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Show MANY LIVES ARE LOST IN STORM El Paso, Aug. 19. Direct word from the storm-swept communities of the southeast Texas coast brought details of the tropical hurricane which put Galveston, Houston, Texas City and scores of other cities and towns in diro peril. With largo sections of tho district yot unheard from, the doath list was more than 100, tho heaviest reported loss being from Virginia Point, opposite Galveston. The property prop-erty damage may exceed $30,000,000. with Galveston contributing half that amount According to Information availablo last night the deaths were recorded as follows: Virginia Point, 30; Texas CIty,18; Galveston, 14; Morgan's Point, 11; Hitchcock, 7; Laporte, 7; Port Arthur, 4; Lynchburg, 3; Sylvan Beach, 3;' Seabrook, 3; Houston, 2. Property loss estimates woro vague I I except in a few instances. Houston, I Texas City and Port Arthur advices gave fairly definite figures for those places, but most of the other towns reported In such phrase as "considerable," "consider-able," "very heavy," and "not vet estimated." Some of tho estimates were as follows: fol-lows: Galvoston, $15,000,000; Houston. $2,000,000; Texas City, 0400,000; Port Arthur, $200,000; Seabrook, $100,000; Sabine, $100,000; iSabine Pass, $100,-000; $100,-000; Kemah, $60,000. In addition there was an enormous loss to cotton growers in the storm belt, iome estimates stating that 25 per cent of the crop of central Texas was destroyed and placing the loss at "millions of dollars." The oil fields also suffered severely and It is probable prob-able that it will take $50,000 to replace re-place destroyed derricks, recap un- rnnfnrl Innl r-nrl ..: .1 . .-v. "' uuu leiJiur uumageu machinery. ma-chinery. Death List Less. That the death list did not approach that of the storm of 1900 was due to two causes the strength of the Galveston Gal-veston sea wall, and the haste with which residents of the coastal plains sought places of refuge In cqnformity with the warnings of the government weather bureau. Galveston, as in 1900, bore the brunt of the storm, but this year was bulwarked against tho elements. The storm reached Its height there at 8 a. m Tuesday, when the wind rose to ninety-two miles an hour. This was eight miles an hour more than tho weather bureau recorded re-corded for the 1900 visitation. The most pressing need of Galveston, Galves-ton, Texas City and other coast towns which faced the full sweep of the wind is drinking water. Galveston's supply was brought from r. point several sev-eral miles inland, the mains crossing to thj Island over the causeway which connected the city with the mainland. Supply Cut Off. When tho waves and storm-tossed vessels in tho harbor beached the causeway the water supply was cut off. At Texas City, Major General Bell reported to the war department, the reservoirs were flooded with salt water and mud. oo |