Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-09-27
The STORM DEATH
LIST INCREASES
Recovery of Bodies Daily
Runs Death List into the
Hundreds.

| Fuller reports received to date from
the devastated storm area of which
| Corpus Christi, Texas, was the center
only serves to swell the death roll OF
| Sundays hurricane of September IA,
and confirm earlier estimates that the
total property damage will exceed
$20,O00,OOO.
1t is daily becoming more apparent
! that the destruction wrought by the
storm will surpass all previous est-
mates, both as to life and property, as
news filtering in from the surrounding
country with the partial resumption OF
wire communications continues to en-
phasize the appalling magnitude OF the
catastrophe.
Plans for dragging Nueces Bay for
| bodies known to be held in the large
amount of wreckage still floating in
the back waters are being discussed,
though the physical difficulties of the
task may prevent it's fruition.
It is now believed that there is little
hope of recIaiming the additional vic
| Tins, and the conviction is growing
that the final chapters in the terrible
disaster must be written with the total
death list locked in the waters OF
| Nueces and Corpus Christi bays.
A final check of the storm dead,
according to latest figures obtainable
| is as follows:
Buried at Corpus Christi, 68.
| Buried On north shore Nueces Bay
1S9.
| Dead at Rockport, 8.
| Dead at Port Aransas, 5.
| Dead at Arkansas Pass, 3.
| Total, 274.
Following is revised list of known
dead at Corpus Christi: Mrs. Rosa
RobiRett, tourist, home unknown; Mrs.
Paker, wife of the proprietor of Pavil-
ion Hotel, which was swept away;
| Jacob Born, son of A. E. Born, prom
| inent in automobile circles; W. L.
| Mitchell, address unknown; Unidenti-
| fled white baby, months old; H.
4 fPrater, city policeman, drowned while
engaged in rescue work; three uniden-
| titled bodies of girls, ranging from
| 5 to Is years of age; F. w. O'Connor,
| local newspaper man; three unidenti-
| fled Mexicans; Mr.. and Mrs. T. A
! Davise, daughter and unknown lady
| guest; daughter of John Martinez,
| North Beach, 10 years old; Elofi Flo
| fiela, Mexican boy, II or IA years old,
| North Beach; son and daughter of Ed
| ward Richmond, proprietor of local
| shoe repairing shop, aged IL and 8,
respectively; unidentified white girl,
| 10 or II years of age; three women
| and two girls under 10 years of age,
unidentified; Mrs. r. B. BoWden and
| two children, Corpus Christi; Mr.. and
Mrs. L. E. Waters, Corpus Christi;
| Mrs. Alva Carter and children, ad-
dress unknown; Mexican nurse of Mrs.
Bowden's children; Hal Spyx, Harris
| burg, Tex; Miss Brock, aged IL years
Corpus Christi; baby, year old, found
at White Point; woman, q years old,
| found at White Point, believed to be
wife of Captain Edgland, Company 1,
37th Infantry; Antonne Anderson,
Company l, 37th Infantry; Mrs. c. C.
Hayden, Corpus Christi; girl, name
believed to be Nichols; Mrs. WassoR
and two children; Anderson, soldier,
Identification number 496650.
! At Rockport, dead: Mr.. and Mrs.
Lytle and child; four Mexicans; ne
/ H,.lla nnIprnE
about 80 years old, cook at Spohn
Sanitarium; Private Dial, Company /,
| 37th Infantry; Anna Moore, white, OF
| Corpus Christi; Captain B. NJ. Ege-
| land in command of Company |, 37th
| Infantry, stationed at the soldiers
rest camp here. His home is in Web
ster, S. D.; Zachariah D. Kapsiotim,
Horizon, Pitsota, supply company, 37th
| Infantry; two unidentified women, one
unidentified white man, one identified
white boy and one unidentified color
ed girl; Miss Margaret Mutually OF
Corpus Christi; Miss Rossie Miller OF
Beeville; body found at Portland; four
unidentified women and three uniden-
titled men; Miss Veta r. Adamson and
Amos Moore, Corpus Christi.
Fifteen hundred homes, stretching
along the beach for twenty-three
blocks at Corpus Christi, were crush
ed and hurled away or wrecked by the
tidal wave, which reached depth Of
fifteen feet in some places. Over
much of the beach section not an in
/ dinat;op of foruap hamns now re-
mains, except here and there q bath
tub or part of brick chimney.
From Start street, where the busi-
ness section on the beach terminated.
to Dan Reid street every one OF the
900 beach homes has been destroyed.
most of them beyond trace, while here
and there mourning palm tree. hang
| ing low its oiLbegrimed leaves, marks
the spot of some former show place. s.