Corpus Christi, TX Powerful Hurricane, Sep 14, 1919
125 ARE REPORTED DEAD IN CORPUS CHRISTI STORM.
CITY RAZED; 4,000 LEFT HOMELESS.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $4,000,000,
COURT HOUSE A MORGUE, PLEA FOR AID SENT BY MAYOR.
HOSPITAL WRECKED: PATIENTS RESCUED.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OF CITY ALMOST OBLITERATED: RELIEF TRAIN IS SENT.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 15. -- From fifteen to twenty-five persons are dead, approximately 4,000 are homeless and property damage it is estimated with reach $4,000,000 as the result of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours.
They city is in distress and Mayor Gordon Boone has sent the following appeal to Governor Hobby at Austin:
"Please send at once two companies of National Guard with supplies and join in the appeal for financial assistance. Conditions here deplorable and immediate help is needed."
The Courthouse is being used as a morgue. At least a score of persons are afloat in Nueces Bay tonight, where they were washed out by the waves. They were clinging to spars and debris, and what few boats were left undamaged by the storm were being used tonight to recover them.
The known dead are: ... (initial list of known victims provided, but the Ball family is not among this list; they are listed in Texas Death Records Index - JAH)
New York Tribune 1919-09-16
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Full article available at www.GenDisasters.com∼Victim of the 1919 Hurricane
Texas death certificate 27643
125 ARE REPORTED DEAD IN CORPUS CHRISTI STORM.
CITY RAZED; 4,000 LEFT HOMELESS.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $4,000,000,
COURT HOUSE A MORGUE, PLEA FOR AID SENT BY MAYOR.
HOSPITAL WRECKED: PATIENTS RESCUED.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OF CITY ALMOST OBLITERATED: RELIEF TRAIN IS SENT.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 15. -- From fifteen to twenty-five persons are dead, approximately 4,000 are homeless and property damage it is estimated with reach $4,000,000 as the result of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours.
They city is in distress and Mayor Gordon Boone has sent the following appeal to Governor Hobby at Austin:
"Please send at once two companies of National Guard with supplies and join in the appeal for financial assistance. Conditions here deplorable and immediate help is needed."
The Courthouse is being used as a morgue. At least a score of persons are afloat in Nueces Bay tonight, where they were washed out by the waves. They were clinging to spars and debris, and what few boats were left undamaged by the storm were being used tonight to recover them.
The known dead are: ... (initial list of known victims provided, but the Ball family is not among this list; they are listed in Texas Death Records Index - JAH)
New York Tribune 1919-09-16
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Full article available at www.GenDisasters.com∼Victim of the 1919 Hurricane
Texas death certificate 27643
Corpus Christi, TX Powerful Hurricane, Sep 14, 1919
125 ARE REPORTED DEAD IN CORPUS CHRISTI STORM.
CITY RAZED; 4,000 LEFT HOMELESS.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $4,000,000,
COURT HOUSE A MORGUE, PLEA FOR AID SENT BY MAYOR.
HOSPITAL WRECKED: PATIENTS RESCUED.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OF CITY ALMOST OBLITERATED: RELIEF TRAIN IS SENT.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 15. -- From fifteen to twenty-five persons are dead, approximately 4,000 are homeless and property damage it is estimated with reach $4,000,000 as the result of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours.
They city is in distress and Mayor Gordon Boone has sent the following appeal to Governor Hobby at Austin:
"Please send at once two companies of National Guard with supplies and join in the appeal for financial assistance. Conditions here deplorable and immediate help is needed."
The Courthouse is being used as a morgue. At least a score of persons are afloat in Nueces Bay tonight, where they were washed out by the waves. They were clinging to spars and debris, and what few boats were left undamaged by the storm were being used tonight to recover them.
The known dead are: ... (initial list of known victims provided, but the Ball family is not among this list; they are listed in Texas Death Records Index - JAH)
New York Tribune 1919-09-16
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Full article available at www.GenDisasters.com∼Victim of the 1919 Hurricane
Texas death certificate 27643
125 ARE REPORTED DEAD IN CORPUS CHRISTI STORM.
CITY RAZED; 4,000 LEFT HOMELESS.
PROPERTY LOSS ESTIMATED AT $4,000,000,
COURT HOUSE A MORGUE, PLEA FOR AID SENT BY MAYOR.
HOSPITAL WRECKED: PATIENTS RESCUED.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS OF CITY ALMOST OBLITERATED: RELIEF TRAIN IS SENT.
Corpus Christi, Tex., Sept. 15. -- From fifteen to twenty-five persons are dead, approximately 4,000 are homeless and property damage it is estimated with reach $4,000,000 as the result of the tropical hurricane which raged here for twenty hours.
They city is in distress and Mayor Gordon Boone has sent the following appeal to Governor Hobby at Austin:
"Please send at once two companies of National Guard with supplies and join in the appeal for financial assistance. Conditions here deplorable and immediate help is needed."
The Courthouse is being used as a morgue. At least a score of persons are afloat in Nueces Bay tonight, where they were washed out by the waves. They were clinging to spars and debris, and what few boats were left undamaged by the storm were being used tonight to recover them.
The known dead are: ... (initial list of known victims provided, but the Ball family is not among this list; they are listed in Texas Death Records Index - JAH)
New York Tribune 1919-09-16
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Full article available at www.GenDisasters.com∼Victim of the 1919 Hurricane
Texas death certificate 27643
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