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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1915.V HOUSTON DAILY POST: i.n rr.rr I FALL OF KOYHO IS A MENACE TO RUSSIA Opens Approach to Main Railroad Line to Capital. REPAIRING Now the best time to have Your Old 8hoss Made New Whole Soles end Heels an entire new bottom 11.60 "The Buckler Way" Half Solea and Heels. Rock Oak leather 11.00 Half Soles only, Rock Oak Leather Rubber Heels, Cat's Paw 60s Phone us at our store or factory. We will send for and deliver your repairing. 10 Capture of Fortress Another SuoceM al 3 If for 16-Inch Gum Germans JIade Seventeenth Air Raid on England.

BUCKLEY AFTER BEFORE Store Preston 1979. Factory Preston 1492. (Auociatti PrtH Htfiort.) of ih 1 LONDON. Ausuat 11. Kovno, on of the rruelal points In the Russian defensive In the north, waa captured by the Germane laat nlsht and the road to the Vllna, Warsaw and Petrograd railway Our building is slightly damaged but BURG HEIM SERVICE is always the same.

You'll get what you want when you want it at Is now open to troops of Kmperor Wll Hum. In Spite of the Storm The rapture of the fortress Is another Fittest triumph tor German It-Inch guns, wnicn throughout the present war have been hrougiit against no fortification which they provtod unable to subdue. the fortress of Kovno. the tier fclJ7J mans' have taken over 400 ftiina and according to their aecounl, a a enormous 209 Main. quantity of war material.

This, howeVer, la not the most serious PHARMACY part of the matter to the Russians. Besides opening the way to Vllna. which Is an open town, from which most of the Inhabitants departed and from which everything that might be of use to the Germans has been removed, the fall of the fortress takes away the lust protection with the exception of the Russian field army to the main line railway to the cupltal and also place the Germans In a position to threnten the flanks of Russian armies retiring to the Brest-Lltovak line and those operating In Southern Courland. flMfll 1 POST REPORTER FIRST TO AND REACH CITY OYER DAMAGED CAUSEWAY WM (Continued From PAge One.) chants' stocks, although many residences. especially in the eastern end of the Island B.

J. Boyle, Dr. Vernon Powell, Special Representative of (lalveston Dallas man Who accompanied Dr. Powell. have been demolished by the storm.

The great highway whtVi followed the seawall Is ruined. Bath houses, pavilions, fishing piers, the white way, and such structures were taken In great maaaes. One of the peculiarities of the losses In the eastern end of the island is that the residence district has sunk below the mmwr or ommerce. Insurance Rate, $2.00 per $1000 MAILLOT BOWEN 815 Union Rational Bank Building Preston 1023 bring back supplies of milk and other special necessities for the people of city. Dr.

Powell judged that these boats had suffered little if any damage. level prior to the storm, and the seawall stRnds now above the district like a great war-wall about a Chinese protected city. and that they were in seaworthy condition. The transports are lying at the THREE FIRES pier far up on the east end of the island and he had not seen them since the MENACED THE CITY. storm.

Lyle Fordyce, formerly of Houston, and who has relatives and friends Fires, three of them, the last the flerc est and greatest, menaced the city dur here, who for the past year and a half has beea secretary to the captain of the Kilpatrick, is presumed to be safe. ing the prowess of the storm. Wednes day morning the plant of the Armour company, the Fred C. Pabst Real Estate Only Slight Damage company, the Blum Nations company and the Selnshelmer were destroyed. The losses of this fire were placed Done to the Wharves.

conservatively at $100,000. The officea of Only slight damage to the wharves is reported by officials of the wharf tne nlted states cotton company, and the Knights of Columbus hall were also companies, piers 10 and 21 having suffered most They can be repaired without difficulty. Some of the warehouses on the wharves are slightly Hardin Lumber Co. 3700 Texas Avenue BRICK SHINGLES LUMBER IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. located In one of the buildings.

