The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-19

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is swept bare. but it Is not know
how many escaped. Immense loss 2
4 life is reported on the lower coas,
but all reports are merely hearsay.
Ships Are Ashore.
4 GALVESTON, Texas, Aug. 19.-Th'
I government dredge San Jacinto
ashore on Red Ash reef. Her crew
is alive. The dredge Sam Houston i
ashore off st. Edwards Point. NC
word has been received regarding hel
/ crew.
| The launch Pelican arrived late
/ Wednesday afternoon with seventy
1 Ave persons she had rescued from the
middle of the causeway. They had
spent two days marooned and were
in desperate condition from expos.
ure to the full force OF the storm.
They were mostly Houston residents
adm others coming heer to get rela-
tiVes. They were In three interurban
cars.
The steamship Rtbston, high and
dry, with plates badly smashed, lies
on the railway tracks.
A soldier was found dead last night
under a tin roof.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE war
department today arranged to send
food, bedding and tents to storm SUI
ferers at and around Galveston. The
supplies will go from Forts Sill and
Ieavenworth. Army officers will CO.
operate with the Red Cross in relief
work. Advices early today we're that
the storm had subsidized and the city
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number Of dead the department was
still uncertain.
Acting Secretary Of War Brecken-
ridge also arranged today to send q
transport load OF food and supplies
to Galveston from New Orleans. Bor-
der stations at Ft. Wingate, Browns
vile, Ell Paso and other nearby cities
viii be drawn upon for emergency
supplies.
Red Cross headquarters here also
arranged to give all aid possible. A
special representative may be sent. A
relief fund will be placed at the local
Red Cross disposal.
General Bell has charge OF the
army's relief work. with headquarters
at Houston. He telegraphed that
property loss to the government will
ibe extremely heavy, cavalry mounts
OF the Texas City troops having been
drowned and much equipment swept
away or ruined by the flood.
Army officials believed that few
names will be added to the death list
of twenty-six soldiers of the Texas
City camp reported last might by Gem
eral Bell Temporary shelters for the
garrison. as well as many civilians,
made homeless by the storm, will be
necessary, according to General Bell.
Whether the transport Mcclellan
swept inland and grounded on PeH
can island. can be foated. is still
doubtful. Reports today indicated
that she can probably be saved.
The Red Cross has communicated
with Governor Ferguson Of Texas,
and the mayor Of Galveston, asking
what help is needed for the stricken
district. Governor Ferguson has re-
piled that he does not yet know. No
reply has been received from Calves
tons mayor.
100000 Damage.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Aug. 49,
Captain Murphy and three members
Of the crew of the schooner Lydt
Deering were drowned in the gulf OF
Mexico when the storm drove them
from their vessel. according to sur
vivors picked up by the Southern Pa
cific liner Comus and landed here to-
day. The survivors, six in number.
were exhausted and two were insane
as a result OF their experience. They
were found in the New Orelans-Flor-
Ida straits path, in open boats.
The United Fruit line steamer Blue
fields, which was in the path OF the
hurricane when she reported last,
was still missing today and grave
fears were felt. The Blueffelds six
years ago was lost for five days dur
ing q storm and finally was found
beached on South American coast.
The hurricane cost the entire south
100000. according to estimates
here today based on reports from
area The loss in damage to buildings
is roughly estimated at $40. ooo, 900 to
cotton and other crops, $20,000,000,
and to oil fields, $2.0o0,000.
The United Fruit Co. owners of the
steamer Marowjine, missing
for four days on her trip here from
Belize today will ask the government
to send revenue cutter in search Of
the vessel. She carries Sc persons,
and crew.
Twenty persons were drowned at
Virginia Point in the collapse of the,
Causeway hotel. with sixty guests.
and twenty-six lives were claimed by
the storm at Galveston, including the
wife and daughter of Lighthouse
Keeper Captain ]. p Steinhart. ac-
cording to reports reaching New Or
leans today by way OF Houston. The
life saving station at Surfside. Texas,
is reported to have been demolished.
Fire loss at Galveston was estimat-
ed at s350.000, in the Houston dis
patches. which also said the greatest
flood damage in Galveston proper was
along Sea Wall boulevard, east of
fremont street, where scores OF dwell
ings toppled over. The wreck was
complete from Eleventh street to
Nineteenth street, Houston advices