Show 1 I I I I I HUNDREDS OF LIVES LIKES LOST IN INMANY IN STORM STORMI MANY TEXAS TOWNS ARE IN MOURNING AS RESULT OF WIND AND FLOOD Galveston Sea Wall Prevents i j i Ion tion of Tragedy dy of of 1900 While hll Warn Warnings ings of Government nt W Weather ather i Bureau Saves Save Many Lives Direct word from tb the storm storm swep c communities mm es' es or o of the the so southeast the st Texas Texas Texas' coast br brought details t s. s o of ot th the tropical hurricane a Ae the forepart of or the tIle week which put Ga Galveston veston Houston Texas City and scores of other cities and towns towns' in dire peril perU With large sections sections sections sec sec- sec sec- of orthe the district yet unheard from the death list was more than the heaviest reported loss being from Virginia Vir Vir- ginia Point opposite Galveston The property damage am ge may exceed I with ith 9 Galveston lv aton contributing half that amount I According to Information S available ble the fhe 5 deaths e were recorded as follows Virginia Virginia- Point 30 Texas City 18 Galveston 14 Morgans Morgan's Point 11 Hitchcock 7 1 Laporte 7 Port Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- S thur 4 Lynchburg 3 Sylvan Beach 3 Seabrook 3 Houston 2 2 Property loss estimates were vague except pf in lri a f few w instances Houston Houst I Texas City and Port Arthur advices gave gave fairly definite figures for those places but most of the other towns I reported in such phrases as considerable consider considerable able very Ivery heavy and net t y yet t estimated esti estl estimate mated mate r Some of or the estimates were were S as as' as fol tol follows lows Mows t Galveston a veston Houston 2 2 2 Texas City Port Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Seabrook Sabine Sabine Pass Kemah In In addition there was an enormous U I i II I 1 iams jams merchant Jesse Jcsse rr Tenn nn Ie I- I J L i e of it than of any other a awas was des destroyed royed and placing ng the e loss os ed millions of dollars The oil field ore suffered severely and it is probable that that It will take to replace ver de ver I I derricks recap unroofed tanks ale U JUr he I by all dealers I I |