Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-15
GULF STORM BL0TS
OUT PORT ARKANSAS


BY The Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex. September 10
Port Arkansas. twenty-five miles from
Corpus Christi on the upper end of
Mustang Island, was completely de :
molished by the hurricane Sunday, ac-
cording to a wireless message picked
up here today, which read: Port
Aransas completely demolished by
hurricane. Custom office and all rec
ords lost"
The message is the first direct word
from what is believed to have been
the center of the tropical disturbance
that swept inland from the Gulf of
Mexico Sunday between Corpus
Christi and Brownsville.
The radio is believed to have been
from ship, the signature being that
OF Capt. Luther, deputy collector of
customs for Port Arkansas and Corpus
Christi.
Port Arkansas has a population of ap-
proximately six hundred persons and
is a more exposed location than
Corpus Christi. where $4,000 live
DALLAS, Tex, September 15,-Ef-
forts were renewed here today to
restore wire communication with
Brownsville and Corpus Christi Tex,
two points believed to have received
the brunt of the tropical hurricane
that yesterday swept inland along
the lower Texas coast and then moved
INTO MEXICO, where. weather bureau
officials believe, it will spend its fury
IN the Mexican mountains.
Both places had been isolated AS
,,;x
yesterday afternoon. From Browns
VILE, however, the Army radio sta
tion was able to flash last night a
brief dispatch that the worst Of the
storm in that vicinity had passed
No mention of loss of life in that
locality was made. The last direct
report from Corpus Christi. received
late yesterday afternoon, said that
the wind had attained a velocity of
fifty miles an hour and that weather
bureau officials admitted the situa-
ton was Serious"
Numerous coast cities visited by
the storm, including Galveston. early
today reported heavy property dam
age, but no fatalities.
Cruiser Hunts Steamer.
HAVANA, September 15-Loud and
clear wireless signals from the Span
ish steamer Valbanera, which is six
days overdue, were received by the
United States wireless station at Key
West at midnight last night. The To-
cation and condition of the ship,
which has been riding out the ter
rifle tropical hurricane that has ragged
over the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent.
waters since September 8, were not
given, according to reports reaching
this city.
United States cruiser will leave
Key West this morning in search of
the Valbanera, which from the ma
ture of the wireless calls received
from her is believed to be within
five miles of the Florida coast.
The Valbanera arrived off MORO
Castle the morning of September 3.
but because of the tempest was I'M
able to enter port There were SOC
passengers on board the vessel.
KEY WEST. Fla. September b.
While the wireless station here has
not been in direct communication
with the overdue Spanish steamship
Nalbanera since midnight Saturday.
reports from ships which have had
communication with the Valbanera by
wireless since that time have been
received here. indicating that the yes
sci apparently is safe and proceed
ing under her own power.
Schooner's Crew Picked Up.
TAMPA, Fla. September 15.-The
schooner Admiral Beatty, in from
Grand Cayaman Island last night.
brought the crew of the schooner
Copperfield-eight men and Capt. c.
A. Morrison-whom they picked up
in the gulf Saturday morning at CHS
o'clock. Capt. Morrison and his men
had been adrift forty-two hours with
a can of biscuits and three gallons of
water only and were nearly ex-
hausted.
They abandoned the Copperfield
near Rebecca Shoal light Thursday.
after her masts had been blown away
and she was in a sinking condition.
Capt. Hunter of the Beatty had some
trouble picking them up. as there
was still heavy sea running. The
Copperfield is three-masted schoon-
er, owned by Capt. Wrightson of Mo-
bile, and was on her way to Alicante,
Spain, with lumber. The Beatty was
bringing 100000 cocoanuts here from
Grand Cayaman.