Show TEXAS IS HIT HA y W N TORM THIRTEEN blives LOST ST AND PROPERTY WORTH MI MILLIONS IS DESTROYED houses torn from their foundations and piled in heaps while others collapsed when wind struck them corpus christi christ texas the loss of life from the tropical storm which struck corpus christl christi and ten adjacent south texas counties friday night la Is placed at thirteen including nine members of the crew ajl of the WU small freighter pilot boy which foundered off the arkansas pass jetties betties jet ties T two we mexican men and one mexican woman were killed at katherine Kather lne a settlement on the king ranch near alice texas and orm mexican was reported killed at san diego texas both these towns being fifty to sixty miles inland the total damage in this section of which corpus christi bore the heaviest part was estimated at this includes devastation of a largo large portion of the lower coasts co cotton tt crop which was ready to be picked damage at corpus christl christi was estimated conservatively at the storm area Is that miles of lower gulf coast from corpus christi to brownsville Browns ville reaching inland from thirty to fifty miles Chap paret street the principal thoroughfare ough fare of corpus Chri christl was strewn with wreckage age from craft in the bay and ripped of roofs and buildings plat glass windows were shattered throughout the city and wires and awnings were piled in tangled heaps virtually every building was more or less damaged houses on the north bench were to torn T n from their foundations and piled in heaps while larger residences on the he bay front froat bluff were caved in and otherwise damaged |