SHIPS BLOWN INTO A CITY

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 6

SHIPS BLOWN INTO A CITY

1000 HOUSES WRECKED IN A GREAT STORM. NEW YORK, August IS),, A telegram from Dallas (Texas) says it is ealcnlatdd that a hundred lives have been lost in the .storm which has been t aging there during the past three days. A despatch from Galveston states that the water, lighting, gas, and street car svstems are out of working order, and that there is considerable suffering. A newspaper correspondent who approached within v iew of -Galveston estimated tligj. more than a thousand houses had been w recked. According to a report icccived at Washington by the War Department from General Bid! at Testis Oily. the United States army camp there was wrecked by a tidal wave and Hoik) combined, which rose to an average height of three* to live feet. The violence of tin* wind was such that a nnmher of comparatively large vessels were blown and floated into the city. The troops were greatly scattered, •seeking shelter during the night, audit! the morning the storm was still too ■ violent lor anything to he done, exeent the work of rescuing women and children. and searching for the dead and injured. Important htisiness houses had their roofs torn off, and a nnmher of houses had their frames blown down. These floated into the streets, rendering tleui 1 unmissable. All railway, telephone, and telegraph lines are temporarily out of order. According Ui another report, twelve soldiers and more than a «"-m. of civilians wee drowned. while In bodies of six women, supnnsod to hj, from Galveston, were washed ashore at Texas City. A despatch from San Antonio (Texas) gives an unconfirmed report. said to have been delivered hv a lineman to a telephone official at Houston, to the effect that 000 bodies from Galveston were washed ashore at Houston. The Exchange Telegraph Companv’s New York cnrresonndent telegraphs that the hurricane damage is estimated at Cl‘i.ooo.ooo.