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Show I JMBEfl OF THE j NOI DEAD IN 1 FLOODS IS 150 r I jusands of Refugees, Safe a"bo$ pm the Water for Time ! eing, Suffer Froni Hun-5 Hun-5 ger and Exposure. '4 f X UR-FIFTHS OF THE ICTIMS ARE NEGROES xetary of War Responds to Bie Appeal for Aid and Bends Rations and Blan-M Blan-M kets to Sufferers. AwftlETO'X. To:.. Dec. S. Tho number Bbottti dead in tho Hood which has lxBd over the lowlands in half a dozen tics In south central Texas reached Btoin':ht, Several thousand refugees, fjKoncd in half-flooded cotton gins and i JBtlnp houses, are safe from the water Wrc t'rne I)0,n' hut arc suffering' from f Bper and exposure. Four-fifths of the "vero net;ro f.irm hands, many of jfiarooncd alfio are negroes, j the dead tho gicator number lost 'lives In tho vicinity of Bryan, whore :y-mllo stretch of levoc nlony the river crumbled. The Brazos flood red tonight a dam near Richmond 3oded a state prison farm. Tho :ra had been removed. bs of Disaster. pstcacl, in "Waller county, from reports had been meager until to-rcporled to-rcporled twenty drowned and oth-ssing. oth-ssing. Reports from half a dozen mall towns In Waller and adjoining s, advanced tho total fatalities to ill. The San Felipe section of Aus-nly Aus-nly received a shipment of motor Trom Houston today and several 3 refugees were moved to safety. w Rreat danger tonight was from jj and hunger. For tho second success's succes-s's tj'nlsht Ice was forecast over the thlr-)w thlr-)w flllc district about Bryan, where 1S00 Sn whs, mostly negroes, are marooned 'I ji liUle food and few .11 res. 31 Peals for Food. Witt appeals for blankets and food IS B' received from all over tho stricken rirl from central Texas almost to V Pli coast. fwt sxns cities responded liberally today rjj PPrals for money and supplies. IIous-Bl IIous-Bl raised in cash l jo crest of the Brazos flood was cstl- $ tonight to bo somewhere below Hempstead, about flftv miles from tho mouth of tho river. Tho crest of the flood In tho Colorado river is visaing into tho gulf tonight. |