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HOUSTON DAILY POST: THURSDAY. MORNING, AUGUST 19. 1915. 8 SMSk FIRST SURVIVOR TO TELL OF WHYNOTHM BREAK' IN THE CAUSEWAY A CLEAR SKIN R. B.

Beasley, Marine Superintendent of Southern Pacific, Was in Virginia Point Hotel When It Went Down. 1 v. i the Invar ami ixiwel lliil and all of The first story of the break In the aimsMPin eausvway mas brought to Houston by The I 'out party, which secured It after an effort which proved one of the hardest te.ts In the fight to received some news of lialvexton and Virginia Point. Leaving Houston at 1 o'clock Wednes- lay morning. The Poet party, traveling In the good roads Overland, headed for Ualvesion on lite second trip elnee the Htorm in Houston.

They reached Dickin son, where a hard rain overtook I hem. and after short rest proceeded to Texas I'lty junction. this point they were reimy to start tor a oreaa to Virginia IVint at daybieak. After traveling for about a mile and a half over ruins of track, in mud, aeros railway emlwiikmeiila and through much water, the puily encountered a trio of men who hail come through, walking that morning from Virginia foint. iney were unable to clve any definite information reuunilni: the situation, and The Post hout ljrty iiroi-eedeil.

After traversing about hue miles further In water reaching to waist of the members. The lost arty met K. lleasley, marine superin. nUeiu ol tin- Southern facmc lines. taken hi the car and brought to Houston Mr.

Beasley reported an estimated loss ot l.i persons, names unknown, in the ruin of the Causeway fiotel about 1:30 Tuesday morning. He also reported tnat everal Injured members of the party are occupying the signal tower, power house anu niacKsniiin snop ai i ultima mm. badly In need of help, specifically food, fresh water and medical assistance. The Dartv at Virginia Point was largely composed of sightseers, who had gone down in automobiles, and the Interurban party which occupied the car tnat went dead on the causeway and which was lost hen the causeway went down. The mo- i man of this car never reKrteil at the lotei, an.

I it was presumed fiat he mane is way to the drawbridge. The condue- ol vms v. the parly ai me notei ami is as far as those who reached he sUr.ul tcw-r and other temporary I helters know The party in the auseway hotel num- bered a'oont 10 AI iTt left tlie hotel tiling tile Ing'lt sought shelter in I ti On Ie.iriiu.g of the true conditions rrom Mr ll.nsl.y ihe members of the quartet started forward, but soon divided, part of them remaining to push their way through to Virginia Point. Vr lteasley gave many graphic details and story tits iiv i ns uwi iui-p. nc ns I I TO LAY lpJe Can Ship Any Quantity Immediately Mail, Wire or Telephone Your Orders to mmw Including one of the six men he had with hlni at the been rd.

ol 3 In a man of debris. The body was In Jt Virginia Point are completely wrecaV aVd he only MM TOMS HOUSTON MAN SAVED THE LIVES ROOFING DlUISIOfJ, HOUSTON, TEXAS OF 42 WOMEN AND CHILDREN F. H. LeClaire, of Swift Company, Got Them to Plate of Safety. Equipped With Life Preserver, Assisted Them to High Ground.

WIVES AND CHILDREN OF "SOLDIERS TO COME TO HOUSTON They drifted 15 miles Into the bay. Mr. Baker thought it was at least six hours before they reached the signal tower. After being carried out to sea by a current that moved tremendously fast, Mr. Baker said, the wind suddenly changed and tbey were as swiftly turned back.

He told of a woman who lost her husband and two children, one a baby, that he said clung to the mother's neck nntll the raft she was on struck a wire, which cut tne cniui ueau on ana araggea it from her arms. 1 He could not give her name nor any of the other passengers. Believing that he. would be lost, ho gave several persons his name and address that his people might be notified. For the 36 house they were housed In Arrangements Made for the Use of the Old Houston Infirmary Building for Sufferers by General Bell.

me giKimi lower, none couiu get ioou or water. A pig, however, was butchered these were safe. Thoxe tnui are mlsning were III the hotel when it eollapsed. Mr. Reualey himself was among those who stayed In the t'auseway hotel.

ine hotel was constructed on still and the ater beating up against 'the foundation during the night washed It away an.l Thi. iirred about Liu. and Mr. lteasley. who was on the srennd story, suddenly loun.i inniaon several feet of water This aa undoubtedly one of the dramatic escapes of which the story of losses In this storm will probably be replete.

