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Show Ml SEEN IN TEXAS DROWNINGS DYNAMITE, NOT FLOOD, BROKE I LEVEES, BRINGING DEATH AND I DESTRUCTION, CITIZENS AVER I Fort Worth Sends Our Request For $40,000 to I Provide For Relief For Homeless Folks, I Nearly 50 Dead or Missing; One Family Res- I cued From Tree. I FORT WORTH, Texas, April 26. (By thp Associated Press. I Forty-six persons are dead or missinj? in the Trinity river flood I here, a revised list indicates I Fort Worth todaj "was surrounded on three sides by a sheet of I waier extending over an ar a estimated at 25 te 'i11 square miles The property damage will be about $1,000,000. according to esti- 'v mates today. I Response was awaited toda to the appeal last night for $40,000 I with which to take care of the flood sufferers Requests for a grand Jury Investiga- I tlon of the alleged dynamiting of levees lev-ees by unknown persons were express-ed express-ed today John McGaln. chairman ol I the lovee board declared last night that levees which broke yesterday were dynamited. On the north side 26 square miles oi 'land is said to be under water and that portion of the city virtually it Isolated In other secttlons the situation situa-tion is nearly as serious I Families within tho danger lines of . Sycamore creek havo fled to higher ground. I FAfTLY IS TREE Rescue workers early today rescued I la family from a tree. Relief work was hindered last night by Inky blackness, but rescue workers I continued to comb the flooded areas, Power was obtained from Waco, thus I saving the city from total darkness I The flood was confined to the lowlands low-lands adjoining the tributaries of th Trinity and the disaster is far from cltywido Marine, Sycamore and Oearfnrks I creeks and the Trinity are the swollen streams. The flooded areas are rough-ly rough-ly In tho northwestern and southeast-ern southeast-ern portions of the city known as North Fort Worth. Arlington Heights and Sycamore, respectively. Early today, a torrential rain swept I the city. Streets In the business sec-tlon sec-tlon are flowing with a stream of wa- lM ter that reached the curbs. Business, virtually that was ended ! Tuesday probably will be curtailed to- j day by the storm A Rock Island passenger train, th I only train to arrive In Fort Worth last night, reached here at 1 a. m.. having left Pallas at 7 p. m , and omlng via Cleburne. Other trains were suspended yesterday The rail-mad rail-mad bridge of the Fort Worth and, ' Denver and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads has been swept away. Red Cross relief headquarters havs been established In various parts of the thrc flooded districts Armed sentries were almost the only persons on the streets early to day. They were members of th Amorlcan legion, who are co-oper.it-lng with the police department in pin. itecting tho city. 1RIN(. RESCUES. , : Tales of thrilling and daring rescues abound as workers tell of their narrow escapes. A boat containing Starr W1I- I hams, captain of the Fort Worlh Doksy drill team. Patrolman Smith and a civilian named Smith, capsized In the whirling current near Seventh 'street Both Smiths were saved, but the last they saw of Williams he was sinking in the muddy w iters, and they believed that he had been drowned Williams however, appeared a few hours later after battling with the swift 1 current and rescuing a number ! chickens jH ORPHANS REUNITED. Two little girls, who are orphans weri happily reunited In the rooms of the Welfare association. Each had thought the other drowned until they ; met by chance . lady, find my two little girls for rh " cried an old man to one of the relief workers. -The last 1 saw of them they were ( raw ling upon a fenco "H to get out of reach of the water" A search through tho file cards (Continued cm Page Two.) I DYNAMITE BROKE LEVEES, NOT FLOOD, : CITIZENS AVER (Continued from I'.tru One; bearing tlie name of each refugee, iis-. closed lhat Die man's children were! paf' under medical care at St. Joseph's Infirmary. HAM DODGES BULLETS. A man tuok refuge in a tree, Hci crlod for help several times: but offl-' cera and rescue workers wero uniblo to locate him. Shots were firfd sev-, eral times In tho darkness but the man watt not located until dawn. When he asked who was firing tho shots, tho rescue workers told him they were nhooting in an effort to locate him He told them that a limb of tho tree In which ho took rfugo. was shut off and ho narrowly escaped bolng struck bv the charge of the gun. oo |
