Show I T S HARD HIT HT BY OLD AS FORT PORT WORTH Tex April 18 With With telephone t telegraph and railroad service almost completely suspended Fort Fort Worth was Wa last night the tho center of the worst wind and rainstorm that has r raged cd over north Texas In Ia man many years year e r With Ith two e exceptions ce every overy railroad r out of ot this city was Wt forced to annul some trains on owing ing to washed out tracks and l loss ss of ot bridges and at midnight tho the telephone telephone tele tele- phone Dhone companies compan s reported having lost Jost all wires ires out of ot Fort worth Cleburn twenty miles south was struck by a a. windstorm of or tornado proportions followed by a n. torrential downpour of ot rain that literally flooded blooded the tho city Within twenty minutes after tho the storm broke last night the two Bayous that ru run through Cleburn had loft ott their banks flooding or houses houles A circus whoso whose tents wore were pitched in the western portion of or the city was completely wrecked two lions Hons es escaped escaped es- es and prowled about town for an aD hour dour throwing tho people Into a a. panic One Ono canvas canas was wan caught under the wre wreckage wreckage wreck wreck- kage k- k age of ot tho the main tent and fatally Injured Tho The loss Joss to th the tho circus Is estimated at 1200 L LAt At Fort Worth the Trinity river cr began to rise again at nt midnight and every available ava man from the tho pollee force was hurried out to warn T tho tIme people living inthe In the tho bottoms |