People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — SEVERE STORM IN TEXAS. [ARTICLE]

SEVERE STORM IN TEXAS.

Crops Ruined and Trains Delayed by Washouts. San Antonio, Texas, May 22.—Heavy rain, hail and wind storms prevailed over southwest Texas last night. The rainfall in this city flooded the streets and raised the river about one foot. Specials from El Paso, Pecos. Waring and Comfort, on the Arkansas Pass Railroad, .report the damage as heavy. Houses were unroofed and hail broke every pain of glass in Waring and Comfort. At El Paso the streets are flooded, the cemetery is under three feet of water and trains on the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific are unable to proceed. At Pecos trains are delayed by washouts. Fruit trees are blown down and cotton washed up or crushed into the ground.