita Falls National �4'A1T EVACUATION. avoidable.
- been warned and those in exposed Tuesday Lowlands at Wharton were flooded artillery of the 1 lands were under water. A gopher o A Heights nju ed : home ambulance
foif Weatherman Nor• Ifices had sought safety. At Longlake the Trinity ricer stage by backwater from creeks bat no se Guard iii'it, s�°Oagagana work soon bwrrowed through the flood gate 8t OKLAHODIA CITY, due 2 . removed the injured youth to Jefferson
t age th the Brazos P y nobs ckwa a is ex ec Lake Clark, causing workmen to (AP)—Resumption early Wednesday of Davie hospital where he was found to
ra -da was received At An•leton county workmen were Tuesd: was 47.4 feet and flood stage g p fed either to the Washed-out fear i)d on R temporary strengthen the banks. the evacuation of 30U families from be sufferiti from a possible fracture
y strengthening the levee which pro- there is 40 feet. Riverside reported town or to highways and bridges. was to be start and Oklahoma au- the Oklahoma City lowlands,halted by
le f-Puesday as the tests that town. 41.R Tuesday with flood stage 40 feet. Trinity River Rising. bridge hp •1'"i"" qP will be ready for word the flood waters of the North of the irstl and painful body oy w s.
below that stage y thorities. P.�e i•• CREST T C RDACHED After first aid treatment the hoy was
l The county engineer's office of Bra- Both'reported slight rises. At Lihertp The Trinit river was still rising Canadian would not strike for 24
t of acres of farm zoria county said the predicted flood the river stood slightly above flood in the Madisonville area and all farm traffic Sm,bo. crest moved out CREST O, May 2 hours, was eagerly awaited Twesdav transferred to the Diethodist hospital.
ited. Hempstead, stage on the Brazos will create a vast stage and will continue out of its lands along the stream were endan- The •i•rinity ri .wed dykes at a CUERO, DSay 22. d (Sp arThe by the refugees who will exchange
of water in 1022, lake from just north of Angleton to banks with slight fluctuations in the ^Fred by floods Tuesday night. Fam- of Dallas arid ,h of Gilmer,flood- Guadalupe river had apparently squalid quarters for clean army tents.
i a 45-foot stage'the Fort Bend county line And above. water level for another Week. ilies in the river bottoms have moved point four miles! qnd. Seventy men reached its crest at Cuero Tuesday. As erection of the tent community Residents Urged
Raisin An leton Levee. Ex ected at Columbus, out and practically all stock that ing 25(Ni acres ',nearly dawn in fin on the grassy slopes of R city park
gar Land area of i The town gof An leton is not in The Colorado crest was ex ected to could be found has been driven to had war; i •ini :< the dyke, but the,The high water gunge at the power neared completion, officials in charge t7
•i waters were I danger from the present rise but the pass Columbus early Wednesday At a higher lands. effort � ' `t •!I,"," ed Aside sandbags dam showed 26 feet two inches Tues of the removal ordered all workers eau- To Boil Water iri
ow•er sections floor) waters are expected to back up stage of 33 feet,and to reach Wharton With high flood peak at Clapp's rashinc wa*erV •fields. (Inv morning and the reading was the gaged in evacuating the threatener)
knot eapected to the levee nest and north of the by \Vednesday night with n high mfitk ferry the river Rt Black )Muff crashed And su!-•rl -tr ]n: r ,I concrete bridge same at 4 p, m. Additiounl water is area to go home for the night, to re-
Snnday• of 35 feet. The Colorado was re- out of its hanks, swept over -Madison Thp is 'c•e ...".1 • •er on Higgh- expected from the Kerrville sec•tioyi turn at 7 A.m. Wednesday Flooded A r e a s
r town. ('tetra of n orkrnen note as-
chmnnd was sembled Tuesday find sent oat to raise putted filling at Smitliville and at a comity bottom lauds. dcshoving thou- spanui"- 'I'' .i" ' <„r uf' \arogduehcs, where beficp mitts fell Saturday and At that hour. national ptuard tracks,
90 :12.2 Dion- low suctions of the levee and repair standstil] at l.a Grange Tuesday. sands of acres of cottem and earn and way 21 20 :a — %i{ I uusday when Snudfiy but local observers believe the old 50 army vehicles and fire trucks,
esdfiy morn- env break, Detcrans resident: of the l'olnmbus inundated pracCeally two-thirds of fill was d• !' '. l ,ni''r,.i.,,l aLntments. present flood singe w111 pass before if they are ueedcd, will stt'ing into the AL TIN, Dlav 22•—(fP)—Dr•
Traffic on the Old Spanish Trail section said they expected a rise of fanning lauds in the county. Tor- flood : ry it,"", tea• h1-iiiPay and the the new rise reaches this section. lie- community relief cnm fit the Pfith of C
Stage. nest of Houston wns hein, detoured about four feet over flood stage there reutiril rains put [ill lakes, sloughs Waters 111 •.:rd '] "•iced, reports said. tween 5O(X1 And 6WO acres were under' the threatened flood, and complete the Tuesday adv sed boiling of drinking
or reached from by way of Rosenberg. Wharton but that no damage would be done ex- and creek, iu the county out of their crust h i•I not 't aft raters will suffer water in lle�Vitt county Tuus(lav, it removal task started Tuesday.
od stRgc And El Campo to CahunUns as result cept to hottumlfind farms unless an hanks nhich, pouring their waters into )Mall r.vi't t,`1 in rears as a re- was estimated by J. A. Oswalt, county Death Toll 21. water a communities where water
1redicted of flood water from the Colorado river additional two to four feet of flood the river, calmed the river to burst their g -lit-t icy:. . ,rear urerflow,said farm agent. cro r damage, he estl- As the flood threat here was delayed or sewage Plants were flood dam-
5nndaY flowing across the highway three fact water arrives. the levee at Blfick Bluff. stilt of:h• Pei :+t in (bunt AgPat mates, will exceedCo(l,tl(1(i, a dap into the future, recocery of an aged.
above deep just east of the bridge at Co- I Highways from Eagle Lake to Gar- Near Danger Stage. farmers wic+g;there Fa:-nors of Car- A roaches to all five river bridges.Additional body in Texas brought to 21 Extra precautions should be exec•
lumbus. wood anti Altair were closed Tuesday Within two feet of the dangerous A. R.Jol:^v s afflK�d southeast por- in the Cuero section were underwater the known Southwest death toll from was t said, i the Water supply
In- While the Trinity river stood at or when water began to flow over the stage, the Red river north of Denison rollton, Lat.-aster was not supervised or waft d�k(nt
's bove flood stage from Riverside to dumps. Traffic east from Columbus was 23 feet and still risin . Farmers tions of,h^ r,•ir,.f(!etimated los.ea re Tuesday with only one crossing pass- floods and wind.
e g d thousands• More,•able. State highway department em- Sprawling over thousands of acres from ghallow wells,
` the mouth of the stream, no interrup- was routed by way of El Campo and in the lowlands were warned to with- �meny h•.w',ro'