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i HOUSTON nVttYpOSTi-' SUNDAYv MORNING, iAUCUST 20- 191SV 1.1." 'j i.i" i' iiumjiiinfMViririnnrriffi iVf OTPnoirn port o'connoh port utaca ejpfAwt NO LOSS. 0F L1FE Southern Cotton Scales AT Lift Xpeh Damage Was Done to Buildings Crops Unhurt. Ever 1rm nmnef ncinir with an "oixcoAt? Woul4 you xpQt him to; win? Xfcrf yotf vfc life' rac witlr '(Continued front Ptur On.) and contents. Lloyds Iter has down with ton of $5000. Tne Beach hotel has suffered a lOM of $5000 and the PaTlUon hotel $3000, Nuecei hotel $1000, C.

W. Gipson loOOO and the Japanica Iower boat Is loei at $5000. Practically all the smaller craft that was ta XtM on both Nueces and Corpus Christl bays ire wrecked. The power plant is out of commission with a oas of about $8500 ao-cordlng to consernittTe estimates. The car barn la wiped off the earth and cars are standing now where they were whan tha power went off yesterday Mi Handicap mat prspow yqur.

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The passenger whose name Was not learned said the trio went out fishing In Captain Armstrong's boat Thursday morning and it had not been reported when he left Rockport Saturday. Friends of Mr. if ay field and Mr. Capps, who were acquainted with the story pooh boohed the idea, and those knowing Captain Armstrong assert all is safe as he is rated as one of the safest boatmen on the coast First, it is the prescription vpf a fruceosafil physician for the relief of catarrhal trouhles. Second, it haa met with wonderful gucceM, teatiflad to by many thousands of people.

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At this end K. M. McClure, assistant general passenger agent, was on hand to meet thi party. CAMPS OF BROWNSVILLE TROOPS SUFFERED HEAYILY Every Tent in Some Camps Were Blown Down General Parker Made Inspection in Storm. Associated Prist BAN AXTONIO.

Texas, August 19. The West Indian hurricanf. passed Brownsville without serious damage and with no fatalities, according to a wireless report to Fort Sam Houston here Saturday. The troops reoorted busy reconstructing their camps, which suffered heavily in the terrific gale. There were a few casualties.

At Llano Grande a Minnesota guardsman suffered broken arm. The mess house Of the irst Iowa regiment band collapsed with four men in it and one was slightly injured. Kvery tent in the camps of the Third Texas infantry and the Twenty-sixth United States infantry at Harlingen was blown down and the camps wert flooded The troops spent the night in town. There were no injuries. The Illinois camps around Brownsville suffered the most, due to the fact that guardsmen had framed tents.

At the height of the storm General James I'arker. the veteran cavalry commander, and his aides rode through every camp in a driving deluge, making a tour inspection. They found several new mess buildings leveled to the earth, acres and acres of fallen and twisted tents, nine warehouses destroyed and a sea of mud and water. Nearly all the Iowa troops stuck to their camps, and this was true also of the New York guardsmen at McAllen, although, according to a land wire message from Harlingen, the latter lost more than half their ten Is. There was no material damage in the section bounded on the north by Harlin-iren, west by Mission, south by Rio Giunde and east by Point Isabel.

The wind maximum velocity was 60 miles an hour Five Inches of rain fell In 12 hours. Hiownsville still was without telephone and telegraph communication at Iates' reports. Trains in that section are reported from 12 to 18 hours late. Wind and Rain at Lullng. (Houston Post LI' LING, Texas, August 19.

The tropical gulf storm reached here' Friday about noon, leaching its greatest velocity near midnight. The wind was accompanied by rain which began falling about dark and continued intermittently throughout the night. At present the bulk of the cotton crop open, and while some pessimists claim that great damaire has been rinnn hv l.vi day night's storm, the more conservatiKe comiMiie luo umnga um Bllgnt. to you. 16 years on Main St 5J QO QC Canvas Oxfords, Pair (y Long Distance Telephone to Thtr PfM) VICTORIA.

Texas. August 11 Persons arriving here Saturday from Port O'Connor. Port avaca and Seadrtft. neighboring coast communities, added details of the effects of the storm to Friday night's hasty information from those points. At Port O'Connor, as telephoned to The Post Friday night, the large porch of the La Sail hotel was blown down and the hotel's windows were broken the force of the hurricane.

