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Show STB WRECKS ISHESSELS; Appeals for Aid Sent Out Following Terrific Gulf Hurricane. GAIVESTON, Texas, Sept. 11. Tho downto-wn streets of Galveston at 2:30 o'clock t)ii3 morning were flooded to the curbs with water from the bay, which had gone over the tops of the wharves in a number num-ber of places. The wind was thirty-six miles, from the northeast, the barometer 29.60 and falling. The tide 7.8 on Pelican Island and rising. The storm center, the weather bureau announced, was south of Galveston, Galves-ton, but the exact location is not known. WASHINGTON", Sept. 13. Appeals for aid to shipping caught in the tropical trop-ical hurrioan? in the south, on "which the coast nard is acting today, declare the storm ' ' the most terrific hurricane in the history of the gulf.'' ".Shipping," says an appeal from President Porter, of the Key Vest chamber of commerce, ''has sustained enormous losses. Vessels are ashore along the entire Florida reef. Several lar;e steamers .'i:o ashore in harbors and private facilities are inadequate," MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 13. Many hours tffore the storm which sunk the Ward liner Corvdon in the Bahamas channel Tuesday morning, with a loss of twenl v-seven v-seven iives, a vulture followed the ship and perched on her spars, while a panic-stricken panic-stricken crew, believing in the 8Uersii-tiou 8Uersii-tiou of the sea, were convinced that thev were doomed. Such is the story brought here by eigjit of the crew who were 53 hour's adrift on an upturned boat, battered and bruised and without food or water. All day Sunday, as the ship p'ursued her way" in the calm seas and light winds, the great bird hovered overhead. Sunday night and Monday the Cory-don Cory-don sinix'red through the smashing eeas. Monday night every member of the crew was enraged in a desperate battle lor life. There was no food, as the galley and provision rooms were flooded. Tuesday morning they lost control of the ship, the wireless nppa- ratus was short-circuited and no S. O. S. calls could be sent out. |