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30, NO. 136. 1 ommuw cat on TOlUtTOM the Mainland -1 No ksalveston There is every indication that tfce hurricane of 1915 following closely the line of that of 1900 with little variation. However, there is one great difference Galveston Has a protecting seawall, and when the last report came through Monday evening at no loss of life had been retorted and the property damage was believed to be light. This report was secured from the office of the Galveston News and is given just -below.

It was secured just before the last of the Southwestern phone company's wires tt 11 lt(nn Ail-llAW YvwT Skl As matters now stand, Galveston is cut off from communication for the moment; but in all probability this condition will be relieved early today. The telegraph wires are working to some points' on the main land and the Southwestern has connection with Alvin and with Laporte, so the breaks in the wire service are probably not serious. Shortly before midnight Dr. Bunnemeyer of the local weather service ventured the opinion that the hurricane had reached the land and that it had struck between Galveston and Houston in the prairie country. -This belief was based upon the' action of the barometer and the increased velocity of the wind, which went to about 60 miles ah went down.

After every maae reaui v.wi.u, graph, telephone, train or aiito failed. The Southern Pacific started a train toward Galveston after dark, but stopped it 1.1a .1 1S. i hour in Houston. Damage in the city has been confined, so far as can be ascertained, to the loss of a number of plateglass windows and signs in the business district damage to shade trees and shrubbery in the residence districts. Corpus Christi passed through the storm safely, while near Victoria je at Seabrook as the were gone and they reared mac ine inun nugm come The through sleepers from Galveston, due in Ifouston about 10 p.

did not come through. Li The last interurban came through at 7:10 p. m. and brought a considerable Mm.bf to the 4000 citizens of Galveston already in the city. An effort to houses were blown down.

The surf reached its highest at Freeport in many years. and at Angleton the storm was increasing at 4:30 o'clock. Outside of Texas thffectsY of the storm were felt along the coast between the Sabine and New Orleans, while at-Mobile it struck early in the day. 1 mm 1 t.A a tka un'n1 It A Vtlrkiam frnllpv send a car through trom nousronxo vmuvbwu tcucU Doles out of line and the car returned to Houston. GALVESTON Texas, August creased to 60 miles an hour, and during the some of it from the ram, which ell heavily hours.

Toht practical UALVLOivn, iexo, w. i Aurirta frVio Anv. If is bll raininsr the East End. esoeciallv tb. oo n.i Wind afternoon increased to uetween oy ana u.

beach, have been evacuated, am tbe people miles an hour, At 8 o'clock tonight the high- muesannour, moo 70 miles an how, variable, baromctcr during day are gathered down town in hotelspubUc The gulf storm struck Galveston to- est velocity was to 73 mdes an houT with from9.63 at 0clock to 29.0 flat at 8 buildings. Sf) day. The storm is severe, but has done no occasional jets blowing as high as 90 miles, o'clock tonight. The tendency at thia hour is The life saving' crew was adi. damage.

There has been no loss of life lheomy aamage uius rar causcu iios a rurther decline. ness auruig uic uy, uui uierc nu occii been the destruction of window panes and No forecast as to the extent of the storm, occasion for its use. 'Xjj insecure wood work on exposed buildings, whether in Galveston or in the surrounding The city is in since the wires of 17IV 4 1. a wimrl a naaw rain fVirnnorVloilf Miinfrv wflft marie toniffht bv the weather the lisrhtinflr svstem are but of commission. The sea wall built to protect the city has stoW the test, as it has done on previous oc- jfty tpnight, the streets are full of bureau as no reports had been received ow- Vyarmng of a tropical storm was given water to tne curDmsr.

proDaoiy uiree icci in ins 10 uie iom ui wires. awtipuig woo act casions. It is estimated that approximately 5000 port today. Several ships are due, but they The storm started during the late morn- depth at' Tremont and Avenue in At 7 o'clock the velocity of the wind Some of this was from the bay, having persons went to Houston by train, inter- have reported that they are standing by sev- was 34 miles an By noon it had in- been blown in by the high north-wind, and urban and automobiles during the last 36 erjaj niiles off shore. 'i.

aaaaaa aaaa aaaaaai I I i I ji BAROMETER CONTINUED TO ETIWirt MEXICANS FORDED TRIO FALL DURING THE NIGHT THOUSANDS LEFT ISLAND CITY FOR SAFETY OF HIGH LANDS "'i i .11 Houston Estimates Place Refugees experience, some little trouble at the causeway, where it was delayed 10 to 15 minutes by high water and a gasoline launch which had drifted Into the draw. More than 260 passengers came in on this special. At Virginia Point, near the causeway. Center of Storm Was Headed in This Direction and Wind Attained 60 Miles an Hour. City at 7000, Arriving in raw rasM Throughout Monday.

