The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-09-22
VICTIM CAST. UP BY GULF

CORPUS CHRISTI, TeXaS, sept. l' -(R) Fifteen additional bodies 0 storm victims were recovered iron wreckage thrown up along the shores here today. The loss of life is mounting higher with every fresh re port being received. It is now be lieved that at least 250 persons were killed in Port Aransas, Corpus Christi and AranSas Pass.
 The full force of the hurricane struck these places with indescrib able violence, the wind whipping mountainous waves thru the seawalls and carrying everything in it's path The streets are literally piled deep with the wreckage of buildings.
 Thru these heaps of debris, hun dreds of relief workers are slowly grOping their way, here and there uncovering the mangled forms of peo. pie caught by the storm. Most of the bodies are mutilated beyond any hope of recognition. Despite steady and continuous downpour of rain which drenches them to the skin, the workers keep plugging away at their grewsome task, which hourly be comes worse.
 CALL FOR ASSISTANCE
 AUSTIN. Texas, Sept. 17.-(P- Governor Hobby today received ur- gent telegrams from both Aransas Pass and ROckport, pleading for as sistance from the state at the earli- est possible moment for the relief of the storm sufferers at those places. The governor responded saying that relief trains will be rushed immedi- ately. These trains will have right of-Way over all other traffic.
 The loss of life at Rockport is unknown, as today is the first time it has been communicated with since the storm. Telegrams received iron, Aransas Pass and Rockport state that half the population of both towns are homeless and without supplies any kind.
 SALVATION ARMY RELIEF
 ENID, Okla, Sept. 17.-(R Lieut.. Col. Wood, Southwestern Divisional officer for the Salvation Army, is- sued an announcement this after noon stating that the entire resources of the Army are q. the lis, osa. of the Texas hurricane sufferers. Of. ficials have been sent to the several sricken towns and have been given full authority to take any action nec- eSsary for relief.
 MORE BODIES RECOVERED
 DALLAS. Texas, Sept. 17.-B-A correspondent of the Dallas News, now in the hurricane swept district, in south Texas, this morning tele- graps that IT bodies have been re- covered on the north side of Nueces Bay. All of them, it is stated, were so blackened with oil that they were unrecognizable. Lying on the beach where they were washed up by the water, they presented pitiable sight broken and torn, with limbs and fea- lures battered where they were pounded against the rocks by power full waves.
 RAIN FINDERS RELIEF.
 CORPUS CHRISTI Texas, Sept. 17
 R-(Late Wire) The list of the .,ad from the hurricane is now hoy ering around the 300 mark, and it is believed that complete list will ex- ceed even that number. A heavy rain is still hampering the workers in clearing the debris and increasing the suffering and misery of the home less. Numberless huge bonfires have been lighted tonight along the bay front adding pallor to the scene of isolation. Carcasses of hundreds of cattle drowned during the storm are being consumed in the flames and the smell of burning flesh fills the air all along the bay shore. So heavy is the downpour of rain that it threatens to flood all railway tracks leading in to the stricken districts and thus stop the relief rains which are near ing here. In case this happens the bangs of hunger will intensity the suf- fering already existing here and in other towns. All the bodies of the victims now being dug out of the wreckage, or thrown up along the : hore by the waves are so badly de- composed that all attempt at identi- iication has been abandoned.
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