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keepsakes found on the bodies of
the victims are being preserved and
filed with the county recorder in the
hope they may later be of use to
relatives and friends as means of
Identification.
A military airplane circled over
Corpus Christi and over Port Aran-
sas yesterday afternoon and re-
ported that many bodies could be
discerned at Port Arkansas, but that
landing was impossible because
of the high water.
Twenty Soldiers Missing.
Military officials were exerting
every resource today to ascertain the
fate OF 20 or more soldiers who were
washed out into the bay while the
storm was at its height and of whom
there has been found no trace. The
men, members of Company I, 37th
infantry, and other regiments on
border duty, were at the government
rest camp here for a weekend fur
Tough when the camp was washed
away.
Capt. B. NJ. Egeland Of Webster.
S. D., camp commander, wa
drowned during the storm, and his
wife also is believed to have lost
her life.
Attempts were being made today
to rig out several sailboats to cross
Nueces bay to rescue Is persons
who are reported in desperate
straits at White Point.
A written message from Judge P.
A. Hunter of Rocita, Tex, was
brought into Corpus Christi today,
saying rs bodies were at White
Point and that rs refugees there
were starving.
Wreckage Hides Bodies.
That there are several acres Of
wreckage floating in back waters of
Nueces bay that will yield large
number of storm victims when the
high waters recede sufficiently to
permit searching parties to approach
is an unofficial report made tonight
by one of the military aviators from
Kelly field, San Antonio, sent here
to aid in scouting. A number of
islands in the bay also are covered
with debris which probably hides
many additional bodies, the aviator
said.
Tomorrow the planes will start
scouting over the entire bay section
about Corpus Christi, Port Arkansas,
Arkansas pass, Rockport, Portland,
White Point, Rosita and Odem. Re-
ports will be furnished rescuing par
ties which will be equipped with
boats.
Thirty pounds Of yeast for local
use were dropped here today by an
airplane from Kelly field. On &C
count of muddy fields the ship did
not land.
Tremendous Damage.
Austin, Tex, Sept. H.-Rockport
and Port Arkansas suffered tremen-
dous damage and need outside as
Stance Immediately, according to
delayed appeals from those cities
received today by Governor w. P.
Hobby. Three lives were known
to have been lost at Rockport, one
at Arkansas Pass and four at Port
Arkansas. The governor announced
that a relief train will be started
from Austin within the next few
hours.
The appeals came to the governor
in two kilograms, dated p. m, Sep
TENDER 10, and said IS per cent of
the dwellings at Rockport had been
completely wrecked, Port Arkansas
practically destroyed, and Arkansas
Pass badly wrecked, with half the
population homeless.
Schooner Wrecked.
Rockland, Me-, Sept. 1.-THE
three-masted schooner Hugh De-
payens was wrecked between Flor
ida and Cuba by the recent hurri-
cane, according to radio message
received today by L. L. Snow COM
pany, the owners, from the Cuban |
steamer Olinda.
Captain Atwood B. Norton of |
Rockland and the crew of six men |
were taken off by the Olinda. The |
steamer was bound from Mobile for |
Ponce, Porto Rico, with lumber.