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AUSTIN AMERICAN: THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1915. 8 8 0 Aa near to perfection as a beer-can be brewed is The Real Metal Lath' For Stucco Herringbone la a rigid metal lath. You can save money on studding alone by specifying Herringbone. ft i Plasterers work faster X. ii -r'i JnimUmiiSa ih THE BEER AHEAD 8 8 9 STORM DESTROYS TEXAS CITY CAMP OFIUINFANTRY (Continued from Page One.) ry: Privates John J.

Murphy, Charles S. Miller, Joseph R. Halman Samet, Paul A. Beurean. Company Twenty-third Infantry: Corporal William H.

Moore, Privates Albert Mitchell, Thomas A. Watson. Henry J. Rlvage. Quartermaster corps: Cook Bader.

"Quite a number not yet listed reported injured, some painfully, none seriously. Few civilians slightly injured. All being cared for in our hospital. No dead or injured among families of officers or soldiers. All have temporary shelter.

Much discomfort No serious suffering. Will provide better accomodations as soon as possible." In his final message today General Bell reports that Indications are the hurricane was of greater velocity than that of 1900. Galveston, he adds, is still cut off. Land 1st ill Shallow Lake. Most of the land between Texas City and Webster Is still a shallow lake.

There has been great property loss and much suffering In surrounding country. The telegram sent from Houston continues: "Every Indication very high water Galveston, country north of bay strewn with thousands of cotton bales from warehouses In Galveston. Loss of life Is probably not great. Failure of depot quartermaster to send Poe or other boat to Texas City indicates probability shipping wrecked as formerly. Conditions Texas City gradually resuming normal.

At request of civil authorities took charge of police and sanitary operations in city. "No disorder whatever. Am arranging for supplies Texas City and for accommodations families, officers and enlisted men. All traffic lines out of commission south of Hitchcock and Texas City Junction. No regular trains running on any lines.

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LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS SEA WALL DOES ITS DUTY, SAVING 40,000 LIVES; BOULDERS WEIGHING TWO TONS-ARE TOSSED LIKE SAND GALVESTON MESSAGE REPORTS 24 VESSELS ARE SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD DROWNED: STORES LOOTED ephone lines all down. A message filed yesterday describing conditions in Texas City said: "Violence of wind and rain greatly increased after filing first message yesterday evening, reaching culmination about midnight. Tidal wave and flood water combined rose average height of three to five feet throughout Texas City and surrounding country. All camps total loss. Including wooden structures, not a vestige left.

Near bay and camp ground now a lake. All public and private property in camp almost total loss, except animals, transportation and ordnance equipment on men. Few animals and con- Galveston Loss Figured at Causeway is Practically Destroyed 3 55 over sconomlcal by for. Ask us for full Information, samples, prices, etc. It will a pleasure tosrvs you.

ire TheWalterTip Company Austin, Texas E3 condition from exposure to tho full fury of tho storm. They were mostly Houston people snd others coming hero to get relatives. They were In thrvo Interurban cars. Tho steamship Klbston Is high rind dry ashore with her plates badly smashed, lying on tho railroad tracks. A soldier was found dead this morning under a tin roof.

There Is absolutely reliable report on mainland conditions. Port Itohvsr, with a population of 1500 people, Is swept bare, but it Is not known what part of tho people escaped. Immense loss of life Is reported on the lower const, but all reports are hearsay. Have Just heard by courier of conditions at Hoimtun. The news was received hero with dismay as thousands of (ialveston citizens had fled there for safety.

WIND IS FOLLOWED BY RAIN AT KENEDY Special to the American. KENEDY. Texas. Aug 1 1, A high wind hs prevailed sinue yesterdav at 10 a. or a period of about eighteen hours.

Karly today rain began and has continued at Intervals throughout the day. Cotton Is very badly damaged oj much of It was open before tho high winds came. HOUSES DESTROYED BY STORM AT ELGIN Special to The American. KLGIN'. Tevii, Aug IS.

Ttuln and destruction Is shown on every side as a result of the storm. A number of houses were blown from the blocks, and some were totally destroyed, being completely demolished. Window lights were seemingly the target, sa but fw houses escaped having havoc, plaved with windows. The cotton crop Is totally destroyed. In some cases more than forty bales wero resdy for picking on some of the farms which today are stripped not only of the cotton but leaves and blossoms.

