Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — TEXAS FLOOD LOSS $10,000,000 [ARTICLE]

TEXAS FLOOD LOSS $10,000,000

Weather Bureau ays the Rains Were Like C oudbursts. A special bulletin has been issued by the weather bureau on the recent flood in the Brazos river district, Texas. The report was prepared by I. M. Cline, in charge of the Texas service of the bureau. Mr. Cline’s report says: “The flood moved southward very slowly, and it was fourteen days from the time the crest of the flood was noted iu central Texas until it passed out into the gulf of Mexico. It must be said that, after allowing for all the conditions, We still have a (host serious difficulty in accounting for such rains, which are analogous to so-called cloudbursts, about which almost nothing is known. The damage to crops has been very great. All crops on the immediate river bottoms from McLennan County south are a total loss. Farming implements, stock and many of the small tenement houses in the bottoms have been washed away. The total losses, judging from press reports and other available information, will aggregate nearly $10,000,000.”