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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1933
Page
13
Weather disaster isolates a 20000 square mile lower Rio Grande valley from Kingsville to Ciudad Victoria after a tropical hurricane. Communications fail as storms hit Raymondville and nearby towns. estimated heavy loss of life feared in Mala Cres across the river.
The storm battered towns along the Texas coast from Weslaco to Brownsville as winds near 160 mph toppled buildings and felled trees. Corpus Christi reported ships driven ashore and bayfront flooding while Brownsville and other cities moved residents to safety in public buildings. Police issued controls as authorities prepared for a wide-scale emergency.
Nassau Bahamas Sept 5. Governor Bede Clifford says Harbour Island suffered severe damage. Bogue settlement reports injuries and one fatality, while Spanish Wells saw lighter impact. Harpens Island described as serious with many homeless, churches wrecked, crops ruined. Government to aid rebuilding.
Fresh to strafe northeast winds and rain were expected for San Antonio Tuesday afternoon or night as a result of the hurricane Smilch exurkt Line, Texas east at Brownsville Monday night, with meteorologist J. H. Darboe saying the storm would not reach coast proportions here. Temperatures were predicted to rise to 90 Tuesday and Wednesday, then fall Wednesday morning as the storm weakened and concentrated near the Rio Grande valley. Army meteorological officials outlined two possible paths for the hurricane, neither likely to bring strong winds to the area. one possibility would push it back into the gulf toward Florida, the other reset it near Brownsville to blow out.
Weatherman J H Jarboc relayed a Corpus Christi bulletin at 10 am noting a storm moving inland near Brownsville. Winds east southeast at 20 mph, barometer 29.73 rising from 29.72 in two hours, with uncertainty about Brownsville contact and the storm likely tracking westward from the southern republic into Mexico.
Weather bulletin issued from Washington describes a Southeast storm warning affecting Jackson ville to Charleston and Tampa to Cedar Keys. The disturbance centers about 75 miles east of Apalachicola with diminished intensity and a northward to northwestward drift toward Thomasville, Ga.
Inspector J. D. Moffsalt of the state highway patrol and 12 men left by truck for Corpus Christi to lend assistance in case of Gulf hurricane disaster. The trip began Monday night and no word had been received by noon Tuesday.
Austin news reports the Texas highway commission inviting bids totaling $1,000,000 for highway construction under the national recovery program. Bids were set for September 12 to be considered, with fast funding available through listed money-to-loan ads.
Sept 5 Falfurrias reports no damage from Gulf storm between Beeville and Falforvins covering about 100 miles. Survey notes a rivered area inland and torrential rain with northeast wind. Homes boarded up and refugees sought shelter in churches. Skidmore, Allen, Lalfurias and nearby towns operated normally aside from rain effects.
Bus service suspended Tuesday as storm affects routes. Creyhonnit line halted. Beeville and Kingsville routes disrupted while authorities consider rerouting toward Corpus Christi. Last Corpus Christi departure 5 45 p m Monday. Beeville stop noted. service to Beeville still maintained.
A heavy northern gale struck Roma and Starr county south of Zapata Monday night, blowing down trees and unrooting houses. Early today the storm moved into San Ignacio in Zapata county about 40 miles southeast of Laredo, bringing rain and reported damage and casualties.
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