The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-23
TWENTY.THREE REPORTED
DEAD AS RESULT OF
BIG TEXAS STORM
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the high sea beat and the rollers broke
over us and beneath us.
The first piece of wreckage I got
onto. crumbled and broke, and I fish
cd around and finally got onto a mat
tress, which soon became watersoaked
and sank. Then finally crawled onto
a piece of lumber about twelve feet
long and | stuck TO this until picked
up
With out life preseryers on, we
went to the roof of the pavilion to be
prepared for the worst Bettison, the
poor, unfortunate. discarded his cork
legs early In the day Il don't know
what became OF him
Houston. Tex, July 22.-The West
Indian hurricane which swept from
one end OF the Texas gulf TO the other
yesterday brought death to twelve out
side of Galveston. fatally injured four
and seriously wounded sixteen. accord
ing to the details of the storm learned
tonight. Whole towns were devastated
and the damage will amount to thou
sands of dollars.
The dead:
At Eagle lake:
Sh0ffneT
AT Bay City.
Three children. names unknown.
AT FL Campo
A Mexican. name unknown.
At Palacios.
Four. names unknown
At Wharton:
One negro
At Pendleton:
Section foreman.
At Ramsey,
Farmer, name unknown.
Fatally injured.
AT Palacios:
Mrs. Hogan and three children.
caught under the wreck of their home
Passenger trains twelve to fifteen
hours late reached Houston today
Freight trains are lost throughout the
stricken district.
Details are meager. as wires were
stripped from the poles and railway
communication is impossible.
The pleasure yacht Merriam, reported
lost in the Houston channel, is safe
at Morgan Point
Sears of Houston. who were reported
last night as lost at Red Fish reef In
San Jacinto bay, have arrived at Nor
gan's Point
For four hours a soventy-mIle wind
swept across the country
At Bay City half the business sec
ton was damaged, including the opera
house, one block. the courthouse, high
school and city Jail.
Every building in Velasco was un-
rooted or partly demolished and the
town tonight was under four feet of
water. People escaped in boats from
Colorado river, n mile away.
Reports from the special train OF
which General Manager w. G. Van
Week of the Southern Pacific left
Houston today indicate that the lower
coast country suffered greatly.
But few houses at Eagle Lake es-
capped. The same situation Is reported
from Lissie, Nowatta and East Ber-
nard.
At Ell Campo the electric light plant
is wrecked, all elevators are badly
damaged and almost every church in
town Is either demolished or partly
wrecked.
In the oil fields around Markham,
derricks were blown down and wells
stripped OF machinery. Six prisoners
escaped from the Jail at Richmon
when the windows had been blown in
and while the guards were repairing
the damage.
At Galveston bay the situation 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 nifty feet of the structure was
thrown badly out of alignment by a
huge barge and other small craft
which were washed from their moor
ings and pounded against the piling
Reports received from General Man.
ager J. J. Hill of the Houston and
Henderson railroad bridge has been
opened for service.