Tho cyclonic winds completely stripped the plants of every particle of foliage, and the snowy fields are things of the rsst for IMS. Tho farmers are left In a sad plight. MATAGORDA COUNTY RICE CROP INJURED BY STORM Special to The American. HAY CITY, Texas, Aug. Is.

Forty to fifty per cent of the rlco crop in Matagorda County has been destroyed by the water and high winds. No water of any consequence came into tho town, nnd the property dam- ago was not great. MEXICAN REPORTED DEAD; BORDER QUIET Special to Tho American. ISKOWNSVILLK, Texas, Aug. 1 One Mexican sniper on the Mexican side of tho river was shot by a member of a posse.

Mexicans have been shooting at Intervals during the day. The man killed was located behind a tree and was shot In the ear. Ho rolled to the river's edge ond lay In plain view for two hours when tho posso left. A wireless report to Fort Brown soys tho entire ramp of tho Twenty-sixth Infantry at Texas City was destroyed with tho exception of tho club house snd post. Tho officers' colony and ths tent, colony occupied by families of enlisted men are totally destroyed.

Two batteries of the Fifth Artillery end an aviation squadron detrained hero today. Horder conditions nro quiet. had reports from nthor ships. Galveston wireless ruined and all buildings along water front aro destroyed, Ono transport wont ashore. Tho wireless at Wat lost connection wllli the Hurord today, but Wharton operator said ho still had How to stop dandruff and loss of hair with Resinol Here it a simple, Inexpensive treatment that will almost always stop dandruff and scalp itching, and keep the hairthick, live and lustrous: At night.spread the hair apart and rub a little Resinol Ointment into the scalp gently, with the tip of the linger.

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Sold bf all droriutik slderable harness lost, property every description scattered throughout city, floating wreckage piled up in streets; violence wind such that many water craft of considerable size blown and floated into city near bay shore. Command greatly scattered, seeking shelter during night. Storm still too violent to accomplish much this morning except search for dead and injured and rescue of women and children. Temporary hospital established Southern Hotel. Yesterday most dead and Injured discovered and cared for last night Most substantial business buildings and residences stood, but some unroofed.

Considerable number small frame buildings blown and floated Into streets. Some off foundations. All temporary woodon buildings wrecked. Division quartermaster's store, tents and property total loss. Deport quartermaster's Texas City branch storehouse unroofed, property and supplies soaked but mostly usable.

Culverts and small bridges gone." veston. It reported that the dead there will number twenty-five or thirty and that the entire town has practically been wiped out not a building escaping unscathed. More than one hundred persons are marooned on Hed Fish bar near Virginia Folnt. Great gaps have been torn in the causeway which connects Galveston with the mainland and tho waters are strewn for miles with the wreckage of ships and water logged bales of cotton, representing a value of thousands of dollars, which were carried bodily from docks and wrecked warehouses by the storm. The Galvfston reports state that a minimum of 600 buildings there were wrecked.

In the smaller towns the wreckage Is practically complete. Keports from Temple tell of considerable (lunnige there and state that at Hitchcock, a small town north of (ialveston, seven persons were killed. The water at Hitchcock Is thre feet deep, all the rends and railroad tracks being submerged. Texas City, tho camp of the Second Division, Cnlted States Army, General J. Franklin Dell commanding, has been wiped out.

The camp was torn to pieces by the wind, according to General Hell, who arrived here tonight to direct relief measures fur the flooded second division. He hHS wired appeals for sup-piles to Washington and It Is expected that they will be started from the nearest points soon. The military authorities have arranged to take caro of the clvlllun population and all the enlisted families until order can be restored. Members of officers' families and other refugees are reported on the way here from Texas City and are expected to arrive In the morning. Not a Itulldlnc Kcmpel-- Not a building in the town escaped damage and hundreds were overturned by tho wind.

The curnp Is reported to be a vast lake of stugnant water on which debris of houses and camps Is floating, while many boats have been blown Inland for miles. From nil points along the coast, except between Corpus Christ! and Brownsville, come reports of borrow-lng losses. At many points bodies are being washed ashore by the subsld lng seas and It will be two or three days before full stock of the loss of life can be taken. Present reports place tho death toll In tho neighborhood of two hundred but Indications are that as many more may be added. Fully seven thousand refugees are In Houston, about five thousand of whom came from Galveston when ths storm warnings were first posted.

