Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-17

or damage to property. Each report
from searchers. however, revealed
the increasing magnitude of the dis
aster.
The great piles of wreckage strewn
from one end of the city to the other
may conceal numerous bodies, it Is
believed. and to-day hundreds of men
were at work exploring them. Offic-
ials generally were agreed the death
list would exceed 100. and some un-
official estimates placed it as between
zoo and 500. with hundreds of persons
injured or suffering from exposure.
Estimates of the propery loss varlei
from $10.00o.000 to $4,000. 900.
The best available information here
early to-day placed the known dead
in Corpus Christi at ~. Seventy-sev-
en- bodies. all blackened and bruised.
were reported to have been washed
ashore last night on the north side
OF Nueces bay. upon which Corpus
Christi is situated. other points also
reported the washing ashore of bod
les during the night.
No Trace of Soldiers
Military officials were exerting
every resource to-day to ascertain
the fate of 20 or more soldiers who
were washed out into the bay while
the storm was at its height and of
whom there has been found no trace.
The men. 1aemhava of Company I,
Thirty-seventh Infantry and other
regiments on border duty were at
the government rest camp here for q
week and furlough when the camp
was washed away.
Captain B. NJ. Egeland, of Webster,
s. D., camp commander. was drowned
during the storm and his wife also
Is believed to have lost her life,
Attempts were being made to-day
to rig out several sail boats to cross
Nueces bay to rescue rs persons who
are reported in desperate straits at
White Point.
Refugees Starving
message was brought into Corpus
Christi to-day saying 25 bodies were
at White Point and that % refugees
there were starving.
Many strange incidents are coming
to light as the story of the storm
unfolds.
Find Baby Alive
After floating on the open bay more
than two days, a ten-months old baby
was hauled ashore late yesterday,
fastened to a raft. The baby was
alive and in fairly good condition.
~ uShCEUldn Ol IkOCh 1~OEtt named
Biggins. was carried across Puerto
bay, and more than half way to Sin
ton over the plain. Biggins said he
left Rock Port in skiff Sunday. but
was soon adrift, with nothing but
life belt which carried him until he
was enabled to climb upon a house
top which came in his path. Escap-
Ing from the chilly waters was little
relief. however. for sharing his raft
were a number of large rattlesnakes.
A tree top with several additional
reptiles drifted against the house top.
and Higgins fought for hours before
he dislodged them with piece Of tim
Der.
Corpus Christi, Texas. Sept. III
Forty-seven victims of the tropical
hurricane which swept over Corpus
Christi and this section earlv sun
day morning had been brought to
the temporary morgue in the county
courthouse last night. In addition
to the deaths in this city. fifty-six
were reported dead in the vicinity, of
Portland, across Nueces Bay from
Corpus Christi.
With the death list mounting and
the property loss now placed in the
neighborhood of S10.00o,000, the
people Of Corpus Christi to day SEEM
ingly were just coming to full real
ization of the catastrophe through
which they passed. Every industry
in the city is prostrated, business is
at standstill, communication of all
kinds demoraiized and the food and
housing problem acute.
Dallas, Texas, Sept. ia staff
correspondent of the Dallas News
sends the following dispatch under
date of Sinton. Texas:
"Seventy-seven bodies, black with
oil until some could not be identi-
fed. were washed ashore on the
north side Of Nueces bay to-day.
"Of the seventy-seven bodies re-
covered from this side of the coast
country to-day. thirty-eight were
taken from West Portland, twenty
nine from White Point. nine from
Sinton and one from Odem."
State machinery for the relief of
storm sufferers was completed late
Tuesday by Governor Hobby, who
ordered units of the Texas National
Guard to relieve Federal troops. in
charge of the situation at Corpus
Christi, as quickly as transportation
could be arranged. The Governor
issued a proclamation urging prompt
contributions of money and supplies.
Three relief trains reached Corpus
Christi to-day with food. bedding.
clothing and medical supplies for
the thousands of homeless and
stricken residents. and other trains
were en- route. Two relief trains
were repored stalled by washouts at
Alice, Texas.
Seven scout airplanes were or