Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-19
Fourteen Lives Lost in Gal
weston and 500 Homes
/: !; Crushed
10 SOLDIERS PERISH
San Antonio Hears 500 Bodies Were
Washed Ashore Near Houston
Disasters Elsewhere.

Disasters Elsewhere.
San Antonio, Tex August l9 =
The total number Of lives lost II
Texas and at sea along the TeXa:
coast as a rresult Of the tropica
storm may reach 400
Galveston, Texas, (hy courier tt
Houston), Aug. 19-Fourteen lives
were lost in Galveston during the
terrific storm which swept the cit!
Monday and Tuesday. Four OF the
dead were United States soldiers.
Storm-swept and battered. the
city has begun to take stock OF dam
age and plain rehabilitation Five
hundred houses have been crushed
and the entire island on which the
city stands is covered with debris
The protection of the seawall built
after the first Galveston disaster is
believed to have accounted for the
small loss of life.
The 5 lost their lives in an attempt
to reach the fremont Hotel during
the height of the storm. Several
thousand persons were quartered Iii
that hotel.
One thousand feet of the sea wall
has been washed out, one breach o1
25 feet being directly in front OF the
Galvez Hotel. 1t was through this
break that :most of the resident sec
ton of the city was flooded. Three
fires ragged Monday night and tine fire
loss has been great. Three bath
houses and 400 residence on the bay
front were crushed and the wreckage
is floating in the bay. The water
made a clean sweep along the boue-
ward.
The storm reached it's height at :
O'Clock Tuesday morning when ITS
velocity was 92 miles an hour.
Martial law has been declared
The Mayor today issued a statement
that outside aid would not be needed
The camp at Fort Crockett has
been wiped out, but no loss Of life
there is reported. All animals be-
longing to the army were drowned
There is considerable suffering. The
water system, lighting system, g;7:
and street car system are out of com
mission. There is no drinking water
in the city.
Temple, Texas, Aug. l9-Sevel
persons were drowned at Hitchcock
Texas, small town just north O
Galveston. The water is standing
three feet over the railroad. tracks a
Hitchcock and. the entire vllcinltyIis
vast inland sea.
Houston. Texas. by Courier to Bre
mond, Texas, Aug. 1.-two person
dead and property. damage estimates
at. $500 600, 600 was the toll of tn
terrific hurricane which swept thu
city early Tuesday morning am
which cut off all wire communlca
ton with the outside world.
Dallas, Texas, Aug. ia specla
to the Dallas Times-Herald tror
Houston says 25 to 80 lives hav
been lost at Virginia Point, Is at Tex
rs City. including II United state
soldiers. seven at La Porte, three a
Lynchburg and three at Houston
There was no communication VIII
Galveston.
Austin Texas. Aug 19-Damagt
which will run into millions of do
lars. has been done to the cotto
crop in Texas by the storms. Re
ports from towns in Central TeXa
say that cotton open in the bolls ha
blown out of the holls and beate
into the ground by the heavy rain
which accompanied it.
1t is estimated that so per cent. {
all, the cotton in this section was ope
and that from one-fourth to one-ha
of the openrcotton was lost. On tn
calculation. the damage will be fro
Is to % per cent. of the entire CO
ton nrnn nf Cantral TaNaS