Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-09-27

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pear reasonable in view of the sixty
one recoveries at West Portland,
which is said to be eight miles from
the edge of the bay.
The figures for White Point are dis
puted by man arriving from there,
who said he helped in the burials and
that before he left the total of bodies
recovered reached 1873.
The bodies recovered to date, vic
Tins of last Sundays hurricane which
bit Texas. is as follows:
At Corpus Christi, ITS.
At White Point, 1O1.
At West Portland, 81.
| At Odem, IL.
At Portland (unofficiaD, 60.
At Rockport, 8.
| At Port Arkansas, z.
At Arkansas Pass, /.
Total, 424.
Following is revised list of known
/ dead at Corpus Christi: Mrs. Rosa
Robinett. tourist, home unknown; Mrs.
Paker, wife of the proprietor of Pavil-
lon Hotel, which was swept away;
Jacob Born, son of A. e. Born, prom
lRent in automobile circles; w. L.
Mitchell, address unknown; Unidenti-
fled white baby, months old; H.
Prater, city policeman, drowned while
engaged in rescue work; three uniden-
titled bodies Of girls, ranging from
to 10 years of age; F. w. O'Connor,
local newspaper man; three unidenti-
fled Mexicans; Mr. and Mrs. T. "A.
Davise, daughter and unknown lady
guest; daughter of John Martinez,
North Beach, 10 years old; Elofi Flo
fiela, Mexican boy, IL or IA years old,
North Beach; son and daughter of Ed.
ward Richmond, proprietor of a local
shoe repairing shop, aged IL and 6,
respectively; unidentified white girl.
10 or - years of age; three women
and two girls under 10 years of age,
unidentified Mrs. r. B. Bowden and
two children, Corpus Christi; Mr.. and
Mrs. L. E. Waters, Corpus Christi;
Mrs. Alva Carter and children, ad-
dress unknown; Mexican nurse of Mrs.
Bowden's children Hal Spyx, Harris
burg, Tex; Miss Brock, aged IA years
Corpus Christi; baby, 1 year old, found
at White Point; woman, 81 years old,
found at White Point, believed to be
wife of Captain England, Company /,
37th Infantry; Antoine Anderson,
Company L. 37th Infantry; Mrs. G. c.
Hayden, Corpus Christi; girl, name
believed to be Nichols; Mrs. WATSON
and two children; Anderson, soldier,
Identification number 4966j0.
AT Rockport, dead: Mr.. and Mrs
Lyle and child; four Mexicans; ne
gress; Donnie Mullen, colored woman,
about 80 years old, cook lat Spohn
Sanitarium; Private Dial, Company l,
37th Infantry; Anna Moore white, of
Corpus Christi Captain B. M. Eye
land in command of Company l, 37th
Infantry, stationed at the soldiers
rest camp here. His home is in Web
ster, S. D.; Zachariah D.. Kapsiotim,
Horizon, Pitsota, supply company, 37th
Infantry; two unidentified women, one
unidentified white man, one identified
white hoy and one unidentified color
cd girl; Miss Margaret Mutually of
Corpus Christi; Miss Rossie Miller of
Beeville; body found at Portland; four
unidentified women and three uniden-
titled men; Miss Veta R. Adamson and !
Amos Moore, Corpus Christi.
Fifteen hundred homes, stretching
along the beach for twenty-three
blocks at Corpus Christi, were crush
ed and hurled away or wrecked by the
tidal wave, which reached a depth of
fifteen feet in some places Over |
much Of the beach section not an in |
dication OF former homes now re-
mains, except here and there a bath |
tub or part Of a brick chimney.
From Start street, where the bust
ness section on the beach terminated,
to Dan Reid street every one OF the
80 beach homes has been destroyed,
most Of them beyond trace, while here
AID there q mourning palm tree. hang.
inE lev its Oii.begrimed leaves. marks
the spOt Of some former show place,
In othls section. the bay line has
changed. the water having established
a new Ane varying from fifty to zoe
feet inland from the former position.
This change extends from the business
district to the end Of the north beach
and cat as far as Carroll street.