Show LAID y ASTR I 1 lloo i Destroy GI10wiu 1 Crops in Larp PortionI I of Texas I I 1 1I I I WORST J IS NOW OVER I I Damage to Country Tributary II to Colorado River Heavy I AUSTIN IS IN BAD SHAPE I Wreck of the Dam and Power Plant Jrtcans that it will Take Several 1tcnns tmt Weeks to Secure Even n Temporary Water and Light System i it Can be Made Possible Then Water in the Colorado River Eating Away I the Big Pile of Granite Which Once Formed the Dam as Though it was Nothing More than Chalk Hock Great Boulders Carried Half I n Mile from the Dam by the Fierce i Current Situation in Other Parts I of the State tou Passenger Train I Wrecked Near Twohig I I Austin Tex April SFully 30000 pooplo gathered at the dam and powerhouse power-house Hlalloned north of this city to witness the ruins of Uie plant which cost this city 1750000 a few years ago The waters of the Colorado river were still plunging and foaming around the wreck eating away the big pile of granite which once formed the dam as though It was nothing more than chalk I rock So fierce was the current that S great boulders were cariled L mile from I the dam being rolled over and over by the turbulent tide < I The powerhouse which succumbed to the terrific wash of the Wator at 2 oclock this morning lies a mass af wreckage oil the edge of the river all tIme valuable machinery either having been tin own Into the river or badly damaged by the falling timbers of the powerhouse SITUATION IS SERIOUS The wreck of the plant Is complete The situation In the city tonight Is i I most serious The wreckage of the plant means that It will take several I weeks to secure even a temporary I water and light system If It can bo made possible even then In the meantime mean-time the city wl be In bad sanitary condition All the hotels private residences resi-dences stores and the like are without I wut < > 1 and there is no lire protection Churches were unable to hold services I tonight for want of light and all public pub-lic meetings were abandoned The dally newspapers are handicapped In their publications being deprived of their electric power The river is ailing tonight to-night UNDER y A TEn Reports from the neighboring country coun-try are to the effect l that everything Is under water Ln Williamson county north of here railroad bridges and trackage have been laid waste and all rains have stopped running Hundreds of head of rattle have been drowned and miles of fencing torn down and washed away In Bastroj county and In the southern south-ern portion of this county similar conditions con-ditions prevail everything being under wttter und much loss of property Is reported re-ported The country tributary tf the Colorado river all the way down Its course Is i being Inundated and while It IH I believed the m wont Is over the loss as estimated tonight vlll exceed some est 3000000 loser counting Ausin as the larg LOSS OF LILU SMALiIj Fortunately the llst of drowned according ac-cording to reports up to tonight Is limited lim-ited to those reported In the Associated PIes dispatches last night and It seems the only ones reported were here when the dam broke and caught the victims unawares A mass meeting of citizens ias been called for tomorrow In order tlut some steps may be taken forelieve the situation situa-tion There were no trains operated en the International Great Northern railroad rail-road an much of its track and qiiite a number of bridges were washed away during nlnbel the nlirht The MissouriKan sas Texas Is also a heavy sufferer from a like cause f I CORN MUST HE REPLANTRD Reports from several sections O central cen-tral and southern Texas arc to tte ef feet that a large acreage Is I under baLer and much damage has l ieen sufte kd In property and live mock L I prolert nt le rivers are now f fling and there In I not much danger of r gen been Jllnl oral Hood The crops have In aged over a wide area but there I stlll farmora to replant If thf get UIIIP for falm tme seed Com has been planted over once and It will have to be plantcl tht third In time Thft farmers AS a rule l > avt nit much cotton bctauHr the not planted coton ll heavy rains have kept them out c the The railroads have lost Jiany > fields The tulload Ields week small bridges and It will be a tel Mnal Its normal con trallle resumes before rotume hlOIe trulk i I miftion I IHUon TREMENDOUS RAINS rains Sinlthvllle report jremendous have fallen throughout that sicilon < the main flood In the Colorado from the great AuStin lnm the break In rcAt tw brnk reaching there lila evening Thcriver rcaehln thirtyeightfoot rise at 7 pm f I Is a on thlrlyclJhtCoot 11 and 01 rising one foot JMI hour I Ji estl mated that O I6 acres of growing CIOP in the bottom lands wUhlfi live frllCH of the town IIUVP ben Inurdated loss Tht bv from ten to fifteen feet 10Sf 4WOOO The stock has will roach over 50 sto I been drowned No deaths have bern reported re-ported In that section so far from drowning Gr > at excitement nrtd nn prevailed last nigh pantness Jr ltd I hel CROPS DESTROYED In little Cameron reports the tlood Camrn lnal July The t rlvor noW equals tlmt of rie waterworks and powerhouse hav been gvcruowed People wora warned and no loss of life Is reported Brushy San I Gabriel and Little rivers are all overflowed over-flowed causing the entire destruction of croiy The rivers are still rising erorc Reports from points on other rivers ate of damage to crops but no loss of life TOURISTS WATERBOUND A party of twentyJive tourists en route to California and i party of twentylive Tyroleese Immigrants en route to the Hawaiian Islands to work on the sugar plantations who were I I caught by the storm on the Southern I I Pad fir railroad west of Devils river I last Thursday got back to San Antonio t todav and were sent around by way of I I Fort Worth and the Texas Pacific After Af-ter the storm the tourists found themselves them-selves In n wild country with six washouts t j wash-outs between them and San Antonio I and nine washouts and missing bridges between them and El Paso The Eastern East-ern tourists had to rough It for which they did not bargain PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED The northbound passenger train which left Laredo over the Internatlon tle al Great Northern railway this mornIng I morn-Ing was wicckcd by the uprnndlng 1 of the mails near Twnhl about noon The entire train except the t engine went Into the ditch Mall Agent Sobrlght I as seriously injured and several others oth-ers seriously hurt l The Rio Grande river has come to a stand at Iwentvmx feet without damage dam-age t the bridges at Laredo but the waterworks machinery I Is submerged and the crops along the river have been destroyed HIGHEST FOR YEARS Smithvlllo reports the Colorado river at forty feet and rising All bottomlands bottom-lands are completely submerged and great damage has been done to the J young crops and many miles of fence I have been washed away The river Is higher than It has been since 1870 The people In the bottoms have moved out to places nf safety BRAZOS RIVER FALLING The Brazos river which has risen steadily since Wednesday began to fall slowly at midnight lust night and at an early hour tonight had receded slx feet Information tonight from the tributaries of the Bwavos say the rain has ceased and the river Is I falling Reports Re-ports of washouts on all railroads In the central part of the State continue to come In and It will be several days before trallle Is resumed HEMMED IN BY WATER Baslrop reports many families of the I town are encamped out under the pavilion pa-vilion at Firemans park while others arc ready at a moments warning to lice to the hills The water Is at I standstill at a height of over forty three feet Baatrop Is literally hemmed In by water now and Is cut off from the surrounding communities Damage to I crops lands and stock cannot he estimated j esti-mated but no lives are reported lost I i |