Although severely handicapped, the fire department fouKht the flames to the best of their ability, and the most threatening fire of the storm period was controlled. turned around and twisted but they are in no such shape as after the 1900 storm and they, too, can be repaired quickly and at no very great cost. A Tuesday night at clock, when the close inspection of the elevators was not made, but all were left standing. The new Southern Pacific elevator and Elevator A appeared to be absolutely storm was ragiirg. nre broke out In she O.

K. laundry. Twentieth and HostofAce streets, and for miles the heavens were lighted with the glare of the flames. Another fire broke out shortly after irt the intact, while the chute of Elevator was partially wrecked. The brewer who continues to use the light bottle, which necessitates th warn in "Keep this beer from light," signs the ult i mate death warrant of his brew.

By his own confession he breaks that unwritten law by which every manufacturer should abide the protection of his product from factory to consumer. Schlitz in Brown Bottles is the Purest Beer Brewed it is all health-fulness from the brewery to your glass light cannot harm it. It costs no more than beer in light bottles. On the eastern end of the island -the Sealy hospital and the buildings Dunning or tne Direct isavigation com of the medical college of the State university withstood the storm well, having windo'w panes broken and some water in the basements. pany.

Twentieth and Wharf. Sparks from the flaming building were unable to live in the flying spray, and other structures in the neighborhood were un Fort Crockett was pretty well torn up, the Boldiers losing their tents injured because of this fact alone. The fire department did Its best, but was Phones Preston 1389-1087 and camp equipment. The men were sent into town when the storm became greatly handicapped by the high wind and horisontally driven rain. The losses serious.

The four soldiers drowned were from the fort, but Dr. Powell was unable to say where they met their deaths. Little was known in Galveston Wednesday morning about the condition come through since the storm. He was met on the Harrisburg road beljw Harrisburg by a party of Post representatives, who were looking for refugees from Galveston. of thp causeway.

Dr. Powell said it was understood that J. W. Terry, gon eral attorney for the Santa Fe, had sent a letter to E. P.

Ripley in Chicago tating that he had inspected the causeway from a boat and that half of it had been demolished. Dr. Powell was not acquainted with the condition of the structure at all on the mainland side. Section Nearest Gulf Suffered Most. trom tnese two fires also were heavy.

LIFE SAVING STATION SWEPT AWAY. The wharfage facilities and the ships in port also suffered In the storm. The most serious damage was to the 'nlted States transport McClclinn, which was driven ashore, and In the complete destruction of pier 10. A large number of small boats were completely destroyed, and damage to some extent was done to practically every pier from 10 to 40. The life saving station, across the channel, and all its equipment, were swept away.

The State immigration and the State and federal quarantine stations were not seriously damaged. Several of the larger ocean-going craft In the harbor tore from their moorings, and are at various points along the hay front, some of them well up on the mainland. SCHOONER THROWN INTO SOLDIER CAMP. One of the most remarkable features of the storm was the hurling bodily of the three-masted Allison Doura over the Galveston seawall, and Into the center of the soldier camp at Fort Crockett. Captain Evans Wood of the vessel says that she struck Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock, that The section of the city rearest the.

gillf suffered the greatest property damage in the way of destroyed houses. Many cf these houses, it was declared, ere of light construction and not expected to withstand any high wind. In fact, some of the houses Bhotild have been torn down and moved away a long time ago. according to H. H.

Haines, traffic manager, of Galveston, who was in Houston Wednesday afternoon. "The storm has done some good, anyway," he said. All the bath houses Brought First Detailed Story to Houston. Dr. Powell, accompanied by B.

J. Boyle of Dallas, a refugee, was rushed to The Post in a waiting automobile and gave The Post the first detailed story of the storm, having come to Houston representing Galveston to give authentic information cm the storm and the damage done, and his knowledge of the situation was based upon a personal trip to many parts of the city-Tuesday. He spent the night Monday in his own home and was inconvenienced only by the water rising in the lower tloor. The storm grew in intensity during Monday morning and by noon ihe gale was terrific. Thousands of people left Galveston, and came to the mainland in many kinds of conveyances.

Dr. Powell said. Among those who left were many of the old citizens of Galveston, who had gone through the 190D torm. "The loss of life is insignificant, compared with the 1900 storm, of course," said Dr. Powell, "and the property damage is not to be compared with the damage wrought by the former storm.

