The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-18
!. IS HANGED NEAR MARIETTA I.
WIRELESS FROM GALVESTON
SAYS LOSS OF LIFE UNKNOWN
Great Damage Done and at
5 O'Clock Water Was
Four Feet Deep
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Dallas, Aug. 17.-Several brief
wireless messages, received at the
army station at San Antonio today,
comprised the total of communication
with Galveston, which for tzNSnty-
four hours has been cut off by the
storm. No loss of life was reported
by wireless, and none was reported
from other places in Texas, the wire
less from Galveston merely saying
the Gloss Of life is unknown
Water in the streets was about four
feet deep at five o'clock this after
noon, wireless said. All buildings
along the waterfront were ruined.
The damage is great, The army
transport, Mcclellan, was reported
carried half mile inland. It was
reported the viaduct connecting Cal
weston and the mainland was broken
down in parts.
AT Waco, two hundred miles north
west of Galveston, the high wind did
considerable damage and other Texas
towns reported property damage.
Galveston, Houston and Beaumont,
three of the principal cities of South
Texas, still were cut off from wire
communication. A brief wireless dis
patch stating that Galveston, after
weathering one of the worst storms in
fifteen years, was under water,
brought the only definite information
in several hours concerning the fate
Of the coast CITY, concerning which
many runners had been afiyzI lin the
last twenty-four hours
FIRE FOLLOWS FLOOD.
The Galveston dispatch made no
mention of loss of life. It said the
five feet of water in the streets was
slowly draining off and that fires,
started probably as a result of food
damage, were yet to be placed under
control The dispatch said also that
the United States transport, McClell-
an, had broken from her. moorings and
drifted half mile seaward. Wireless
stations at Port Arthur and Fort
Crockett were also said to be out Of
commission.
No direct word concerning the sea
wall and causeway, upon which Gal
veston's existence in storm times 50
largely depends, had come from the
city itself Railroad and other re-
ports from various sources however
stated that large sections of the
causeway which connects the city with
the mainland had been blown OF
washed away. One report was that
large vessel had been blown through
the causeway. At the offices of the
Santa Fe railroad at Temple, Tex, il
was stated that two work trains had
been ordered to the coast to assist
in repairing the damaged causeway.
While wire communication with
Beaumont and Houston remained
cut off, little anxiety was felt fol
those cities because they are situated
some distance from the coast.
While more definite reports con.
corning damage were awaited, the
storm apparently I.d moved inland
in northwesterly - ection, heading
for Central Texas. Barometric dis
turbances, said the weather observers
indicated that the storms path might
be similar to that of 1900 which
swept Galveston, destroying the lives
/ of 5000 persons and then Travelled
northward through Oklahoma, Kan.
/ sas and Iowa.
In addition to Galveston, Houston
and Beaumont, a group of lesser
towns were cut off from communica
ton with the outside world, but great
est anxiety was felt for Galveston
Latest Galveston reports mentioning
the sea wall said that the structur,
was holding back the dashed gulf per
fectly. Reports that several vessels
in Galveston harbor had founderec
were unconfrmed.
/ It is believed that great damag,
was wrought on the mainland, wher,
crops and farm buildings along tn
coast plains were at the mercy o
the wind whose velocity at time
reached 10 miles an hour. The Unite,
States weather service gave the in
habitants of this section ample warn
ing and it is believed most of then
took advantage of it.
| Already preparations have bee
made here and in other cities nearb
to rush relief where it may be needle
as soon as transportation and com
munication facilities have been re
paired