Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1919 — CORPUS CHRISTI ISSUES APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. [ARTICLE]

CORPUS CHRISTI ISSUES APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE.

A mounting death list and extensive property loss was shown in reporths early this Tuesday morning from the Texas coast region swept by a tropical hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico last Sunday. Varying reports placed the death list at from twenty-five in Corpus Christi alone to more than 130. The latter figure included reports of bodies recovered in Neuces bay, on which Corpus Christi is situated. The property damage in the city alone is estimated at more than $4,000.000.