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Show wmmmmmmBmwmwmpwtm FI HOMO HOMELESS RESULT OF 11 WATERS Immenae Area In Texa and Oklahoma Okla-homa Inundated, Much Sorrow and Suffering Reaulllng I-ort Worth Tex Seven people aro known to bo (lend 5 000 are homeless home-less n dojcn or moro nro reported to have teen killed In Kort Worth nnd North 1-ort Worth as n res ill of the greatest rlio In tho history of Ihe Trinity river, which, beginning nt . 30 o clock Saturday ovcnlng reach td a climax nt 5 o clock Sunday afternoon Hvo of the deaths oc turred Sunday and two Saturday Mayor W I) Hart of Fort Worth issued n proclamation calling upon the unfortunate, citizens to hilp tho homeless Muskogee Okla .Not n railroad In Oklahoma Is In operation, as a result if the heavy rains nnd clnulbiirsts that havo occurred In various parti of tho alnte Tho last road lo u end operation was tho Missouri Konsns & Ti xas, which wa forced to quit nt noon Sunday, when Ihc I rldgo on the main Una at nufaula wtnt down All West (liilbrle Is Inundated with Irani sivin lo tin feel of water rush Ing Ihniiigh tho struts Tho Cotton wood river Is wilt In four feet nf the blghwnttr mark registered on May C 897 llesldenr of tho lowlands fearing n recurrence of tho 18J7 Hood when seven or tight peoplo In ihe valley lost tholr live began leaving their homiH Sunda) night i ml as far ns possible transported tlilr household effects to the higher i. re ond some dlstnncu from tho chnn nl of fie stream M far ns known no ono lin-s been il iimned thntikh tho river Is twenty fed higher th-tn normal nnd has iirmd ovtr the wide valloy for miles rh property los will be great, crop nl all kinds being wnslud out Houtes Unroofed by Storm. ustln Ttx A terrific, wind nnd rainstorm swept Ttxns from tho Pan handle to tho gulf on Hundny Tho do-tlrurtlon do-tlrurtlon to crop nnd vegetation rim and shmbbery was tho grcateat n ported for jenr In numerous I nr m house wcro unroofed and mall village nnd hamlet In many Instance were Inundated b) tho ter-r ter-r fir rainfall which In tho space ot f ur hour noc'ind evcn Inche In many sections Austin vvns In His I mil of the worst of Ihn storm and f r twin llio stretts were Imiassable j for elihcr man or beast I.h clrlo Kin nnd teleihono connections wero llMttltd beyond Immcdlato rcialr and ininy houses wero unroofd Tho en Icultiirnl sections of central nnd t lutbern Texas havo been Immeasur- I nbly tlnmagcd, nccordlng to general ruporu.rsce.lytd liyro.. I |