Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-26 | Page 1 | Texas Tidal Wave Takes Heavy Toll

TEXAS TIDAL HEAVY TOLL 1011 Wall of Sweeps Swe-eps 15 Mile Stretch in Wake of Tropical Storm DEAr DEATHS S MA MAY MAV TOTAL 30 Huge Hug Property pi perty Loss los Crops Are Ruined re C HOUSTON Texas July 26 A P death list that may reach more than 30 was indicated today as the Texas co coast st country from Galveston to Corpus Christi dug out from the wreckage of yesterdays yesterday's mile 80 hour hurricane The property and crop damage was counted at hundreds of thousands of dollars The heaviest loss of or life liCe was believed believed be be- to have been around Bay City Care Carey Smith editor of the Bay City Tribune said ab about ut 17 persons were missing in the Bay City Cily and Sargent area They were all believed to have been beeh swept to death when a tidal wave r rushed shed over over the lowlands lowlands' for fora or ora a distance of six suc miles inland Ten persons w were re missing In the Matagorda bay area Five persons were killed and another another another an an- other injured probably fatally in a tornado which wrecked th the farming community of Mor Morelos los Jackson county county coun coun- ty late yesterday Campers Missing 1 I Bay City residents said six pe persons persons per per- sons reported to have been camped on the Matagorda peninsula had not been accounted for I Four men were reported to have be been n off the coast ail in fishing boats I and were missing The wall of ot water rushed in so rapidly that persons in its path had I little chance to escape It was variously variously vari van estimated 1 at between four and I 20 feet high Searchers began a hunt for the missing as soon as Vater the water receded The dead in the Morelos tornado Neal Lewis 45 Wink Texas Ills two adopted sons sons Harvey Lewis 13 and Roland Lewis 12 Mrs Airs Sue A A. A George 72 12 the mother of Mrs Mu L Lewis Handy Cook a negro nee farm la la- borer Mrs Neal Lewis 4 42 was re- re Continued on Pats Page Two TIDAL WAVES WAVE'S TOLL IS HEAVY Death List in Texas Catastrophe Catas Catas- Expected to 1 Reach 30 Continued from Ilin One ported In a dying condition 13 Reported Drowned Persons reported drowned in the tidal Udal wave Hugh W. W V. V Hereford 63 drowned near Daniel B. B Singleton 40 drowned near Texas City Mr l and Mrs Red Reel howard Houard Bay flay city and their small daugh ter hr drowned near Sargent Matagorda Mata MaU- ata- ata orda gorda count county Adolph Socha drowned near Sarrent Sargent Six unidentified n is e t r g r roe o e s I drowned near nur Sargent man drowned at Freeport The tidal wave 15 miles In length was reported by old residents to be bethe bethe bethe the worst since the gre great t wave of the disaster in 1875 It flooded Hooded Sargent and at Freeport rose 10 2 1 feet teet Outlying Out Out- lying s sections tion of ot the city Hy were flooded flood lood- flooded ed when the levee evee broke in five places At Galveston great waves wa sprayed over the seawall and leveled flimsy beach homes Only minor damage was reported in the city Oil workers waded waist deep in water to save derricks at High island The government government govern govern- ment drawbridge over the ast al canal crumbled as the huge wall of at water struck it il