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Show Jf PS EXPOSED TO TOMI filli LAKF.DO, Tex., Aug. l'J. 'Considerable property damage and great Inconvenience to troops in tho various national gnard.H-iiicii gnard.H-iiicii ramps In the l.an-do dlfiib l ivHiilicd from a tropical slorm whii:lfVjagd hern from Q o'clock IanL night until 4 o'clock this morning. Fur several bourn Jm-do was completely cut off from who communication com-munication with the outMido world. 1'rue-tlrally 1'rue-tlrally every tent of the !m)i)0 soldiers hero wnu blown clown and the men were , exposed to torrential rains fur hours. No Iohh of life Iihh been reported In the dlHtilct. In I,uredu the principal diuniii! w as con lined to blowing down pules, trees, fences, mgns and the. detruc-thm detruc-thm of small buildliiKM. The maximum velocity of the wind was sixty miles an hour. The storm abated as suddenly as It struck thlH district. Ail vires from the tiirget rn nge, eight miles southwest of Laredo, where 100 members of i ho First Missouri infantry are at practice, statrt that tlOfl nheller tents wore blown down ami the men compelled to huddle together in the open to weather the storm. The regiment Is expfacied to return to head ijtiart era here immediately. Of the nx military camps here, the regul.HM at Fort Mcintosh fared the best. Tho Fourteenth cavalry, occupying the barracks, was not affected, while the Ninth infant ry, which occupied Umt s near by, suffered but nllRht Inconvenience. The remn Inlng Missouri troops a ml 1 he Maine and New Hampshire contingents, stationed near Fort Mcintosh, nunred loss of their tents nnd the destruction of several buildings In their camps. Vork of reconstruction of the pamps was immediately begun. |