Also the Opheutn theater, "movie" house, was demolished. Tha round house of the Frisco railroad was blown down. There are nearly is summer couages on mo umn at Port O'Connor and many of these were badly damaged while most were more or less tossed about by the rushing wind. The temporary encampment grounds of the Epworth league are under lour teel oi water; tne rise oi tne water In the gale, after covering these premises, passing on to the south side of the LaSalle hotel, submerging the Frisco tracks and forcing a way into the depot. Bearers of news from Seadrlft, a community of about 2000 people, 3S miles west of Port O'Connor, on Ban Antonio bay, relate that nearly every bouse there was considerably battered.

A number of boats were blown from the bay aa fat as the main street of the town. Many fishing boats were blown ashore at Port Lavaca, and all the fish houses were battered to the ground, entailing very material damage to the fish and oyster Industry of the place. From noue of these communities Is there reported the loss of u. single life nor damage so extensive as to affect seriously the entire population. Throughout Friday, night and during the early part of Saturday there were strenuous times in trying to remove families from Port O'Connor to places of less danger and discomfort.

Motor cars were in brisk demand with residents and summer dwellers, some of these fplk paying us high of $1.50 a mile for an automobile to carry them from the port to Victoria or other inland points. The Frisco relief train to Port O'Connor that was sent from Victoria was two hours in making the last 11 miles, so slippery was the track and so fierce the wind. This train brought back 75 people, and was obliged to stop over in Bloomlngton in obedience to the 16 hour law. Some of these passengers remained In Bloomlngton after midnight and the others found motor car transportation to Victoria. A long distance telephone message from Sinton to Victoria early Saturday advised of the break in the Portland- Corpus Christi trestle of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway and repented a report that the waters of the bay were a few feet deep In the business section of Corpus Christi.

No lo.ss of life in the city Itself, the message ran, had been reported. Theodore Kreuse, farm demonstrator of Victoria county, Saturday Investigated conditions of the cotton crop in the county as a result of the storm. He said the crop is not seriously, damaged as a whole, although some early cotton was blown away. His opinion is that the effects of the high wind will really prove of benefit to the cotton fields as the crop has been growing rank, due to protracted wet weather lately, and as It is now stripped of an excess of foliage the putting forth of more bolls will be encouraged. NO SERIOUS DAMAGE AT ROCKPORT.

Houston Post SptcioJ.) felN'TON, Texas, August Members of a party leaving Sinton on a San Antonio and Aransas Pass train Saturday morning and running as far as Portland, were able, after walking four miles, to get a fair view of Corpus Christl Saturday afternoon, although there was no way of crossing. About one mile and a half c-f approach aud causeway has been washed away at the Corpus Christi end. This approach was built of shell and riprapped with mesQuite. The main causeway is intact, but the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad trestles over which trains entered the city are washed out. From the causeway the view of the city was clear, and it was apparent that none of the principal buildings showed effects of the gale.

From persons arriving at Sinton Saturday afternoon it is learned that six lives were lost when te Pilot Boy went down off Port Aransas at 11 o'clock Friday morning. From Rockport comes the report thit the high school building and one of the big stores was damaged. Apart from this there is said to be no serious damage in Rockport. No unusual damage is reported from Ingleslde or Port Aransas pass. COTTON BADLY DAMAGED.

Loss Around Shiner Eestlmated at About 30 Per CeVit. Houston Post fecial. SHINER, Texas, August 19. Over four Inches of rain fell here Friday and Friday night during the. storm which swept this section of the State.

Conservative estimates place the loss on cotton open in the fields at 3'i per cent. After the storm warnings were Issued many farmers made every effort to get out as much of the cotton as possible. Receipts lor the past week were heavy, about 3500 bales being marketed so far this season. DAMAGE AT GOLIAD. Fences, Outhouses and Telegraph Poles Blown Down.

Honsl'in Post Special.) GOLIAD, Texas, August 19. Friday at about 10 o'clock a strong northeast wind' started to blow, accompanied by heavy showers. The wind blew down fences, windmills outhouses and all telephone lines and telegraph poles that were the least bit shaky. No loss of life has been reported. The telephone manager reports all connections down except to Victoria.

