Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-19
TOTAL DEAD At
CORPUS CHRISTI
PROBABLY 500
$50, 100000 is Conservative E.s-
innate of the Financial
Loss.
S35O, 900 INSURANCE
WILL BE REALIZED
Every State and Every Important
City Asked for Aid-City In
able to Reconstruct
Itself

corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. 49,
Rapid growth of the death list result
ing from the hurricane and tidal wave
that swept Corpus Christi and nearby
points Sunday caused the belief
among relief workers and local Off
clals tonight that the total dead
would approximate 500 persons.
Much of the shore line Of Corpus
Christi and Nueces Bay has not
been penetrated by searchers, while
only a small proportion of the wreck
age In this city has been moved.
rms and the continued absence Of
many persons unheard from since the
storm, was responsible for the rising
estimate of fatalities.
A thorough survey of the demolish-
ed section of the city today by The
Associated Press correspondent show
ed block after block Of the beach resi-
dental section without a vestige of
the former beautiful homes that lined
Corpus Christi Bay from Star street
to the causeway at the tip of North
Beach.
In the downtown district, utter
demolition of some of the city's
most important industrial and public
plants marked an area extending for
SIX blocks along the water front, and
more than block in width, while by
that block, acting back toward the
bluff section, every commercial es-
adjustments first floor was wrecked
and in some cases the entire building
rendered useless over corresponding
area two blocks wide.
The tremendous property damage
IS becoming daily more apparent and
prominent business men and other
trained observers predicted tonight
that $20,000,000 would be conserva-
tive estimate Of the monetary loss in
Corpus Christi alone, on which, it
was reliably stated. not more than
$35O,OO0 insurance would be paid.
Outside Aid Asked.
Reconstruction Of the city is tenn
porarily in the background, civic
leaders agree, but the three or four
thousand persons homeless must be
cared for, and in most cases must be
provided Immediately with wearing
apparel, as a majority lost all per-
sonal effects.
To every governor in the United
States and to the mayors of many Of
the more important cities, kilograms
appealing for aid have been sent by
the relief committee, and all through
today responses poured in from every
quarter, promising every assistance
and in many cases forwarding money.
Rehabilitation of Corpus Christi,
it is becoming increasingly evident,
rests largely upon outside sources,
for so financially destructive was the
storm to local interests that it is adj
mitted by the city's foremost citizens
that not only on is own resources
could he city rebuild, at least for
number Of years, any considerable
part of the buildings destroyed.
Identify Few.
While the work of relief, clearing
away Of debris and the search, and
burial of dead poes forward with ev-
cry energy available, it may be
weeks, perhaps months, before an
accurate recapitulation of the storms
toll can be compiled.
Bodies now found are so decom-
posed as to make impossible identifi-
cation, from facial features and the
necessity for prompt interment re-
suits in dependency on such uncer-
tainties and fragments of clothes
or trinkets for completing identified
ton after burial. This accounts for
the fact that of the 284 bodies already
reported buried, only 80 were identi-
fled, and in some Of these cases, full
names were not obtainable.
1t was declared unofficially to-
night that number of bodies not in
cluded in available figures had been
buried late TODAY across Corpus
Christi Bay near Portland. but con-
firmation of this will not be obtain
able until tomorrow.
Bodies, almost entirely those of
Corpus Christi victims, have been
found in the following places, and
buried:
Corpus Christi. 81: White Point,
121; Rosita and Portland, 80; Odem
and Sinton II: Port Arkansas s: Aran-
sas Pass 2 and Rockport 8. The last
three figures are on dead in those
towns alone.
Yacht Crew Safe.
Corpus. Christi, Tex, Sept. 49,
Members of a pleasure party aboard
the launch Waldo, which left here
Friday afternoon, reported their safe
| tv today on Mustang Island. after a
thrilling battle with the hurricane
which swept this vicinity Sunday.
| Seamen Are Saved.
New York, Sept. 18.-Captain Viii.
kins and six members of the schooner
Maud H. Dudley which was abandoned
/ off the Cuban coast after being wreck.
ed in the hurricane last week. ar