River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-29
DEATH LIST GROWS
EIGHTEEN REPORTED TO HAVE
persisted IN FIERCE
GULF STORM.
CL0UDBURST HITS DULUTH
Minnesota City Flooded and Three
Lives Lost-Conditions Alarming
in Northern Wisconsin-Loss from
Floods Reaches Millions.

Houston, Tex. - Twenty-one re-
ported dead, eight injured and
property loss totaling $1,250,000 is the
result of the storm which ragged over
the southern coast of Texas Wednes-
day, according to the latest dispatches
received.
The property loss in cities and
towns along the coast is estimated at
$1,25O.OO0
The storm has practically demol-
ished Velasco. Not more than dozen
houses stand. The gulf waters were
driven inland for nearly three miles.
Two negroes lost their lives.
A dispatch from Beaumont says a
party of Is, three brothers named Alb
ernathy, their wives and seven chill
dren, VINO left High Island for Sabine
Pass Tuesday afternoon, are missing.
One person was killed at Eagle
Lake, three at Bay City, one at Ell
Campo, four at Palacios, one at Whar-
ton, one at Pendleton, one at Ramsey.
The territory around Bay City
storm, which moved southwest from
Galveston. For four hours there a
7O-mile wind swept across the coun-
try, carrying everything before it.
Velasco, a small town near Bay City,
is reported demolished but with no
loss of life and none injured.
Worst at Bay City.
At Bay City, about so per cent. of
the business section was damaged, in
Guiding the opera house, one bank,
the courthouse, the new high school
building and the city JAIL In the Jail
the cages were left standing and the
prisoners were exposed to view, but
were safe. Six prisoners escaped
from the jail at Richmond, when the
windows had been blown in and while
the guards were repairing the dam
age
At Galveston Bay, the stu alton is
not as bad as at first reported. No
part of the railroad bridge, which
spans the arm of the bay between the
island and Virginia Point, was
washed away but some so feet of the
structure was thrown badly out of
alignment by a huge barge and other
small craft, which were washed from
their moorings and pounded against
the p1ling.
Five of the ten reported Tarpon
fishing pier victims at Galveston have
been rescued at sea.
CIoudburst Floods Duluth.
Duluth, MINI. - Following the
terrific rains a cloudburst caused a
scene of devastation in Duluth. The
loss as now computed will reach
$1,50O,000.
Three lives we're lost during the
storm. Two children were swept
from their mothers sides on Ninth
avenue, East, one body being lost in
a sewer at the bottom of the hill. An
other child was lost in Keenes creek
at West Duluth.
The theater crowds came out to find
the streets a miniature lake each, and
the men, picking up their female COM
panions, carried them to higher
ground. Automobiles and hacks were
impossible, owing to the accumulation
of mud in the streets. The hotels were
crowded with those unwilling to ven
ture forth in the elements.
Twenty or more houses were washed
away along small creeks in the city
suburbs.
Flood Situation Worse.
Ashland, Wis. - The situation
in the flood district is worse. The
railroad bridge and all other bridges
are believed to have been swept out
to Odanah. Nothing has been heard
from that place since o'clock a. m.
A special train has left for Odanah,
carrying boats and men. Boats have
also left for the mouth of Bad river
to pick up refugees. Six bridges are
torn out on the Marengo river, five
of them being steel. Four million
feet of logs were swept into the lake
at Montreal river. Train service on
all roads is abandoned.
Another heavy downpour Wednes-
day night aggravated the situation.
The village of Odanah is completely
isolated. The people in Odanah are
sleeping in tents and on the high