The Way it Was

100 years ago

Big flood in southern Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Many lives were reported lost as a result of a flood in South Texas. Twenty-five are said to have drowned and 500 people homeless. The water is about the high water mark of 1900. A strip of country 30 miles long by two or four miles wide is covered with from three to 10 feet of water. Railway tracks have been washed away for miles.

The rush of water came without warning and inhabitants of San Angelo and Ballinger were forced to flee for safety in their night clothes. An entire family at Ballinger, named Cooke, we drowned as they attempted to leave their homes on an improvised raft, which struck an obstruction. The Colorado river is from four to six miles wide in places and the tributaries south are out of their banks.

50 years ago

All schools in area to be featured

Pictures of new improvements being made on schools of the county and surrounding areas will be published in the "Back to School" issue of the Nevada Herald on Sunday, Aug. 12. Schools which have not submitted information concerning their 1956-'57 programs should do so at once in order that it may be used in the special edition.

A list of student who will be attending colleges this fall will also be a feature of the paper on Sunday, and an effort is being made to list every student who will attend college.