New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-11
BAURO4DLOSSEs UNKNOWN.
ONLY ONE DISPATCH FROM THE SCENE
OF DISASTER-EAGERNES TO
RESUME TRAFFIC.

Excepting in one case. officials Of the railroads
which run into Galveston had received no tnfornla-
ton UP to the time OF closing the offices IN this
CITY Yesterday as TO the damage which they had
suffered bv the storm The failure to receive news
was attributed 10 the general breaking down OF
wires and the desire OF the Southern officials to
ascertain TO approximate degree the extent
OF the devastation Until they obtain some knowl-
edge upon which they can base estimates the OFF,
cias say II IS impossible for them to begin to
compute the amount OF the pecuniary loss or to
form any idea TO when railroad communication
may be restored
Inquiries as to the points to which the railroads
we're in working order were also met with the re-
sponse by me officials that. they were without
information they were unable 10 irnpart any They
said that undoubtedly thu railroads were making
every effort to reach the stricken city, and that
relief trains would be at the earliest possible
moment. They pointed out that the greatest OBJ
stacle TO be overcome would be the lack OF trans
portation from Galveston to the mainland It was
believed however. that arrangements would be
made to institute a system OF communication with
the island by water If it could not be accomplished
by rail- and by that means send IN supplies or take
out the people who wished to leave the city
telegram from Houston was received at the
offices OF the International and Great Northern
Railroad. The dispatch said that the company's
lines between Palestine and Houston and between
Palestine and Taylor were blocked, and that all
wires were down The station at Willis, which
is forty miles north Of Galveston had been
been blown No other details were sent
CHARLES H TWEED HAS NO NEWS
Charles H. Tweed second vice-president and gen
counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad said
yesterday afternoon that no intimaton had as yet
reached here of the amount of the damage which
had been inflicted upon his company Until he
heard from the Texas officials he sale the only
knowledge he possessed of the destructive effects
of the storm that which he had gathered from
the newspaper reports
Il am inclined to think" he said that the rail-
roads have not suffered so greatly would seem
apparent from the which has so far come
from Galveston. The storm seems TO have wreaked
its greatest ruin upon the East End. residential
part of the city. but, OF at present it is
possible form any idea Of the wreck that the
hurricane has left behind It"
At the local offices OF Jne Galveston, Harrisburg
and SaE Antonio, the Missouri. Kansas and Texas.
the Texas and Pacific and the Galveston Houston
anc Henderson word OF any kind from the ter
ritory over which the storm passed had been re-
ceived.
RAILWAY STATION A REFUGE
At the office of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fs
Railroad No. 81 Broadway. the following stats-
ment made about Galveston;
We have property in the city to the amount OF
something like 100000. Our depot. the most sub
storie5 high brick with stone ana cement founds-
dispatches say that people Sought refuge there our
bridge which enters Galveston is over a mile
long. That undoubtedly was injured, bit probably
drawbridee was doubtless the only pArt OF il de-
Most of its property in sidngs with at all
shipping. the Morgan does that Of the Southern
Pacific.
our loss will &c small and due almost entirely TO
injury loaded cars. There were some two hun
dred three hundred OF them in the yards. Twelve