Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-17
Bodies of 20 Women and
Children Placed Together
After Being Recovered From
Waters Of Bay.
CORPUS CHRISTI DEAD
ARE PUT IN M0RGUE
Fatality List From Hurricane
Mounting; Many Are Buried
Without Identity Becoming
Known.

Known.
Corpus Christi, Sept. l6.-More
than 20 men at the rest camp
maintained by the government at
North Beach as recreation spot
over the week end for troops IN
border service were swept out
into the bay when their camp was
wrecked by the hurricane Sunday,
it was learned tonight.
Sinton. Tex, Sept. l6.-The bodies
of % women and children. all VIC
tins of Sundays hurricane and
flood, were buried i'll one large
grave near White Point, on Nueces
bay, tonight, short distance from
the place where they were recov-
cred from the waters of the bay.
Immediate interment was made nee
essary by the condition OF the
bodies.
Galveston, Sept. l6-Loss at sea
of the Gulf fisheries schooner cape
Horn off Point Isabel was reported
to coast guard headquarters here to-
day. None of the crew was lost.
The crew was taken off the Cape
Horn by the coast guard crew after
il had been dismasted and sprung a
leak.
AZ Victims Recovered.
/ Corpus Christi, Sept. 16.-Forty-
seven victims of the tropical hurrl.-
cane which swept Corpus Christi and
this section early Sunday morning
had been brought TO the temporary
morgue in the county court house
tonight. In addition to the deaths
| in this city, So were reported dead
| in the vicinity of Portland, across
! Nueces bay from Corpus Christi.
With the death list mounting by
leaps and the property loss now
placed in the neighbor hood of $lO,-
| 100000, the people of Corpus Christi
tonight, Sc hours after the passing
of the storm. seemingly were just
coming to a full realization of the
catastrophe through which they
passed. Every industry in the city
is prostrated, business at a complete
standstill, communication OF all
kinds demoralized and the food and
housing problem acute.
Not Near Total Yet.
The AZ known dead in Corpus
Christi and the reported So victims
near Portland are not expected to
be anywhere near the total death
toll, but the list was not expected
to be increased further tonight. as
with the coming of darkness search
ing parties suspended for the day.
Allowing for duplications-and
many storm victims probably have
kbeen reported at least twice from
different sources-the general belief
here tonight is that the total num-
Der of dead in the immediate vicin-
itv of Corpus Christi will reach rs.
Many victims have been buried
: without having been identified by
burial squads sent out by the au-
thorities.
Six Deaths at Aransas.
Brownsville, Tex, Sept. 10
, There were only six deaths at Port
Aransas in Sundays storm, accord
ing to a wireless report given out
at Fort Brown here tonight, and
= which had been picked up from a
, steamer in the harbor at Port Aran-
sas. The message said the dead
: were men, all the women and chill
: dren having taken refuge aboard
= ships.
The message said Port Aransas,
Aransas Pass and Rockport were
completely destroyed and that the
loss would run into millions. No
= further details were given.
By The Associated Press.
n With the known death list at Least
e IS at Corpus Christi and estimates
:. that the toll will mount to Is or 10(
t in that city alone, the situation ir
/, the storp-swept west gulf coas'
: region of Texas continued uncertain
n Tuesday night.
e While the death list in the affected
r territory outside Corpus Christ
probably is considerable. there wa:
no confirmation of reports placing
the total into the hundreds. Prob
ably the most definite news came
: from Corpus Christi Tuesday nigh
e IN the statement that So bodies, non'
d of which had been identified, hac
o been discovered between Portland
a and Taft. This information wa
l. brought across Nueces Bay by
y resident, who asserted that 26 of thu
e dead were at Portland, which lie
t. across the bay eight miles west Q
y Corpus Christi: II at one rancl
house and Is at another.
II Three Dead in Rockport.
h Reports in railroad circles at Sal
= Antonio we're that the dead in Rock
" port would not exceed three. Radi'
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