FLOODS IN TEXAS.
DEATH RATE GROWING. FEEDING THE ISOLATED. (By Cable.—Frew Association.—Copyright) NEW CORK, December 4. Thirteen people are dead at Dallas, Texas, owing to the .floods. Rain continues to fall. Numbers of ilood victims, who are unable to leave their houses, are being fed by means of baskets of food drawn along the telephone wires past the windows.
Near Marlin a train was stopped, and the passengers were obliged to stand on tho seats throughout the night, the water reaching the floors of the coaches.
Tho inundation of the cemeteries has prevented burials at Dallas City.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 11
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97FLOODS IN TEXAS. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 11
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