Show FLOODS OF TEXAS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PERISH IN SWIRLING WATERS it I 1 IN that on oil people meet aft dath do ahn n on one place while ahr throe hundred moro MOM are ar loomed dallas texas july 7 all former flood disasters in texas river districts have been eclipsed by the appalling calamity now central in tits the vicinity of belay and brookshire it is estimated that SOO 1 00 lives haye have been lost and the number may be much larger ilia prope ty lois will reach so ao far into the in millions as to make the calvert flood appear insignificant by compa ison ilson D deputy tinty sheriff swearingen Sealey at telephones isla here as follows 1 1 I am so go dumbfounded by the extent 0 of the disaster that I 1 hardly know how bow to talk about it I 1 ully twenty lives live have blen lost within a radius of twenty five aniles of st si aley and nearly loo 1430 have been drowned in the vicinity 0 of f what is lo locally ally known as an the tha mound Ih islan small piece of high land three miles milea from belay near old san felipe at first when the flood rushed down now n upon tile the negro cabins la in the hot toroa toms of the branoa azoa five dayh ago the alarmed black population ran for this piece of high land for safety driving their livestock with them 1 ahe I he rush of the gatei s was so sudden that they could not get t to 0 sclay belay or san denpe gradually tit the water ater robe rob and encroached upon their place of refuge until not more than half an n acre of ground is out of waterland wat water erand and that not more than one toot foot above the ray rag ing torrent surrounding it for miles on tills this half acre mound are huddled together a ravine surging ug ing screaming and nd praying ausem klage blage of negro negroes death staring them in the face in vat vai lous forms forma drowning mcellis certain tion exposure and exhaustion ehaust lon also are ara doing fatal work crowded in among these poor humans are cattle horses horse hogs hoes mules and other domestic dome atio animals as frantic and as the poor negroes there is not a cabin or bit of shelter not so much as aa a tree on the mound iheke la IS not lot a mouthful of food to eat clesi water to drink or a dry spot where the weak and sick CUD can rest the nearest point of land Is more than bline miles mile away and no human can live in the i aging torrents who would try to reach it many have been drowned making tho the attempt the wild rushing waters are filled with all kinds of floating bodies of livestock and with housch lings ings fences logs trees lumber and other material clinging to many of these objects are negroes doomed to almost certain death 1 I ahls his is the sittia situation tion in and about sclay it is ili equally bad at brookshire but details are not obtainable ihmie are at least negroes on a small island four miles flow brookshire in a condition similar to that on the mound I 1 I 1 rom roin present indications the loss of life is likely to I 1 boch anle unless relief comes pt promptly |