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Show FOUR HUNDRED I LIVES ARE LOST I Estimate of Casualties Caused H by Great Southern Hurri- H cane Is Increasing. M PROPERTY LOSS GREAT H Galveston Heaviest Loser M Great Sea Wall Intact H Storm Greatly Abated. H Reports that up to noon today trickled through to the outside world H the southeast Texas' districts swept H by the West Indian hurricane, served H to increase the pronanlo number of H dend, but placed estimates of property H loss several million dollars undor H those previously given. Collected H reports, several of which were uncon- IH firmed, sent the total of reported dead H above 400, while today's reports indt- M catcd the property damage would be H Mess than $15,000,000 all told, with H Galveston and Houston the heaviest H sufferers. H A newspaper' correspondent return- ed from Galveston with the estimate H that property damage there would bo M about $10,000,000. Estimates based H on reports received in Dallas placed M the Galveston damage as low as $3,- M 000,000. M In Houston property valued at $1,- M 000,000 to $2,000,000 was destroyed. H The list of reported dead fluctu- M ated as the hours passed and It was 1 believed probably that the exact num- H ber could never be definitely deter- M mined. The list as reported up to H noon, follows: M Virginia Point, 50. H Texas Clty,-32. JM Brazos life saving station"' 19. H Galveston, 14. H Patton, 10. H Morgan's Point, 7. H Hitchcock, 7. H La Porte, 7. H Port Arthur, 5. M Beaumont, 20. M Sylvan Beach, 3. H Lynchburg, 3. M Seabrook, 3. M Houston, 5. M Dickinson, 1. M The dredge Sam Houston was re- M ported lost with 56 persons and the H dredge San Jacinto with a crew of H fifty was missing and believed lost M Thirty persons who boarded a H steamer at Port Bolivar light house M were Denevea 10 nave pensnea wnen m the vessel broke her moorings and M drifted out into the gulf. J No word has been received from M 100 persons marooned on Marsh Is- M land, 150 miles southwest of New M Orleans. M In addition to these reports a num- M ber of vessels that were out in tho H gulf when the hurricane struck were M yet unreported and other tugs and H steamers were known to have been H lost, although no Information as to M loss of life on them was available. M That Galveston did not suffer a M worse fate than In the storm of fif- M teen years ago, was ascribed by her H by the city. M The velocity of the wind that struck, H Galveston Monday afternoon is said M to have gone as high as 120 miles an H hour. Fires caused a quarter of H million dollars damage In Galveston, H but at latest reports wore under con- ' The storm had greatly abated today M and had passed inland. The weather H bureau at Washington reported it had H passed northeast with greatly dimlu- JM ished strength. M Galveston, Aug. IS. By Courier. 'M The total missing and known dead iH from an area of 100 miles wide along H the Texas coast, extending on both H sides of Galveston today is 193, with jH the known dead less than 100. Galves- H ton City and island missing and dead lH wero 12. Galveston, though suffer- jl ing a proportionately small percent- M age of fatalities, has sustained the M heaviest property losses. 'H Freeport, Texas, Aug. 19, Nineteen M persons were drowned at the Brazos H the storm Monday night, according to H reports received here. The known dead, most of whom are said to bo H excursionists, were the wife and child iM of Captain John P. Stelnhart, keeper M of the station. M New Orleans, La., Aug. 19. No re- H ports have been received here early H today from Marsh island, 150 miles H southwest of New Orleans, where more than 100 persons are believed to H be marooned or lost. They wero not H warned of tho approaching hurricane. H Boats of the Louisiana state conser- H vation commission have beon ordered to go to tho rescue. Beaumont, Tex., Aug. 19. News H from tho storm stricken district ad- H jacent to Beaumont early today was t H meager but no more fatalities were H reported. So far as known here, M nearly a score of persons are dead, H with a number reported as missing. H Reports from Sabine and Sabine JH Pass, Tex., and Johnson's Bayou and M (Continued on Pago 7) H m FOUR HUNDRED LIVES ARE LOST (Continued from Pago 1) Leesburg, La., where heavy loss of life was