Others came from points along the coast. This city itself has suffered severe damage. Tho property loss Is estimated at $2,000,000 and three persons, two of them negroes, hsve been killed. Port Arthur also has suffered heavy damage and hundreds of refugees from that city and nearby towns are pouring Into Ileaumont. They describe conditions as fearful, tho entire town being under water, hundreds of buildings and homes wrecked, the water supply cut off and food scarce.

Little has bpen heard from Sabine and Sabine Pass, both of which towns were totally submerged. They are de. serted. Itellef parties arc trying to mako their way there. Seven Drowned at lllte.hrwk, Eight men are reported dead at Morgan's Point, the bodies of seven drowned at Hitchcock have been whllo eight are reported lost at Laporto, twenty miles southeast of Houston on Trinity Hay, Soabrook reports a loss of three lives.

A refugee reaching hore from Kemah, a coast town, says that not a house is left standing In tho place. The heaviest losses have fallen on the cotton owners, shipping Interests and railroads. The damage to cotton It Is estimated will bo from 16 to 2S per cent of the entire crop In Central Texas, while Louisiana has suffered heavily. The loss to growers In Texas alone will approximate several million dollars. The Gulf is swept clear of shipping and hundreds of boats have been wrecked.

It Is feared that there hns been considerable loss of life In small craft at sea which could not reach shore In tlmo despite tho storm warnings. The railroads In many sections have been entirely washed out and will take weeks in being rebuilt. Thousands or buildings huvo been blown down. it. residents of that section, who took great loads of foodstuffs to the sufferers.

No lives were reported lost. The waters are receding very slowly along the coast and little change is noted from the stage of Tuesday afternoon, the water still being up over the mainland for about three miles inland from the causeway, barring all efforts to reach that struc ture from the mainland side. A strong wind was reported blowing and there was a heavy downpour of rain at Texas City Junction Wednesday morning. A large numbec of automobiles from Houston and points along the road were stalled at Texas City June tion by the water, the parties waiting for an opportunity to get a glimpse of Galveston and render assistance to any survivors who might manage to get across the bay. It was believed at the junction that the causeway had gone down, although there was no way ot knowing definitely.

Two trains each carrying freight and passenger cars were run over tue Galveston, Houston Henderson Railroad carrying work crews to clear the track near the bay. At hotels and the city hall auto and motor boat relief parties were being organized all day Wednesday to go to stricken Galveston. Many left In the belief that if they could. make Texas City, Galvescon would not be unattainable. From straggling refugees from Texas City Junction word was brought that others were getting through with difficulty.

Many of the parties organized at the hotels were men who have wives and families in Galveston, while at the city hall scores of robust young men applied for volunteer relief service. Samuel Streeter launch left Har- risburg at 10:30 with a party; the Southern Pacific tug departed from the Texas Company's dock at 11 o'clock with Southern Pacific officials and the yacht Cary was to leave Har-risburg at 2 o'clock Wednesday after noon with twenty-five men for rescue work. Hundreds crowded hotel lobbies anxious for some word from the island. Desperate with suspense some offered large sums of money for a place on one of the departing boats. Anxious hundreds continued to swarm newspaper offices for informa tion concerning Galveston.

HOUSTON'S LOSS SURE TO REACH INTOMILLIOHS (Continued from Page One.) it was not of a serious character. Several buildings were partially wrecked, while a great many were slightly defaced. Fences were blown down and outbuildings shaken. The schools suffered a loss of several thousand dollars from the storm, a number of windows being blown in and wells and partitions damaged. The roads were Injured to the extent of more than $1 00,000 by the heavy fall of rain, the gravel and shell being furrowed and washed out in many places.

No estimate has been made or tne monetary loss in the city and county to business men, residences and others, but the whole would probably reach several millions. Tho bayous are all high and a number of small boats were capsized by the gale. Hetween fifty-six and sixty members of the Sam Houston dredge crew were reported to have drowned in the channel seven miles off Texas City early Tuesday morning by the three only known survivors wno arrivea nere tonight Swinging hand over hand the trin fnllnweH u. rone attached to a small tender as the dredge went to the bottom. The survivors are First Mate Ben Anderson, Hans Hermansen, dredge operator, and Claude Pcrpal, fireman, ail of Galveston.

Information was received In Houston today that the life saving station at Surfslde, about seven miles Kreennrt. was entirely demol ished. Captain John P. Stelnhart and Pellet Shannon, the helper, were tne only survivors. Mrs.

