The Rice belt journal., 1919-09-27
Recovery Of Bodies Daily
Runs Death List Into the
Hundreds.


news filtering i'll 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 its fruition.
1t is now believed that there is little
hope of reclaiming 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 Aransas Pass, 3.
Total, 274.
Following is revised list of known
dead at Corpus Christi: Mrs. Rosa
Robinett. tourist, home unknown; Mrs,
Baker, wife of the proprietor of Payil-
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.
Prater, city policeman, drowned while
engaged in rescue work; three uniden-
titled bodies of girls, ranging from
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; Elcfi Flo
fiela, Mexican boy, II or Ii years old,
North Beach; son and daughter Of Ed
ward Richmond, proprietor OF local
shoe repairing shop, aged II and 6,
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. Alya Carter and children, ad-
dress unknown; Mexican nurse of Mrs.
Bowden's children; Hal Spyx, Harris
burg, Tex; Miss Brock, aged IA years
Corpus Christi; baby, year old, found
at White Point; woman, Il years old,
found at White Point, believed to be
wife of Captain England, Company l,
9th Infantry; Antonne Anderson,
Company /, 9Th Infantry; Mrs. C. C.
Hayden, Corpus Christi; girl, name
believed to be Nichols; Mrs. Wasson
and two children; Anderson, soldier,
Identification number 496650.
At Rockport, dead; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lytle and child; four Mexicans; ne
gress; Donnie Mullen, colored woman,
about 80 years old, cook at Spohn
Sanitarium; Private Dial, Company I,
37th Infantry; Anna Moore, white, of
Corpus Christi; Captain B. M. 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, 9th
Infantry; two unidentified women, one
unidentified white man, one identified
white boy and one unidentified color
ed girl; Miss Margaret Mullally 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 a depth of
fifteen feet in some places. Over
much Of the beach section not an in
dication Of former homes now re-
mains, except here and there bath
tub or part of brick chimney.
From Start street, where the bust.
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 a mourning palm tree, hang
ing low its oil-begrimed leaves, marks
the spot OF SOME former show place.
In this section the bay line has
changed, the water having established
a new line varying from fifty to 200
feet inland from the former position.
This change extends from the business
district to the end of the north beach
and out as far as Carroll street,
Thirty-six injured persons are in the
relief hospital and twenty-eight are in
the convalescent ward at the county
court house, all with injuries suffered
in the storm Nine of them are United
States soldiers.
The docks and buildings in Port
Aransas have been wiped out with the
exception of school building and
three vessels-the steamer Median and
IL. T.