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Show UIL WAVE MAKES" MANY HOMELESS WALL OF WATER OVER TEN FEET" HIGH SWEEPS OVER TEXAS TOWN. Residential Section Swept Away, At Least Fifteen Lives Being Lost, While Property Damage Will Reach Four Millions. Corpus t'hrisli. Texas.- Fii'n en persons per-sons are dead, approximately four thoiisiiml ;iri' homeless mid property damage, il is estimated, will reach $4,000,000 iis ii result of 111." tropical hurricane which raged hero for twenly hours. Thi damage whs caused mostly hy a tiiliil wine driven in from the nortli hy a gale estimated it t from sixty-five-to seventy miles an hour. The official record of the tide places il at ten feet six inches deep, hut many say Jff the water was tifleen feet in depth oa t lie heach. Chupparal and .Mesipiite streets, in I ho business districls, were flooded, and while the water has receded, I hey are filled with debris. The ht ire North beach residential section of the city lias boon swept clean, except the Spohn s.-i ui arinm. the tinted States public health service hospital, which was occupied by ihiiiy-sevon ihiiiy-sevon soldiers sent here for treatment, and one frame house. Practically every frame bu'loing on the beach front wos destroyed, m-gother m-gother with most of the boats moored there. The residence section on the hill was slightly damaged and a few houses were unroofed. Many were rescued from Notices hay, where they were found floating, clinging cling-ing to spars and debris, after tic wind had subsided. The mayor has sent an appeal to the governor, asking that two companies com-panies of national guard with supplies he sent at once. l'oi;t Aransas, thirty-live miles from I'orpus Ohristi, 011 the upper end of Mustang island, was completely demolished de-molished by the hurricane Stminy, according ac-cording to a wireless message picked up at Houston. |
