The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-26
GULF TIDAL SEA
TOLL OF DEATH
Brig. Gen. VOTERS Wires From
Houston, Tex, Loss of Life
May Be 1000.
DAMAGE REACHES MILLIONS.
Corpus Christi Scene Of Devastation.
Relief Sent by Tralns-Texas Low
lands Inundated and Wreckage
Sent 20 Miles Inland.

Corpus Christi, Tex-Reports con-
corning the loss of life and the damage
to property caused by the great storm
and tidal wave which swept the Gulf
coast Sunday night are still very
meager, but from available informa-
ion it is estimated that at least 200
persons have been killed and that
many million dollars worth of prop
erty has been destroyed.
Dispatches from various Texas
cities, however, place the number of
estimated dead in the entire district
as high as 1000, a message to that
effect having been received at Austin
from the commanding officer of the
Texas National Guard, Brig. Gen. j.
f. VOTERS, who wired that reliable in
formation to that effect had been re-
ceived mt Houston.
Twenty-Five bodies had been re-
covered from the ruins that line the
waterfront of Corpus Christi by noon,
with every indication that this number
would be enlarged greatly before all
the debris had been cleared away
and all of the district thoroughly
searched Forty are reported to have
been killed at West Port, twenty-five
at White Point. and four or five in the
vicinity of Odem.
Reports have been received here
that fifty persons are dead between
Portland and Taft, twenty-six of the
dead having been taken to various
ranch houses in the district. This
information was brought to Corpus
Christi by Ed Morgan, who came
across Neuces Bay from Portland by
boat. and who said also that there are
a number of persons marooned at
various points and cannot be rescued
until the waters have receded.
despatch from Sinton stated that
seventy bodies have been recovered
in that section.
A military relief train from Browns
VILE bringing 5000 rations and 1000
beds, reached here under command of
Lieut. r. NJ. Eichelsdorfer, aid to
Brig. Gen f. c. Marshall, commander
of the Brownsville district, and a
way. But in spite of the arrival of
this train and that of other trains
from Kingsville and Robstown, the
food and housing situation in Corpus
Christi is still serious
Thousands of persons lost every
thing they possessed in the way of prop
prty and personal belongings, and
ing but the clothes they had on their
backs. Many are clad in bathing suits.
Several city bakeries resumed Oper-
atoms and their entire output is be-
ing turned over to the Red Cross for
distribution. Churches and public and
private buildings that escaped damage
from the storm have been placed at
the disposal of the various relief com
mittecs organized to care for the home
less and the hungry.
Communication Of all kinds in and
out of Corpus Christi is still practically
paralyZed. Trains are being run over
only one railroad, the st. Louis,
Brownsville and Mexico, and hundreds
of persons are besieging the telegraph
and telephone offices awaiting an OPP
portunity to send word of their safety
ia their friends and relatives outside.
Only the most meager reports of
the damage to crops and property
have been received here In Corpus
Christi the damage is enormous, the
whole waterfront for distance of
more than twenty blocks being a scene
of desolation and destruction. In
formation received from the surround
ing country tells a uniform story of
heavy damage to the cotton crop.
While farmers for the last few weeks
have been making vigorous efforts to
gather the rapidly opening crop, it is
estimated officially that at least
third of the cotton was still unpicked
Hundreds of cattle and other live
stock, as well as thousands Of birds
and other game, We're drowned or
killed by the storm.