Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — DEATH BY FLOOD. [ARTICLE]

DEATH BY FLOOD.

Forty-nine Lives Lost by the Overflow of the Concho River in Texas. ■ -VMany Residences and Business Houses Swept Away by the Torrent. [Telegram from Galveeton, Tex.] Foit Concho dispatches to the New#, in relation to the in inflation of Ban Fickliu, are heartrending. Forty deaths are reported from drowning. The only names so far ascertained are Mrs. Metcalf and daughter, George Robertson Scott and Dr. Owens, and one child. One Mexican was also among the victime. The other victims were twenty-one Mexicans at Kelly’s ranch and ten Mexicans at Beasly’s winch, also Joseph Mathews, wife and four sons and one woman and a baby, Ben Ficklin is all washed away except the lighthouses. The Court House and tail are a total loss, and are uninsured from lose y water. The people of San Angeles tried to render assistance, but the raging water prevented. It is still impossible to cross the North Concho. The country presents a spectacle which beegars description. Houses, horses, cattle an<f clothing are piled up in heaps at every step. The bodies of Mrs. Metcalf and daughter' are the only ones found. The telegraph wires are still down. [Telegram from Little Rock, Ark.] The Gazetie'g Texas specials furnish more particulars of the damage by heavy rains. The North Concho river at San Angelos is swelled to an unheardof depth. It, at 4 p.m., has gained a point on the main street of San Angeles, submerging all the houses. The Concho Hotel is now deserted. The people are moving all their effects on the high ground. Ben Ficklin, on the Main Concuo, is completely inundated. The Court House must have fifteen feet of water in it. Houses, trunks, cattle, sheep, and every conceivable thing ai e floating down the river. The town is entirely cut off from all communication, except by the Fort Davis military telegraph lines, and covered with water for over a mile from Concho. Fears are entertained for the people of Ben Ficklin. The old stage station is cov. red wvith water, but the occupants must have e caped. The loss of propel ty in San Angeles, as seen from the opposite side, includes Mrs. Tankerly’s fine hotel, Patton & Langworth's tin:-hop, Vick’s storehouse, Miller & Reek’s livery-stable building, and four dwellings. These wore all adobe buildings. Along the banks some fifty or s xty Mexican houses were washed away. The pest enginehouse is destroyed. The loss at Beu Ficklin is not . yet ascertained. At Dublin the Bosque rivir is a mile wide. Several houses have been washed away. Many horses and catlie were floating down the stream. Baldwin, the mill mar, lost 6,1'C0 bushels of wheat which he bad s ored in bis mill, and his m chiuery is badly damaged. Several persons had to leave or get on top of their houses for p otection.