Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-31
WAVES ARE ROLLING HIGH.
The Outskirts of Galveston Invaded
by the Mater
A VERY HEAVY BLOW At yELASco.
Je''icr Can Withstand IN. shoels
ana the Bar WIN Br Cut
Away-No Damage.

Galveston. Texas, August eo..-owins Ia
uhe atmospheric Disturbances iu the west
sult for the past three days the NaNos
nave BEEN running IN higher than usual
on tho Galveston bench Last nlsht my
came rolling In with laundering roar.
and IN their frenzy dashed thems I've ,
against tho piers. throwing the spray
some twelve or nftoen feet In the alr
Numbers OF people remained out late to
witness the attractive sight which tho
hhrging pillows. the snow-cnpped break
era and the mist OF spray presented under
\ the bright electric ilghtn.
At II o'clock the waves reached up to
tho corner OF tho baseball park and az
O'Clock the hiRhont point was reached.
when they crept up two blocks on Bath
avenue and up TO Nineteenth street and
Avenue N. rha tide then remained Hta-
tionory until about o'clock this morn
night
A. 10 o'clock this morning the tide had
FALLEN about two feet, and the lonR
swclls which were 10 frequent last nigh}
Disappeared. A force of men were put ID
work THIS morniug cleaning tho sand
from tho tracks
The embankmcnt az tho Beach hotel
han been Injured TO some extent by waah-
somc extent.
Along the beach, between Broadway
anu Avenue j. the waves We're tapping
at tho foot or some OF tho cuttaRea sev-
cral Of the pllca under the concv Isiend
resort IL Ia reported. gave away. Tho
lohg stretch OF new made land betwpeu
the letty and the city, which at mean low
udo is two or three foot above the Lowell
on the sea, IL under about six snrhes 81
water. This strootn between rwplfth and
Nineteenth have wator backed IN In IN,
Euttoa all the way from M to Avcuns
X.
Tho streets In tho East End az far II
NJ Eighth were covered with water las.
niEht. but none reached the yards,
lnolcatonp are that there will be n,
higher water, as the winds have suir
sided Resides. there " no danger an
pretended, as the wind IL now ia tbs
northeast whereas the inundution of
lssu waz caused by a southeast wind and
was unher.lded, Tho weather service
han since that time boon grcutiy i'm
proved, and It viii know ana hliy adj.
viho the people In tho event OF any an-
pAront danger, Twice lunt your the lido
was ua high IN last night tho only dlf.
ference being Ia the absence o. Ions
HwollH. which are now caused by ths
storm commencing almost directly oppo.
site Galveston island.
Today the water In tho gulf reached
It's highest point, covering the railway
track at tho foot OF Bath avenue and
washing into the baseball park AZ
Apput noon mo water began 10 reoede
but at 1850 o'clock this afternoon III,
water was running into the ball park
The Htroet railway traffic on the beach
llhe has not been interrupted, mud tn,
mrs are running an usual. Just what
Tho result Of the storm will be can moi
be forctol1 nt tho present time.
Parties residing at the extreme cas-
Hnd or the bench are moving into n,
central part of tho city.
This morning tho pilot boat Manic
Higgins made two attempts to 70 out
aide and bring tho Mallory gtoanEhit
Alamo, which arrived on the bar mi,
morning at o'clock twenty-four hours
,vordue. 10th times tho pilot boat Eoi
'ut 60 the bnr, but had 90 como baok ON
account Of tho heavy seas, which nearly
iNamped tho vessel Tie Alamo IN m.
'horcd on the bar and n in aafo oondi-
Ion, although Hho IL rolling heavily.
Tonight Ia the fiiHt time in the history
" Galveston that hurricane signals wcra
ordered displayed.
The Galveston lefty company towyd IN
.hclr floating derrick and pile drivers from
he end OF the jotties this evening ana
lndhored them In smooth wator M BolivpI
'hannel.
Large portions o. tho woodwork Of che
cities were drifting about Bolivar cham
iel and a section tho length of five rail-
Dad cars got afonl OF tho black buoy.
Tho tug IlOrtenBo was kept buay all day
Iathorlng up the wreosngs from the jet.
les, Two thrce-mnsted schooner arc an.
bored Oft shore. The rainfall this oven.
ns was 8.b5.