Besslev was pi the wuter nearly six hours, caught In some manner of which he was not certain, and was only finally able to extruate himself and climb onto some debris when the roof opened from the side of the hotel. From the pile of debris he swam to a telegraph pole, nut this eventually blew flown, and he was forced to climb the semaphore signal. This also gave way when daylight broke and he was able to see the lialveston. lltioMitui an.l Henderson tracks aoove water about 1M) feet away. He swam to thfa and made his wav to the signal tower, where he found those who are knoun t.

m'mih-iI from the hotel About li are missing, according to the rest of the party there, though Mr. ix mprised Jn the signal tower, blacksmith shop and Tower house. The party spent all Tuesdav and Tuesday night mere. Mr R-v left the Point early on morning, having to wade about a mile and a half knee deej in watfr on the Southern Pacific right of way. He was maaing nis way io ij Otv Junction, but whs picked up by The Post within a mile of Virginia Point.

Another party left the Point earlier Mr. Beasley and -was passed by The ost partv on the way to Houston. Mr. Beasley says that every one at the Point able to walk will leave there today, but there are many without shces or suffer- ing from Injuries wno win oe unaoie io gel away. The need of help there Is drastic, par tn uiariy oi iren irr uu in-wi-ai tentlon.

The only ioki supply mm coui.i lit- oluaini-il weonesmiy waa some oacon from the wrecKaq. ol ine noiei ana two pigs were iounn waimirmg ami mih-u. Uine Is lell anil me toon snppiy can ua expected to hold out unl niu inursaay. the water had had a seven-foot rise over the trucks and was still rising. When thy reached the station, they found the women and children there in a state of anxiety as tiie station building was shaking so that nil were fearful that it would be overturned, LeClaire and Anello braced it with a big skid and this was probably all that prevented its destruction as every station along the line was blow down.

The storm at Seabrook was at its worst at 3 in the morning and it was at this time that the Milby and Todd families crawled to the station through the storm. They were put aboard a passenger train lying in the yards there. A night of terrfble anxiety and suffering w-as spent in the Seabrook station ami by daylight water was within 150 yards of the station, making about 12 or 15 feet of water on the flat. All houses were washed away with the exception of three the Stewart and Smith residences and tlie club house, the roof of which was blown away. Everything at Seabrook is a total loss.

LeClaire himself lost everything he had at Seabrook though he might have been able to save much of his property but for the lil hours he spent with the life preserver getting people to safety. Unquestionably, his efforts on the flat saved the lives of those A welcome breakfast was served at Seabrook station when LeClaire obtained coffee and steaks from section hands and a butcher W'ith whom he w-as acquainted. And after the terrible night of wind and rain, it was heartily appreciated. The crowd at tlie station were costumed in everything from bathing suits to ulsters and presented a qyeer appearance hen they made their way to Houston Tuesday. SPENT NIGHT OF THEjT0RM IN A DRAW-BRIDGE TOWER W.

D. Hendrix of Houston Had Thrilling Experience With Six Other Ken. Reported missing earlier in the day, Motorman W. D. Hendrtx of Houston, who operated a work train with Motor-man Bailey of Houston, arrived here late Wednesday afternoon, having spent the night of the storm In the drawbridge tower in the center of the causeway with six other men.

Hendrix was with Bailey a short time after passengers left the train on the causeway and was headed for the bridge tower when Baiiejr took refuge in the signal tower on the mainland. Hendirx was picked up by a boat Wednesday morning and brought to Virginia Point. On the causeway, he said, they found a woman who had become stranded after drifting from the scene of the Virginia Point hotel where she had sought shelter after leaving the interurban. Hendrix and a lineman they called "Fred" were together. A number of the dead could be seen drifting in the bay, he said, uome over to allay the fears on the outside as to the people of Galveston.

