Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-12
Many Investors in This State
Will Lose BY the Calves.
ton Flood.
Rice Crops and Other Property in
the Storm Swept Territory
Suffer.
Many Also Have Relations in the
Stricken section-News Anx.
iously Awaited.


might make record in modern times
for loss Of life by the fury OF the ele-
ments. At first the dispatches from the
south indicated that the city of Calves
ton had suffered worst from the storm,
but later reports show that scarcely a
village or hamlet on the gulf coast es-
capped the devastation and loss Of life
which followed in the wake of the kurri-
cane. Hundreds Of Iowans are deeply
interested in the news from the coast,
because great deal Of the property in
that section is owned by residents of
this state, and great many of those
who have recently settled in the newly
developed rice, sugar and fruit countries
have gone directly from Iowa farms.
Several years ago, when the southern
California fever was losing its grip
upon the people of the west, large
number of people from that class which
is continually moving on toured to
Texas. Real estate men began adver-
tising,the gulf coast country as the
garden spot OF the world place
where the air is always balmy, where
the extremes of heat and cold are never
known, and in fact, an ideal country in.
which to live. 1t was argued that
northener could settle in the south. and
With a northern mans grit and energy
could forge ahead Of his southern COM
petitors and be leader in any line of
business or profession which he might
choose to follow. Thousands We're in
duced to leave happy homes and pro-
ductive farms in the north and take up
their abode in the southern cline No
state furnished more people to settle in
the new country than Iowa. and the
| country was as full OF Hawkeyes as
Iowa used to be with Hoosiers and
Buckeyes.
4 The greater number of those who
4 Went from Iowa to Texas settled along
the coast near Galveston, and built up
|! homes in the very path ofsthe recent
hurricane. Alvin. Texas. situated on the
4 line of the Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe
railroad. half way between Houston
land Galveston, was the first village in
corporated. Almost half of the people
4 in the town are Iowans or relatives of
A Iowans. The city sprung up as if by
magic, on plot of ground less than
A fifty feet above the level of the sea.
In three years after the first house was
roughly estimated at 1000. 1t wa the
only small town in the coast country
which could boast Of an entirely north.
n ern population. IT contained the only
4 northern churches in any town of its
size of the coast. The inhabitants Of the
town lived entirely off the fruit raising
Y industry and the culture of cape jas
mines.
II "A a ofn.
pie We're killed. Every building In the
place is either razed to the ground OF
6 40 badly wrecked az to be uninhabita
be The hundreds of pear orchards il
the vicinity Of the place We're ruined
Trees We're broken off at the roots O
; washed away. Hundreds of families il
and near the town are left without
& means of support. Many will be oblige
to appeal to home folks back in tn
north for help and doubtless large mum
, 5bera Will return to the north to live.
A great many Iowa people have ais
settled in the towns of Alta Iona. L
Z Porte. Hitchcock. Seabrooke Clea
Lake, Pearland, Prairie View, Rosen
: berg. Affair. Webster Arcadia. Genos
Texas City, Beaumont, Port Arthur
r Dickenson. and other places along til
: lines of the Santa Fe International
e Great Northern. and Galveston. Hous
f ton and Henderson railroads. Many {
+ the towns mentioned above are annihi
d ated. One or more fatalities are re
ported from almost every town. Pc,
f Arthur and Beaumont seem to hav
S suffered the least. Alta Iona. where
college founded by northern people,
v located, Arcadia and Pearland hay
: scarcely building left standing.
i. 1t is impossible at this time to nam
) all the people of Iowa who are affecte
or have sustained loss on account {
the storm Several prominent De
7 Moines people are interested in the rio
ls farms near Beaumont. 1t was persis
y entity rumored Monday that all thes
= farms had been laid to waste, and ths
n the crops. now about to be harvestel
Ne are ruined The dispatches in the new.
to olpapers warrant the belief that gres
II damage has been done to the nee field
in but parties in Des Aloines directly il
OF Iterested have received no word tn;
Ut their property is not damaged to ar
le5 considerable extent. d. O.. Ford. WI
8. manages the rice farm near Beaumon
lg which is owned by the Des Moines
n Northwestern Land and Loan Con
% pany. sent a telegram yesterday
~ which he stated that not a great de
N sof damage had been done to rice field
le A large part Of the company's ri,
Us had been garnered before the storr
E. Water does not injure rice and the pril
" cipal damage done is in the breaking
the straw.
10 W. S. Goodell, of this city. has 81
y. acres Of rice land near Beaumor
- Governor L. M. Shaw, Lang Bros. al
he T. w. Walker are interested in a far
- of 3400 acres which is located t
2 miles east OF Beaumont. w. n. Ha
wood, Milo Ward. Judge F.. H. McV,
and son, w. H. Underwood, former
r; of this city: o. P. Herrick and Re
en- Craig Toms, who Is now in Dakota, a
es interested in rice farms at daffere
d. points Alfred r. Bissell, formerly
de this city. is now superintendent on o
be lof the farms near Beaumont. and Ff
Goodell u In charge Of his fathel