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Show LUOiJ lis Lil L In Ufll TFAC IP roo ill lr S i l hull mm IlAy lo 3UU 1 j Boy Born in Big Storm of flfjgl 1900, Loses His Life in ttl Last Storm. Jjj&IJj ' ' " II Houston, Tex., Aug. 26. According Iflli1 to careful checking up today of all flM published figures based on official Well' statements from the cities and larger Btisilr cities and towns involved, and ac- Klifl counting for all persons licted as Bljla1 missing who have subsequently been nillli found safe, tho tropical storm that Bill 111 visited the Texas coast ten days ago ml 101 took 345 lives, 276 on land aud 69 jljll1 on water. In addition, the same list Bi'lr counted for. The following list "shows WWl v, here the storm exacted the heavl- I'lSp est toll of dead: wLiM Galveston island 112; City of Gal- K ijj' veston, 10; dredge "Houston." 34; m 'ml Texas City, 25; dredge "San Ber- B Mi nard," 10; Anabuac, 17; tug "Helen m M Henderson," 16; Virginia Point, 11; fNiM.' Surfside, 19; Houston, 3. ' ID Im In addition to these, It 'is known frill that 79 persons lost their lives in jj Ij other small towns along the coast u W and in the country district swept by ;iK jjh the storm. H 'If'! The complete list of dead probably H M never will be known as scores of fa ifjN! unidentified victims were buried, but raft!' it is likely the storm took a toll of n ji nearly half a thousand lives. fw In a multitude of uuusual stories is lllitjKl that of 15-year-old Roy Riggs. who SgjgjB N lost his life near Scabrook. He was ffij JW - born September 8. 1900, coming Into 3 w life with the worst storm in the his- HI Iff tory of the gulf country, and going m :lj out" with the next worst m m i |