Her ESCAPE OF GALVESTONIANS LEARNED AT MORGANS POINT Belief Committee Boat, the Mary Lee, Visited by Tug Gertrude. Water Needed at Bed Fish. Having made the trip from Houston as far as Morgana Point, and there tying; up' to await more favorable, weather -for a vessel of her small size before attempting' the passage to Galveston, the Mary Lee, the Houaton relief tug which bore tbe citizens' committee and a few guests, met the tug Gertrude from Galveston, Captain Bulac, and 'he committee first re ceived word that the damage In Galves ton was comparatively slight and that few Uvea were knit, most of these Drub- ahlv bclns soldiers. aanan' nnnirrr lor nil- rani mcir Will help you even when all else l.M failed. The Soup to cleanse, purify and beautify, the Ointment Nothing better, than these fragrant, uper-creamy emollient at any price.

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Baker's clothing was so badiv torn that he was obltgc4 to buy a complete new outfit when he got to Houston. He arrived o-n the Katy relief train which picked up passengers at Texas City Junction. Bay City. Tllouston lost Special.) BAY. CITY, Texas, August 17.

This section of the coast country caught its share ol the tropiral storm wlneh has lieeu rauum In Che Gulf of Mexico ior the 1 past scverai da 'J lie greatest oainae uone in tills section is in the loss sustained by rice farmers, It being claimed that from 25 to 35 per cent of the- crop is a total loss. Matagorda county has about 50,000 acres in rice, which promised a splendid crop. Some 25,000 ucres of this was in Honduras, much of which was ready to be cut. Twenty thousand acres of Blue Hose la not as far advanced as the Hon- 1 captain said that undoubtedly there had been a few deaths, but no accurate estimate of them had been made. He had heard that several women had been drowned, that several soldiers had lost their lives, but he did not believe the total would be more than half a dozen within the city.

SHIPPING HAS BEEN DEMORALIZED. Shipping, he said, had been demoralized, and while a number of smaller craft had been sunk, only two dredges had gone down the San Jacinto, on which no lives were lost, and the dredge Sam Houston, a large part of whose crew was said to have been lost. Cottages along the seawall In many Instances had been damaged and the streets ran with water over the sidewalks, flooding first floors and cellars in some sections of the city. NO EXCITEMENT REPORTED. Although martial law had been de clared there had been no excitement, the report continued, and the citizens had gotten together to begin with work of clearing away debris and reopening their business nouses in tue spirit ot una nimity.

Tne seawau. ne sam, naa stood tne test well, and was not badly damaged anywhere. Food and water for the survivors at Ued Fish was needed, the Gertrude re ported. andM'olonel Wolters, chairman of the relief committee aboard the Mary Lee. asked the newspaper men returning to Houston to deliver a message to Mayor Campbell to this effect, and see whether the Southern Pacific's tug Louise could not be secured from General Manager Scott to tow a couple of barge loads down.

There was some loss of life at Red Fish, but he could not estimate the number of dead. DROWNED AT LYNCHBURG. Mrs. E. C.

Compton Met Death Early Tuesday Morning. Mrs. E. C. Compton, aged about 60 years, a resident of Houston, who was summering on Kurnet bay, waa drowned at Lynchburg Tuesday morning during the storm.

She is survived by three daughters who had resided with her. Misses Mary, Lucy and Willene Compton, and Mrs. Rosensteln of New York, Mrs. Paris of Tennessee, and two sons, Cuney Compton of Houston and William Compton of New York. The funeral arrangements will be announced later and interment will be made In Hempstead.

The Recent i Bell, "that as many 30 persons lost their lives at Texas City and vicinity and probably not more than 20. Rumors have been rectJJed of great losses, but none of these haseen confirmed. "The army camp was completely destroyed and nearly all the government property was lost or ruined. The soldiers are being sheltered in all kinds of buildings and in partly wrecked structures. The hotels of Texas City have been generous In providing shelter for all the families they could hold.

"It la known positively that one male civilian and three civilian women have been drowned. Aside from this and the lots of the 10 soldiers no other fatalities are known. The water was from three to five feet deep during the height of the storm." General Bell returned to Texas City Wednesday afternoon. HOUSTON MINISTER REPORTED MISSING; BELIEVED DROWNED Y. Q.

Baker of Temple Ee-port to Houston Was on Train Falling From Causeway. Y. Q. Baker of Temple was a passenger on the Galveston-bound interurban that went down on the drawbridge of the causeway and arrived In Houston Wednesday with word that a Houston minister who was on the car was missing and is believed drowned. He reached the Virginia Point hotel with about 48 other passengers, he said, and was set adrift on a raft when the building collapsed.

