Parowan Times | 1916-08-30 | Page 4 | Texas is Hit Hard by Windstorm

TEXAS IS HIT HARD BY WINDSTORM THIRTEEN LIVES LIVE S LOST ANO PROPER PROPERTY Y WORTH WORT H MILL MILLIONS NS IS 14 DESTROYED H I 1 lorn orn from their foundation nd ad piled P tl led 1 in heaps sao while othe others s collapsed when wind struck them corpus christi T texas exi Thell the eci of life from the tp tropical ill storm him which struck corpus P 1 I christi and ten a hidle adja r cent south TO aetis counties friday n night 1 is placed at thorten thirteen en including nine a members of the cr crew I 1 ot of the small fret freighter her pilot boy bay w which lich toun foun tiered dered off the arks arkansas path pass jour latties two mexican men a and it orm one mexican lexicon woman were klied killed at katherine isotherms a im settlement limmitt on an the king touch ranch near car alice texas and on one mexican was see reported killed at so san diego th texas 7 t both these towns being fifty to sixty it miles inland it f the total damage in this thih section of w which men corp corpus Clec christi irti but bore the healt est ir pirt waa vahl estimated at ia 2 this 1 includes J ad devastation of if a 1 large 19 I 1 portion n of the lower coast s e cotton alon I 1 crop winch was lead ready to be picked damare damage it at corpus christ was call aati mated conservatively at 1000 the am brea is that lao mile of lower gulf coast from corpus christi to bons Browns brownsville all ville reaching inland from thirty to 0 fifty miles street the principal thor houg his r a ot of corpus C christl rati wa at strewn with still wreckage from cratt craft in the bay and ripped ot of roofs and buil logo inga plat glass windows were t ii aured through throughout I 1 ut the he city and it wire its and ad awnings mg were ph piled in it in tangled heaps virtually every building hil a more ore or I 1 less damaged dain aged 1