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Show MANY DROWNED IN TEXAS FLOOD TWO HUNDRED HOMES SWEPT AWAY WHEN RIVER RUNS OUT OF BANKS. Ten Inches of Rain Fell in Two Hours and Torrents of Water Poured Into Homes of People in the Lowlands. Austin, Texas. With the bodies of fourteen persons drowned here Friday night recovered, eleven persons missing miss-ing and rescuing parties still at work among the ruins of 200 houses that were swept away by the rain and wind storm, the citizenship of Austin have begun a systematic plan for the relief of the sufferers. The property loss is estimated at $500,000. Temporary quarters were provided for all whose homes had been swept away or are not habitable and food and clothing is being furnished. Ten inches of rain fell in two hours Friday night and torrents of water poured into the homes of people living in lowlands before the alarm could be given. Twenty bridges were swept away and paved streets were ruined. The body of Mrs. Charles R. Winkler Wink-ler was carried sixteen miles down the river by the force of the flood. Among the missing is George Whittington, son of A. G. Whittington of Houston, vice-president of the In-'ernational In-'ernational & Great Northern' railroad. He and a companion were camping on a river when the flood came. When they realized that they were about to be overwhelmed they began to swim for higher ground. The companion escaped, but Whittington has not been seen sines, In the Thrall oil field near Taylor, Texas, tanks containing 150,000 barrels bar-rels of oil were set on fire by lightning. light-ning. The loss, it is said, would be $75,000. Lightning started a fire in an oil warehouse in Dallas, causing a loss of $120,000. |