Levee Is Broken

Jj'ort worth, Tex., xea. e.- At last accounts the Brazos river was still rising an inch au hour. The levee at Stono plantation, near Hempstead, is broken. The crevasso is forty feet wide and growing wider, and the water is rushing over the surrounding country. The entiro valley will be inundated. At Richmond and Valasco the rivcr is still rising and flooding the valley. In Washington county the Yequa river is out of its banks and thousands of acres are flooded. Besides the loss of property farming operations will be delayed by the protracted rains.