Stelnhart, mem-Kero of the erew and some visitors, one by the name of Florea, number. lng nineteen In all. are reported lost. A tale of a thrilling night battle with death, when a hotel at Virginia Point crashed down amid swirling waters with between forty and fifty people within its walls, was brought to Uma.n hla afternoon hv Rev T. J.

Sloan of Houston Heights, and Sheriff C. D. Kemp of Wharton. lossioiy fourteen of those who sought refuge in tho hntel lout their lives. The oth ers escaped and reached safety In the power plant at Virginia point.

A relief committee has been appointed to look after any local destitution or want resulting from the storm, and also to supply food, shelter or clothing to any deserving ones in tho entire section. There has been little cull upon the committee, which Indicates that the situation Is not serious. Because of the conditions due to the storm and out of respect for sis-ter city In distress, the city has postponed, Indefinitely, the celebration which was to have been given Thurs. day, Aug. 19, upon the opening of the Port of Houston to the commerce of the world.

The committee In charge of the celebration was made a relief committee and the funds that had been raised for the Jubilee will be spent, If needed, In relieving the destitute. DHAK KM AN WAS CMIED. A. Woolscy, a railroad brakeman Of Jacksonville, Texas, writes! "I was down with kidney trouble and rheu. matlsm so bad I could hardly get up when I sat down.

I had a backache all tho tlmo and was almost tired of living. I saw Foley Kidney Pills advertised. I took some and after a short time I was thoroughly cured end am having no more trouble." They ait promiktly and help kidneys throw poisonous waste products out of ths blood, Thousands hav written slm- A n' SMITH VnVG COMPANY. (Continued Ue.n rHt Ons.) lost, and the government's tug San Luis. The dredge boat Miller is reported safe.

Tho government launch Bastrop went to the causoway this morning and reports fully two-thirds of that structure gone, meaning that railroad communication with the mainland will not be established for weeks. The most remarkuble feature of the storm was the salvation of the crew of the four-masted schooner Dora Allison, en route from Progress to Mobile with a cargo of lumber and Jute. This ship, washed out of her course, was taken on the crest of a huge wave and literally carried over the seawall and deposited on the parade grounds at Fort Crockett. There she broke to pieces In less than ten minutes. Soldiers of the Fifth Ilrlgude and Coast Guards saw the predicament of the schooner and rushed to the rescue of her crew.

The eight men of tho crew were taken off alive, one with both legs broken. Those most seriously injured wno loaded into a hospital am bulance and several squads of soldiers took turns about pushing this vehicle through the blinding storm and through mud and water that was sometimes over their heads from Fort Crockett to St Mary's Hirittal, a distance ot several miles. Ten fishing smacks with crews sg-gregating more than a hundred are within the known radius of tho hurricane snd hope for them is practically abandoned. The steamship Kl Hud of tho Morgan lins is ashore on the Gal veston south Jetty In danger of break lng up. The Spanish steamship I'po Mencll Is ashore tn a dangerous predicament as Is the Campania, an In terned Austrian vessel.

The transport McClellan Is aground, not In danger. Camp Crockett, where 6000 men of the Fifth IJrigade were In cantonment, was washed dear of tents and is a scene of desolation. The men aro being transferred to the transports Kilpatrick and Hufnrd. The city Is under martial law snd regular soldiers walk the streets fully armed to prevent depredations. Yesterday (Tuesday) morning several Jewelry stores, saloons on.l other business houses were looted before the patrol wus organized.

No looters have been killed but several have been stopped at gunpoint. Numerous pathetic scenes have been witnessed. Mrs. Wllhelminu Hearn, with her grown sons and daughters, was washed away from them as they were carrying her to a place of safety after her house hud collapsed. Her body was not recovered until life was extinct.

The body of a baby only a months old has lain In a morgue for thirty-six hours with nobody to claim or Identify it. I'nlted States Weather observer W. P. Stewart Is given credit for having saved more lives than any other ugen-cy except tho seawall. While most people were saying their wa no dan-ger Mr.

Stewart was sending niotorcy. clos in every direction down the Island for a distance of thirty miles warning them they would die if they did not come to Galveston. Consequently practically every farmer, fisherman and camper came to town. Thero were probably two hundred people left on the island below Galveston. Tho few reports from that district are Indefinite and Indicated that tho loss of life Is very large among those who remained.