The storm subsided about 12 o'clock Friday night. Ciieat damage was dono the open cotton in the fields, all that was open is lost. No fatalities at Klngsville. (Houston Post Special.) KINGSVILLE, Texas, August 19. The gulf tornado reached KinKsvllle at 2 p.

August 18, and lasted until midnight. No fatalities or serious injuries were reported. E. H. East's residence was unroofed.

The Gulf Coast Machine and Supply company building collitpsed, also two buildings of the City Feed store. The 4'atholic church was damaged beyond repair. Many shade trees were broken and all wires to outside points went down. 1 thing from there since except that the Harlingen camps were flooded and that the men there had to be provided (or in other places. The Houston Light Guards are quartered at Harlingen' as well aa that place being General Hulen's headquarters.

Governor Dunne of Illinois said that General Parker wired General Funston Friday nizht by wireless there were no casualties there up to St o'clock last might. Army officers arriving here Saturday night state that Klngsville was severely stricken by the storm. Moat of the large buildings are blown down. None, however, will estimate the prqbable financial loss. Frivate soldiers from Harlingen say the camps there are inundated.

SIX MEN MAY HAVE BEEN LOST NEAR FLOUR BLUFF Letter to Corpus Christi Chief of Police Told of Women Seeing Boat Sinking. (Houston Post Sfscial.) CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, August 19. Six lives may be lost off Flour bluff, seven miles down the coast from here, according to a letter received here Saturday. Police Chief White received a letter from his two daughters at Flour Bluff saying that a boat had gone out in the gulf with six men on it and the laat heard of the boat they saw it sinking. It is not known whether or not the men were rescued and efforts to deteimine their fate proved unavailing.

A boat reaching Corpus Christl late Saturday brought word that Ed Cline, owner of a large pier and warehouse at Flour Biuff, had left there Friday afternoon with five male passengers for Corpus Christi. Nothing has been seen nor heard of Cline and his party since. This same letter said that two men named Melrose and Lewis are missing from Flour Bluff. The skipper confirmed the statement that Flour Bluff, a town of about 400 persons, had been wiped out. Ed Cline.

formerly owned the Tarpon inn at Aransas Pass. LITTLE DAMAGE WAS DONE AT PORT O'CONNOR BY GALE Small Sail Boats and Launches Smashed to Pieces Epworth League Buildings Safe. Houston Post Spfciot.) PORT O'CONNOR. Texas. August 19.

The gulf storm which has Just passed did very little damage at Port O'Connor considering the fact that we had a very high ind and a rise in the tide of about three feet. The tide water covered only the flats south of Port O'Connor and did not get high enough at any point to do any damage wnatever excepting to small sail bo.ns and launches which on account of not having sufficient warning by the government of the approach of the storm did not have their oraft properly prepared to weather a storm of such intensity. A lew boats were battered to pieces und a few broke anchorage and were beached. Some damage but not a great extent was done to the piers owned by the fish houses which extend into Espitita Santo bay which borders Port Connor on the south. Practically no damage at all was done to the bathing and pleasure pavilion built over Matagorda bay for a distance of about 500 feet from the shore line.

Neither was there any damage done to the 160U foot pier extending into Matagorda buy, notwithstanding the bay was very rough. The wind at times seemed to reach a velocity of To or $0 miles an hour. The wind reached Its mgnest velocity irom 1 to 4 p. weakening from that time un to 11 o'clock Sunday night when the storm had almost completely passed. There was very little uneasiness among the residents here at any time.

The greatest inconvenience was caused by tha terriric downpour or ram aimosi tne entire day. Telegraph and telephone connections were cut off about p. m. caused by the high winds. The new buildings being erected by the Texas State Epworth league on Its encampment grounds in the north part of the city were slightly damaged which was due to the fact that they were not completed and properly strengthened.

Old settlers here say this was the most severe blow that has visited this section since the storm of 1874 which devastated lndianola and Port O'Connor. Had not Port O'Connor been so well protected from the gulf water by Matagorda Island, Matagorda peninsula and other small islands the damage might have been heavier. The water at no time was high enough to cause alarm. No damage is reported to stock caused by the high wind and tide. IN CUERO SECTION.

