Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-19
BODIES ARE FOUND
ALONG NEUCES BAY
AMONG WRECKAGE
Many Business Blocks in
Corpus Christi Are
Totally Wrecked.
)AMAGE TO PROPERTY
PLACED AT S2O,OOO.OOO
-ivic Leaders Declare Fully Four
Thousand People Are
Homeless.
1TIEs RESPOND TO APPEAL
'clicf Pours in From Many Quarters
10 Provide Succor to Storms
Victims.
iITIES RESPOND TO ApPEAl
Rclicf Pours in From Many Quarter.
10 Provide Succor to Storms
Victims.
LEV ArrocLatnL Pre- !


CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS. Sep i2
Rapid srowth in the death list re-
uitins from tho hurricane and tidal
wave that swept Corpus Christi ana
fcar-oy points sunday, caused the bc.
iet among relief Workers and local
fouid approximate. 900 persons.
Much of the shor" line Of Corpus
,hrisN and Nneccs Bays has not been
penetrated by searchers, while only =
fmaH proportion Of tho wrcChaEc in
MS c!t% has been removed This, and
ne continued absence OF many per
80 respon iblo sor the rising cstt-
= ,horoush sur,rey of the, demolsh-
|>ssociatcd Prcss correspondent show
d block after block o. the beach resi-
ient!al section without a vcstiGe Of
,ornns Christi Bay from Fay trect 10
nc causc"ay Al the TIP OF North Beach.
Public Plants Arc Ruincd.
In tho downtown district utter
demolition Of some OF the ci;y's most
|mp9rtant industrial and public plants
biocks along tho waterfront and moro
nan block IN width. while beyond,
'atcncing back toward the hlnn see
ION. every commercial establishments
Flrst moor VAS wrecked and in some
>ases the entire building rendered
iSeIsss. over q corresponding area Two
blocks wide
The tremendous property damage is
|'ecominS daily more apparent and
prominent business men and other OBJ
servers declared tonight $4,000, 600
he monetary loss in Corpus Christi in
vhich: 4 was reliably stated not more
nan S35o,ooo insurance would be pa
Refugees Need Clothing.
rorarily in ,he background. civic
leaders agree. but tho three or four
thousand parsons homeless must he
cared for. and IN most cases mus, be
effects
To evory Governor in the United
tles telcgra,ns appealing for aid have
neen sent by INC relief committee and
today responses poured in from every
promising every assistance
and IN many cases forwarding money
o. Corpus Christi IL is
becoming increasingly evident. rests
largely ,upon outside sources for so
finally destructive was the storm TO
local interests that ii Is admitted by
the city's foremost citizens that on its
own remaining resources the ci,y. could
no. reconstruct. AZ least for num-
buildings destroyed.
While. tho work ot relief clearing
va: Of debris and the search for and
turial Of dead :s being pressed in cvcrv
haps nontne before m accurate re
caP'tulation Of he storn;'s toll can
&c complied.
Unable 70 Identify B~dic%.
Bodies now being found arc in such
condition a. ; TO make mpoSs ible idcn
t'ication from faeia' features. and tho
necessity for prompt intcrmcnt results
in dependency on such uncertainties
as 'ra@nlcnts OF clothes or trinkets for
ct ctmpletin- Identification after buria
This accounts for the fact that Of IN.
2st bodies al-esdy reported buried
only ciEhty-two were identified and
IN soma Of those cases full names
were not ohtainablc 1t was declared
unof'ic!ally tonight a number Of bodies
not included ~ available figures ha
heen buried late today across Corpus
Christi Ray near Portland hut con-
f'rmat!on Of this will not be obtainahle
un.ii tomorrow. Bodies. almost entire
" those OF Corpus Christi victims. have
tccn found in the following places and
buried:
Corpus Christi ffty-f four: White
70 Mt. III: Rosita and Portland. eighty:
0dem and Sin'nn. eleven: Fort Aransas.
I'VE; Aransas, Pass. two and Rockport.
eight. The last three figures arc on
dead in those towns alone.