| Show FLOOD DESTROY 5 MILLIONS texas 8 pt by Ulf troa many unity I 1 11 I 1 lot lost austin lexas on hie tile night of april 8 6 was in pitch darkness biltl lit a raging river 1 one mile vide wide and swollen far beyond it its natural bank banks roaring waving and find urging surging through all the ali lovier lover portion of 0 the tomi torn having spread and death lo 10 its it wake in add addition tion to the vat vast lose iota to property interests it Is calculated that betnun thirty and forty lives bare have ben been sacrificed the flood wae was not unlike the dir irons trans johnstown Johna town flood some year years ago in that a raging river 1 already swollen lar far beyond its it capacity bore too heavily upon an immense dam panning spanning the river 1 at sit austin breaking it and letting loose a reservoir of water thirty miles long half a mile vide wide and sixty feet deep to aid rid in carrying destruction down the valleys of 0 the colorado river 1 althin an rain fell a all 11 over tile vast watersheds of the colorado river raising the stream forty feet feekin in a few hour bourn which swept the talley nod and piled houses trees and debria debris against the tile dam until it gave we nay the loosened flood outran mn u anT and horses sent to warn people below the dam og tog was wired down chevalley the talley valley and triana lives aved th L property jobs au reache reaches nil all lions tons |
