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Show MEXICAN GULF HURRICANE DEATH LST GROWS; ITHOUSANDS i RENDERED DE5IITUIE i i i Scores of Bodies Being I Found in Wreckage of I Texas Towns; Proper- j ty Damage Millions. i Corpus Christi Fatalities May Reach 100 and Nearly as Many at Sinton Swell Toll. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 16. Accounting for duplication, the list of dead in Sunday's gulf storm, according to compilation by a local newspaper, shows 161 dead, as follows: fol-lows: At Corpus Christi, 46; Eosita, i2T; Aransas Pass, 6; Eockport, 8: West Portland, 38; White Point, 29; Sin-ton, Sin-ton, 9; Odem, 1. The paper Lists property damage as follows: Corpus Christi, $10,000,000; Aransas Aran-sas Pass, 51,000,000; Port Aransas (dumolished) ; Port Lavaca, $150,-000; $150,-000; Eockport, no estimate. The newspaper estimates the damage dam-age along the entire coast at $15,000,000. COEPUS CHRISTI. Texas, Sept. 16. Fifty-six persons are reported dead between Portland, eight miles west of here, across the Nueces bay. and Taft, according to word brought here late today by Ed Morgan, who came across the bay from Portland by boat. Six refugees ref-ugees were also reported as marooned ma-rooned near Portland. Twenty-six Twenty-six of the dead are at Portland, twelve at one ranch house and eighteen at another. None of the dead had been identified. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. The American Eed Cross tonight announced an-nounced the dispatch of two special spe-cial army trains carrying emergency emergen-cy suppllos and a large detachment of relief workers to the hurricane stricken district between Browns-villo Browns-villo and Corpus Christi. With the known death list at least twenty-nine at Corpus Christi and estimates esti-mates that the toll will mount to To or 100 in that city alone, the situation in the storm-swept gulf coast region oi' Texas continued uncertain Tuesday night. While the death list in the affected territory outside of Corpus Christi probably prob-ably is eonssid.'rable, there was no confirmation con-firmation of reports placing the total into the hundreds. Trobably the mosr definite news eame from Corpus Christi Tuesday night in the statement that fifty-six bodies, none of whom had been identified, hail liivn discovered between be-tween Portland and Taft. This information infor-mation was brought across Nueces bay by a resident who asserted that twenty-six twenty-six of the dead were at Portland, which lies across the bay right miles west of Corpus Christi; twelve at one ranch house and eighteen at another. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAVEP. Ueports in railroad circles n San Antonio An-tonio wore that the dead in Ifockport would- not exceed thnv. Radio advices at (lalveston said six men were drowned at Port Aransas and that all the women and children there had been saved. Telegraphic Tel-egraphic advice received by the Associated Asso-ciated Press direct from Port Lavaca, which place had been isolated since Sunday, Sun-day, reported no loss of life there, or at Soadrit't. nnd Port O'Connor but said the property damage at Port Lavaca would be about $11)0,000, mainly ou tbn bay front and to shipping. Port O'Connor O'Con-nor and Seadrift were said to have been considerably wrecked by the wind, which readied a velocity of l5 niiloi an hour. The velocity for a few pec (Continued on Paste 2, Column 3.) f STBlM I JUil (Continued From Page One.) onus at l'ort Lavaca was rcpor'.cd as having attained 'JU mile?. State machinery for relief of storm sufferers was completed late Tuesday by Governor dluVoy, who ordered units 'of tlie Texas national guard to relieve ; federal troops at Corpus Christi as ! quickly as transportation could be ar-j ar-j ranged. The governor issued a proclamation procla-mation urging prompt contributions of i money and supplies to the relief fund. Three relief trains neached Corpus i hristi Tue.-day with food, bedding, clothing and medical supplies and other I trains were en route. Two relief trains I were reported stalled by washouts at Alic, Texas. rfeven scout airplanes were ordered from Kelly field, t-au Antonio, to go to Corpus Christi and find suitable landing fields for larger planes, which may be used to transport supplies from stalled trains into the city. The scout-ing'planes scout-ing'planes also were under instructions to endeavor to get news from l'ort Aransas and liockport. Latest estimates placed the property loss in Corpus Christi at .10,i.00,000 and meager advices indicated the damage dam-age at l'ort Aransas would be very heavy. Instruction in the lower part of the business section and along the. north beach at Corpus Christi was reported re-ported "indescribable." Rescue workers work-ers faced a tremendous task of clearing the debris-blocked streets and a steady rain which set in at noon Tuesday turned the rapidlv drying streets into a slush -of mud. The rain also added much to the suffering of tho destitute and homeless. Several of the city bakeries at Corpus Christi resumed operation Tuesday, Tues-day, turning their entire output over to the Red Cross for distribution. The list of missing at Corpus Christi was being gradually reduced Tuesday as refugees continued to be found after having floated in the bay on wreckage or having been driven inland by the storm. Approximately 175 of these unfortunates were taken from the wreckage at Odem, thirty miles west of Corpus Christi. They were reported to have suffered intensely from expo- SUThe storm carried buildings and wreckage many miles inland, according to meager lvports from Odem and bin-ton, bin-ton, in which region seventy victims are reported to have-been found. Tins still is unconfirmed. , Hundreds of persons were reported besiegin" telegraph and telephone offices of-fices in Corpus Christi awaiting an opportunity op-portunity to send word ot tliear satety to outside relatives and friends VVire conditions, however, continued virtually virtu-ally paralyzed. |