Show I REfUGEES H HOUSED U E I IN LIBRARY Whole Bay Front Flooded and Vl Water Tater ater Rising Rapidly Rapid Rapid- ly 1 mile Forty-mile Sweeping Ocean into Big Stor Sto Stores fly Bj- Associated Frew Galveston Tex TeL Sept 14 At At o'clock water was flooding down dow downtown 1 town stores and forces of emergency r I workers were removing merchandise to top floors A mile forty wind windas was as blowing lowing from the northeast and the barometer dropped to 2958 5 Th J tide wa was S 8 feet and still was rising The last st train left at 1030 1010 p. p m. m the theJa thelast thelast Ja last t Intel interurban urban at t 1040 There W were no oth no other no-other other r trains scheduled for the tho night The union station was closed Th rh streets about the station were flooded loaded Telephone service at 4 o'clock was waa still Intact Tho The two electric lighting plants were still sun In Jn operation The streets street which earlier In iii the night were deserted held thin lines of or refu refugees and sightseers Tho The refugees s were b being ln housed In the county courthouse court court- house the public library and the city ech schools ool a All 11 me alO io bay front section was as flooded flood flood- ed six six squares south from Galveston bay and the entire length len th of ot tho the north northside northside side aide of or the Island Galveston Tex Sept 13 Lo Local ah weather bureau reports at midnight said tho the tid tide was 66 feet and rising The wind was traveling twenty four miles an hour and and from Crom rota the tho northeast north north- northeast east while the barometer stool stood at al 96 2967 a fall tall of two points since 7 Washington Sept 13 13 Reports tc Ic the thew w weather ather bureau from Galveston to t. t night said the tide lido was rising rapidly w water was ns flooding low 10 places on the thc Island J lan and the tho Inhabitants were ore fl fleeIng flee flee- c. c Ing to tho the city Interior In terror S thirty mile northeast wind was bloIng blowing blo blow J. J ing and the Galveston tide at 11 o'clock was feet Ceet and rising Miami Fla Sept 13 Many Many ran hour before the storm which sunk the w Ware Vi Viliner il liner Cor Corydon in the Bahamas channel Tuesday morning with a loss of at seven ty lives a n vulture followed the thc ship and p perched on her spars pars while a stricken panic-stricken crew believing In tlc tin superstitions of oC the 5 sea a were c con convinced vinced that th they the were doomed Such Is the stor story brou brought ht here b beight beight bs eight of ot the time crew crow who ho were fifty three hours adrift on an upturned boat bont bat bat- and bruised and without food o ox 01 WA water ter All da day SUn Sunday A as as tho the ship pursued J her wu way In calm seas arid and nd light ht winds the great bird hovered overhead Sunday nl night ht and Monday the Corydon Cot Cory don sta stagg g. g red through the smashing seas Monday Ion a night ever every member of pr f the tIme crew was onKa engaged d In a desperate battle for tor life liCe There Thero was no food as the tho galley salley and pro I provision lon rooms w wro ro flooded Tuesday morning the they lost loot control of the tho ship The Time wireless ap apparatus apparatus apparatus ap- ap wn WH short t circuited and no ho S. S 0 O. S. S calls could coul be sont sent dut dmit When hen the l 1 I went under the Ule Americans In Jn the crew kept their heads and saved savell tho lives of oC others othen |