The beach front is a sickening sight from tho standpoint of property loss. The threo large bath houses have disappeared. Hall park and motordrome aro piles of wreckage and a pile of debris from six to ten feet high and forty feet wide extends the length of tho seawall. Practically every house facing tho water Is off Its blocks. Homo are covered with snnd to their roofs.

The water front Is a mass of marine wreckage, but the principal loss there Is from destruction of sheds and warehouses. Thrne fires, aggregating more than 1100,000 damage, added to Galveston's losses. The Armour Packing Company, the Ilium Notion Company, tho J. H. Helnshelmer Co.

and Fred Padst Heal Estate Company, tho O. K. Laundry and tho Direct Navigation Company were tho losers. Government dredro Han Jacinto Is ashore on Hed fish reef. Tho erew Is alive.

Tho launch Pelican arrived at 4 o'clock this afternoon with seventy-five people she had rescued from tlio middle part of tho causeway, which Is standing. These people had spent two days marooned and were in desperate which accounted for the inability of the men to escape. Information also was received in Houston that the majority of the life saving crew at Surfside, near Freeport, were drowned during the recent storm, and the station demolished. The dead number nineteen. Among them are Mrs.

Captain Stelnhart and several visitors. All the bathhouses are gone, and many of the residences and smaller hotels along the beach have been demolished. There were three bad flics, with one still raging that of the Direct Navigation Company. The other two were Galveston Dry Goods Company and the O. K.

Laundry. Five hundred homes have been smashed and the island is strewn with wreck age. A 5-masted schooner rests near the sea wall. Most of the dead lost their lives trying to reach the Tremont Hotel where thousand sought refuge. An interurban car was swept from the causeway and the conductor drowned.

The storm broke on Galveston at 3 o'clock Monday evening, and by 8 all wires out of the city were down and all. communication cut off. The gale reached its crest, ninety-two miles an hour, at 2 a. m. Tuesday.

Galveston's greatest need Is water, but the bv means of a handbill proclamation, states that the stricken city will be able to take care of the destitute. Three Regiments Are IIouowL There has been considerable losfe of life all along the bay shore. Texas City reports eighteen soldiers killed in a brick building, which collapsed in the early morning Tuesday. The army camp, in which three regiments were quartered, is entirely wiped out. There are twenty-five dead, according to reports.

At Virginia Point the Causeway Hotel went down with seventy-five people in it. At daylight fifty of them had found refuge in two little shacks used by the railroad. Five hundred people were housed in the Scottish Rite Cathedral, and approximately 5000 in the depot and other buildings took care of more. Mayor Fisher Tuesday morning ordered all saloons closed. The Courthouse, Rosenburg Library.

American National Dank building all are safe, and many fled to them for safetv. Many more took advantage of the warning and left the city, and those in the lowlands souTht higher parts of the city. Galveston feels the seawall has proved its worth. AU the public buildings are practically intact. The Boulevard was practically the only street that was damaged to any great amount.

The University building and Sealy Hospital are only slightly damaged, their only damage being in loss of windowpanes and screens. The gas supply was cut off and probably will be out for ten days by water and sand in the machinery. They have no electric lights. No street cars have run since about 4:80 Monday evening. A number of poles are down and many wires are twisted.

Not many dead animals were encountered until the party neared Texas City, but then many dead dogs and abandoned automobiles were noted. Dr. Powell and Mr. Boyle were sent to Houston by the Commercial Association. A tale of a thrilling night battle with death when a hotel at Virginia Point crashed down amid swirling waters with between forty and fifty people within its walls, was brought to Houston Wednesday ufternoon by-Rev.

T. J. Sloan of Houston Heights and Sheriff C. D. Kemp of Wharton.

Possible fourteen of those who sought refuge in the hotel lost their lives; the others escaped escaped to battle for their lives against tho fury of the elements, at last to reach safety in the power plant at Virginia Point. Messrs. Sloan and Kempt were among the party who were aboard when the Interurban stalled on the causeway amid a furious gale and sea. They were unable to accurately estimate the number of persons who quit the Interurban and sought safety in the hotel, or the number at the hotel when the Interurban party arrived. They report live bodies of a woman, two man, a youth and a negro boy were found today before the party left the Virginia City but these could not bo identi fied, although supposedly from the hotel.

The Southern Pacific and Katv track below Texas City Junction has been washed away as far as a mile In many places, and the entire track bed is under water. The roads are strewn with floating bodies bf animals and debris is piled high. Three Days to Clear Track. A forcH of men have started work on the clearing of tho track, but the work will take three days at least. No wire communication has been had from the island since Monday nlnht.

