Show WATERS ATERS RISING IN RIVERS OF TEXAS TEM e Instead of Relief Sufferers Ar An Are Subjected to Worse Floods WHOLE TOWNS SUBMERGE SUBMERGED Vast Territory is Severe Severely Damaged and Thousands Are Homeless Austin Te Tex April Tho 22 Tho flood floods In different parts of ot this state are arc ap appalling ap- ap palling The first t overflow o of oC th tb the smaller streams tributaries of 01 the tho up upper up- up per her Colorado river had hall begun to subside subside subside sub sub- side when torrential rains and antl series o 0 ot cloudbursts In the Brown Drown and Coalwood Coalwood Colwood Coal l wood districts put tho the streams out o 0 otheir of their banks worse wore than ever Messages received hero today toda report that the tIme flood waters of thu tho Pecan bayou hayou and ond the tho Colorado Colorno have JULVe met am an and that tho the towns of or Elkins an ant Ebon Ebony have been swept awn away The In Inhabitants Inhabitants In- In habitants of ot these small towns narrowly narrow narrow- ly y escaped with their lives ll deaths b by drowning are reported tram Iron that region The Tho town of ot Brownwood lia has beer been under water for tor two days das more moro that than residences being submerged Ir It i places the tho water waler Is fifteen feet deep litho li it In tho streets str ets The water has risen until It Is eight feet teet deep in the court house houst The fhe waterworks and electric light plants are submerged Many any people arc c living in the thu open air all or on higher ground bround waiting for Cor the water to subside so that they can go to their wrecked homes Hon u ld u Many Ian farm tarm houses In tho the valley valloy o ot 01 the tte Pecan bayou and Colorado Colorno river below Coleman have hove been washed away iway A A vast territory of r cultivated farming land around Temple and Belton Belton Delton Bel- Bel 1 ton Is submerged submerge by by- n byan an in overflow o ol or orthe the tho Leon river At places this stream which In ordinary times Umes can be bo cash lorded forded Is two vo miles wide wille and has hai away owa many man houses Nearly early root feet of the tho track of oC the Te Belton po Traction company's electric railway between Temple Templo and Bel Belton Bellon ton have beer b en washed crashed away awny The Colorado river has hns reached tin the stage in Its history at Bluffton Bluff Blurt ton und anti other points above Math trails It has hilt inundated hundreds o ot thousands of ot nero acres of ot bottom land upon upon up up- on rn which tho the cotton and corn corti vcr vor Tho Tue river at nt Austin show u. u Li t tel rIM grf hc toon KOUt orl 1 r. r J v n J It rt t that the that te bl bJ flood which Is now v one oUO od bovo hero will win add fully te fee cc 1 Lo o Lo tho rivers river's present pre stage at nt Austin rf It f this proves cs true tho tim flood loot l l here for mIles win will l be e tho wars Worst ever known Cottun rH Suffering rue Tho Brazos river Is still rIsing rapid rapid- y at Valley Yanc Junction It Is Js out of or Its Us anita anks at nt many points between hero herond nd nil Marlin nn and corn and cotton plant plaint ers rs re are suffering heavy los losses es The lood In the tho Concho river was augment augment- c d today toda by additional a rains The town of oC San Angelo has be been n cut ut off orr tram railroad communication with the tho outside world worl for several se as ays and supplies are arc running short Ittle river got out of its banks to y and nd iid Is doing much dama damage e in tho the vicin- vicin It 3 y of ot Cameron A sudden rise in the thein San in Sn Antonio river washed away a num num- bor sr Dr of or Mexican n huts above e Karnos Karnes City Ity One Mexican was drowned The rhe Guadaloupe river Is on tho big rise se so and has forced force the tho cotton milid mill mil milland millrid and id rid other Industrial plants at ot to close down clown Heavy rains throughout through- through out at it tho the whole Rio Grande valley causo caused a big riso in that stream and it maach ma mo may reach ach a flood stage at some points At Marble Marblo Falls Fans the Colorado lo river rivers riveris for 21 hours has is s been at flood stage the reached when mark was The he high Austin ustin dam dam was wa washid awa away |