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Show Hit in IT3 0J nf3 yr n sipa itfio ipit ?rn?rf? nfT it J i4 Pi 1 H I (r1 M U m II j I M HURRICANE DEMOLISHES TEMiTOI Port Aransas Destroyed by Tropical Storm; Twenty-five Probably Die in Corpus Christi. Gulf City Put Under Martial Law; Appeals for Relief Are Sent to Neighboring. Places. Ly the Assrcirifrd Pre-s. A mounting death list zud extensive ex-tensive property damage war; shown in reports early this morning (Tuesday) from the Texas coastal region swept by a tropical hurricane hurri-cane from the gulf of Mexico last Sunday. ' Varying reports placed the death list at from twenty-five in Corpus Christi alone to more than 130. The latter figures included reports of bodies recovered in Nueces hay. on which-' Corpus Christi is "situated. "sit-uated. Property damage in Corpus Christi alone was estimated at more than S4,0O0,000, while many cities and towns along the coast in the vicinity of that pla;e also suffered suf-fered heavily. HOUSTON". Texas. Sept. i;. Port Arri:.-sas, Arri:.-sas, thirty-five miies front Corpus Ohrir:. 0:1 the upper end of Mrrstang island, tc-completely tc-completely demolished by the hurricane Sunday, according to a wireless message picked up here today -tvhich read: "Port Aransas completely demolished ty hurricane. Customs office and ail records rec-ords lost." The message is the f.rsl direct ro:'i j from what is beiieved to have been lh. : center of the tropical disturbance whk-i; swept inland from the Gulf of "Mexico 1 Sunday between Corpus Christi a-:d ' Brownsville. The radio is believed to have been froir, a ship, the signature being that of Captain Dather, deputy collector of customs for Port Aransas and Corpus Christi. Port Aransas has a population of approximately ap-proximately 600 persons and is in a more exposed location than Corpus Chris::, where 13,000 live. property loss is i placed as high as four millions j L)RPL'S CHRISTI. Texas. Sept. K.. From fifteen to twenty -five persons are j dead, approximately four thousand arc homeless, and property damage, it is estimated, es-timated, will reach 51.000.000 as a rc-i;ir of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours. The city is in distress and Maur Gordon Boone has sent the following ap-p ap-p ea 1 to G o v e rn or li o bb y a t A u s t i 1 1 : "Please send at once two companies of national guard with supplier, and join in an appeal for financial assistance. Conditions here deplorable, and immediate imme-diate help is needed." At least a score of people are floating in Nueces bay tonight where the y w e re washed out by the waves. They were clinging to spars and debris, una' w h-; few boats were left undamaged by ine storm were being i:s--d tonight to re-Cover re-Cover them. The Known Dead. The known dead lure arc. Mrs. iiosa liobneit, tourist, add re - a unknown. Mrs. Baker, wifu of the proprietor ot the Pavilion hotel. Jacob Doran. AV. L. Mitchell. Unidentified wiiite baby. Three Mexicans. Another unidentified b-'dy - in the court house, which id being used as. a morgue. Missing; Captain C. M. Kdgeland. com pa ny 1 . 37th infantry, U. S. A., commander of the rest camp. Harry Spi ker, wife, married dauh to.-and to.-and daughter's two children. The city is without water. There were no lights or gas tonight i:nd t h . food supply was insuf fieie :U. U:' help reaches here tomorrow moi nil..: there will bo serious suffeiing. ii is ie:1- red. The railroad to the causeway has hc;-a washed away, but the town car, reached from the west. "Word was received re-ceived tonight that a train i-: '-.(ic.iv.g north from Sf . Louis, I row ns vil'.e a i (Continued on Ps3 12, Column 3.) residence section on the hill was slightly damaged and a few houses were un-rooofed. un-rooofed. The damage was caused mostly by the tidal wave driven in from the north by a gale estimated at from 65 to 70 miles an hour. The official record of the tide places it at ten feet, six inches deep, but many say the water was 15 feet in depth on the beach. Chapparal and Mesquite streets, in the business districts, were flooded, and while the water receded tonight, they are filled with debris. Military rule was put into effect this afternoon. The storm started here Saturday night with a light breeze from the north, steadily increasing in intensity, while the tide rose rapidly. There Is no life saving station here and when it became evident the North beach section was in serious danger, scores of volunteers plunged through the surf, helping occupants occu-pants of the beach cottages to safety. Patients Are Rescued. Many left their homes early Sunday morning and came Into the business district, dis-trict, but scores remained until there was great difficulty in getting women and children out. Thirty-five patients were in the Spohn sanitarium and all were rescued. The building was half destroyed. The soldiers undergoing treatment at the public pub-lic health service hospital on the North beach were not removed and the hospital hos-pital tonight is caring for 250 refugees, women and children. The damage in the business district was done by the high tide and the driving driv-ing rain which came through north windows, win-dows, blown in by the gale. Nearly all the windows on the north side of the Neuces hotel were broken and the water at one time was four feet deep in the hotel lobby. The Pavilion hotel was swept away but Mrs. Baker is the only occupant known to have perished. Fears for towns on the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railroad to the south of here were dispelled tonight by the railroad report that a train was on its way north. It is not believed the full violence of the storm extended more than a few miles inland from the coast near here. There has been no communication with Port Aransas since Sunday morning, when a message to the weather bureau here said that the inhabitants of the town had gone to the mainland Saturday Satur-day night, leaving only the coast guards on the island. There is an unconfirmed report that all docks and shipping at Port Aransas were destroyed. , HURRICANE DESTROYS . 11 TEXAS 11 (Continued From Page One.) Mexico. It was believed supplies were being sent from Laredo. Section Swept Clean. The entire North beach residential section of the city has been swept clean, except the Spohn sanitarium, the United Uni-ted States public health service hos-j hos-j pi!al, whh-h was occupied by thirty-I thirty-I seven soldiers sent here for treatment, ' 1 ana one frame house. j 1 n'tically pvry ironic building on the ; bfricli fr-.m wis rirrvy. n, together with iiiOL ol the buats i.vjurcd there. Tiiu |