The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-24
TEXAS HARD HIT
Eighteen Persons Perish In the
Hurricane.
HEAVY RAINS FALL
Besides the Dead, Sixteen Were Ser
iously Hurt and Property Dam
aged to the Extent Of Over a Mil
lion Dollars, According to the Lat
est Reports.

lion Dollars, According to the Lat
est Reports.
Eighteen persons dead, and six
teen seriously hur, and property eX-
ceeding a million dollars damaged,
as far as can be ascertained at a
late hour Thursday night, is the
grim record resulting from the de-
structive sweep of the hurricane
along the Louisiana and Texas
coasts.
The number of dead as reported
from various towns and cities are
as follows:
Texas:
Bay City 3; Galveston 4 Palacios
4: Eagle Lake i; Wharton l; Ken
dleton /; Ramsey 1; Ell Campo l.
Louisiana:
Mudd Pass 2.
The number injured seriously Is
reported as follows from Texas
points:
Eagle Lake l.; Bay City Is.
Meagre reports from the following
Texas points, with many other towns
in the devasted district not heard
from give but faint idea of the
immensity of the storm in property
damage:
Galveston, loss S175,000.
Bay City, loss SI5O,00O.
Bay Shore, considerable property
damage. .
Velasco, only three stores left
standing. and many homes blown
down.
Iago, syrup mill destroyed.
Austin, many buildings unroofed;
telephone and telegraph wires level
ed. Damage about 100000.
Brazoria, many buildings destroy
ed, and loss of life feared.
Pledger, heavy property damage,
syrup mills wrecked.
Allenhurst, many structures were
wrecked. Rumors of loss of life as
yet without confirmation.
Richmond, fifty residences and
stores partially demolished.
Palacios. a number of houses were
blown down.
Angleton, every house in the town
badly damaged.
Blessing, several lives reported
lost and conside able property dam
age
Eagle Lake, many houses unroof-
ed and two large sugar and rice
plants partially wrecked.
In Louisiana points in Cameron
Parish are reported to have suffered
severely from the hurricane. Much
property is reported as having been
damaged in the settlements at Bar
ry, Creole, Grand Chenier and John
sons Bayou.
The territory around Bay City
seems to have been the entire OF the
storm, which moved southwest from
Galveston. For four hours there
70-mile wind swept across the coun-
try, carrying everything before it.
Velasco, a little town near Bay
City, is reported demolished, but
with no loss of life and none injured
Every building was unroofed, OF
partly demolished, and the town is
in four feet of water. People are
escaning in boats from Colorado Riy-
er, mile away.
Reports from the special train, on
which General Manager w. G. Vanv-
leck, of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, left Houston, indicate that the
lower coast suffered greatly. The
loss will total thousands of dollars,
and in some districts reports state
that the storm was worse than the
disaster of 1900, which destroyed
Galveston.
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 Lissie, Nowatta and East Ber-
nard, though there is no fatalities
reported.
At Glidden, round house is en-
tirely demolished, and we'll der
rick is scattered over town.
At Willinger part Of the railroad
station and office was unroofed as
was the Attention depot and East
Bernard station.
1t is impossible to estimate the
total damage.
Along the Brownsville road from
Kingsville, in parts, the desolation
was nearly complete Corn fields
were swept to the ground and har-
yesting will have to be done by a
hay rake The cotton, however
withstood the storm we'll
At Ell Campo, the electric plant is
wrecked, all elevators are badly
damaged and almost every church in
towns is either demolished or wreck
ed
In the oil field around Markham,
derricks were blown down and wells
stripped of their machinery. The II
on ware house of the Markham Mer-
camille Company, the Brown Grain
l, nd