The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-09-16

to an estimate today by Dr. w. E. Wills city health
physician.
Corpus Christi Tex. Sept 16.-With troops patrol
ling the main streets and relief trains headed this way
from of the state Corpus Christi today began
slowly emerging from the wreckage caused by the gulf
hurricane which struck this city early Sunday bringing
death to unknown number of persons and doing prop
erty damage of millions.
twas impossible this morning to get anything like
correct estimate of the fatalities In the city proper
death list placed at between Is and 25 but that
regarded by many as far conservative In quar-
ers, it said, the number of injured would exceed 2OO
One report in circulation today but unconfirmed,
that 120 bodies most of them recognized residents
OF corpus Christi mad been taken from reef near Port.
situated.
More than 5000 persons were made homeless by the
storm
Considerable anxiety expressed regarding the
fate of the launch Waldo with Is which
left Corpus Christi Saturday afternoon on a fishing
excursion Since the storm word has been received
from the party which included four women
Fears entertained that heavy casualty list will
be reported from surrounding towns of which
were directly in the path of the storm.
CRUDE OIL IN WATER
One of the most dsagreab features in the connection with
the storm was that the water which poured the city became
coated with crude oil from wrecked oil barrels and storage
cay when the oil filled their eyes noses Many persons
taken from the water Were black from the greasy fluid
along the business district few attempts of oong
AS the waters began recedng sorekeepers
and started clearing wreckage from their places
Volunteers this morning began the work of clearing the
streets Wreckage OF will
the housebas fishing craft and floats every description
piled high in all of the main thoroughfares.
(By Associated Press)
Mounting rapidly reports from heretofore isolated sections
began ckng n the death list the result of the tropical hur
rcane which Sunday swept the Texas gulf and around
Corpus Christi varousy placed at from 70 to $50 today
Just what the storms toll is probably will not be known
several days. Reports show bodies of victims scattered
points along the Neucus and Corpus Christi bay compilation
giving the total recovered at several points at 70.
The victims found along the bay shore believed be
largely from Corpus Christi their bodies having been whed
Of
wave that swept in on 60-mie gale early Sunday.
Reports from Ode Texas that the situation Corpus
Christi serious and the of Snton north
been gathered in schoohouse five miles from Sinton.
returned last night from Corpus Christi said the number of dead
at Port Arkansas and Portland might reach 1000 and that 1T
estimated that 200 to 300 bodies have ded bay
from Corpus Christi and other points.
There way of confirming this report but seemed
discounted in view of the fact that the Associated Press
leased wire communication with Corpus Christi up o'clock
this morning and at that hour officials of the city newspaper
still of the belief that the death list in the city would
not exceed 25.
probably will be impossible to count the Corpus Christi
dead until the Wreckage tering the streets cleared away
By Associated Press)
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