The signal towers on the Galveston side of the causeway are leaning hesv lly and Indications are that the place Is severely damaged. Tho beginning of the causeway destruction whs when one of the large dredge boats broko one of the side plates. From that time the structure slowly crumbled under until it reached the first arches. In the destruction of tho causeway several automobiles were IorU Judications point that from three to six feet of water has been standing In tlin downtown streets. The people of Virginia Point hnvo been Injured and ore suffering sorely for medical Hid.

A relief party will likely be from Houston. The town of Keemah, which consist ed of about one hundred homes, was swept clear and no houses are stand ing, according to reports brought to League City Wednesday morning bv (Continue frww. Pas On.) Ilalf of Causeway Destroyed. In a letter from J. W.

Terry, general attorney for the Santa Ke Railroad, to E. P. Ripley ot Chicago, who came over to the causeway this morn-Ins In his boat, says that probably about one-half Is destroyed. The seawall Is solid. No damage to the Galvez.

The slogan sign Is the only thing 3oft on the beach. A 170-foot schooner was blown on the seawall. The soldiers rescued seven sailors. Two pieces of granite weighing ebout two tons each out of the riprap were thrown up on the seawall. Drinking water in the reservoirs will last about one week.

Many are peddling it out in water wagons. The break in the water supply Is located In a large receiving tank at Alto Loma. A Small receiving tank in the city is full. Efforts are being made to arrange to get water to people who are unable to come after It Great property damage Is out on the beach. 1 Tractlcally all the houses east of Twentieth and near the boulevard are destroyed.

A strip about one-half to two biocks w-ide to Fourth. Street is damaged. Very small damage on Broadway. All these houses are small and of flimsy construction and many of them are of small worth and the city had been thinking of having them condemned. There are large holes In the sand right behind the boulevard and several houses have toppled over into these holes.

No house east of the boulevard was damaged to any extent. Several Disastrous Fires. In Galveston most of the damage to Justness houses is in water damage to stock. The Dlum Notion Company is burning. Monday night during the storm the O.

K. Laundry was completely destroyed by fire. There was ebout five feet of water all over everywhere and firemen could not answer the alarm at aU. The next fire to break out waa the Texas Company. L.

Levy Co. were heavy losers also, as was the Galveston Dry Goods corapanv, which was In the same block with the Blum Notion Company, and probably has burned. Practically all the show windows in Galveston were blown out. All the big buildings withstood the etorm. i The Sunset elevator and elevator both were safe.

There was four feet of water in the Tnion Depot. At Twenty-first and Market Streets the water was about six feet tn the buildings. The chute on elevator was eliirhtly damaged. The wharfs are damaged but slightly. Piers Nos.

10 and 21 have the most damage. The warehouses are not nearly as Vadly damaged as in 1900. Two oil steamers are aground at Texas City. Quite a few barges and pleasure craft are lost or washed aground. The transports Kilpatrick and Bu-ford are safe and ere tryln to fl buck to Galveston with fresh milk, which Is badly needed.

Sprav from the Gulf washed to the first floor of the Galvez Hotel. u.iun.n fiflv-nii and sixty members of the Sam Houston dredge crew, one Houston Heights man. were report drowned in the Houston Ship Chan-'. ntt Tnvaa citv early momlne bv the three only known survivors of the storm, which Bent the craft to the bottom. The men unved themselves by swinging, hand over hand, from a rope attached to a omaU tender.

The survivors are Mate Ben Anderson, Hans Herman-jud-w 1 and Caud Per- oil nf Galveston. The d're'dge sank in less than five minutes, OUT OF THE EARTH COMES THIS FORCE One of the Marvels of America Is Vitalitas Mine Being Worked in Texas. The mining and handling of Vital 4... i. Uraminr Inioortunt Indus try at one isolated spot in the coast country ot Texas, an inauswy um win prove of value to tlio entire world.