Between tno and 500 women and children from Texas City will be brought to Houston as soon as arrangements for their transportation can be made. General J. F. Bell came to Houston Wednesday noontime to make the necessary arrangements. He was accompanied by his orderly and two railroad men.

Arrangements have been completed to house the refugees from Texas city at the old Houston infirmary building, which through the courtesy of Paul Ttmp-son of the Houston Land and Trust company was donated for that purpose. Gen- eral Bell desired to place these people where the army officers would be able to exercise supervision and. control This building has about 100 rooms and plans were immediately made to put it in snape. A committee of the Chamber of Commerce consisting of H. Spencer and Homer (Matthews Will co-operate with General Bell In the care of the General Bell confirmed the report of the loss of life in Texas City as first published in The Post.

There were nine soldiers killed, he said, when a building in which they took refuge was wrecked. Only one soldier was drowned. Accompanying General Bell and, his orderly, Sergeant Weiss, were Captain Miller, quartermaster, who came to Houston to purchase supplies, both for the troops and for the civilians. Mr. Caldwell, International and Great Northern official, and T.

TT. Tlayer of the Southern Pacific also came along. The' trip was made from. Texas City by automobile to La Marque and front there by railroad automobile to Houston. No trouble was experienced except where -in some places debris covered the tracks.

The women and children to be moved from Texas City will be transported from that point in wagons or other army vehicles which have not been destroyed or carried away by the storm to La Marque and from there by train to Houston. "It is barely possible," said General Storm Did duras and rice men say it is not seriously damaged. The remaining 5000 acres of Japan also stood the storm very well, but the crop as a whole has been seriously damaged. Property damage so far is slight and consists of blown down porches and, 1 shrubbery. No lives were lost, and the rain, while continuous, has not been heavy at any time.

The wind from thte west, but Is not as strong as it was last night That 2 men and childten were saved from drowning Monday night and Tuesday morning at Seabrowk was largely due to the efforts of K. II. LeClaire of Houston, sales manager of Swift and Company, and Frank Anello, who succeeded in getting all the peopie off the flats and over tp steabrook Station. Mr. LeClaire lives at Seabrook during the summer months, but would probably have left With the storm warning, but for his desire to remain and save a boat there belonging to Colonel Jake Wolters.

He was forced to abandon the boat when the storm became severe and it was beaten to pieces. Ktjulppcd with one life preserver to swim with and tv.o attached to a rope to throw to any one in the water, LeClaire and Aneilo succeeded in getting the people from the I. at to Seabrook station, where they were soon joined by persons residing in summer houses on the bay. The wind, which started at 6. was blowing alKjnt miles an hour and at the same time tli tide began to rise so rapidly that vacating the flats had become absolutely necessary.

With all of the people on the flats safe at ttie station. LoCliire went back to Anello's place at Seabrook bridge in an effort to persuade the known as OiJ Man to accompany liim hack. He found Jack on the dining room table with water all around him, but he declined to leave and Le Claire had to swim back to the bridge himself. Let'lair returned to Anello's place and after securing Anello's valuables, the two returned to the station. They found that FAMOUS WOSUMONK FARM NEAR HOUSTON DAMAGED! Texas Farm Woman's Demonstration Place Near Houston Is in Ruins and Stock Lost.

YVosumonk, farm, the famous farm women's experiment place, an the headquarters of the Texas Farm women, an organization of farm women similar to that of women's clubs of city women, has suffered severely from the storm. It is located In Westmoreland farms, near Houston. Mrs. Binlgna G. Kalb, president of the Texas Farm Women's organization, and owner of the Wosumonk farm, is alone with her daughter and little son, Mr.

Kalb being North with his sick mother. The damage sustained was to the extensive poultry buildings 'which were all demolished. All stock is lost except a few hens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. The barn was partly unroofed and left leaning. The dairy house, having, a eemnt floor and foundation and the frame Wilted fast to the foundation, stood solid, but the iron roofing was partly ripped off and the rain iioured in all Monday night.

Considerable damage to the interior and furnishings resulted. The water stood on the farm up to the sills of the house 18 inches level. The windmill was badly twisted. The fences and cross, Whees on the 20 acres are down. The orange and fig orchard and truck crops are practically ruined.

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