Pecans Damaged by Wind but Cotton Not Badly Hurt. (Houston Pott SplcM.) CUERO, Texas, August 18. The wind was very heavy here and there was also a heavy rain, but not a great deal of damage has been done. At Concrete and Ldndenau, north and northwest of Cuero, very little cotton was blown out. At MeyersviUe and Ameckevllle, south, about all the cotton was blown out and half of it fell from the stalks to the ground, but as the rain did not fall after the wind had done Its work no especial damage was done, and if there is no further rain farmers expect to save practically all that was blown out.

A couple of windmills Just south of town were' torn down. So far the heaviest damage seems to have been done to pecans, something over half In some Instances seem to be blown off. The pecan In a good season Is a very important crop here, as we have some river farms which get more than $2000 each from this crop. The sun Is shining but clouds are hang, lng about and there is such a sultriness that the weather does not seem settled at all. CAPPS WAS ON FISHING TRIP.

Owner of Fort Worth Paper Had Left for Rockport. i (Houston Pott SfcitL, PORT WORTH, Texas; August 19. The family of William Capps, owner of the Fort Worth Record, stated Saturday night that Mr. Capps was in Rockport on fishing trip. No.

word has been received from blm SCARCELY WINDOW LEFT IN STREET. On the west side of Chapparral street hardly a plate glass wlfidow Is left. The huge signs of the Neuces hotel were ripped off in chunks and thrown into the streets. Sleeping accomodations were afforded H9 refugee at the county oourthouae last night. Near the causeway a house containing a Mexican family went afloaL They were rescued after the storm had abated.

The water took the support of the trestle off the Sap railway across Neuces bay leaving the rails hanging in midair. The approaches to the causeway were washed away, but the causeway Itself was left standing and successfully buffeted the storm. $150,000 DAMAGE REPORTED AT BISHOP. The Times received a spetial Saturday afternoon from Bishop, stating that 1150,000 damage had been done there, but no lives were lost. The Bishop building there was unroofed.

Brown's gin was demolished at a loss of $10,000. The Bishop cotton warehouse was wrecked and all of the lumber yards were badly damaged. The Harris yard receiving the brunt of the storm. Many houses were blown from their foundations, and some of them were torn to pieces. Reports reached Corpus Christi that the Oklahoma camp at San Benito, was flooded and that the tents were ad blown away.

Many officers and men of the New York national guard arrived here Saturday morning fleeing the storm. The coming of the storm was heralded by a light rain and a falling baromeusr. About noon Friday the wind commenced to increase In velocity and about i o'clock it was blowing violently. It blew so hard that the anemometers at the local weather oftice were put out of business. The local forecaster estimates that the wind blew about 85 miles an hour at Its height.

The crest of the storm reached here about 9 o'clock last night with practically the entire population of the city in the business district. They had all been warned beforehand and were in a sense prepared for the calamity which befell them. GOVERNOR DUNNE TOLD OF EXPERIENCES. Governor Edward F. Dunne passed through Robstown this morning; about 11 o'ciock, en route north from the border.

Governor Dunne told the Post correspondent that he had experienced a wieid night. He aaid that scarcely a mile wait passed unless the train hit something. The Illinois executive, however, was none the worse for his hazardous trip, and was smiling broadly as his train parsed on. From Bloomington the southbound train ran on guesswork. Conductor Franklin had the train run slowly and when coming to sharp curves would have the engine cut out from the train and sent ahead for a mile or two scouting for the northbound train.

How ever, it reached Kobstown, the junction point to Corpus Christl, before the northbound train was sighted. Governor Iunne said that condjtions south of Kingsville were frightful. Not hardly a telephone pole Is left standing. All of them had been snap ped by the terriric wind during tne night as if they were but toothpicks. Governor Dunne and his party left Brownsville on schedule time Friday night.

MUCH DAMAGE KINGSVILLE. News from Uiviera, 15 miles below Kingsville, says that every house was damaged and that most of them were demolished, including the bank at that place. word has been received from Aran- jsas Pass since yesterday morning. Word ine here that the ftiot Boy was sunk In the gulf off that point with three men Wreckage is strewn two blocks up in the city from tiie bay. Last night water came up over the breakwater and up Into the city.

