Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-19
Texas Coast 1OIURS
Devastated by Storm


communities of Or, southeast Texas
coast brought "details of Ibs fropiclI
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i"7l 4iSh 'ne o'7'ns were te,oiue1
"s tounWs.
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ti''S "tovN' T.. peltvt ~. ot' ~ lnu.'
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/ Property loss estimates were vague
IeNeept in few instances Houston
/ Texas titN amt t-al Arthur adNlces
fEaVe fairly delinle lgules for those
/ Ipiaces but most Ni the other towns
/ reported IN such phroS's as consider
+ able, very he'\> ana nel \el es-
ttmattd
/ some OF the estimates were as loi-
4 lows
Galveston, Al''NueO0u. houston
I S2,U0o.0O0. Texas NllN HtooVOO' Port
4 Arthur 500, 1000. Stahruok, $lOeouV.
Sabine $lNOuOV. Sapint Pass SlVu,-
/ OO0 kemah $'o.noo
I'm addition there was am enormous
loss 10 cotton growers nm the storm
belt. some estimates stating that 90
Iper cent of the crop ot central Texas
was destroyed and placing the loss at
millions of dallms The OH fields
also suffered severely and 10 ls proha-
BILE that il will take $a00,OoO To re-
place destroyed deruCks rc-Vap uu-
rooted tanks and repair damaeed mu-
chnery
That the death list did not approach
the Of the storm ul 900 was due 20
1.-TWO causes-the strength of the Gdl-
weston sea wall ana The haste with
(which residents of the coastal places
sought refuge I'M conformity with the
warnings of the government weather
bureau. Galveston. as m 1900, bore
lthp hrunt of the storm. but this ycul
was bulwarked apaAst thc elements
lTbn storm reached It's height there al
d a. lfi. WiNtANNH MiltH lllf MllIN i''N'
.to ninety-two miles am hour Thi,
Was aipht miles an hour more than
mo weather bureau recorded for TN,
i1QoO visitation.
Further comparison with the 1906
'stor,n yvas furnished NV ~ ~ NIaxsso
5 eoreral superintepdeut of the Atchi-
/ san Toneko and Santa Zee railroad
i,Io taIedranbad from uitcbroclS TEX.
. ies maj fbe enlf waters had been driv
, an inland ia that poInt. seventeen
s ,,,ites from galveston ana added ina
in ofber localities tho sea- had en-
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