Evening star., 1916-08-20
TENTLESS TROOPS
SUFFER IN STORM
Men Of National Guard. on Duty
lin Texas Feel Full EoFce.of- -
Tempest for Hours.

LAREDO, Tex, August 19.-Consid-
erable property damage and great. in
convenience to troops in the various
National Guard camps in the Lo-
redo district resulted from tropical
storm which ragged here from o'clock
last night until 4 o'clock this morning.
For several hours Laredo was com
pletely cut of from wire communica- :
ton with the outside world; Practi-
cally every tent of the 5000 soldiers
here was blown down. and the men
were exposed to torrential rains for
hours. Assp b.
No loss of life has been reported, in
the district. The maximum velocity Of
the winds was sixty miles an hour.
The storm abated as suddenly as, 1t
struck this district. ..-.r . +
Advices from the target range eight
miles southwest of Laredo. where 1900
members Of the 1st Missouri Infantry
are at practice, state that 500 shelter
tents were blown down and the linen
compelled to huddle together in; the
open to weather the storm. The regi-
ment is expected to return to head
quarters here Immediately.
The Maine and New Hampshire con-
tingents stationed near Fort Mcintosh
suffered loss of their tents and the de :
struction of several buildings in their
camps. including mess hall. :.
Work of reconstruction of the camps
was Immediately begun. s.fs
Reconstruct Brownsville Camps,
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. August 1s.-The
West Indian hurricane passed through
Brownsville without serious damage
and with no fatalities, according, to a
wireless report to Fort Sam Houston
here today. The troops were reported
busy reconstructing their camps. which
suffered heavily in the gale
At Llano Grande Minnesota guards
man suffered a broken arm. The mess
house of the 1st Iowa Regiment Band
collapsed with four men in it, and one
was slightly injured. Every tent in
the camps of the Sd Texas Infantry and
the 26th United States Infantry at Har-
lingen was blown down and the camps
were flooded. The troops spent the
night in town. "a
The Illinois camps around Browns
willie suffered the most. due to the fact
that the guardsmen had framed tents.
At the height of the storm Gen. James
Parker, the veteran cavalry commander,
and his aids. rode through every camp
making a tour of inspection. They
found several new mess buildings
leyeled, acres and acres of fallen and
twisted tents and nine warehouses in
a sea of mud and water.
Nearly all the Iowa troops stuck. to
their camps. This was true also Of the
New York guardsmen at McAllen. al
though, according to a land wire message
from Harlingen, the latter lostmore
than half their tents. g.,
Big Hotel Badly Damaged, 4.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. August 49,
Storm damage along the beach front
liz extensive. One section Of the city
which was most exposed to the storm
is under three feet Of water. Scores
of summer cottages were washed away
in that district. About one mile Of the
San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad
trestle, connecting the peninsulat twieh
the mainland, was washed out, and the
Corpus Christi causeway, paralleljng
the trestle, was broken in several
The Beach Hotel. a large structure
on the north beach section Of the city.
erected three years ago, Is probably
the most severely. damaged building
here. 1t was fully exposed to the eie-
ments last night and yesterday. and as
a result a large part OF the roof was
blown away---and. Its -fouudations