Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — SECOND TEXAS STORM. [ARTICLE]

SECOND TEXAS STORM.

Cloudburst Devastates the Country and Drowns Many Persons. Another disastrous stonh swept over the State of Texas, adding sorrow to the already overburdened people, not yet recovered from the horrors of the awful Galveston peril. Loss of life and much damage to property is reported from the points where the storm raged. All Saturday night and Sunday the storm wreaked its vengeance, covering a wide area, and fears are expressed that when the details are learned they will.reveal another disaster. Towns in the valley of the Concho and Colorado rivers are flooded to a depth of twenty feet by the overflowing of the treacherous streams in the locality, and the villagers, suddenly rendered homeless, .are in retreat in the near-by hills and mountains. In the low country lying between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers the list of dead numbers thus far eighteen, besides a camp of Italian emigrants, which was swept away. The storm disturbances which have been manifest in West Texas for two days past culminated Saturday evening in a heavy rain and a thunderstorm over a vast stretch of country from Sabinal, seventy-four miles west of San Antonio bn the Southern Pacific, to and beyond Del Rio, still farther west and on the same railroad. In the valley of the Neueces river and about twelve miles northwest of Uvalde the downpour was in the nature of a cloudburst, and the Nueces river at Uvalde rose twenty-five feet in two .hours. The Sycamore, with its three spans of Southern Pacific bridge, also rose to the bed of the bridge. Both structures trembled and cracked under the strain and were damaged. All wires went down in the flood, and the track was damaged in several places.