Evening star., 1932-08-15
Heavy Crop Losses Added
to Damage in Galveston
and Houston.
FATALITIES IN COUNTRY
AREA AND SMALL TOWNS
Red Cross Aid Sought for Home
less-Roads Made Bogs
by Downpour.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex. August 15.-The
death list mounted to % today as farm
ing communities near the Gulf Coast
surveyed widespread damage from the
tropical hurricane that raked the vicin-
ity of Houston and Galveston Saturday
night.
Most Of the fatalities were in villages
or on farms about 80 miles southwest
Of Galveston, where the greatest force
of the storm apparently centered as it
whistled inland from the tumbling
waters Of the Gulf of Mexico
Crops were ruined over wide
stretch of the coastal country, the
heaviest loss being in cotton.
Galveston Not Hard Hit.
Galveston. protected by its seawall,
and Houston escaped damage of ma jor
proportions, although windows were
smashed, some buildings unroofed and
bath houses and small frame Struc-
lures demolished. The wind rose to
10 miles an hour here.
The dead
John Baggett, "a, farmer, living near
Angleton
Edward Lon Hudgins. 6, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Sam p Hudgins of Oyster
Creek.
M. F. Briscoe, 25, sulphur worker.
Mrs. William Dockson, 81. Angleton.
S. E. Giesecke. 25. West Columbia
Miss Ruby Seay. Is, Angleton
Constable Henry Suggs, 48, West Co.
lumbia.
Mrs. Rosie Suggs, A; Beaulah Suggs,
8, their daughter. and Mrs. o. v. Reed,
mother of Mrs. Suggs, 73.
Martha Morris colored, Brazoria.
Mrs. E. P. Sennett, So. Velasco.
Unidentified Mexican baby. Freeport
Mary Mack, colored, 35, West Colum-
bia.
Henrietta Jones, colored. H. and Ger
aldine Jones, colored T. Sweeney
A colored man known as Happy
Jack" Clute.
l. L. Reese, sr. Hoskins Mound
r. Lewis. Rossengale, fisherman, Hos
kins mound.
Two unidentified colored men, West
Columbia.
One unidentified colored woman,
West Columbia
There were uncorfirmed reports Of
another death.
Cotton Loss Heavy.
No deaths we're reported from Gal
weston, devastated by a hurricane in
1900. although the city was in darkness
through Saturday night and isolated
from the mainland due to loss of power
and communication lines.
While shipping interests reported
,V11,, koI,f 10 -
lisor, Harris County agricultural agent.
said the damage to the cotton crop
alone would exceed $l,000,000. Rice
and corn crops also were ruined.
Red Cross aid was sought by Free
port and Eagle Lake. w. E. Wexford
mayor of Eagle Lake. said the fam
lilies OF hundreds of tenant farmers In
that section were destitute.
The Galveston beach, parade ground
for international beauty contests. was
stripped of its bath houses and conces
sion stands. Wharton, known as the
forest city," was virtually stripped OF
trees.
Country roads were bogs and strewn
with fallen trees. Oil derricks we're scat
tered about the fields at Newgulf and
Boiling. Many farm cottages were de-
stroyed. Rain was general over the
Eastern part OF Texas.
For perhaps Is minutes after the
storm struck Houston there was no ap-
preciable feeling of force. Then the
Weather Bureaus apparatus for meas
uring velocity began to tremble under
the strain-and the velocity went to 70
miles an hour.
People Flee From Streets.
The breaking of plate-glass windows
under the strain-sounding like a muf-
fed pistol shot-became such a common
sound nobody seemed to notice it much
after the first 30 minutes.
The streets. emptied at first. became
ghoStly, but along in the night people
began walking up and down again, just
to see what it was like. Then the rain
came cascading down.
The damage here, already rather
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