feared, dgclared that all persons per-sons at those places wore safe. Many narrow escapes from death havo been reported. The 400 residents resi-dents of Johnson's Bayou saved their lives by taking refugo in tree tops, leaving their homes to be washed away. A man drifted into Port Bollver Wednesday on a bale of cotton to which he had been clinging since Monday night. He was nearly dead from exposure, Thousands of cattle in the section below Beaumont have been lost Houston, Tex., Aug. 19. The tug Gertrude . under government charter, this morning left Morgan's Point headed west in Galveston Bay under government orders to pull off an interned in-terned Austrian steamer which is aground on Red Fish reef, 13 miles from there. After it had taken aboard about 200 men, women and children from Port Bolivar when the storm broke Monday, the vessel drifted far up the bay. Another Denver and Rio Grande train is held at Newett and another at Hartzell. No passengers were Injured In-jured In the derailment here. Heavy rains washed out the Rio Grande tracks west of Pueblo. Trains then were sent over the Midland tracks which in turn wero blocked when six cars went off tho track here. Four Hundred Llve3 Lost. San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 19. The total number of persons killed In Texas by the storm of the last few days will approximate 400, according accord-ing to Charles S. Ilaydon, correspondent correspond-ent of The Light who returned today from Houston and Galveston. Tho dead in Galveston may roach 250 to 400, Mr. Hayden said. However, How-ever, the exact numbor may never be known. The heaviest loss of life was sustained on the shipping in the bay. Up to uoou yesterday, only fourteen bodies had been recovered in the city of Galveston. Thousands of people who remained in Galveston, left their homes Monday nigh', and sought refuge in tho big buildings in tho heart of the city. Tho Tremont. Royal, Panama and Galvez hotels wero crowded to capacity ca-pacity while the upper floors of the Santa Fe station, American Bank building and the Rosenberg library also held their thousands. Property Loss May Reach $10,000,000. It Is estimated that Che property ioss at Galveston may reach $10,000,-000, $10,000,-000, but, in the face of this, the citizens citi-zens are jubilant, for the seawall, built at a tremendous cost, following the great storm of 1900, did its duty and stands intact Great holes wero torn in tho pavement of the boule-"vard boule-"vard just inside the seawall for practically prac-tically the entiro distance from Seventh Sev-enth to Nineteenth streets and In places the wall itself was undermined. under-mined. Almost as great danrnge to property prop-erty In GaIve6ton was created by tho water which flowed in from tho bay Monday afternoon. many Buildings Wrecked. Fom one-half to two-thirds of the buildings which lined this front have been wrecked and most of the buildings build-ings about tho docks are little better than ruins. This, however, is attrir butcd to tho wind, as the piling on which those buildings were eroded still stands. Back of these ruins in the vicinity of Tremont street, all the smaller frame buildings have been wiecked or wrenched from their foundations. All bath houses, together with piers extending out Into the gulf, havo been wnched away and a big four-masted schooner, hurled in from tho gulf, lies half way across the seawall. The sailors from this vessel were rescued by soldiers at Fort Crockott Three Disastrous Fires. There wore threo disastrous fires In Galveston since tho storm. Tho first of these, which broke out In a laundry near the Santa Fo depot, occurred oc-curred early Tuesday morning. This building, with the ono adjoining, was burned to tho ground. Later a fire B'aited in tho store of the Galveston Dry Goods company and at noon Wednesday thero was a fire in the warehouse of tho Direct Navigation company. It was estimated that these three fires alone caused dam-ige dam-ige of approximately $260,000 In ex-:css ex-:css of that created by tho storm. Late roports received nt Texas Cltj jtatod that tho firo was subsequently ' jetton under control by the use of ! :ngines pumping water from the itreets. ' Food nnd Water Needed. The greatest need of Galveston now and the 20,000 or more people who remained in Galveston