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Show FLOOOSl OAIGE" OVER TEXAS CITIES FORTY SEVEN REPORTED DEAD WHILE TOTAL CASUALTIES MAY EXCEED HUNDRED Property Loss Estimated at $5,000,000; Public Utilities Seriously Crippled. Thousands are Left Homeless and on Mercy of City and Friends San Aulonlo, Texas The list or known dead from Saturday's Hood hud iidvunced to" forty-seven late Sunday. The dead and missing were estimated tit approximately 2.K) by rescue workers, work-ers, while Police Commissioner l'liil Wright said they might total :uxi. Mnny residents, however, consider these llgures hlgle. The property loss was placed at ?.!, (KK),000 by some business men, but both lower und higher estliuates were made. Soon ufter daylight Huiidny, search, era working through the Alazan creek found four bodies In (ho wrlckage on the banks, and another wns found In the San Antonio river. While It has been declared that possibly tl' majority major-ity of the estimated dead limited down thu stream, spurehers believe us tne wreckage Is cleared away others win he found. Itcscucrs Sunday counned their efforts principally to recovering bodies, work of rescuing Ihe marooned having been completed Saturday, Itescue nnd roller work continued it 1 1 Saturday night and Sunday. Hundred of Mexicans and the poorer people who lived along the Ahmin are homeless and were given iisslsiiinco by Iteil Cross headquarters. The fact tlfctt most of the bodies recovered re-covered have been fully clothed shows that the victims were either vv timed or heard llic approaching rush of water In time to make preparations to leave. The city proper, has neen in it crippled crip-pled condition all day from (he Hood. There have been no lights or street cur service because of lack of electrli! power. it....... i i .............. i..... ,i... "(iitl ,H,n ,iu,-ii iiiijiiiii ,1,1,, ,,,-- mains In purls of ihe city, nnd the pressure Is weak nt Iheso pliices. However, How-ever, city officials said (hat Ihe water pressure would In1 turned on aim i: was thought electric current will also lie available soon. City llulhllug Inspector J. I.. Hlchler estimated the damage to buildings ni upproxluuiti'iv $700,000, Ifu said no large hu'Idlngs have been permanently damaged. Jitneys haw been d'tng it rtishliu business because or the lack of mrcut enr service. Investigation illviilged tfuinl.ty thai hardly any of 1'ie ilumngisl iMts'nesses carried Hood Insurance, Dam.ige o fie street pn-.' : Is estimated esti-mated it iiii(iro!iiinloly S'..'')JXK), iik.si of which le-ulfel when wood paving blocks .vie v .s.i n up. Muc'i or the business section was paved wltlt wood blocks. laborers have been egaged lu mov'tig away what remained or the blocks. Kvory sanitary precaution Is being taken. City Health OiTlcer W. A. King Issued an appeal to the clt I ecus to bo especially diligent In dra'nlng olT water where iuosiu!Iooh might Hud u breed lug place. The clean'ng up proceeded In every part of Hie Icsiicst district Sunday. Proprietors of business pslnbllshmenis nnd employees were sweeping and brushing opt the water mid debris. |