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Show STORM FOUND 4 4 : More Bodies Brought to :! Corpus Christi : Morgue. 'death list grows Total Known Dead Now Exceed 160 Is Late Report. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex , Sept. 17. Fifteen additional storm victims were ! brought to the temporary morgue hete 'early today, bringing the known death list in this city up to 62 as a result of I the tropical hurricane which swept this section last Sunday. The total known dead now exceeds 160, includ-' includ-' i ng 50 at Portland 30 at White Point !?nd 14 at Rockport. according to re-i re-i ports here. ; The most reliable estimates here to-i to-i day place the loss of life at Corpus Christi, Port Aransas and Aransas Pass at about 250. The bodies being recovered today are in such condition ithat identification will be almost impossible. im-possible. A drenching rain began I falling this forenoon handicapping rc-llief rc-llief workers and adding to the suffer-I suffer-I ing of the homeless. AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 17. Rockport I and Port Aransas suffered tremendous damage and need outside assistance j immediately, according to delayed ap-! ap-! peals from those cities received today I by Governor W P Hobby Three I lives were known to have been lost at Rockport, one at Aransas Pass and four at Port Aransas. The governor announced that a relief train will be started from Austin within the next few hours. The appeals came to the governor in two telegrams, dated 8 p m., Septer -j ber 16, and said 75 per cent of the dwellings at Rockport had been com-I com-I pletely wrecked, Port Aransas prac-itically prac-itically destroyed and Aransas Pass i badly wrecked with half the population popula-tion homeless. CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex . SepL 17 Today, nioro than 70 hours after the tropical hurricane and tidal wave that tore huge rents in this Texas coast city and environs, it was sllll impossible impos-sible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the loss of life or damage to property. Each report from searchers however, how-ever, revealed the increasing magnitude magni-tude of the disaster. It was believed that it might be a week or more before be-fore i i h true extent was known. The great piles of wreckage strewn from one end of the city to the other may conceal numerous bodies, it is believed, be-lieved, and today hundreds of men were at work exploring tbetn. Officials generally were agreed ih death list would be in excess of 100 and some unofficial estimates placed U at between 200 and oOO, with hundreds hun-dreds of persons injured or suffering from exposure Estimates of the property less varied from $10,000,000 to 15,000,000. The best available information horcj earl) todaj placed the known dead in Corpus Christi at 47 Seventy-seven : bodies, all blackened and bruised, were reported to have been washed ashore I Last nicht on the northern side of Nueces ba. upon which Corpus Christi Chris-ti is situated Of the 77 bodies, the i report said 38 were taken from West Portland, 29 from White Point and' nine from Sinton and one from Odom.l Other points also reported the wash- ; ing ashore of bodies during the night. J Military officials were exerting cv-t cv-t ry resource todav to ascertain the rate of twenty or more soldiers v.ho were washed oui into the bay. while I the storm was al its height and of whom there has been found no trace The men, members of Company 1, 37th infantry, and other reglmtnts on bor I der duty, ware at the government rest camp lo re tor S week-end furlough when the cunip was washed away. Captain B. M. Egelund, of Webster, S D., camp commander, was drowned during the storm and bis wife also la believed to have lost ber life. Attempts were being made todav lo rig out several sail boats to cross Nueces baj lo rescue 2o persons wbo are reported In desperate straits at White Point. A written message from Judge P. A. Hunter of Rocita. Texas, was brougb Into Corpus Christi today, saving 2") bodies were at White Point and thai 25 refugees were there starving. 4 |