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Show FIVE THOUSAND HOMELESS , RESULT OF HIGH . WEBS Immense Area In Texas and Oklahoma Okla-homa Inundated, Much Sorrow and Suffering Resulting. Tort Worth, Tex. Seven people aro known to bo dend, 5,000 are homo-,less,-n dozen ormoro aroTeported to hnvo been killed In Fort Worth nnd North Fort Worth as a result or tho greatest rlso In tho hiBtory or the Trinity river, which, beginning at 7:30 o'clock Saturday ovonlng, reach-xd reach-xd a climax at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Flvo of tho denths occurred oc-curred Sunday and two Saturday. Mayor W. D. Hart of Fort Worth lMsucd a proclamation calling upon tho unfortunate citizens to help tho homeless. Muskogee, Okla. Not a railroad In Oklahoma Is In operation, as a result or tho heavy rains and cloudbursts that havo occurred in various parts or tho State. Tho last road to suspend sus-pend operations was tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas, which was forced .to quit at noon Sunday, when the bridge on tho main lino nt Eufauln went down. All West Guthrlo la Inundated, with irom soven to ton feet or wntcr rush-lng rush-lng through tho streets. Tho Cottonwood Cotton-wood rlvpr is within four feet of tho hlghwater mark registered on Mny G, 1807. Residents or tho lowlands, rearing n rccurrenco or tho 1897 floods, when seven or eight pcoplo in tho valley lost tholr Hvcb, began leaving their homes Sunday night .and as far as possible transported their household effects to the higher ground, como dlstanco from tho channel chan-nel of tho stream. So fnr as known no ono has been drowned, though tho rlvor Is twenty feet higher than normal and has spread over tho wldo valley for miles. The property loss will bo great, crops of all kinds being washed out. Houses Unroofed by Storm. Austin, Tox. A terrific wind nnd rainstorm swept Toxns from tho Pan-bnndlo Pan-bnndlo to the gulf on Sunday, Tho destruction de-struction to crops and vegetation, trees nnd shrubbery was tho greatest reported for years. In numerous places houses wero unroofed nnd small villages and hamlets In many insthnccs wero Inundated by tho terrific ter-rific ralnrall, which In tho spneo ot rour hours reached seven Inches In many sections. Austin was in tho path or tho worst or tho storm and for hours tho streets were Impassablo for either mnn or beast. Electric ilght and telephono connections woro disabled beyond Immediate repair and many houses woro unroofed. Tho agricultural sections of ccntrnl nnd southern Texas havo been Immonsur-nbly Immonsur-nbly dnmnged, according to general reports received horo. |