The lower floor of the Beach hotel at one time waa waist deeD. It Is not an uncommon sight to see a boat sit ting high and dry in the middle of a street near the bay front. At Rockport the high school building was damaged to the extent of $500. The Prophet buildinv, which Is built of con crete stones, had Its front end blown out. There was not much damage to the town as a whole.

Several buildings were unroofed at Sin- ton and some were blown off their blocks. The high school suffered a little. The Gregory Mercantile company of Gregory had Its front blown In. The roof of the compress was. blown- off.

The Portland hotel was unroofed and one or two other houses were also unroofed. CROP8 NOT BADLY HURT BECAUSE PLANTED LATE. The five-mile Bap trestle between Port land and Corpus Christi ws rendered impassable by being washed away. This loss is estimated at rne tracks, however, are left hanging to swinging pilings. It will reuulre three weeks to repair this loss.

In all the country south of Houston, east of San Antonio and north of Kobstown, cotton, feed and forage crops were but slightly damaged because of having been planted late in Juiy. They simply bent with the wind. The damage at Aransas Pass was confined to property loss as no lives were lost. The Baptist church was blown down. The metal roof of the First National bank came off In a sheet 30 by 40 feet.

The section house Just out of Aransas was wrecked but not until Section Foreman Williams carried his Wife to safety at Gregory on a handcar in the midst of the storm Friday night. Water came inland for a mile at a depth of eight feet. When It struck the Ban Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad it put the road out of commission. Figures on the loss at Aransas Pass are not available. The Port Aransas Terminal company lost Its drawbridge and a mile of Its terminal tracks.

These injuries and damages to the wharves and shipping will total $100,000. There was no damage at Ingleslde proper but the Ingleslde Inn. bath houses and piers were washed away. Many windows in the Inn were blown out. The damage here will reach $5000.

KINGSVILLE SEVERELY STRICKEN. Most of Large Buildings There Blown Down. (RtusleH Post SfteUl.y ROBSTOWN, Texas, August The wont of the storm hit below fCtnnvlll. according to all accounts reaching here Saturday. New York nations aruard of ficers who came In here at noon Saturday said that the storm was gathering In intensity when they left JIcAUea Friday aiiernoon.

They say they have not beard any- wer Hsre not board sjqr LOUIS BLALOCK LAUNCH MAY BE LOST OFF TEXAS COAST Federal Customs Officials Started! Search for Dallas Man and Party. (Houston Post Special.) WASHINGTON. August 19. The customs division of the treasury department Saturday notified the division superintendent to make an effort to locate the launch In which Louis Blalock and party left Corpus Christi several days ago for Galveston. R.

M. Hurger of Dallas wired Senator Culberson that the Blalock party was believed to have been caught in the storm and possibly wrecked as the little launch could not be located. The treasury department at the senator's instance instructed the Galveston authorities to get into communication with the four lite Kiiard stations on the gulf coast and see if the party could be found and if not to order out the revenue cutter to make a search. Galveston Coast Guard Is Searching. (Houston Post DALLAS, Texas.

August 19. The coast guard a. Galveston has been enlisted by the treasury department in an effort to locate Loula Blaylock, former police commissioner of Dallas, and a party of prominent Texas Methodist ministers, who are lost somewhere In the storm area on the South Texas gulf coast, according to a telegram received by Postmaster Kurgher from Senator Culberson at Washington, last Saturdayi. Willis Blaylock, a son of the missing man, and A. T.

Thomas left Dallas Saturday evening to take part In the search. Several days ago Blaylock, Rev. L. A. Webb of Weatherford, Kev.

John M. Marcus of Hlllsboro and Rev. W. B. Andrews of Waxahachie left Corpus Christi In a gasoline launch for Galveston.

It was the Intention of the party to move slowly along the coast, fishing tin they went. Nothing has been heard from them In several days and It Is feared they might have been In the storm of Thursday and Friday. NO DA.MAQE AT F.REEPORT. Velsice Also Passed Unscathed Through Storm. (Houston Post Special.) FTtEEPORT.

