Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-07-29
HEAVY RAINS FALL
Besides the Dead, Sixteen Wore Ser
iously Hurt and Property Dam
aged to the Extent Of Over q MIL
lion Dollars, According to the Lat
est Reports.

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 /; Wharton 1; Ken
dleton / Ramsey L; Ell Campo 1.
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 g
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 $175,000.
Bay City, loss $150.000.
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
cd, 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. q number of houses were
blown down.
Angleton, every house In the town
badly damaged.
Blessing, several lives reported
lost and considerable 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
~, 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 a
70-mile wind swept across the eoun-
try, carrying everything before 1t.
Velasco, a little town near Bay
City, Is reported demolished. but
with no loss of life and none injured
Every building was unroofed, or
partly demolished. and the town is
In four feet of water. People are
escaping In boats from Colorado Riv-
or, 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 ls reported
from Lissie, Nowatta and East Ber
nard, though there Is no fatalitiei
reported.
At Glidden, a round house is en-
tirely demolished. and well der
rick Is scattered over town.
At Willinger part Of the railroad
station and office was unroofed q
was the Attention depot and Eas
Bernard station.
1t is impossible to estimate th
total damage.
Along the Brownsville road from
Kingsville, in parts, the desolatiol
was nearly complete Corn field
were swept to the ground and har
vesting will have to be done by
hay rake. The cotton, however
1ithstood the storm we'll
At El Campo, the electric plant
wrecked, all elevators are badl
damaged and almost every church 1
towns is either demolished or wreck
ed.
In the oil field around Msrkhan
derricks were blown down and well
stripped of their machinery. The II
on ware house of the Markham Mel
camille Company. the Brown Graf
Company ware house and the Entei
prise restaurant were entirely d.
molished. The new building OF til
Coast Telephone Company was lif
cd from its foundations and prob;
bly, will be a total wreck.
At Bay City. about so per cent {
the business section was damage,
including the Opera House. one banl