The menace of disease among the flood areas to-day brought frantic apcals for ald, addressed to President Roosevelt and the Red Cross.
Twenty-four persons are dead in Gonzales and surrounding, counties, with many other missing. Although water are receding In many sections, communications are down and many roads were impassable.
The village of Leesville Is the worst hit community in the flood area.
Crops have been destroyed in a wide area. Meanwhile, residents, along the lower reaches of the Brazos and Colorado rivers are preparing to flee from the on-rushing crests of the swollen streams—United Press.
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