Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-18
MILLIONS IN DAMAGE
TO DEVASTATED REGION
Twelve Soldiers and Thirty or
Forty Civilians Lost at
Texas City.
GALVESTON LOSS WORSE
THAN IN 1900, REPORT
Hope to Restore Communication
With Stricken Cities
Today.

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. 1S.-Nearly a
hundred lives were lost and millions
of dollars worth of property destroyed
In the West Indian hurricane that
swept the Texas coast yesterday and
the day before, according to informa-
tion received today from the stricken
districts which have been cut off
from wire communication with the
outside world. UP to noon no definite
news concerning loss of life had been
received from Galveston, which city
is believed to have been hardest hit.
A newspaper man who got within
sight of Galveston said the evidences
Of destruction that met his eyes indi-
Gated the damage there would exceed
that of the 1900 storm.
At Texas City from twelve to eigh-
teen soldiers and thirty to forty civil
ians were killed, according to reports
published in Houston papers that
reached Temple and San Antonio to-
day. A report that the bodies of
eight women washed ashore at Texas
City were believed to have come from
Galveston, gave the only detailed in
formation of loss of life in the latter
city.
The damage to cotton will be from
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. of
the entire crop of central Texas and
will cost the growers millions of dol
lars, according to estimates based
on reports received in Austin from
towns in central Texas.
Many Reported Lost.
Eight men are reported dead near
Morgans Point and three bodies were
washed up today at Sylvan Beach
from some place in the bay.
Six persons are reported drowned
at La Porte, twenty miles southeast
of Houston, on Trinity Bay.
Three lives were lost at Seabrook,
twenty miles from Houston, and the
town practically annihilated, accord
ing to reports received here.
A refugee, who escaped from Ke-
nah, coast town, said only one
house was left standing in that place.
Houston is reported to have suf-
fered damage variously estimated as
totaling from 81, 100000 to $5,0000O0,
but only two lives are reported lost
there.
Grain Elevators Conc.
Up to noon no report had been re-
ceived from Beaumont. A newspaper
man who reached Virginia Point, the
north end of the causeway that con-
meets Galveston with the mainland,
and viewed the stricken city reported
that nothing was to be seen Of several
great grain elevators. He said the
drawbridge in the causeway had been
washed away and that the high water
evidently had been several feet above
the causeway.
He believed the number of buildings
DESTROYED in the city would run into
thousands. He said he saw thousands
Of bales of cotton along the prairie
between Virginia Point and La
Marque, far inland, evidently carried
there from the Galveston docks.
Dead farm animals also were strewn
over the prairie.
One estimate places the damage at
Texas City at $400 900. The city has
been placed under military rule and
the soldiers are assisting in the re-
eovery of bodies from the water.
Falling Buildings Kill Many.
Many of those who met death at
Texas City were killed in the collapse
of buildings An appeal for food and
supplies for the inhabitants of the
place has been sent out. The storm
is said to have done little damage
along the coast from Corpus Christi
to Brownsville and no lives are re-
ported lost in that district.
Reports from San Antanio were to
the effect that Point Isabel reported
yesterday as being flooded, was safe.
At the adjutant-generaFs depart
ment, in Austin, prepararons We're
made today to rush tents, clothing
and food to Galveston and other
points where relief may be found
necessary.
MORGAN'S POINT, Tex, Aug. 1s.
Flight men are reported dead near
This point. They were drowned while
fishing Reports reached here from
an authentic source that the bodies
Of woman, baby and sailor had
heached near Sylvan Beach. They
we're unidentified and apparently
Goated from some place on the bay.
HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 18 (via Tenn
nle and telephone to Dallas)-The
houston Chronicle prints the follow
Irp interview with J. r. Montgomery,
a Houston correspondent of the Gal
weston News, who got as far as Vir-
,.inia Point, the north end of the
rauseway, Wednesday, and viewed
the wrecked city of Galveston:
~ am confident the number of dead
In Galveston is large | could not see
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