Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-08-18 | Page 1 | [Untitled]

! Galveston Wrecked by Storm; I w Large Elevators Cannot Be Seen I SCORES OF LIVES I LOST IN STORM I Reports From Texas Coast Points Estimate Losses M Equal to Those of 1900. M GALVESTON HIT HARD H Millions of Dollars Worth of H Property Swept Away in lH West Indian Hurricane. H Dallas, Tex., Aug. IS. Scores of H lives were lost and millions of dollars H worth of property were lost In the ;H West Indian hurricane that swept tho H Texas coast yeatorday and the day ,H before, according to information re- H ceived today from tho stricken dls- ,H trlcts which have been cut off from H wiro communication with tho outsldo H world. jH Before noon the total number of ILI dead reported was nearing a hundred - with no definite nows out of Galves- H ton, which city is believed to have H been hardest hit. Twelve soldiers, it is said, wero ' killed at Texas City, the regular army M camp near Galveston, and thirty or M forty civilians also are reported dead. M Six deaths are reported from La M Porte, Texas, eight from Morgan's ,H Point, and three from Sylvan Beach. H Between fifty and sixty soldiers are JA said to have been injured at Texas H