TERRIFIC STORM AT GALVESTON

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 6

TERRIFIC STORM AT GALVESTON

TEXAN CITY ISOLATED BELIEVED TO BE UNDER WATER / WHOLE COAST RAVAGED ; " — By Tel«er«.ph-Pros« Ansooiatlori—Copyright Houston (Texas), August 18. 'After a terrific storm the Texan city of Galveston (on Galveston Island, at tho opening of Galveston Bay into the Gulf of Mexico) has been cut off from communication with the outside world. It is believed to have been partially destroyed. Efforts to aiscertain the loss indicate that the whole city is under water and that there has been heavy loss of life. The Texan coast was ravaged, Twelve soldiers were killed in Texas City, and forty civilians are dead at other coastal points. Scores of bodies have been washed ashore.

Bridges, railways, and telegraph lines have been destroyed, buildings liave collapsed, and vessels have been wrecked. PREVIOUS VISITATIONS. Galveston Island is a low strip of land, thirty miles long by three broad, and since the hurricane and flood of 1900, its harbour has been protected and the level of the town raised. The population of the town' was 37,000. Tho Texan coast has been visited by very violent storms on several occasions, and Galvea|ton_ has often suffered. The most notable visitation, was that on September 8 and 9, 1900, when a destructive! hurricane and tidal wave at Galveston caused over 4500 deaths.