The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-09-15
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TOWN is WIPED
OUT COMPLETELY
BY A HURRICANE.
Report Serious Damage In Sun
day Gulf Storm.
Port AransaS Demolished,
Wireless Message Says.
FEAR CORPUS GHRISTPS FATE
No Mention Made of City, Sup
posed Center of Storm.
Ship Thrown Up On Dock
Brownsville Is Safe.
DANGER is BELIEVED OVER
Think Wind VIII Spend Fury
in Mexico Mountains.
Damage Will Total Hundreds of
Thousands of Dollars.
Ship Thrown Up On Dock
Brownsville Is Safe.
DANGER IS BELIEVED OVER
Think Wind viii Spend Fury
in Mexico Mountains.
Damage Will Total Hundreds of
Thousands of Dollars.
BULLETIN.


sOEs are believed to have been
drowned at Corpus Christi as the re-
suit OF the hurricane there yesterday,
IL was learned at y. m. today when
wire communication with that city
wns restored mOmeatarlIy.
IL was said the water had reached
TO the second story of some buildings
in the business section and the down.
town section was reported under mar
tial law. Tho information was re-
celved over the telephone.
Reports of serious damage
caused by the tropical hurricane
along the lower Texas gulf
coast Sunday were received to-
day by wireless indicating the
center of the disturbance struck
at or near Corpus Christi, Texas,
which early this afternoon was
cut off from wire communica-
tion.
A wireless message picked up
at Houston, believed = have
been sent from a ship, reported
that Port Arkansas, which is
about 25 miles from Corpus
Christi, had been completely
demolished" includin.. the Gus
toms office. The message was
signed by the deputy collector of
customs for Port Aransas and
Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi's Fate Doubtful.
There were no definite reports of
life loss in Port Aransas. and as no
mention was made of Corpus Christi.
the situation there is in doubt. About
500 persons live at Port Aransas, but
II was thought most of them had made
their way inland to places OF greater
safety.
Fears Of extensive damage at
Brownsville which has been cut off
from wire communication since early
Sunday, were allayed early this morn
ing when the Associated Press re-
ceived a dispatch via army radio say
ing loss was slight and due entirely
10 n high wind
The wireless dispatches to the Asso-
ciated Press transmitted from Fort
Brown to southern department head
quarters at Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio. we're the only communica-
tions to be had today with Browns
Vile and followed a similarly relayed
dispatch last night. Brownsville also
reported Point Isabel. near here, had
not been seriously damaged.
telegraph and telephone companies
today took up the task of untangling
the wire systems in the Texas gulf
coast section from Corpus Christi to
Brownsville. where yesterday a tropi-
cal hurricane. sweeping in from the
gulf severed wire communication.
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The last word received from
Brownsville was an Associated Press
dispatch, via Army wireless at Fort
Sam Houston. at San Antonio. late
Sunday night. 1t referred to condi-
tions obtaining up to 4 p. m, Sunday,
when the wind had attained a velocity
Of forty miles an hour and 1t was rain
ing in torrents.
Three Feet of Water in Hotel
Corpus Christi. isolated completely
since $3.50 p. m, Sunday. apparently
sustained considerable property dam
age from flood waters, which had
risen to a height OF six feet in the
street before communication was
terminated. The water was three feet
deep in the city's principal hotel.
Galveston. hit by the edge of the
storm and saved from serious DANA ge
by its sea wall, apparently had vir.
tually recovered today from the ef.
fects Of the hurricane, which sent tho
tidewater backing into the bushes:
district 20 depth OF three feet. Elk
cept fos 'Suspensica OF street car serv-
ice the 5.Ey's public utilities came thru
intact.
Two Islands Submerged.
In the brief Brownsville dispatch b,
army wireless Padre Island and Bra
zos Island, off Point Isabel, abou
twenty-five miles from Brownsville
were reported under water Sunda,
noon. but the town OF Point Isabel VI
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