The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-23

Alternately are believed to have been
drowned en- route from High Island to
Sabine Pass.
Details of the Disaster.
Details of the disaster on the southeast
coast of Texas are meager as wires were
stripped from the poles and railway COM
munication is impossible The loss of thea
pleasure yacht Merriam. reported last
night in the Houston channel was denied
today. and it is reported safe at Morgans
Point.
The Right Rev. D. H. Aves, bishop of
Mexico. who, with the Rev. P. G. Sears
of Houston, was reported last night as
lost at Red Fish reef in San Jacinto bay,
arrived at Morgan's Point and telegraphed
to Houston friends of their safety.
For four hours a 70-mile wind swept
across the country, carrying everything
before it, Velasco a small town near
Bay City. is reported demolished, but with
no loss of life and none injured. Every
building was unroofed or partly demo-
ished and the town tonight is in four feet
of water. People are escaping in boats
by the Colorado river. mile away
Eagle Lake seems to have suffered on a
parity with Bay City, but very few houses
escaping the fury of the storm.
The same situation Is reported from Lis
sie Nowatta and East Bernard, though
no fatalities are reported.
At Glidden a roundhouse is entirely de-
molished and a well derrick is scattered
over the town. Al Wilinger part of the
railroad station and office was unroofed,
as was the Attention depot. 1t is impos-
sible to estimate the total damage
Desolation Complete.
Along the Brownsville road from Kinss-
Vile, in parts, the desolation was nearly
complete. Corn fields, burned by the
drouths of the past month and rejuve-
mated by the sudden rains were swept
to the ground and harvesting will have
to be done by a hay rake, The cotton,
however, withstood the storm we'll
At Ell Campo the electric light plant
is wrecked, all elevators are badly dam
aged and almost every church in town
is either demolished or wrecked.
In the oil field around Markham der
ricks were blown down and wells stripped
of their machinery. The iron warehouse
of the Markham Mercantile company the
Brown Grain company warehouse and
the Enterprise restaurant were entirely
demolished. The new building of the
Coast Telephone company was lifted from
its foundations
AT BAY City ABOUT % per cent of the
business section was damaged, including
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 ex-
posed to view but were SAFE
Prisoners Escape.
Six prisoners escaped from the Jail at
Richmond when the windows had begn
blown in and while the guards were re-
pairing the damage.
At Palacios the rain was not heavy,
the damage resulting from the wind which
preceded the rain
Mrs. Hogan and children were injured
under the falling brick walls of their
home and were later extricated by work.
men. Their injuries may prove fatal
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
some so feet of the structure was thrown
badly out of alignment by huge barge
and other small craft which were washed
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