Show FRIGHTFUL STORMS IH TEXAS loss of life placed at 30 and destruction truc tion of Property floods the worst ever known in the state water has just commenced to recede and weather has cleared st louis july 3 A post dispatch special irom austin texas says reports from central and southern texas at noon eay the weather has cleared throughout the region flooded tho water Is either receding or Is at a standstill calvert Is still isolated except by long distance telephone estl mates of the number of lives lost place it at 30 it will be several days before the real situation can be learned ah estimate of property loss places the total at less than this includes the damage to railroads which will exceed everything ever known before in the state two persons are known to have been drowned T S dawson a merchant of port sullivan and an unknown man north of calvert it is feared that other white persons were drowned southwest of hearne in a district that has not been heard of since last thursday |