The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-08-20
Storm Dealt Death
Others Are Injured
Continued from Page One.

TWO persons Kllltu. n Hesru peSaHe
entangled in a live wire and was
killed.
Smithville, Tex, August ia
Santa Fe train crew returned. I'm
able to get closer than eighteen
miles TO Galveston. They found TWEEN
ty dead bodies twenty miles from
Galveston.~
Houston, Tex, August 1S.-lt has
been impossible to get messages to or
from Galveston, since eight o'clock
last night, when the interurban. rail-
road. telephone and telegraph wires
went down.
Houston-[H Houston to Dallasl-
Houston's loss Is estimated from two
to five million dollars. Only one per-
son was killed. Not a single bust
ness house or residence has escaped
! damage.
Wireless Message Received.
limited Press DIspatch.l
San Antonio, August 1S.-The fol-
. lowing wireless message was re-
ceived from Buford. the United
States transport at Galveston: Con
siderable suffering i'm city. Water
system, lighting system, gas and
street car systems out of commits
sion. No drinking water in the city
Three hundred feet OF the causeway
| destroyed. All officers and classi-
fed employees and enlisted men and
families are safe.
Houston, August 1S.-Reports here
say that ten United States soldiers
were drowned at Texas City. The
property damage is 100000. Genera
Bell placed the city under martha
law. Soldiers encamped at Texas
| City have abandoned the post ant
marched inland as far as Lanarque
| Earlier Storm Reports.
Dallas, Tex, Aug. 1S.-Wireless
! messages from Galveston gave the
only direct news from that city. Nc
definite news of loss of life has beer
reported. but the desperate situation
In which the citizens of Galveston
found themselves was indicated
vaguely by the statement that boat:
were taking people from buildings or
the main streets to the United State:
transport Buford.
The tropical hurricane, which sweep
down upon the island city. extended
its devastation inland and wireless.
! communication was impossible beyon,
Waco. Beaumont. Taylof. Temple
Houston and other cities OF Southeas
Texas are thought to have been hare
hit by the storm. last reports from
those places telling of unroofed build
ings, uprooted trees and other dam
age.
Railroad traffic is at a standstill t
the storm swept district.
Although latest reports from Gal
weston by wireless indicated thu
storm was subsiding there and tina
the water had started 20 drain SLOW
~ from the streets there was M
prospect tina: wire communication
might be restored for several days.
Wireless Only Communication.
The army transport Buford's wire
less outfit was the sole means o
communication between Galveston
and the outside world.
The greatest damage in Galveston
judging from the meager wireless mes
sages and the tales Of such refugees
as left before the full fury OF the hur
ricane was felt on the island, occur
red in districts fronting the sea. Al
buildings on the water front wer
ruined. this circumstance being a
most a repetition Of the city's expe
Renee I'm previous storms.
Vessels caught in the harbor ais,
suffered heavily, some being destroy
ed. while others were damaged badly
The giant waves thrown UP BY tn
storm carried large and small Graf
alike. far beyond the usual beacl
boundaries and the marine salvag
work probably will be complicated b.
the necessity OF getting many boat
back to the water
II will be weeks. probably, befor
the full extent of the property dam
, age can be given accurately. Farm
on the coastal plains undoubtedl
suffered severe damage and man,
villages In the path OF the storm hav
J rot been heard from.
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