Show I I I II I AS RESULT Of 8 G TEXAS STORM I Five of Twelve Persons on Tarpon Fishing Pier bier Were Vere Rescued ll Exper Experiences fences Related by the Survivors Houston July re reported ported d dead four our missing eight In injured Jurd and a property loss totalling f Is the result of the storm which raged over oer the tho southern coast of Tex Texas as according to lo dispatches received in up to 10 early arly this morning The communication with the stricken dis trio rid t Is still fitful an and not until full reports are received will the full dam damage age 3 and loss of oC life be known With six known dead dcarl on Tarpon fishing pIer at Galveston the tho list of supposed lead dead or of eleven Wednesday Is cut down own Five or of the th supposed victims were rescued from the ba hay alive the sixth was dead when taken taleen from rom the water waler The fhe identified dead ead are arc of M Calloway Bay City Captain Matthews swept from the Ellen D In the gulf E J haffner at t Eagle Engle Lake formerly of oC Iowa Daigle and Tom Murphy Cameron Parish La LaDr LaDr Dr Cloyd Richmond Texas New Orleans July doubt as asto to lo t the 1 fate or of CaptaIn R n L Bettison and hie wife who were reported drowned when the arron arpon was washed away near Galveston was re removed removed moved this afternoon when their bodies hod ies wore were found In tho water near La Porte Porle Texas TO ns twenty mlles miles away awa I GRAPHIC TALES ARE I TOLD BY SURVIVORS Houston Texas July 23 Graphic i tales are told b by who swept from the Tarpon pier off of Galveston into Inlo the gulf and rescued clinging to bits of oC wreckage along th beach near Morgans Point Ray Ra G 0 of Houston says Jt It WiS shortly after midnight of Wednesday Wed that the tho first real alarm for Cor the tho safety of pier was felt felL Ton Ten hours later the tho pier save gave way way and the party of ten len was cast into InLo the water waLer Shortly the building sank WI we went to tile the roof said Mr Teet I shorn ehorn The liThe building went down easy In fact simply crumbled Into the tho I water Everybody scrambled for himl I 1 think all of us started off on some wreckage and the tho wind and anel tide currIed carried us through the tho water while Continued on Page Four I TWENTYTHREE REPORTED DEAD AS RESULT OF BIG TEXAS STORM from page 1 L the high sea heal and the rollers broke over us an us mis The piece picco of wreckage I got onto crumbled and broke and I fish od around and finaly finally got onto a mat mattress mattress tress which soon became and sank Then I finally crawled onto a piece ot of lumber about twelve feet Ceel long and 1 stuck to this until PIcked up Ii p With out life preservers on we wc went to lo the tho roof of the thc pavilion to ho be prepared for the Bettison the poor unfortunate discarded his cork legs early In time the dar I dont donl know what became of hint him Houston Tex Tox July 2 The West hurricane which swept from rom one end of the Texas gulf to the other yesterday brought death to out outside outside side of Galveston fatally Injured four and seriously l wounded sixteen accord accordIng according Ing to time tho details storm leared learned tonight towns were devastated and the damage will amount to thou thousands thousands sands of dollars The dead At Eagle lake Shaffner At Bay City Three children names unknown At El EI Campo A Mexican name unknown I At palacios Four unknown At Wharton One negro At Pendleton Section foreman At Ramsey Farmer name namo unknown Fatally injured At Palacios Mrs Irs Hogan and three children caught the wreck of their home Passenger trains twelve lo fifteen hours late reached Houston today Freight trains are arc lost throughout the stricken district district Details are meager as wires were stripped from fromn the poles and communication Is impossible The pleasure yacht reported lost lost in the Houston channel Is safe at Morgan PoInt Point Bishop D H 11 Ayes and ne Rev Mr II Seams Scars of Houston who reported last night ns as lost at Red Fish reef reeC In San Jacinto bay have arrived at Mor Morgans gans ans Point Point foul four hours a wind windswept swept across the country At flay Day CI City hal half the business sec section ton tion was damaged Including tIme the oper opera house one block the high school and cit city jai jail Eer Every buildIng In Velasco was un unroofed roofed 01 or part partly demolished amid UI time town tonight was under four feet feet or of water People escaped In boats from Colordo Colorado river a mie mile away aware Reports from the tho special