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Show FLOODS SWEEP WNSIN TEXAS Lives Are Lost, Horses Jammed Jam-med in Masses Against Bridges Business Blocks Flooded. HEAVY PROPERTY LOSS Rain, Electrical and Wind Storm Brings Disaster to Wide Stretch of Country. Austin, Texas. April 23. Floods that swept down Waller and Shoal creeks here last night took a toll of 15 or 20 lives, according to estimates today. Houses were jammed in masses agalnBt the bridges and the high water wa-ter flooded many business houses Heroic work was done by citizen rescue res-cue parties and by the fire and police departments Of eight persons in one house which was swept down Waller creek all but one are believed to have perished The dead in this house are-Mrs. are-Mrs. C. S Ezell. Rlben Edwin Ezell, aged f; Martha Virginia Ezell. aged 5; Harvey King, aged 20; Mr. and Mrs. King, parents of Harvey King, and Helen King their daughter. C. Ezell. a barber, escaped Others believed to hae been drowned drown-ed are Mr. and Mrs. Winkler, an aged couple; Torn Quinn, a fireman who was engaged in rescue work; William Wil-liam and Rachael Curtis, two Leonard Leon-ard brothers and some Mexicans and negroes. Heavy Property Damage. Dallas. Tex., April 23. Many persons per-sons dead, a heavy property damage, telegraph and telephonic communication communica-tion destroyed and railroad traffic stopped by soft track and threatened bridges was the known result today of a rain, electrical and wind storm general over eastern Texas and the eastern portion of Oklahoma late yesterday yes-terday and last night and which continued con-tinued early today in some localities. locali-ties. The known dead are: Chrtstoval Texas . H C Gold wire, killed bv lightning; light-ning; Ramsdell Tev, W L Bownton, killed in train wreck caused by soft track; Austin, six negroes drowned In Waller Creek Storm Tspecially Severe. The storm nas especially seere at Austin and that city was in darkness last night It was said about twenty houses had floated to, and were packed against a bridge .threatening the structure Rescue squads were busy all night taking endangered persons to higher ground while the rain continued con-tinued to fall in torrents. In the Thrall oil field, near Taylor, tanks containing 150,000 barrels of oil were set on fire by lightning The loss, it is said, would be $75,000. Lightning started a fire in an oil warehouse in Dallas causing a loss of $120.00. River Cuts New Channel. In Oklahoma the Canadian river at Chickasaw has cut a new channel two miles from Its old bed and ten passenger pas-senger trains are marooned there. The Santa Fe railroad has lost 1.000 feet of tacrk at Purcell and bridges are threatened at several points on that road b swollen streams. Bursting of a gas bain at Alverd. Tex., caused by water undermining the line, has left Dallas and Fort Worth without natural gas. It was not known today when the break could be repaired. Gas Mains Break. Fort Worth, Texas April 23. Two breaks in the natural gas mains between be-tween this city and the Clay count) gas field caused by floods resulting from last night's storm, today left Fort Worth newsapers and small manufacturers man-ufacturers without fuel for their power pow-er plants and most housewives without with-out means of cooking breakfast. Seven Persons Injured. Shawnee, Okla., April 23. Seven persons were injured, three dangerously, danger-ously, in a tornado which last night destroyed the home of S. L. Whlttley. a farmer near hero. The property damage In this vicinity was heavy. |