The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-09-29
Woman Literally Tarred
and Feathered by Storm

land
Mrs Hall with hcr husband and ie-
year-o old daughter Bertha. who also was
cast up ON white Point Monday morn.
ing. were ne the horne % Mr HAIRS
parents 40 1919 chaparral street BE.
sides them thcrc WINS Miss Maggie Han
sister Inv OF Mrs Han; Terrell
Brooks a conductor ON the san An
tonic and AransnH Pass railroad his
wife and two children, Mr. and Mrs
Percy Reed Miss Edna Euelchorn and
two Mexican women who lived on the
block
Only Six Survived.
or this group ~ 10 who were swept
into the water whom tho mousse broke
up only sis Mr. and Mrs Uau eud
daughter MI and Mrs Reed ana Miss
Edna Eneiehon survived The storm
"rho mental agony was terrible
worse than tho physical Funcring said
Mrs Han 20 asa not know whether
my daughter or husband was saved as
we drlftcd or in different directions
untH the nest day whom my dauFh
ter came over from the Rachal ranch ,
whore sho had been taken after being
picked up directly ON the Point Then
we learned ms husband with MI Reed
and Miss Enpiohorn had woathercd the
storm on % house tom to which they
floatcd on wreckngc of another house.
"Uut to ro back 90 the FIRST Tho
en on our home was torn 90 pieces
about 6 O'Clock sunday might ana short
B after we were forced to rct ont of
the SECOND STORY window into water
fifteen or twenty feet deep and cling
go wrockaec Tho house had two sto-
rlos ana though il had weathercd the
saic storm and we felt safe IL could
not Withstand the haraee Of other and I
smaller houses which were as batter
ing rains DO the storm
shortly after O'Clock we had tcl
abandon a. climbing out ~ the top
floor windows wc chung TO what wreck /
age we could grasp My husbands po /
rents being feeble were the first 10 /
drown Tncy were swept OF a floating |
piece of house and drowned with as
helpless toaid them Tho two Mexican
women who had become historical /
were swept off the wreclSaro they cmnr /
TO soon after and were drowned Their
screams shall meyer forget them /
Miss Mageic Hail nv sister-in- law
was also drowned
Sticks by Mistress
with the exception of my husband
Nh Reed aud Miss Englehorn the re-
mander 81 the party clunp 10 wreck
age. and by "a freak of the storm were
kept within close distance Of each other
from time to time
1T was terrible that night We were
kept busy changing rafts an nisht long.
ls the waves would wash other wreck
nge upon that which we were on and
we'd have to climb on top Of that Al
or Il had piled so high the bottom tim
,ers would bee swept away and we'd
have 90 swim 10 other pieces
Mrs Reeds Scotch collie stayed 10y
is al the time He'd jump from one
raft 90 another and swim with u.s. Mrs
Reed was cast Up on white Point some
distance from the place where ] was
and was later takon 60 the hospital at
b att
,Vc had stripped OFF as much cloth
ue as possible before We left The house
,ut What little We had on kept catch
ug Don nails ON the timber and ham
,cnnr us so greatly that we were
.orcod ESQ strip. am just covered with
bruises business OF exhibiting arm,
lot onc inch of which is not bruisod) /
Mrs Brooks wife of Conductor
IHoohs had one Of her babies tied 10
her with aropo. SHE was ON piece
lf wleckaee close by Thon-it was
lw,ul the baby was swept overheard
ly wrccllarc and she was drawn under
also. The other child wc lost track of
Slips From Raft Near Shore.
Mrs BrooKs exhausted from the
struggle with the waves and disheart
oued at losing nor baby was ou the
Same rart with me after thc party had
been separated Too spent to hold on
DE was swept OFF He drowned be
fore my eyes. Not hal nn hour later
Che wrccNaee on which I was suded on .
the beach as smooth us well manned .
skim Hud ne held un hc would have 1
been sawed"
Within beck OF whe-n Avs Ufhl
Nat iuuuu. 1hits caEos from their
house and portion OF the atairNa, I
was found hy Mr. Harris and Miss Edith
Han of Houston Miss llau with Mr. I
Harris went 90 Corpus christi m q /
vain effort 10 locate the bodies of her