Show ME of HIGH WATERS immense area in texas and oklahoma inundated much sorrow and suffering resulting fort worth tex seven people are known to be dead 5 are homeless chave a dozen or more are reported to have been killed in fort worth and north fort worth aa as a result of the greatest rise in the lit history story of the trinity river which beginning at 30 0 clock saturday evening reach ed a climax at 5 0 clock sunday afternoon five of the deaths occurred sunday and two saturday mayor W D hart of fort worth issued a proclamation calling upon the unfortunate citizens to help the homeless e s s hamul muskogee s k 0 gee okia okla not a railroad in oklahoma Is in operation a as a a result of the heavy rains and cloudbursts that have occurred in various parta parts of the state the last road to BUS pend operations was the missouri kansas texas which was forced to quit at noon sunday when the bridge on the main line at eufaula went down all west guthrie is inundated with from seven to ten feet of water rush ing through the streets the cotton wood river Is within tour four feet of the highwater high water mark registered on may 6 1897 residents of the lowlands fearing a recurrence of the 1897 floods when seven or eight people in the valley lost their lives began leaving their homes sunday night and as tar far as possible transported their household effects to the higher ground some distance from the chan nel of the stream so far as known no one has been drowned though the river is twenty feet higher than normal and has spread over the wide valley for miles ratios the property loss will be great crops of all kinds being washed out houses unroofed by storm austin tex A terrific wind and rainstorm swept texas from the pan handle to the gulf on sunday the destruction st tion to crops and vegetation trees and shrubbery was the greatest reported for years in numerous places houses were unroofed and beall villages and hamlets in many instances were inundated by the ter rainfall which in the space of four hours re reached acied seven inches in many sections austin was in the path of the worst of the storm and for hours the streets were impassable for either man or beast electric ight and telephone connections were riba bled beyond immediate repair and many houses were unroofed the agricultural sections of central and southern texas have been imme asur ably damaged according to general reports received here |