The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-08-18

S~Sy'seNeu OeAo II eAd8 City.
"At least sixty-seven lives were lost
at Texas City," says the paper. This
loss of life included twelve United
States soldiers. The fatalities occur
red when several buildings collapsed
under the force of the terrific wind.
Nine United States soldiers were killed
when three-story building fell on
them, and three were drowned"
The Chronicle also says that six
lives were lost at Laporte. which is
twenty miles from Houston.
Texas City is on an island about
twenty-five miles from Houston. and
the same distance from Galveston.
Many Women Drown.
The majority of the civilians drown
ed or killed at Texas City were women
and children, says a dispatch reaching
Fort Worth this morning from New
Orleans, and the property loss there
alone is quarter of a million dol
lars. So great is the chaos there that
martial law has been proclaimed.
No word has been received here
today as to the exact condition OF
Galveston. and no information con-
corning the fate of Beaumont. Fort
Arthur. Sabine, Sabine Pass and many
other cities in the long length of coast
line from Sabine Pass to Matagorda
Bay has come out. The last word
from Beaumont came on Monday to the
effect that the population was leav-
ing as rapidly as possible. This was
before the full force of the hurricane
hit this section.
Fears Many Dead.
Eight men are reported dead near
Morgan's Point, Tex. across the bay
from Galveston. J. R. Montgomery.
Houston correspondent of the Calves
ton News. who made his way as far
as Virginia Point, just opposite Gal
weston. wired his paper as follows
Il fear the number of dead in Gal
weston is large. l could not see an
elevation on the port side of the city.
and my opinion is that the number OF
buildings destroyed will run into the
thousands. believe the property loss
will be greater than that of 1900"
Montgomery made his way to the
and owing to the fact that this struc-
ture was swept away, he was forced
to return to Houston. He made the
trip in an automobile.
1--WE encountered indescribable con-
at Clark Creek and Dickinson were
washed out. and we ran our automo-
bile over the railroad bridges and
across the ties. We saw thousands OF
bales of cotton on the prairies all the
way from Virginia Point to the main
land end of the Galveston Causeway.
The water must have been several feet
deep over the causeway. and serious
damage must have been done to 1t by
the washing out of large quantities OF
filling in the center"
The railroad drawbridge has been
washed away at Seabrook. about twen-
ty miles from Houston. Three persons
are reported to have lost their lives
at that point.
Believe City Safe.
With a ship blown inland half
mile, property losses totalling more
than a million dollars. and some lives
lost, Galveston today was once again
striving to rehabilitate itself from the
angry floods from the sea.
Though telegraph and telephone lines
were unable to get word out OF Gal
weston and Houston at a late hour. 1t
was believed that the fury of the
hurricane that swept over the gulf had
spent itself and "the cities of silence"
were still intact after braving the
wind and water piled upon them in re-
lentless fury Wireless advices sent
from ships in Galveston harbor to San
Antonio are brief and vague.
The fact that people are being taken
from buildings on the main streets In
boats to the transport Buford indicates
they are in unsafe positions. although
placing people aboard the transport
must be accompanied by danger. This
city is adjudged safe from destruc-
ton as long as it is affected only by
backwater and winds.