FLOODS IN SOUTHERN TEXAS.
COLORADO RIVER OVERFLOWS.
SEVERAL TOWNS ISOLATED
RELIEF TRAIN CUT OFF,
HUNDREDS OP PEOPLE
HOMELESS
DEATH ROLL GROWING
HOURLY. Received August 8, 9.40 p.m. NEW YORK, August 8. Heavy rains caused tbe Colorado River to overflow and devastate Southern Texas. Several towns are isolated. A relief train was cut off. Toe telegraph wires are down. Twenty-five people are known to have been drowned. Hundreds are homeless. The death roll is growing hourly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 9 August 1906, Page 5
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75FLOODS IN SOUTHERN TEXAS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8206, 9 August 1906, Page 5
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