Show i FIVE mm HOMELESS RESULT OF HIGH WATERS Immense Area In Texas and Oklahoma Okla-homa Inundated Much Sorrow and Suffering Resulting r i Fort Worth ToxSoven people aro known to bo dead BOOO aro homo Boss a dozen or moro nro reported to fliavo been killed In Fort Worth and North Fort Worth as a result of tho Greatest rise In tho history of the I Trinity river which beginning at 730 oclock Saturday evening reach cd a climax at 6 oclock Sunday afternoon FIve of the deaths occurred oc-curred Sunday and two Saturday t Mayor W D Hart of Fort Worth issued a proclamation calling upon tho unfortunate citizens to help tho homolcsD Muskogee OklaNot a railroad In Oklahoma is In operation as a result of the heavy rains and cloudbursts that have occurred In various parts of the Btato The last road to suspend sus-pend operations was tho Missouri Kansas A Texas which was forced to quit at noon Sunday when tho bridge on the main lino at Eufaula went down All West Guthrlo Is inundated with I from seven to ton feet of water rushIng rush-Ing through tho streets The Cottonwood Cotton-wood river Is within tr r feet of the hlghwater mark regl nvd on May 6 1897 Residents of thu lowlands fearing a recurrence of tho 1897 Hoods when seven or eight people In tho valley lost their lives began leaving their homes Sunday night and as far as possible transported their household effects to the higher ground some distance from the chan jncl of the stream So far as known no one has been drowned though the river Is twontyl feet higher than normal and has spread over the wide valley for miles Tho property loss will be great crops of all kinds being washed outHouses out-Houses Unroofed by Storm Austin TexA terrific wind and rainstorm swept Texas from the Panhandle Pan-handle to the gulf on Sunday The destruction de-struction to crops and vegetation trees and shrubbery was tho greatest reported for years In numerpuj places houses were unroofed and small villages and hamlets In many Instances wore Inundated by tho terrific ter-rific rainfall which in the space ot four hours reached seven Inches In many sections Austin was In the path of tho worst of the storm and for hours the streets were Impassable for either man or beast Electric light and telephone connections were disabled beyond Immediate repair and many houses were unroofed The agricultural sections of central and southern Texas have been Immeasurably Immeasur-ably damaged according to general reports received hero |