The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-09-25
500 DEAD In
GULF STORM
South Dakota Officer and Bride Vic.
Tins Of Storm

Corpus Christi, Tex, Sept. 22.-Ra-
pid growth of the death list resulting
from the hurricane and tidal wave that
swept Corpus Christi and nearby
points Sunday caused the belief amon5
relief workers and local officials to-
night that the total dead would APP
proximate five hundred persons.
Much of the shore line of Corpus
Christi and Nueces Bays has not been
penetrated by s%earchers while only a
small proportion of the wreckage hero
has been removed. This and the con-
tinued absence of many persons un-
heard of since the storm was respon-
, sible for the rising estimate of fatal
tiles.
A survey of the demolished section
of the city today by an Associated
Press correspondent showed block af-
ter block of the beach residence sec
ton without a vestige of the former
beautiful homes that lined Corpus
Christi Bay.
In the downtown district utter de-
molition of some of the city's most
important industrial and public plants
marked al area extending for six
blocks along the waterfront and more
than a block in width, while beyond
that block extending back toward the
bluff section, every commercial estab-
lishment's first floor was wrecked and
in some cases the entire building rend-
cred useless, over a corresponding
area two blocks wide
Business men predicted tonight that
twenty million dollars would be a
conservative estimate of the monetary
loss in Corpus Christi alone, on which
it was reliably estimated. not more
than $3.50, 900 insurance would he paid.
To YER governor in the United
States and to the mayors of many of
the important cities, kilograms appeal
ing for aid have been sent by the re-
lief committee and all through today
responses poured in from every quar-
ter, promising every assistance and in
many cases forwarding money.
Corpus Christi. Sept. 22.-Romance
and dramatic thrills, rivaling tales Of
the movies are found in the expert
ences of many of last Sundays storm
survivors only now being %recoun.et rs
communication is resored with points
where they were rescued.
There is and pathos, too, III
the passing of some of the storm VIC
TINS, as in the case of the death of
Captain and Mrs. b. NJ. Egeland, not
far from the army rest camp site
where Captain Egeland was in COM
mand.
With two soldiers, Captain Egeland
and his wife had started wading
through the rapidly rising water, Mrs.
| Egeland wearing the only life belt
available. according to accounts given
by persons declared to have been near.
Captain Egeland. when water got
beyond their depth was so fatigued he
was unable to keep aroat and seeing
his plight, his wife threw away her
life preserver, placed her arms about
him and together they we're swept out
into the bay.
Both bodies have been recovered and
two officers left today for Session, Tex
as to disinter hat of Mrs. Egeland
which will be sent to her home in
Webster. South Dakota
We're On Honeymoon
Aberdeen, S. d., Sept. 22.-Captain
Egeland, of Webster, who was killed
in the storm that swept over the Texas
coast last Sunday, was the youngest
of four boys and two girls of a prom
inent family of Webster. He came to
the Mexican border with the old fourth
South Dakota infantry in 1916 as a
private and went t. France with Am
erican troops in 1917. While over
there he was promoted to the rank of
captain.
Captain and Mrs Egeland were on
their honeymoon, the captain being
a.