Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-26 | Page 3 | Two Feet of Water Covers Texas Farms

TWO FEET OF WATER COVERS TEXAS FARMS BROWNS ILLE. Tex.. June 26 -The city of Mercedes, 50 miles west of Brownsville. and thousands of acres of cotton and corn lands in the Met redes district, were covered by about two feet of water earlv today with the crest of the Rio 'Grande flood still lingering between Wesl ico and Mercedes, according to latest reports re-ports here. The newly flooded crop land la located lo-cated p-'rtiv in Hidalgo, Cameron nnd Willacy counties. The latest Inundation Inunda-tion w.is caused by the overflow tog Sunday of a levee protecting Mercedes Merce-des from the south. Lnte Sunday night the flood area had extended to the business section of Mercedes completely Isolating the town "cept by coat No loss of llf- was expected Property damage In Mercedes probably- wojild be slight, reports stated, as the greatest depth of the wafer was three feet. All Sunday nigh; and early today B small army of men fought to :---i Intact a levee five miles north of i i.irllngton. the threatened breaking of which would flood nearly 2n,000 . acres of cotton.