REGIMENT FROM VIRGINIA
AMONG THOSE AFFECTED
Corpus Christi Expected to Bear
Brunt of Tropical Hurricane.
MEAGER REPORTED AT HAND
Nine Lives May Have Been Lost by
Sinking of Steamer Pilot
Boy.
Storm Abating
at Brownsville
P.A. ANGEL, Aug. 18. General Prussian, at 8 o'clock tonight, reported that the storm was over. The storm then reported at fifty miles an hour.
Corpus Christi, Texas, a city of about 200,000, a popular report on the Texas coast, it appeared early Friday night would receive the brunt of the tropical storm and hurricane as preparing the United States from the West Indies. Corpus Christi is 200 miles south of Galveston, and 125 miles north of Brownsville and the mouth of the Rio Grande.
The crest of the storm was expected to strike Corpus Christi about midnight, when a severe pale was expected, according to the forecasts of the Weather Bureau there.
Brownsville reported Friday night over the army wireless at Fort Brown that only broken windows, leveled fences, and other buildings were damaged.  Trees and the razing of tents in the military camp near Brownsville has resulted. United States soldiers and national guardsmen from Illinois, Iowa, and Virginia were forced into the city to take refuge in the City Hall. Courthouse and warehouses. Communication by telegraph and telephone was lost from Brownsville early in the day. The wind velocity there reached a maximum of sixty miles an hour, but died down towards nightfall, although there were no signs of the storm's abatement at last reports. 