Show HEAVY STORMS STRIKE TEXAS Many Houses Wrecked or Washed Away by Raging Waters Houston TecA series of violent storms electrical and cyclonic In character char-acter accompanied by successive cloudbursts swept over Houston and Iclnlty during Wednesday night and fJ4 Vii Y a r p 41 c 0 Governor Frank H Gooding of Idaho Thursday morning The country for miles Is covered with water Railroad Rail-road traffic Is almost completely suspended sus-pended Many houses have been wrecked or washed away by Buffalo bayou which has passed all previous high water records and is still rising The rain continued until noon Thursday Incalculable damage has been done In this vicinity and It is expected that reports from Texas rivers riv-ers which are rising rapidly will show the worst flood conditions In the history of Texas So far no deaths i from the storm have been reported |