Show BRIDGE CONE TEXAS TOWN SUBMERGED AND CROPS LOST dallas texas april 12 mayor williams of columbus texas sent this bulletin at noon the big southern pacific railroad bridge over the colorado river at this place which was damaged by the hood yesterday afternoon was entirely swept away last loss will exceed all our wagon bridges are gone and the town has not an outlet of any character except by rail to the westward we are entirely surrounded by water and half the town is submerged no lives are lost but all crops are destroyed and all cultivable land overflowed the river has fallen here eighteen inches from ita highest point |