Nowhere else on or within the earth i aiihsljince been located. Crude Vitalitas, after beinb mined, is uhlUped to JMOoraionus ai jjuubwii, horn hv nn extraction process nil the chemical properties and forces (ire reduced 10 a conaeriseu wquiu yitulttas Is daily bringing health end hspplnessj to thousands of n.iouiihout the South. It is one -k', arrutt-st irlfts to mankind and is proving a. beacon light to sick and suffering everywhere. Many forms of disease that defy ordinary (ri.i.iniunK urn RtMit awav t'y iL lis tonic, corrective and sya- I em -cleansing; eiiocia nine vcioun.

l.r...ui.r, tilnt.vnl wafer Them urn ii" equal it in lie treatment of indl- geitlon. rheumatism, caiarrn, oi-nimy Mii.l chronic disorders generally of liver, kidneys, bowels and The dose a tesi'poonful in a i -lars of water, elllicr not or com, VIlBlitns st Van Smith's 1 i.K r'-ie. I by di urrlf 's P' ncnilly. (Continued from Page One.) the masonry stood staunchly and held back the waters. First reports place the loss of life in Galveston at eighty.

Fear engendered by a report this afternoon that 500 bodies had been washed up on the beach near the city was allayed by tho messenger's story. At the time he left reports had come In to the Mayor's headquarters of 500 buildings being totally destroyed. Of the known dead In Galveston, four are t'nited States troopers, lost in an attempt to reach the Tremont Hotel at the height of the storm. The wind and rain raged for more than twenty-four hours, the gale reaching its height at o'clock on Tuesday, when It blew ninety-two miles an hour, sweeping everything before it Uuffetlng of Waters. It was at this time that 1000 feet of the sea wall crashed in before the buffeting of the waters.

A great wall of water rushed upon the city. A breach of twenty-five feet was directly tn front of the Calves Hotel and upon it great waves broke, spreading terror among the hundreds of refugees inside, but the foundations were firm and the building withstood the buffeting, although all its lower floors were wrecked. During the height of the storm three fires raged In the business section of the city and firemen were helpless against the lashing of the gale. The heavy rains were nil that saved the city from an unprecedented conflagration. The cloudburst kept the fires from spreading and they ate themselves out.

Galveston already is preparing to take care of her homeless and Mayor Fisher has announced that no outside aid will be needed. General Frederick Funston. who was in command of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, has taken over the military reins at Galveston with troops of the Fifth Hrlg-ade, whose ramp at Fort Crockett was practically wiped out. Reports tonight are that he Is co-operating with Mayor Fisher and a citizens' committee and that ample supplies ore at hand, although there Is a luck of water. The water supply Is being unH r.ffni-i re' hem' marl, to obtain additional food! supply by water transport.

1 Mere waf. no loss of life at Fort Crockett, although the place is a shambles from the wind. The four troopers killed were in the city proper at tho time they met their deaths. Craft in the harbor have suffered heavy damage, among them the I'nlted States transport McClellan. which Is grounded on Pelican Island.

Hundreds of small boats are overturned and many have been blown high ashore. For hundredB of miles around vessels have been torn from their moorings and swept before tho fury of the storm until the stretch of water between Galveston Island and the mainland Is a veritable Sargasso. The entire city of GnUestm lius been under water for three rlays end nights and there Is much feai- or Army, Stato and civic nirxltcal authorities arc r-iort-d oo-oiKTatlng to prevent plague. At tho lirlght of the storm the water In pln-es reached a depth of ten feet. Jt Still stands to a depth of three anil four feet at many points.

Street travel Is difficult and the pi-ople. are mostly keeping the upper stories of their wrecked home. Governor Ferguson left Austin tonight for Galveston to personally look Into conditions and offer tho aid of tho State. Mayor Fisher has Issued a proclamation declaring that Galveston appreciates the tenders of assistance, but that Galveston can look out for her own people and no outside aid will be necessary. With Duxzllng Ttapldlty.

The storm as described by news reaching here was even more violent than the hurricane of 1900, which wiped out the Islnnd City with a loss of 00O lives. The wind, as then, reached a velocity of more than ninety miles an hour and whipped the city from every point of the compass, switching with dazzling rapidity from north to south and from east to west. While Galveston In point of property damage suffered the heaviest loss reports from all points along the coast and many well inland Deginning to trlcklo tonight tell of a heavy toll In life alrT-propnrty. A relief party returned late this evening after working Its way to vlr- glnla Point, between here and Gal- GALVESTON WIRELESS OPERATOR PUTS DEATH LIST AT 50 TO 700 Special to Tho American, WACO, Texas, Aug. 18.

A wlreloss dispatch by Lloyd Frazlor, an operator at Wharton, who had communication with tho steamship A moll read as follows: Dead reported range from B0 to 700. Thero Is no way of knowing. Amelia.