Texas, August 19. The West India hurricane which struck Free-port and vicinity Friday anfl Friday night at the rate of nbout 40 miles er hour, has psisacd without doing any damage to Kreeport or Velasco, or the Industries here. The H. B. V.

railway reports no damago to its math line or Its terminals, NOTICE The Aetna Accident Health and Liability Insurance business which has been conducted by E. W. Goff will be continued by Mrs. E. W.

Goff, 3302 Avenue Galveston, Texas. Telephone 3116. Address all corresponded ce to Mrs. E. W.

Goff. Approved: Alexander M. Savage, manager Aetna Accident and Liability Company, New Orleans branch office. WILL BUY Bankers Trust Co. National Bank of Commerce.

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Phono Preston 4790., HARD WAY CA1HLY GAS RANGES Easy Payments (teuton Cat Foe) Co. the terminal road to the docks got by safely. The Freeport Sulphur company and Its allied concerns report little or no damage from the wind or the hlfh Mde. All boats which were sent up the river for safety have returned, and there is a general feeling of extreme optimism here. Low Shoes One-Fifth Off I from Majnr Gf-neral Parker, commanding the Brownsville district, that 1 came to Texas .0 inspect the said Gov-' ernor Dunne.

'1 found the Illinois troops exvfi.eni condition. I am proud of the way the cavalry is getting atone also the two brigades of infantry at San Antonio and the signal corps. SOME OF MEN ARE IMPATIENT. "The men seem to be satisfied with although many of them feel, impatient. They say that if there isn't going to De a scrap they want to get back lo thir basinets and homes." At San Ar.tanlo Governor Dunne met Governor Ferguson.

The latter visited the Illinois executive to dine with him. "But 1 had already arranged to dine with Geijem. ur.tun." said Governor Dunne, "so 1 insisted that Governor Ferguson Join our party. We had quite a chat and i found hiiu I'j be a fine DAMAGE TO ARMY QUARTERS SEVERE. "The damage to the army quarters at Brownsvi.le was very severe," said Gov-" ernor Dunne.

"Most of the tents were down, but no one was injured so far as we could learn. The was at its height when we left. Our progress was very slow as we had to stop about every half hour. Cattle would gel on the right of way, lops ot freight cars were blown olf and aiK'Ss the tracks and trees were blown O'. (r.

slualfiTf nf 'lip rnminf nrpjiidrntial campaign, Gf Dunne said: "I am Oenudeia Wilson will be re-elected." Asked how he Illinois would go la the elect. i.e smiled and said: "Wed, It went democrat! four years ago." "You have a wonaerful State. I was surprised to note prosperous appearance of your cilios Antonio, Dallas, Waco and the ou.ers. i understand also that Houston is a wonderful and progressive city. TRYING TO FOLLOW EXAMPLE OF HOUSTON.

"We in Illinois are. trying to follow the example set by you in your Houston ship channel. We are trying to build a canal Which will give us a continuous waterway Of 1S00 miles from the laKes to the gulf. There is Just a stretch 6i miles to be connected up and to complete this link we have voted This will con- nect Lockpoit and Laisalle, "It is thus little link which is preventing that commercial intimacy that might otherwise exist uetveen tne Nortn and the Couth. It can be accomplished, and we are simply awaiting permission from the secretary of war.

There has been some objection raised on the part of certain in- Uresis in Illinois." Governor- Dunne was anxious to make official test of the qualities of Texss watermelons while in Houston. He had tiie Invitation extended by Colonel George Bailey in his paragraph in The Post to partake of the luscious fruit. Ad-tutant General F. 8. Dickson sent a tele gram from Bloomlngton that watermelons wouiu receive no inconsiaeraDie acienuoii yn me mi of the governor during his llav in Houston.

t'ne governors party was provided for on tne trip nv officials of the Gulf Coast lines, J. Nolan, superintendent of the Uses, with headquarters at Klngsville, Our guarantee mean something a the of of is HOUSTON LAND TRUST GO. (Chartered 1876. Without Banking Privileges.) HOUSTON, TEXAS Solicits business, of a legitimate nature, requiring the services of a Trust Company. Resources DIRECTORS R.

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