Evening star., 1961-09-13
STORM
Scores Of Towns and Cities Face
Health Problems in Cleanup

National Guardsmen, Civil
Defense and local officials
sloshed back into devastated
industrial centers and small
places last night as huge tides
winds and rains diminished.
Many residents who fled
northward will not be permitted
to return, however, until water.
sewer and power service are
restored.
Dramatic Galveston Scene
One of the more dramatic
scenes was in Galveston, an
island city cut off from the
mainland since Saturday and
target of a tornado before
dawn yesterday.
Mindful Of a sequence from
war movie were the girls who
waved and blew kisses as a
convoy of rs National Guard
troops rolled into battered
Galveston. 1t took them three
hours to make the 50-mile
trip from Houston, at times
creeping through three feet of
water covering the causeway.
Guardsmen patrolled in Gal
weston and other places to pre-
vent looting. City Manager
Robert E. Layton ordered an
8 pm. curfew until further
notice. Water finally had
drained from most parts of
the city.
AT least seven tornadoes
kicked up by Carla's winds
caused damage and in some
cases deaths before and after
the hurricane struck. They hit
ground at Kaplan and Jones'
boro, La; and Latex, Galveston,
Fullbright, Paris and Nacog-
doches in Texas.
The Weather Bureau also
warned of possible isolated
tornadoes today in extreme
Northeastern Oklahoma; West
Central, Nor western and
North Central Arkansas; and
Southwestern. South Central
and most of Central Missouri.
Hospital attendants listed
among Galveston's six tornado
dead Mrs. j. N. Olson, 81, a
City School Board member;
Mrs. Marie Harris, 81, and Mrs.
En1ie Miles, about so. Three
remained unidentified. The
twister razed at least 100
homes. Another lorna d o
wrecked the village of Full
bright in North Texas but
caused no deaths or injuries.
4 Die in Louisiana
-Four persons died in a tor
nado striking at Jonesboro, La,
yesterday. 1t leveled at least
two dozen houses and several
persons were listed as missing.
Earlier In the storm, a father
and son we're killed at Olivia
as Carla leveled her direct
blow at nearby Port Lavaca.
They were Jose Salinas, 55, and
Domingo Salinas, II.
Others who died from the
hurricanes wrath were 4-week-
old Nancy Ann Simon at Kap-
Ian, La, and Able D. Threeton,
So, of Houston, who was elec-
trocuted when he stepped on
a broken electric line.
"A 37-year-old businessman,
Clarence West, drowned when
he tried to wade across an in
undated causeway from Gal
weston Island.
Texas City and Freeport.
mainland points on opposite
sides of Galveston. we're among
Texas areas sharing some of
the heaviest property loss. After
an aerial survey. Associated
Press Staff Writer Charles
Green reported thousands who
fled those cities would be
shocked.
Tn glad they couldn't see
those homes yesterday when
four of us flew a light plane
over the Gaveston-Texas City,
Freeport area" Green said.
They would have cried. Many
viii. anyway. because they'll
find nothing but debris. Some
won't even find debris"
There was still muddy water
up to the rooftops of houses
and pouring through business
places in Texas City. About
1000 persons trapped by the
storm were rescued from emer-
gency shelters in Texas City.
Their food and water was ra-
toned and they were without
electricity.
At Freeport. slowly receding
water remained eight feet deep
in parts of the blk complex of
Dow Chemical Co. plants. From
the air only debris could be
seen at Hoskins Mound near
Freeport, where so persons
made their homes.
From the air Mr.. Green
could see Galveston's famed
Balinese Room, where the
WeAiCny once gamDleQ, cut OH
from the rest of the city with
the middle of a covered peir
leading to it smashed amid the
litter along the seawall boule-
ward.
Brad Messer. assistant
executive editor of the Calves
ton News, estimated it would
take a week to search tornado
wreckage alone for other pos
sible victims.
Overhead reservoirs were
running low on drinking water
for Galveston residents and
electric power to pump more
was still out.