Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-08-20
GALVESTON AGAIN
SWEPT BY FLOOD
GULF COAST CITY FLOODED AND
cur OFF FROM REST OF THE
WORLD BY WIRE.
DAMAGE TO GROWING CROPS
Railroads Suffer Losses by Tornado
Which Has Frustrated the Gulf
Coast-Wind Blows at Rate of
20 Miles an Hour.

Dallas, Texas, Aug. Wireless
messages from Galveston yesterday
gave the only direct news from that
city. No definite news of loss of life
has been reported, but late afternoon
wireless message stated that boats
were taking persons from buildings on
the main streets to the United States
transport Buford
The tropical hurricane which swept
down upon the island city Monday ex-
tended its devastation inland and wire
communication was impossible beyond
Waco. Beaumont, Houston, Taylor
Temple and other cities of southeast
Texas were thought to have been hard
hit by the storm, last reports from
these places telling of unroofed build
ings, uprooted trees and other dam
age.
Although latest reports from Gal
weston by wireless indicated that the
storm was subsiding there and that
the water had started to drain slowly
from the streets, there was no pros
pect that wire communication might
be restored for several days. Hun
dreds of miles of wires are down.
The army transport Buford's wire
less outfit was the sole means of com
munication between Galveston and the
outside world. Her companion ship
the Mcclellan, was high and dry hal
mile inland
The greatest damage in Galveston
judging from the meager wireless mes
sages and the tales of those refugee,
who left before the full fury of tn,
hurricane was felt on the island oc
Cured in districts fronting the sea
All buildings on the waterfront wer
ruined, this circumstance being al
most repetition of the city's exper
ence in previous storms Vessel
caught in the harbor also suffere
heavily, some being destroyed, Will
others were badly damaged. The gian
waves thrown up by the storm carrie
large and small craft alike far beyon
the usual beach boundaries.
Many villages in the path of tn
storm have not been heard from sine
early Tuesday. At Waco, 200 mile
northwest of Galveston, the baromete
was falling early Tuesday night and
gale was blowing with undated fore,
This indicated that the storm cente
was approaching that part of the stat,
; and the experience of Taylor an
Temple bore out that conjecture.
Railroad traffic in the section
south of Dallas has suffered slight,
the greatest trouble being the loss
: wire communication The Missouri
Kansas & Texas tracks to Housto
/ are intact, and the regular train frol
, Houston reached Dallas a few hour
late but without having difficulty
making the journey Lack of di
! patching facilities has retarded trai
progress.
! The Houston & Texas Central's trai
from Houston, two hours late, repor
! ed the track in good condition, as d
l the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
< Port Lavaca, a bay town mo-
, than 100 miles west of Galveston, r
l ported great damage to the grown
: crops. Virtually all cotton in the coas
? al plains was said to be destroyed
Most of Texas from the gulf to Il
: northern boundary, as far west as 81
Antonio Tuesday night was bei1
1 swept by winds whose velocity vari'
d from As to go miles an hour.
/ Dallas has escaped serious damae
t The wind, which reached maximu
/. of 46 miles an hour, lifted a few sms
e houses off their underpinnings al
damaged trees.
I Just how great is Houston's 10
4 could not be determined, because
v wires leading from that city we
e Frustrated. At Temple the VIII
s reached velocity of 20 miles an hol
! Steamer Sails Without Munitions.