| Show MANY IN TEXAS FLOOD TWO HUNDRED HOMES SWEPT AWAY WHEN RIVER RUNS RUNS' OUT OF BA BANKS KS Ten Inches of Rain Fell in Two Hours Hours and Torrents of Wat Water r Poured Into Homes of People in the Lowlands Aus Austin in Texas Nith With the bodies of 01 fourteen persons drowned here Friday Fridal night 1 recover recovered eleven pers persons ns missing missing miss ing and rescuing parties still at won work among the tha ruins of houses that thai were swept away by the rain an and I wind storm the citizenship of Austin L have begun a systematic plan for th the r relief lief of the he sufferers The property j loss is estimated at Temporary quarters ers were were provided I for all whose homes had been swept L away or are not habitable and food I an and clothing is being furnished Ten inches of r rain in fell in two hours hour 3 Friday night and torrents of water wate poured Into the homes of people living in lowlands before the alarm could b be J given Twenty bridges were swept I away and paved streets were ruined The body of Mrs 1 Charles R R. Winker Winkler Wink Wink- l ler er was carried sixteen miles mlles down 1 the river by the tha force of the flood Among the missing is George Whittington son of ot ofA A A A. G. G Whittington o 9 Houston of of the In Jn n t Great Northern railroad He and a companion were were camping on a river when when- the flood came When they realized that they were about tobe fob to fo tobe be b CY overwhelmed Iw they began to swim for higher ground The companion escaped but Whittington has not been seen since In In the Thrall oi oil field near Taylor J. J I I j Texas tanKs tanus containing bar of oil were we-r set on fire by light ning fling The loss it Is said would be bo Lightning started a fire Inan in inan an oil warehouse in Dallas causing a. a los lo's loss of |
