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Show LIST OF DEAD IN TEXAS FLOOD IS NOW SIXTY-FIVE Number May Be Increased to One Hundred Hun-dred When News From Isolated Towns Is Received. Bryan, Texas. Sixtyrfive persons are known to be dead and scores of others are reported to have lost their lives in the floods which have been sweeping the valley3 of the Brazos and Trinity rivers in central and south central Texas since early last week. Three thousand persons have been driven to the upper( floors of their homes by the rising waters, or have been compelled to seek refuge in trees, where they remained for hours, in some cases for two days before being rescued. Estimates of the the damage generally center around $4,000,000. The flood in the Brazos river now is concentrating at Navasota, at the junction junc-tion of that stream and its tributary, the Little Brazos. On the Allen plantation plan-tation near Navasota, twelve negroes and one Mexican are said to have been drown Saturday. Twenty-five negroes are reported to have lost their lives on the John Parker plantation on the main stream, near Welborn. Several prominent planters are missing miss-ing in this vicinity. |