Show Army Camp Leveled by byI I Hurricane Terrific Storm Sweeps I Gulf States Leaving Train of Death and Destruction in Wake SAN ANTONIO Aug 19 The West Vest Indian hurricane passed through Brownsville without serious damage and with no fatalities according to a wire- wire report to Fort Sam Houston here today The troops were reported busy reconstructing their camps which suffered suffered suffered suf suf- heavily in the terrific gale There were a few casualties At Llano Grande a Minnesota guardsman suffered a broken arm The of the First Iowa regiment collapsed with four men in it and one was slightly injured Every tent In the camps of the Third I Texas infantry and the Twenty-sixth Twenty United States infantry at I was blown down and the camps were flooded The troops spent the night in town i I With army wireless reports received reI received re- re I up to a late hour last night j I I stating there had been comparatively comparative little damage and no known loss of 1 life in the Brownsville district chief I anxiety centered early today on the sit sit- j cation at Corpus Christ and that vi vicinity vl- vl i as as' as asa s a result of f the tropical w which h the s Texas T gulf coast boast y yesterday st r ay morning The Only enly loss of life stY so far reported was in the sinking in the gulf of Mexico Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico of the small steamer Pilot Boy plying between Galveston and Corpus Christl Christi The vessel carried a crew of thirteen only three of whom were reported re reI reported re- re ported saved The last telegraph wire into Corpus I Christl Christi failed at O'clock yesterday esterday afternoon and last telephone line Une went shortly before 7 o'clock last night Last reports from Corpus Christl Christi placed the velocity of the wind at sev sev- miles enty-miles an hour and it was stated the storm w was was s expected to increase in i intensity until midnight Nothing later ater has been heard Storm Is Abating The storm had abated somewhat at ACCT Brownsville w at lr 11 lesser o'clock last night according dint to wireless reports to army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston the only means of communicating with that city The message stated however however how how- ever cyer another storm was reported ap- ap ap The storm played havoc among ap the army camps in the Brownsville e district district district dis dis- dis- dis practically half of the tents havIng having having hav hav- ing been blown down by the storm and loss of considerable army equipment was reported Fully national guardsmen and regular soldiers it was stated were sleeping In public buildings buildings buildings build build- ings in Brownsville last night The guardsmen principally affected were those from Iowa Illinois and Virginia Small Craft Be Beached ched Last reports from Corpus Christi Christl stated the storm dorm had carried earned almost everything movable before It leaving in Its wake wale dozens of demolished summer summer sum sum- mer cottages and thousands of dollars sum sum-I of damage in the business section Many small craft in Corpus Christi bay hay were thrown high on the beach It was said Other important places isolated by I the hurricane included Kingsville Sinton Sinton Sinton Sin- Sin ton Beeville and Alice Allee Other Other- points on and near the coast heard from late last night reported high winds heavy rains and some damage to property The maximum velocity of the wind at Galveston was forty miles an hour and while the tide rose four feet teet there thero no damage was done I I Death T Toll oil Taken I l by Storm in Texas I DALLAS Aug 19 Lives 19 Lives were lost In the tho tropical storm at Rockport on the coast about twelve miles north of I Port Aransas according to a telephone me message sage received here from Beeville e I Tex about sixty miles inland The casualties casualties' resulted from a number being being be be- ing caught in the storm while in small boats The exact number was I be-I not learned Storm Spends Force on Mexican Plains DALLAS Aug 19 The The tropical storm which struck the extreme south Texas coast yesterday and last night Inflicted considerable damage in in the tune region between Corpus Christi Christl and Brownsville passed inland southwest of San Antonio followed the Rio Grande valley vaIley to about abort Del Rio and then spent Its force on the plains of northern Mexico This was the summary summary summary sum sum- mary given Iven today by Dr J J. L L. L Cline head of the thc local weather bureau from available Information There has been considerable damage Continued on page 2 2 ARMY CAMP LEVELED Continued from page 1 1 on the coast where thousands of acres of lands are probably overflowed said Dr Cline The worst damage Is probably Inthe in inthe inthe the immediate vicinity of Corpus Christ Cht To have reached Corpus Christi Christl the storm would pass over Port Aransas and Aransas Pass two small ports one on each side of the Aransas channel Wire communications from those points must come through Corpus Christi Christ and it is still impossible impossible sible aible to learn of the damage done there These two points as well as the islands on which they are situated would be bea a breakwater for any tidal Udal wave or sweeping seas that might be driven shoreward by last nights night's gale Information received today by the American Telegraph Telephone company com corn pany today said saUl that the United States soldiers and guardsmen In the lower Rio Grande Grando valley were not hurt by bythe bythe bythe the storm The telephone company announced that a a. train left Houston this morning with linemen to restore their wires The train could not arrive In Corpus Christi Christ before night It was said PORTLAND Tex Aug Auff 19 by telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone to Dallas Linemen reached the shore of Corpus Christi Christl bay at 11 o'clock this morning but because of bad weather could not discern objects In the storm swept city seven miles mUes distant It appeared that the Corpus Christi Christ causeway had been damaged The linemen hoped to string a wire across the bay on rafts and get Into Corpus Christi Christ by 2 o'clock this after after- noon |