Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — TOWN WRECKED BY STORM [ARTICLE]

TOWN WRECKED BY STORM

Report That Fifteen Were Killed—Survivors Said to Be Starving. Houston. Tex., July 27.—That fifteen persons were killed, the town of Bastrop Bay, Tex., wrecked and that the few survivors are barely subsisting on a scant supply of seafood, was the report brought here by Captain Patrick Benson. Captain Benson declares bls party buried eight bodies.