Show THE DELUGE IN TEXAS hundreds of miles of valley lands under water crops destroyed and people made homeless loss of life will reach 60 Millions of properly devastated farm animals drowned and the most beautiful part of the lone star state reduced uninhabitable houston texas july 5 A correspondent has just returned from a voyage through the flood district the halt has not been told of the havoc I 1 wrought the disaster Is so appalling appall ng that description Is not possible after that flood will come sickness undoubtedly and what a week ago was the fairest port of texas Is now almost a godforsaken god forsaken wilderness the waters of the brazos have tor six days covered its valleys at a depth of from six to thirty feet where a week ago there was on every hand fields of cotton and corn and thousands of acres of watermelons water melons and cantaloupes today there Is slimy mud over all of the vegetation also the carcasses of cows pigs dogs and cats mayhap humans for many are missing our party left bryan at sunrise yesterday morning going to the bottom lands and a point about three miles from millican here we encountered everywhere an overflow from the navasota Nava sota which spread out fully two miles on either side of the houston and texas central track everything Is under water from two to seventeen feet it looked on all sides like a great lake and the water was so high that for a vast area it completely submerged the telegraph and telephone poles along the line in truth portions of the navasota Nava sota bottoms are now a perfect sea extending four or five miles wide at certain points I 1 saw hundreds of houses there totally submerged and as many more were swept from their foundations and destroyed the planters of the bottoms are still moving their help and whatever Is left of their stock to places where they can be cared tor they are all nobly helping each other and taking refuge wherever they can some of them seeking safety on house tops all of the planters stated that the outside world had no conception of the floods or losses incurred by the destruction truc tion of crops stock and buildings nearly every planter has built a boat and sent them through the flooded districts to render assistance to the people and if possible save some of their drowning stock the flooded district has a length of over miles a breadth of over 50 miles and in all this vast space damage incalculable has been done the loss ot life will never known perhaps the bottoms were thickly settled mostly with negro tenant farmers among these has been the greatest loss of life to show the damage done the following estimates have been made by roen who are in a position to know lives lost from one hundred to three hundred loss to farmers including crops as well as live stock from to damage to railroads and country bridges to these estimates are taken in the whole area it is known I 1 that more than sixty people havo met their death that many bodies have been discovered it la not believed that all of them will ever be recovered |