The Longwell Family Tragedy

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  • Above: Devastation at the bay front neighborhood, Denver Post
    Above: Devastation at the bay front neighborhood, Denver Post
  • Above: J. D. and Mary Longwell. When they married after the deaths of their first spouses, each had a son. J. D. had Art and Mary had Dorr.
    Above: J. D. and Mary Longwell. When they married after the deaths of their first spouses, each had a son. J. D. had Art and Mary had Dorr.
  • The Longwell Family Tragedy
    The Longwell Family Tragedy

    Part 2 of 2 

    Last week: Art Longwell and his little family – wife, young daughters, and his father, lived in a small house at sea level in Corpus Christi, Texas. On September 14, 1919, they had faced a Category 3 hurricane with a 16-foot storm surge. Their escape from the storm failed when a car they had ordered went to the home of a neighbor, who piled his own family into it and left. As the …