The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-11
STORMS WORK AT VELASCO
SOME rHRIr.LING EXPERIENCES OF
o. o. NATION.
rho.e who We're KilIed-Many Al
moss Miraculous Escapes
Recorded.

Mr.. O. O. Nation, when seed yes'e'ua'
afternoon, after a breathing speh 80
Efforts in procuring supplies FOR Ne'AsSo'
some startling accounts of the terrible eoA
sition OF matters at Velasco, as ne Fis"eN
them as an active participant a.,
az left my office about 5:i5, he salu'
started 70 my supper at the Hotel Velaseo'
" hen reached the corner opposite the h0'e'
the wind was blowing heavily from ina hoiNi
Being from tho north. l naturally suppoheu
II would whip around and during the luil
would get to the hotel. l stood there halI an
hour. making no effort, when big gust OF
wind hit the north end OF the hotel. AZ
cAreened and settled. Supposlns inhs 80
the Doarders we're in the building, ! rAA otSt,
bat WAS happy to most all OF tnem On tHe
outside Three strangers ana me Ih the
/ of Manager Anderson ware tAstentu ~ ~ ~
hotel We could hear the boy crying anu II
Was not long until men had hole sa"eu III
/ the house and the boy taken out
! MIR. l.. W. Perrin OF JACK county "aS
afterwards taken out, but died last hisn-,
Yesterday afternoon they got out the poay o.
MIR. Samuel BLY,, manager OF the oAr laceoi
aud by his body was Manager Anderson
dog without a scratch.
when the storm had reached us nelsn'I
u went back TO the corner from whers !
viewed the hotel wreck and there ! iounu
TWO families five ladies and some enlIaEen,
They refused to let me leave them, ana |
held them in the building until saw AZ
tie other houses fall around me. We then LETT
this house and the wind took US over in front
OF the hotel behind large building that
had Just fallen. We laid behind the fence
In tao mud and water until tho wind lulled
and then the ladies were taken to the bank
building. One OF the party, an old lady, ~
D years old was taken away from her son and
carried through the hat with water up to
, her waist TO the railroad, where she was
found by her son. l examined tne renee renee
n W YatlV tins md IL
left standing were at the point where We
laid
1t looked more like an artillery lombard
. ment than anything l ever saw. The wine
4 look the buildings, one by one, sometime
: The corner, in another the middle, in anothe
: he end. and they fell one after the othe
Win extreme regularity. Through all I'M
flying debris men rushed TO and fro, regardless
Of danger, heroes great as in war. Peopl
/. supposed to be lost gradually came to III
n front and when daylight came record shove
: Only one white citizen killed outside OF tn
three strangers in the hotel.
. "All at Quintana were saved.
AT Surfside where there were not enoug
men TO help keep away the big logs from tn
house. where about seyenty-hye were 10
Gated two or three noble women went out /
water to their waists and helped the men
Il had my horse In stable with thre
n other horses. The stable blew down on til
l. horses and messenger came and told N
they were killed. The next morning foun
ali the horses without scratch.
MIR. Fred Bagby, superlnt ndent Of COZ
s;ructon on the Velasco Terminal, starte
,. down and took refuge behind two coal car
3. In few moments the heavens turned loo'
"A one blast Of wind and those ears shot dow
the track, and he was forced to grab a re
= until he could crawl under the wharves.
Cup the road this way a boarding CT
broke loose and started toward Velasco wi
n. man. wife and another woman The Q
II ran twelve miles and all the boxes we
m Gblage from the heat caused by the spec
~ The car turned over and neither one of t
thrse were hurt
one man and his wife had big emp
cstern blow over them.
3s "a lady was imprisoned In her house,
"a gust Of wind came, blew out the side OF t
40 house and she walked out.
" How we got through could never te
II was an awful scene, and too much to d
a. scribe"