Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-16
OBOdic Are
Reported Found
In Nueces Bay
People Blackened With Oil
From Ships That Were
Wrecked. 4
,~,., $3.50
Merchandise Scattered is in
All Parts of Corpus
Christi.

All Parts Of Corpus
Christi.
Mounting rapidly as reports
from heretofore isolated sections
began tickling in, the death list
as The result of the tropical hur-
ftcnne, which Sunday swept the
Texas gulf coast Al and around
Corpus Christi, was variously
placed at from. seventy to $50 to-
day. 5
just what the. storn's toll. is,
probably win not be known for
several days. Reports show
bodies Of victims found at scat
tered points along the Neuces and
Corpus Christi bay, one compila-
ton giving the total recovered at
several points as seventy.
The victims found along the
bay shores were believed to be
largely from Corpus Christi their
bodies having been whirled away
from the city by the receding
waters of the ten foot tidal wave
that swept in on q sixty-mile z4ie
early Sunday.
Reports from Odem, Texas.
were that the situation in Corpus
Christi was increasingly serious''
and the mayor of Sinton, North
OF Corpus Christi reported the
bodies Of twenty-one storm. VIC
TINS had been gathered in a
school house five miles from Sim
ton.
Another report. from Odem was
that a DR.. w. G. Reinhart, who
returned last night from Corpus
Christi, said the number of dead
there, at Port Arkansas and FORT
land, might reach 1000 and that
ut was estiated that 200 to- 500
bodies have drifted across the
bay from Corpus .CS..su and
other points.
There was no way OF confirm
ing this report but 1t seemed dis
counted in view of the fact that
p Associated Press was in leas-
cd wire communication with, Cor
pus Christi up to 5 O'Clock, this
morning. and at that hour bfac-
ials Of the city and neWspt6per-
men still were d" the 1belted that
the death list hstas eyIaavnld
tataek. ~.
EIprobsbly w1il be 1n,sessaptc
until the wrcc3ages gasdSaanx TIE
the streets hxs been. cleared
:. away. !,
Corpus Christi, Tex, Sept. re-
With troops patrolling the mai
and refief trains headed thi
way from many parts of the state
Corpus Christi today began slowl
emerging from the wreckage cause
w. the gulf hurricane which struc
he city early Sunday bringing deaf
% an unknown number Of person
md doing property damage of mil
ions.
1t was impossible this morning t
get anything like a correct .estimat
# the fatalities. In the city prope
he death list was placed at betwee.
Is and 25, but that was regarded
~ many as far too conservative. I
some quarters it "a said the mum
of injured would exceed 200.
100 Believed Dead.
One report in circulation today, bu
lnconfirmed. was that 100 bodie!
most of them recognized as resident
- Nv pOo ILL AotAS AAAu y OOGll ldnC
rom a reef near Portland, on Nuece
BAY, upon which Corpus Christi is sit
More than 5000 persons were mad
homeless by the storm and the prob
officials faced when they began tn
lay.
Considerable anxiety was expresse
the fate Of the launch, Wa
TO-, with Is persons on board whic
eft Corpus Christi Saturday after
loon on a fishing excursion. Sine
the party which included fou
women. Fears VI entertained tina
! heavy casualty list will be reporte
rom surrounding towns, several q
were directly in the path Of tn
storm.
Hundreds of civilians were to b
yesterday wading in water alon
-happarral and Mesquite streets, as
refugees to leave houses an
in those localities.
People Black With OIL
One Of the most disagreeable fes
vas that the water which poured up
IN the city became coated with crud
ol from wrecked oil barrels, tank
Ind storage basins along the ba
'front.'. Women, and children suffere
when the oil filled thei
eyes and noses. Many persons lake
from the water we're black from tn
greasy f1nid.
Although thousands Of dollar
of merchandise were strew
about the business district, few or n
lttempts At footing were to -be seer
As soon rs the waters began reced
storekeepers appeared and start
ID clearing away wreckageS fror
heir places.
Volunteers this morning began til
work Of clearing the streets, OF wreck
lxe. The removal Of debris will TAX
Dome time as houseboats, fishin
cfafk and flotsam Of every descrip
lion is piled high in all of. the mai
Ehoroughfares.
Wreckage also is piled high aroun
The sBpohn sanatarium near the mort
beach district where more than 2
refugees were rescued yesterday b
beach were included in the number
haying fled there from their home
a escapel the rising waters. Sewers
we're severely injured.
Hundreds OF persons were com
palled to spend Sunday In the coul
hoase, federal building and othe
structures. Manysof them wer
nm there last night, food and waite
beinf provided them by hastily or
raniSed Red Cross. committees.
sINTON SENDS REI1IEF.
SIMON. Texas, sept. 1S.-Sinton |
lctine Is the relief headquarters 20
he entire surrounding hay SHORE tel
atory whore already seventy bodie
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