a light wire was reported aon Dy inose arriving in Houston. Although the wire struck an automobile when it fell none of the occupants of the car. say acrivals, were injured. A mule which was struck With the barometer steadily falling and by the wire, however, was killed. This is the only accident which has come to the the wind increasing in velocity the center of the storm was believed to be approach 9r; AND ATTACKED TROOPS Corporal Wilman, 12th Cavalry, Killed and Officer and Trooper Wounded.

-) One Hundred Invaders Disappeared After Armed Clash With Uncle Sam's Border Patrol-Shots Fired Across Rio Grande at United States Troops During Skirmish. ears of Houston residents. Galveston is If. Twenty-Five ing Houston about J2 o'clock Tuesday riot experiencing disorders of any char morning. It was accompanied by a con Approximately 7000 persons from Galveston and other points along the Galveston bay had sought the inland safety of Houston Monday night by the time traffic-on the railroads had been suspended.

Many of those who came to this city also made their way here in automobiles. The trains running along the coast from Galveston toward Houston were filled to ca- acter, state arrivals. In Houston Kreat crowds' met each Interurban which arrived. All trains over tinuous downpour, the total rainfall for the period between 7 p. m.

and, 1:30 a. m. being five inches. The barometer fell from 28.83 to 28.83 between 12:30 and 1:30 o'clock Tuesday ered Warden and Removed Prisoner. the Galveston.

Houston and Henderson and trie Sunset-Central were also me by hundreds of Houstonlans. Friends ar caplty during the whole of the day and morning. The previous fall recorded was riving on each of these trains and the Houston residents are looking for them from 9:30 Monday evening to midnight, when it fell from 29.23 sea level reading. The wind at that hour had reached a the roads were crowded with automobiles until after dark. Every means of transportation was utilised by coast residents in their rush for high ground and protection from rain and wind.

velocity of 60 miles an hour. The wind and taking them to their homes to afford them the protection of their roofs. Hundreds of Houston residences last night housed friends and relatives of the Signals and warnings of the United States weather bureaus of an approach ing storm and the weather1 indications along the gulf front brought the first of the refugees from the gulf cities. Later the weather indications and high wind and water at aU points precipitated Astociattd Press Report.) BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Auguat 16. About 100 Mexicans under cover of darkness tonight forded the Rio Grande, near Mercedes, about 30 miles up the river from here and partly surrounded 21 men of the Twelfth United States cavalry.

They killed one trooper and wounded two. For a tim it was reported that the Mexicans were advancing on Mercedes, but at midnight all had disappeared. Soldiers and posses are searching the brush for them. the rush for Inland ground, and Monday Galveston residents, who had sought this city pending the break of the storm. The hotels were filled almost to capacity by early evening.

Some of them were crowded, especially the smaller ones. At one hostelry more than 200 above the average daily register had been received at o'clock, and additional names were being registered with each arriving Interurban. The lobbies of the hotels and the sidewalks about them were Jammed with the crowds of newcomers. Restaurants and lunch rooms also felt the effects of had increased from 48 miles an hoar at 9:30 o'clock. At that hour the center of the storm had passed onto the mainland of the coast and was moving rapidly Inland, according to Dr.

B. Bunnemeyer, director of the Houston weather bureau, and district director for Texas of the United States weather service. "The center of the storm," suld Dr. Bunnemeyer, "probably struck the coast either west, or east of Galveston, but more or less In that general vicinity. Should the center pass over Houston, the winds should begin to decrease in velocity and for awftlle a dead calm should prevail.

After the center has passed, the (Associated Press Report.) MILLEDGEVILLE, August 16 Leo M. Frank; Georgia's noted life term convict, was removed from the Georgia prison farm here tonight by 25 armed men, who overpowered Warden Smith. A Previous to the attack wires leading to the prison itself had been cut. i Frank was placed in an automobile and rushed in the; direction of Eaton ton. i It has not been ascertained whether Frank was lynched or whether the party that removed him from the prison were his friends.

COTTON IS CONTRABAND rrmpORAL WILMAN, Troop C. Inroads of strangers, and their busi ness was in cases almost (Turing Wounded: Roy O. Henry, troop wounded in arm; Private Jackson, troop shot in arm. Wilman was shotJn the head. -The battle was short but sharp.