train on which Generl General Manager W G C Van of the thc Souther Southern Pacific lef left Houston today todar indicate that the lower coast country suffered great greatly But few fow houses at Eagle Lake es escaped escaped Time Tho same sanie situation is 15 reported from Lissie Nowata and East Easl Ber Bernard Bernard nard At Al El EI Campo time electric light plant plantIs Is wrecked al all elevators are bad badly I damaged and almost eer every church In town Is elthor demolished or partly wrecked In tIme the olt ol fel fields s around Markham derricks wore were blown down and wels stripped of machinery Six prisoners escaped from the jai jail at at Richmon the windows had been blown In inan an time tho gUr s weme repairing time the damage At Galveston ba bay time thc Is not js as bad as at first reported No part of the railroad bridge which spans time the arm of the the hay har the island and Virginia Point Point was washed away but fifty feet of time tho structure was thrown badly out of oC alignment b by a barge e and other othel smal small craft which were from their mool moor Ings and pounded against tIme the piling Reports received from General Man Ian Manager ager J J HI Hill of the Houston anc and Henderson railroad bridge ha been opened for service Galveston alvoston July I If from the bottom o the sea five of time the storm wrecked victims from the tho Tarpon fish lag Ing pier alive late lato were up ale to today ca day of off Red Fish reef reer In the tho upper Galveston Ba opposite North Galves Galveston Galveston ton TImo Tho rescued are arc areRay Ray G Houston Everett Lewis pier C D Hopkins Galveston John Forrest a pier Charles Johnson c I With these rescued hope for Cor the tho I safety of the other five persons Is much stronger although It Is feared tho they hlo have succumbed to te the ordeal or of 24 4 hours In the tho water Those sun still un are I Captain R L DaWson and wife C H DaB Dall circulation or of orthe the Tribune Mrs Charles Johnson JohnsonA A Groveland Texas man manTho Time Tho yacht Mayflower which brought the tho survivors to Galveston lef left Cedar Bayou Daou at noon and an later laLer fel fell fellIn I In with tIme the launch Maud whIch had the five mon men on board The hc was bound for tor the Cedar Bayou a nail passed within a short distance of onO omie of the tho men who while at the pont point o of up imp still able ble to hang hang on to pieces of oC timber Four others weme foune found hanging on to pieces or of driftwood and In an exhausted austed condi condition ton tion Now Orleans Jul July 2 Tho full lol toll or of life and exacted by bytho bythe the tho which swept the west ann orn Gulf toast coast yesterday may be SO oral da days s In the tho counting Leveling telegraph wires and destroying other I means of communication with tho the out outside outside side world time tho hurricane swept along the SI gulf shore Ironi Crom points hi I Came r ron Parish La to almost the tho south southwester southwestern wester western extremity of oC Texas Se far as can caim now be l ascertained the storm vented Its fiercest force Corce In inthe the tho city of Galveston There the sea wal wail kept back the waters Reports received front from there indicate that the tho loss of mo lIfe I is confined to time the ten un tin unfortunates caught In the gale galo on Til Tar Tarpon I I 1 pon pier That loss 1088 of me life od property dam damI I ago have be been n caused at other points along the Texas exas coast possibly In the Cameron Parish Ln La Is the be belef lef noW entertained in n county about 75 mie autos southwest of Galveston It Is reported that several lives had ben been lost but bul confirmation Is lacking Reports re me b by the weather bureau here beio In Indicate that the storm passed Inland from a point close to Br BrIs Bay Is Its intensity v was diminished soon after 1 1 yesterday and at an carl early hour last night the wind I 13 was recorded as less than 30 mies miles an hour Interior towns In Texas were mere thus Itc little affected The rhe uneasiness ness which was entertained for out outIng outing Ing partes PartIes on some Home of the tho Islands along time thc Texas coast was dispelled hiring during the night boY by messages which I assured tim tho safet safety of these excursion excursionists Day Bay Clr City Tex Tox July 2 Under mar martal martial tal law and In darkness Is its water sup I ph cut cut of oft and a lack of f help to clear I slowly recoverIng from the storm Ono One life was lost that of an Infant infant I The Tho Property loss wi will total I |