The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-09-18
MANY DIE IN STORM
At CORPUS CHRISTI
1000 HOMELESS AND PROPERTY
DAMAGE $3,OOO,OOO.
Scores of Persons Floating on Debris
Being Rescued - Supplies
Rushed In.

Being Rescued - Supplies
Rushed IN.
Houston, Texas, Sept. 15-Late to-
night a telephone message received
here from Beeville stated that 120
bodies had been found on a roof eight
miles from Portland, near White
Point. Most Of the dead the message
said had been recognized as residents
of Corpus Christi.
Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept Is
From fifteen t6 twenty-five persons
are dead, approximately 1000 are
homeless and property damage, it is
estimated, will reach $4,000,000 as
result of the tropical hurricane
which ragged here for twenty hours
from Saturday night until Monday
night.
The city is in distress and Mayor
Gordon Boone has sent the followiI;
appeal to Governor Hobby, in All
tin.
please send at once two compa-
nies of National Guard, with supplies,
and join in an appeal for financial
assistance. Condition here deplorable
and immediate help needed"
Court House q Morgue.
The court house is being used as a
morgue. At least score Of perso
are afloat in Neuces Bay tonight,
where they were washed out by the
waves. They were clinging to spart
and debris and what few boats were
left undamaged in the storm were
being used tonight to recover them|
The city is without drinking wat
er. There were no lights or gas to-
night and tha food supply was insult
ficient. Unless help reaches here to-
morrow morning there will be Sc
rious suffering, it is feared.
The railroad to the causeway has
been washed away, but the town can
be reached from the west. Word was
received tonight that train is COM
ing from st. Louis, Brownsville and
Mexico. 1t was believed supplies could
be sent from Laredo.
The entire North beach residential
section of the city has been swept
clean, except the Spohn Sanitarium,
the United States Public Health Ser
vice hospital. which was occupied by
thirty-seven soldiers sent here for
treatment,a nd one frame dwelling
house.
Practically every frame building
on the beach, front of the city was de-
stroyed together with nOst Of the
boats moored there. The residence
section on the hill was slightly dam
aged and few. houses were unroof-
ed.
The damage was caused mostly by
the tidal wave driven from the
north by a gale, estimated at from
sixty-five to seventy miles an hour.
The official record of the tide places
it at ten feet and sixty inches.
Chapparal and Mesquite streets in
the business district, were flooded,
and while the water has receded to-
night they are filled, with debris.
Soldiers are on duty.
The storm started Saturday night
with a light breeze from the north,
steadily increasing in intensity, while
the tide rose rapidly. There is no
life-saving station here and when 1t
became evident that the north beach
section was in danger, scores of vol
unteers plunged through the surf and
assisted occupants of the cottages to
safety.
Austin, Texas, Sept. 15-Twenty-
five or more persons are dead in Cor
pus Christi, according to MESA ge
from former Mayor Miller, of that
city to headquarters of the Southern
Department. U. S. A, at San Antonio,
and forwarded to the State Adjutant
Generals department here late to-
day.
5000 persons homeless and in need
of supplies, and property damage
reaching 100000.
Governor Hobby has requested
jor Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, COM
mander Of the Southern Department,
70 send rations co.'s G;,a blankets to
Corpus Christi. This request was
because supplies at San Antonio are
urisTh. c easi pq wsor4tih,e t
the nearest to the stricken town.
The Governor also dispatched three
Texas Rangers to Corpus Christi with
instructions to get into the town and
send back a report on conditions
there. The adjutant's department
says military guard will be rushed
to Corpus Christi if the report of
these rangers is that one is needed.
The Governor also has begun or
ganization of a State relief commits
sion.