Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-19
STORMS TOLL OF ARMY
DEAD PLACED AT 10
Government and Red Cross Taking
Measures for Relief of Sufferers

WASHINGTON. Aug. 19.-Information
reaching the War Department today in
dicated that the army dead from the
Gulf storm at Texas City will not total
more than 10. despite earlier reports that
Is soldiers had been drowned.
Camp Crockett, where 5000 men of the
5th Brigade were in cantonment, was
washed clear of tents and is scene of
desolation.
A soldier was found dead last night
under tin roof at Galveston.
W, p, Stewart, United States weather
observer at Galveston. is given credit for
having saved more lives than any other
agency except the sea wall. He sent mo-
torcycles in every direction down the
Island for "A distance of 80 miles, warm
ing them they would die If they did not
come to Galveston. In consequence, there
were probably only 200 persons left on the
Island below Galveston. The lifesaving
station at Surfside, Texas, is reported to
have been demolished.
The city of Galveston is under martial
law, and soldiers walk the streets armed
TO prevent depredatiOns. Tuesday morn
ing several iewelry stores. saloons and
other business houses were looted before
the patrol was organized. No looters have
been killed, but several have been stopped
at gun point.
A dispatch from Galveston says: Mrs.
Nhhelmina Hearn was washed away
ffom her sons and daughters as they
were trying to carry her to safety after
her house had collapsed. Her body was
recovered The body of a baby only
a few months old has laid in a morgue
Tor 70 hours, with nobody to claim II.
Prompt measures for the relief of the
sufferers have been taken, The National
lied Cross has wired its representatives
at New Orleans and on the border to get
into touch with the stricken district and
give any needed relief.
Major General Bell has gone to Texas
olty and taken charge of the relief work
mere, He has been authorized by Acting
Secretary of War Breckenridge to pur-
ehase all needed supplies and the depot
quartermaster at New Orleans has been
directed to send forward foodstuff5 and
camp equipment to replace that wrecked
by the storm
II Is learned that army transports now
IN New York will be loaded with supplies
ana sent to Galveston at once. The food
VIII be distributed to the civilians in the
hooded region if needed and If not will
De retained for army use.
me war Department was trying to get
audltlonal details of the Galveston situa-
Won by wireless today, while the revenue
Sutter service was rushing a vessel from
hFey West to the scene. The transport
MeClellan drifted off In the storm and is
Tsre Sshore on Pelican Island badly damaged,
me big Fitzpatrick and the Cushing are
sale and can be used for the relief work,
sgcSofding to the wireless from General
slartial law has been proclaimed at Port
sarthur which was caught by the full
lofee Of the hurricane Fires which
started In the yards of the Kramer Lum-
per Company there were still burning at
last reports. Part of the town is still sub
AtttgitBed' stti, and only those persons who are
SUI marooned by the water remain there.
oiheial wind velocities of 80 miles an
nour We're registered In Galveston during
she heaVy part of the storm, the Weather
bureau stated today No attempt had yet
oeen made TO compute the rainfall which.
y was said, would run from 10 to Is
inches.
ne bureau was sending flood warnings
tooay al over east Texas. Omcials fear
Nhe people are so taken up with the
storm that they do not realize the dew
Astation likely from overloaded streams.