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Show road west of Odem. has teen washed out and 'bruises on the gulf coastline south from ihvre nave ted up all trafCe except fe ""'f coast north to Houston. I'r-c'icai v the entire country between f.d. -u u rd 'Corpus Christ! wa a. ruling sea "all Sunday mehl. and every low poml U 'd fiood-'d with water. T' e fir-: n'.an rescued here was J. u. Griffith, used 6-:. a nsherman of Corpus Christ, who fought for his lite tor nearly tw( nlv-four hours. As the waters were risinu'" he had trone into a home on North Kaeh to assist in moving an Invalid won an. While occupied at that lasK the waters rose 'our feet in as many minutes, anil the party, consisting of three men and the woman, took refuse on the roof. Ti e house soon broke to pieces, and he saw the others drown while he was unable to heip them. John S. Tanr.cn, IS, ward of his uncle. Z C Taylor, of North Beach, saw his uiicle and aunt carried off by the flood in one direction, while he went another. Me was badlv cut by timbers which struck him during the time he was In the water. BUILDINGS ARE t CARRIED INLAND j BY TIDAL WAVE. HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 16. The storm which struck the west coast near Corpus Christi Sunday curried buiklinfta and wreckage twenty miles inland. Near Corpus Christi, where the railroad tracks were washed away, they were twisted into the shape of a corkscrew, one-half to two miles In length. Huee brldcre timbers, weiehine thousands of pounds, bales of cotton, narl.s of houses nnd their f'irnishinrs. cattle, rabbits, etc.. j were thrown into the tops nf trees bv the waves at this point, and left there as the wafer went down. 1 The San Antonio,; Uvalde 4i Gulf rail- |