The troopers are unable to say whether the main body of Mexicans crossed to attack them or whether the crossing was a cloak to cover crossings at other nearby river I that the Mexican hadcroSMed the river i tmcn AT TROOPERS I in throa hanrtfl. In three bands. tho dav. barometer should rise steadily and the Lwlnn nns again become severe." Scenes at thq interurban office and In the downtown districts at the time of the to about 2 o'clock these conditions prevailed and the storm gradually Increased In severity. MORE TROOPS 8ENT TO MERCEDES.

Mercedes, according to details of troops In that region, should have available tonight TO United States cavalrymen and half a doscn Rangers for protection, be-shies vigilantes who have been organised In force there. Reinforcements of 'Rangers and soldiers from Harllngen were ordered rushed to Intention Communicated to American) LAST INTERURBAN LEAVING GALVESTON WAS STRANDED Transmission Power Suddenly Went Out as Car Reached Virginia Point; Passengers Safe. morning traffic facilities of every sort were utilised to their utmost capacity by those seeking escape from what the wind and water might bring. Early Monday morning the Interurban lines placed three cars to the' train and began a service of two trains each way, using in all 12 cars throughout the day. The railroads ran specials from Galveston at noon, carrying hundreds of Every available automobile In Galveston and in the beach resorts was in Houston Monday evening.

Monday evening residents and summer pleasure seefcers of the coast cities and resorts continued to arrive in ever Increasing' number, -Until hotels, rooming, house and many private residences were filled almost to capacity. There Is none of the element of panic or blind fear in the numerous arrivals ii Houston. Most of them are those who survived the great flood of 1900, or who had friends and relatives In tbe catastrophe. They have been by the weather bureau that the conditions surrounding the approaching storm are almost the same as those accompanying tha former storm. The slogan of the past two years, "safety first," which was so thoroughly overlooked in 1900, they state, has prompted their leaving their homes and business.

They have come here cool and unafraid, they declare, to await the results or the passing of the stprm, which la fast approaching. The vanguard of the exodus began arriving In Houston Sunday evening on the Interurban. Simultaneously trains aifd automobiles began bringing in the residents oC such summer resorts as Sear brook and Morgans point. While the first State Department in Washington. PROM MEXICAN SIDE.

In addition to darkness the Mexicans had the cover of thick brush and bends of the river. During the height of the 1 fighting the soldiers said many shots Were fired froni the Mexican bank opposite their camp. This Camp was near Trogreso, an excellent ford, where man and horse could i cross with ease at a gallop and where for two days cavalrymen and rangers have been watching the gatherings of Mexicans in considerable numbers. lst iilgh a Mexican at this point fired on 5 the soldiers, but hit no one. i Mercedes, and a dosen mailer places nearby called out details of United States troops, rangers and vigilantes, who divided in, the duty of guarding towns and ranches and Of form Mercedes by Automobile.

Harllngen Is arrival of the electric cars were sometimes humorous, occasionally pitiful, but more often commonplace. The average arrival carried his suit case and hand bag, in one clothes enough for his stay here, and in the "I her his valuables and papers. He was sometimes alone; sometimes accompanied by his wife, and now and then accompanied by children. Umbrellas raised suddenly to be turned kronk side out. difficulties with skirts and winds, flying hats, slippery pavements and sidewalks, contributed-most of the humor.

The pathos accompanied only a few. One woman, little, middle aged, dressed In mourning, gray streaks In coal black hair, carried baby still in swaddling clothes, while she" led two tiny boys barely able to walk. Car and worry marked her fxce, but a motherly love blotted them out when oae of the youngsters who tagged at her skirts tagged to carry "baby." None met her at the station. She sought lodgings for herself and children alone. about 15 miles from Mercedes.

One troop of the Twelfth United States cavalry, numbering about 60 men. left Harllngen for Mercedes about an hour and a half after the Mexicans crossed The Notification Unofficial, but Authoritative Declared Due to Necessity: for Arranging Uniform Treatment of Subject by All Allies, i the river. Ranger Captain H. T. Ransom went with 'his troop.

These relief forces were gathered and sent away from Har llngen within 30 minutes of the time when Mercedes reported tha Ap parently It was nearly ah hour after the ing to searcn.tne Drusn ior Mexicans. Mexicans crossed the river before Mer cedes received tha warning. (Associated Press Report.) CiV WASHINGTON. August 16. The allies' lnteation to declare cotton con-traband has been communicated unofficially but authoritatively to the stauW department.

