Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-05-17 | Page 2 | Flood Situation is Now Improved

FLOOD SITUATION IS NOW IMPROVED Xo No Moro but hit Great Grent Volumes of or ocr Are Arc S the time m Dalas Dallas Tex May Ia 1 16 Time The The hooch flood 1001 situation in the time southwestern part of or Texas is i Improved In comparison with wih twenty four o hours ago apo only In Iii the fact that hint the lie rain has censed ceased Today was vas wa generally dl dry diP over Texas an and tho the territories ter ter- er- er but ut immense volumes of are aie ru rushing down from the upper sources of oC the rivers swelling 8 the time streams to still tl greater height The Trinity at Dallas Dalas I la is two feet above low water mark mak and amid the time maximum flood Hood has not yet et reached the lower valey valley All Al the time people have left len the lie lowlands s. s taking ng their live livestock stock stoel with them to the lie hills his A tributary of or the Trinity flooded the town o of thirty miles nilles mies north of or Dallas Dalias ear early H today traba a A row ol or orel el eight ht frame franie buildings collapsed but the occupants had hiatt all nl vacated the premises The railroad situation Is bad be because because be- be cause of soft roadbeds Red river rive I In tho time stretch from flom DenIson Denison Den Den- ison to Is above the time dan danger el ellne line lne A report from Barstow Barsto sa says the flood and amid hailstorm at Great Falls Falls' Fals on th them the Pecos Feeds has injured tho the peach grape and cotton colon crops COS Tho The strawberry strawberry straw straw- berry crop at nt Terrell Terel and other east cast Texas points has been leen extensively damaged Paris reports reports' a I party part o of three campers camp camp- ers els drowned In a l tributary o of the tho Red Rel river rl er place twenty miles Jiles northeast of that