The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-15
TROPICAL STORM
FLOODS GALVESTON
Hit by Edge of Violent Gale
That Sweeps Texas Gulf
Coast for a Week.
STREETS LIKE CARNIVAL
Telegraph, Phones and Trains
Affected-No Lives Lost
and Loss Not Heavy.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. ii.-Driving furi-
ously into the Texas coast, principally
in the section southwest of Galveston.
the tropical hurricane that has skirted
the United States Gulf coast for nearly
week apparently has swept inland
near the Mexican border.
Wire communication was interrupted
In most of the affected area and the
extent Of the storm damage could not
be learned accurately tonight. There
were no reports of fatalities.
Brownsville and Corpus Christi APP
parently felt the brunt Of the storm,
which weather bureau officials believe
has passed on into Mexico. where 1t will
be dissipated in the Mexican mountains.
Galveston, where considerable anxiety
had been felt, apparently was struck
by the edge of the storm, and the city
was saved from any considerable dam
age by the powerful sea wall constructed
after the 1900 disaster.
Water was reported to a depth of
six feet in sections Of Corpus Christi
Information received by the weather bu-
reau at San Antonio said the water was
three feet deep in the lobby of Corpus
Christi hotel.
Earlier reports to-day from Corpus
Christi told of considerable damage done
by a sixty-five mile gale which swept
away signs and awnings and drove resi-
dents of outlying districts to the greater
security of brick and stone buildings
down town.
Isolation of Brownsville was complete
tonight so far as wire communication
was concerned. the only information
coming from that city being contained
in a brief wireless despatch from Fort
Brown to Southern Department head
quarters of the army at San Antonio re-
porting a seventy-ive mile wind at 4
p. NJ
Ttdewater Enters Galveston.
The storm struck Galveston early to-
day and caused the tidewater to flood
the business section and the north side
of the island to a depth of three feet.
The sea wall withstood the onslaught
of the pounding waves, however. and
there was no damage to the causeway
connecting the city with the mainland.
Tonight most of the water had re-
ceded from Galveston's streets, although
an area OF several blocks still ran with
water to the curb top. Merchants de-
clared their loss was not great. GAL
weston marine circles had no reports
of shipping loss.
The United States Weather Bureau
issued bulletin late to-day saying the
danger to Galveston had passed, but
urging caution because of the high wind.
With the exception OF the street car
system. which was forced to suspend
service early in the day, all public util-
tiles came through the storm intact.
! A number of refugees accepted shelter
! in Office buildings. Others were housed
in the County Court House, the Public
Library ana city schools.
| Water was standing in Market street,
! centre of the business section. when
7 some stores were thrown open and emer-
gency workers began carrying merchant
disc to top floors. The work was An
( ished before the water entered the build
! ings. Wheat and other grain stored in
elevators awaiting export had been
moved to the mainland for two days, and
( II was said there was little left to be
damaged. More than one hundred train
loads of wheat were hauled out yester-
day.
BY noon the streets presented a car
nival like appearance. Motor and sail
boats, skiffs wagons and buggies
moved back and forth and number of
negroes astride large timbers poled their
unwieldly craft along.
! the streets arm in arm. Fastldiously
dressed women also swished about in
water to their waists while the rain fell
/ in torrents
| Phones ana Trains Affected.
| Telegraph and telephone companies
lest their connections with Corpus Christi
and other points south of Victoria. Tex,
at 3 80 p. NJ, to-day, after their employ
ees had stayed until the water in Cor
pus Christi had reached a depth of six
feet, causing the electric power plant to
| suspend.
| A San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
train which left Corpus Christi for Rock
port at A. NJ. to-day was declared TO
be somewhere in the path OF The HURT
cane, according to general officers of
the railroad at San Antonio.
| A southbound train from San An
tonic to Corpus Christi, which left the
former city early to-day. reached Sinton.
! Tex, at o'clock this afternoon. The
superintendent OF the division notified
! headquarters that he saw the front of
| the Commercial Hotel at Sinton blown
in by a sixty mile gale. He ordered the
train back to San Antonio.
Traffic on the ST. Louis, Brownsville
and Mexico Railroad lines south of San
| Antonio into the Rio Grande Valley was
suspended indefinitely.
TAMPA, Fla, Sept, 1.-THE 1857 ton
{ oil barge Monongahela, which broke
| loose from the tank steamer Ligonier
in the storm Tuesday night. Is reported
I anchored off SIND Key. The tug Sena-
tor Bailey will go to the rescue. Four
| teen people were on board the Monon-
gahela, which was reported as lost with
all hands in the Gulf hurricane
BELGIAN VICTIMS PROTEST.