Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-20
Considerable Damage to
Property Felt While Lar
edo Is Under Water.
NO LIVES LOST
IS LATE REPORT
Corpus Christi Escapes
With Little Real Loss but
Much Inconvenience.

T AEEDO Texas. Aug. 19.-Consid-
- crab,c property damage and great
inconvenience to troops i'm the various
national guardsmcn's camps in the
Laredo district resulted from tropi-
cal storm which ragged here from s
% clock last night until 8 O'Clock this
afternoon. For several hours Laredo
was completely cut of from wire com
muuicatlou with the ousidc world.
Practically every tent of the nine
thousand soldiers hcrc wcrc blown
down and the men were exposed to
torrcntial rains for hours.
No loss of life has been reported in
this district In Laredo the principal
damage was confined to Blowing dOW1
of electric light telephone and telc-
graph poles, trees, fences signs and
the destruction of small bdildingf.
The maximum velocity of the wind
WAS sixty miles and the minimum
twenty miles AN hour. Tho storm
abated "a suddenly ;ts it struck this
district.
Tents Blown Down.
Advices from the target range eight
miles southwest of Laredo, wH,r0
twelve hundred members of the First
Missouri infantry are at practice. state
that six hundred shelter tents were
blown down and the men compelled to
huddle together in the open TO
weather the storm. The regiment is
expected 10 return to headquarters
here Immediately.
OF the six military camps here the
regulars at Fort Mcintosh Jared the
D. slsNr
ing the barracks, was not affected,
while the Ninth infantry, which oc-
cupied tents nearby, suffered but
slight inconvenicnces. The remaining
Missouri troops and the Maine and
New Hampshire contingents, stationed
near Fort Mcintosh, suffered loss of
their tents and the destruction of sew
eral buildings in their camps. iuclub-
ing 4 mess hall
Work of reconstruction Of the
camps was Immediately begun and
it was expected nightfall would see
all the men again comfortably sit
uated
No Great Damage.
First communication with Corpus
Christi. Texas, showed on Saturday
afternoon that no great damage had
been done to the city and that there
that city. notably the section popu-
lated by summer visitors. were under
three feet of water today. with APP
parently little chance of immediate
drainage.
Greatest property damage was in
that quarter. where the Corpus
Beach hotel, a large summer hotel.
was partially unroofed by the heavy
gale, and that the structure was CON
siderably shaken. All guests had
been removed. however. and there
were no casualties. Summer cot
tages, bathing pavilions and a pleas
ure pier in that section were en-
tirely demolished.
Tho husjnc section cf Crruus
Christi was not damaged beyond the
breaking of scores Of plate glass
windows and the rising of the waters
in Corpus Christi bay about a block
toward the business section by
Saturday afternoon, it was said, most
of the water had been drained off
Thee food and water situation there
was gsod. it was last reported. The
city's water supply comes from an
island point, and was not materially
impaired. while wholesale houses
were hurt to some extent by the
storm, none OF their wares was dam
aged beyond usage. Generally speak
ing. the damage to Corpus Christi
was not great.
Interest has centered on the effect
of the storm at Port Aransas and
Aransas Pass, in the absence Of def
mite word from those points. Each
is a popular fishing resort as well
as shipping center of more or less
importance on the lower Texas coast.
1t was pointed out as probable that
these points might have felt the
storm more severely than did Corpus
Christi.
1t developed Saturday night. when
further information was obtained.
that the fatalities repoVed during
the day at Rockport had been con-
fused with the drowning of ten men
of the crew of the steamer Pilot
Boy, which sunk off Aransas Pass
Friday afternoon. These were the
only deaths from the storm.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Aug. 19.-
Railroads and other public utilities
operating through the storm-stricken
district suffered damages aggregating
more than 100000 exclusive of losses
in Corpus Christi, Brownsville and
other points in the storm center
1t probably will take the San An
tOilo anu ATanSds fdSS railroad
week or ten days to restore service 10
Corpus Christi and it may be IS days
before its trains run to Rockport.
The damage to the railroads prop
critics may reach S150,O00. 1t lost a
mile of the deck of the two-mile
trestle entering Corpus Christi and
perhaps three miles of embankment
near Portland The piling of the por-
tion OF the trestle swept away stands.
The roof of the depot at Alice was
taken off by the wind. The depot at
San Antonio was damaged. Many
small bridges between Aransas Pass
and Rockport are gone. The damage
to the Alice branch was small,