Show faw ftfe 1 CLOUD 12 VESTS IN TEXAS some ten or kvelve days since cap jiin s corps of engineers and aa ii tints in the vaclev of buck creek in childers county their tents were set ono bundled eat aiom the dry bed of the creek creek ft is about avi elve leet deep lerel of the valley on either side of the bank the vaclev is nearly a milott milo tt ide but the high lands curved in close to tho place where the c imp was pitched and the vaclev on the opposite bink the night was clear and no cloud in the distance betokened a rain tall the bos staked their ponies near by tumid their loose and laid thorn down to sleep in their tents about midnight one ot the bosvelt bosl elt water at hi feet up he saw comina and sellina sell like a riving his mar roused ins companion con pAnion in less than a minute the were standing in water up to their wai ti knowing to aih side ot tham iv as the lull chev rubbed the gatei and succeeded in gaining a ija foot leold w iter rushed by them covering the enone valley to a depth of sis ft ct ind earning all the tent and iho pony wi dived by one of the bivs cattiny the rope a he him naadi pone to bed with his mist ot the bo were in their clothe and a solemn set when da light came thac follon ed down cream to red river and fathered ya up some of their rl otles ind all tre vili but one chemis in caliso had ga in in it rh sudden rite ot water avis edl nu ed by what known as a floud bucit on hie baid of the stream soine twenty or miles ariy any gumbei ot cattle acie corned down sti earn but moat ot them cnally es |