The department's-advices are that the decision Is due to th necessity of arrarging uniform treatment of the subject by all the allies. A local Mexican paper this afternoon printed the assertion that General Naf-farate at Matamoros had wired. Monterey TRAIN SERVICE DEMORALIZED, The last car of the Interurban which left Galveston at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon filled with passengers, was reported stranded at Virginia Voint at 6:20 o'clock. This Is the first station on the mainland this side of the causeway. The car had proceeded about a mile past she causeway when tne high tension line, carrying the transmission power, suddenly went out and the car came to a stop.

The Interurban car which left Galveston with a load of passengers at 3 o'clock and arrived lit Houston ot 7:10 p. m. required an hour to cross the causeway. The crew that the spray 'cached the front of the car and covered the tracks, making It Impossible to see ahead, and added to this, the water threw up pieces of debris on the tracks making progress slow. At 4 o'clock the service of the dispatching system of the Interurban line went out entirely, late last night efforts were being made Ijy the officials of the com Rosenberg.

Reports That Storm It for 1000 troops on account of the Increase lit the' garrison at Fort Brown here. There cars were, not heavily' loaded they, were BERLIN NOW HAS AMERICAN Worse at Midnight 1 iHviion Post Steciml.) Texas) August 1. The Intensity of the wind has been Increasing- steadily sine nightfall and at mid REPLY IN THE FRYE CASE SEARCHING FOR 1 THE INVADERS. Late tonight Mercedes reported that ilt Is impossible to tell whether any Mex. leans remained on the American side.

At that-time nearly 100 United States regulars were about the scene of the fighting" and are searching the mesquit and prickly brush nearby, assisted by more than 100 peace officers, rangers and vigilantes. Several men who came Into Mercedes from the soens of the fighting said no one had found any Mexican killed or wounded and' that the finding of the bodies in the" thick-brush from vhlch the Mexicans fought, was unlikely tit the darkness. RaAm- Lieutenant Reynau at Mer- comfortably filled, and brought word of a feeling of uneasiness on all aides from the districts which they represented. After midnight the Interurban lines continued their servtoe and well, filled cars arrived In Houston at 2. and I o'clock Monday morning.

At I o'clock the first night Was severe' with an approximate was no confirmation of tbls. THREATS AGAINST AMERICANS REPORTED. Threats against Americana 'mado by Mexican soldiers because of exaggerated accounts about Texas raids were reported her today by Americans arriving from the Interior of Mexico. These Americans came pxt of the way by train and partly by automobile. On they threatened by Mexican soldiers, who apparently had been drinking, and "who declared that Americans along the border were roping' Mexicans by their necks.

velocity of 40 at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning the wind Is still raging but It Is Impossible to for tell any damage thus far. Numerous trees and many signs have been blown off buildings In ship -William P. Frye by the Prins Eltel Freldrlch has been delivered to the lin foreign office1 by Ambassador and will be Riven out here by the state department tomorrow morning for publl- cation in Tuesday afternoon papers. Chargred With Recruiting (Associated Prise Retort.) "IjAREDO, Texas. August H.

Wsnuel Icaca. VI 11b consul today waived examination on a charge of --recruiting Mexicans for foreign servloe and was' held by the United States camrntagloner to tha federal grand Jurv. Ha was re-teased on a bond or $2500, i the business district, all wires east of Text of Note Will Be' Given the Press by State Department This Morning. t.lssccuite 4 Press WASHINGTON. August ylf-Th American reply to the last 0rnjn not on tha slaking- of thi merlcaa sal 11ns pany to restore.

Uj service and to give of the tbree-coach trains left Galvestom and during the whole of the day these trains, bearing each time from lit to 100 persons, arrived hourly. It Is estimated that the interurban aion brought at the least 2600 'persons, Into the city. A special train over the 6uneet-Cntral lines which left Galveston at noon whatever aid, their possibly could In the situation. cPdes, telephoned State Adjutant Genera! Hutchlns here the Urst news of the In- here are down and train and telegraph service nrarflcally demoralised, routh-ern Pacific Limited, due her shortly before midnight had not reached her at 1 o'clock this- morning and It believed the tran was tied UP at some-station between Houston aadTHosenbertY a vaslon. Other Storm Neks on Pages 4 and 5 (Continued on Pag Five.

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