We do not wish to underestimate the damage simply because we are Galveston optimists, neither do we want the people outside of Galveston to get exaggerated reports of the damage done, and because we are not able to estimate in dollars and centa the amount of damage, we are not naming any figures, but desire that a true report of just what has occurre'd reach the world, and for that reason I was sent to Houston to make a statement. "It was decided Tuesday afternoon," he said, "at a meeting of the city council, not to ask for outside assistance, as it was thought the city could take care of all cases of distress. Order in the city was good and martial law was not declared, although the army officers, working with the city authorities, detailed soldiers to assist the police force for" a time. on the beach were swept away clean and the only thing left standing on the seawall is the, great iron frame bearing Galveston's slogan in an electric sign "Treasure Island." Practically all the houses near the boulevard and east of Twentieth were destroyed. A strip about two blocks wide to Fortieth on Broadway is mowed down.

Very little damage was done to houses on the whole crew escaped, and Inside ten minutes she was wreckage on the Island side of the seawall. A part of the fori Broadwav. Just behind the Boulevard the sand was dug out and large holes eft ir.to which numerous houses toppled. No house east of the boulevard was deck or the vessel was located Wednesday eight blocks distant from the rear deck. damaged seriously.

One of the freaks of the storm was the hurling of a good i-7rt schnnnpr nnon the seawall. Some salvage is expected. Onother un- and bales of sisal fibre from Mexico with which the was loaded were strewn over a district covered by a suuare mile sual feat was seen when two large pieces of granite weighing not less than The cargo of the Allison Doura was 709 bales of slsnl, bound for Alabama. The wo tons each. which, nao tormea a part oi me rip rap pi mo oca ncic snip was witnin 137 miles of its destina tion when It was taken In the teeth of found up on top of the wall the storm bunday afternoon and hurled along neipiessiy to tne Texas coast.

Power, transportation, telegraph and telephone and gaa companies of the citv 'eopleFledto are making every effort to repair their Mnv hpnnl rpmained in their own homes throughout the storm, but lines. 11 is proDanie tnat one wire win be In connection between Galveston and Houston by this evening. The Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone company will attempt to make this connection, using the submarine cables of the ers, especially those in the lowlands of the city, fled for safety to public oth us buildings. The Rosenberg library, Ursuline convent, trie court nouse, me voHnnai insurance company building, the Santa Fe depot and Western Union Telegraph company to cross the bay. Hundreds of men have fliuci ivau v.

See that crown is branded "Schlitz been employed to place the other nubile ther large buildings sheltered nunareus ana 11 was esumaieu mm nnn m.nt Mnnrtav nicht in the union depot, 'ine water in me looDy 01 me facilities In working condition and the work will be rushed to completion. Great forces also were placed at work In clear depot rose to four feet and in the drug store at Twenty-first and Market a ing the streets of the masses of debris which filled, the city. depth of six feet was attained. Telephone Preston 154. Japhet Inc.

819 Commerce Ave. Houston, Texas TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA AND BUILD Street car service was discontinued Monday arternoon a uhuvk neht and eas plants went out of commission Monday night TBI, BlJ t. and Mayor Fisher Ordered All Saloons Closed. "As a precaution Mayor Fisher ordered all the saloons closed Tuesday morning. Some rowdyism was reported among negroes in the Santa Fe depot during the storm Monday night, but the disturbance was of little consequence.

None of those conditions which marked the aftermath of the 1900 storm are found and although the storm itself was as severe, the water being higher on the bay side of the island than fifteen years ago, and the wind probably stronger, the effects are very different. To the seawall is given the praise for saving the city, the great structure standing solid and without damage, after holding back the angry sea that dashed over it for hours. "The buildings in the main business part of the city suffered only minor damage from the wind, broken show windows, awnings and signs and occasionally a lost tin roof, representing the bulk of the actual damage in this section to buildings. "Three fires which raged during the storm destroyed buildings, the first tire breaking out Monday night in the O. K.

laundry. There was about five feet of water around the'building and the firemen were unable to get to it and it burned itself out. The Texas company building burned Tuesday and the th -wntpr and sand stopped their machinery. The city has been in Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you mm mr im mm ie Beer are taking, as the formula Is printed on every label, showing It is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.

The Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron builds up the sys darkness, except for individual lights in homes, sinc Monday. Many telephone and trollev ires and poles are down and the systems are demoralized, but are being repaired as rapidly as possible. The pavements were not hurt, that nn the Boulevard. Bodies of animals in the debris were not tem, ope. AUT.

That Made Milwaukee famous? numerous, except for those of dogs and cats and small animals. NEW YORK STOCKS No Orders Solicited and No Shipment Made in Violation of Texaa Laws, The party coming over from Galveston numrjerea bdoui ow aim iue, i.ionH r.ttv wharvps earlv Wednesday morning, maklrfg their way to We execute orders for these stocks Texas City. The sea was rough at times, but the voyage across the bay was either on liberal credit, or for cash. Better Be Safe Than Sorry (eventful. It required several hours to make tne trip inio me, miu.uu.

thA.tmrtv found conveyances to Houston during the after- Quotations given upon request An analysis of the. Virginia-Caro roon and refugees flockedjnto the city until late Wednesday night. STEWART TITLE GUARANTY CO. WE MAKE YOUR TITLE SAFE Houston Title Guarantee Co. MINOR STEWART, President I Phone Preston 11BS.

second lwr Uumberrtisns Bank Blja. lina, Chemical would indicate it to be a desirable purchase. It Is now earn Ground Floor Stewart Bldg.j ing about 22 per cent on its present price of about $35.00 per share. 1 WM. B.

KING CO. GOVERNOR FERGUSON JS IN HOUSTON EN ROUTE GALVESTON With Him Is Dr. Lincecum and John A. McCalmont, Assistant Adjutant General to Investigate. Tina Commonwealth Trustee' Store of the Blum Notion company was burning Wednesday when the boat left tlte pier, threatening to destroy that building and also the one next to it.

The fires were not widespread and with the water down no further fear of great damage from this source was entertained. Scarcely a business house, however, escaped great? loss to their stocks from the high water. The dry goods' houses 'were especially hard hit.V Levy Co. and the Galveston Dry Goods company were two of the heavy losers No estimate could 'be placed upon the loss in this way. Nore of the large Bhips tied up at the wharves were hurt much, and shipping in the harbor fared well considering the intensity of the storm.

Numerous small craft, including pleasure boats, fishing boats and skiffs were sunk or driven on shore and more or less damaged, and two oil tank steamers were blow ashore on the mainland between Texas City and Virginia' Point, but they are standing upright The amount of damage lias not been ascertained. From the fact that army headquarters in Galveston had tendered to the "Mur authorities the use of the transports lying in port to go to the mainland 8TOCK AND BOND DEALERS. Does a General Trust Business, PATENTS Obtained sAd trademarks and copyrights registered. Writ, for Inventor's Guide Officea at 70S Kress Bldg4 Houston, Texas. Phon.

Preston 4790. HARDWAY CATHEY been unable to learn anything -of the 'situation the coast and had decided to come and see for himself juet what the Is slnd what measures of relief are needed. Berelalr. (Houston Ptst SPtchlA i BBRCLAIR, Texae. August lfi-Ths high winds have knocked out lota of cot-down and cotton has been greatly damaged and the loss in that staple will be great i FOR NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA Tak Hertford's Acid Phosphate Sufferers from acid stemtota or ilrk lieadach will Sat wejcoius relief from tills toalo bemsse.

(Advtrtlaeaent.) Handles All Kinas-or iviarKeiani. Bona W. E. Richards, President. M.

O. Treasurer. I B. Blanton, Mgr. Bond 'Dept.

I Real Estate and Rental In Charge I R. O. Franks, I 7 Texas Municipal, tiohool, County, Road and Drainage District Bonds. Correspondence Invited. Southern Securities Co.

Carter Building Houston, Texas Governor J. E. Ferguson, Dr. Lincecum arid John A. assistant adjutant general, came In from Austin Wednesday nlsht and will Droceed to Gal Post Want Ads Are Advertising Nugg( veston this morning.

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