during tho storm, Is food and fresh water. At noon Wednesday it was reportsd there was scarcely enough water to last another day and much of this would be required for baking bread. Nearly all of the stocks, of groceries were wator soaked, packages of crackers bringing a prico of 50 cents eucb. Efforts to supply provisions and water aro being made as rapidly as possible. Both Ends of Causeway Broken. Both ends of the causeway wore washed out and it will be Beveral weeks before direct rail connection can be resumed. Gangs of men are bunily engaged in clearing the rail-'road rail-'road tracks of the debris which is piled on them between Texas City (Junction and Texas City. The warehouse ware-house and dock people of Texas City havo placed these facilities at the disposal of a committee of Galveston people and as soon as rail communication commu-nication can be made, ample supplies can be sent across the bay in barges and United States transports. In othor places the Iron posts have been bent double and the iron coping cop-ing on tho seawall has been wrenched loose, some of the huge stones being carried a block or more. Wreckage Piled High. The wreckage from the shattered buildings, nearly all of which were of frame construction, Is piled high in all parts of the city. Telephone, telegraph tele-graph and trolley poles and wires mako an indescribable tangle. Public service corporations probably will be unable to resume operations for a month. Practically all the show windows in the city were broken and In some places roofs torn off. The total number num-ber of houses of all kinds, exclusive of sheds, which were wrecked is enti-nuitcd enti-nuitcd at five hundred. Causeway Great Loss. Ono of the greatest losses to Galveston Gal-veston is the partial destruction of the causeway. This great concrete bridge the connecting link between the island and mainland was completed com-pleted barely two yeais ago Both approaches, approximating 3000 feet, arc- i:one. The east side of the causeway cause-way is said to havo been torn away by one of the dredges which Is believed be-lieved to have sunk subsequently out in the chaNnel. The other was battered bat-tered down by a giant oil tank which tloated from tho Piercc-Fordice refinery refin-ery near Texas City There were six of these tanks, valued at from $8000 to $10,000 each and holding approximately ap-proximately 55,000 barrels of oil which were lost. But for this oil, which tended to allay the height of the waves It is believed the loss at Texas City would have been even greater. The greatest .loss of life known to have been sustained at any one plnce is said to have occurred at Virginia Tolnt at the eastern end of the cnuseway. Of seventy-five persons said to have been in a hotel which collapsed there, not more than twenty twen-ty f:ve were able to save themselves. Houston, Texas, Aug. 19 Confirmation Confir-mation that nineteen persons are missing since the collapse of a government gov-ernment light house at Surf Side near Freeport. about 50 miles below Galveston, was brought to Houston today by Homer D Wade of Freeport 'r Twenty-one persons took refuge in ; the lighthouse during the hurricane. 5 Houston, Texas, Aug. 19. "Tho orchestra or-chestra In tho Galvez hotel played during the height of tho 6torm to keep up the spirit of the people marooned there," jid jonn E Groen, United States district attorney, who was marooned ma-rooned in the hotel during the storm "We reached the hotel Monday aft- ernoon at 3 o'clock," continued Green. "At 5 o'clock when the wator began spraying over the seawall, the work of bringing women and children to i places of safety was undertaken. They were carried to the courthouse, the . federal building, the big office build- ings and large and substantial residences. resi-dences. Large numbers woje brought to the hotel Galvez. "Tuesday morning, a breadline was established in the hotel and wo all passed through the kitchen for free bread and coffee. The water 'soon began to recede and now Is all out of the city." Beaumont, Texas, Aug. 19. Reports of twenty deaths nt Anapuac, in Chambers county, during the storm were brought hero today. Two thousand thou-sand refugees are hero from Port Arthur. Ar-thur. There is one caso of smallpox, small-pox, but little danger of a spread of the disease. |