The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-11

reported Dead they having been in the
empty quarters which gave them no pro-
lection against the tempest or the food.
No report has been received from the
Catholic Pythian Asylum, down the island
but 1t was supposed that 1t could not has,
withstood the hurricane If it did not all
the inmates were lost for there was no
aid within mile
1.-THE bay front from end to end is in
ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreck
age is the great warehouse room. The
elevators lost all their works and their
stocks are damaged by water.
1.-THE life saving station at Fort Point was
carried away, the crew being swept across
the bay, fourteen miles, to the Texas side.
/ saw Captain Hane yesterday and he told
me that his wife and one of his children
were drowned Texas City contains enough
wreckage to rebuild city. Eight persons
who were swept across the bay during the
storm were picked up there alive; five
corpses We're also picked up There were
three fatalities in Texas City in addition
to the living and dead which the storm
cast up, caskets and collins from ceme-
teries at Galveston also being f1shed out
of the water. In the business portion of
the city two large brick buildings, one oc-
cupief by Knaph Bros. and the other by
sf.auon there were fifteer persons, most
of whom escaped.
"Up to the time 1 left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins they
were:
Stanley G. Spencer Richard Lord Charles
Kelder. How many more corpses there are
will not be known until the search Is fin
ished. The cotton mills, the bagging fac
tory, the gas works, the electric light
works and nearly all the industries OF the
city are either wrecked or crippled.
THE flood left mud about an inch deep
over the city. Some of the stories of the
escapes are miraculous. William Nisbett,
a cotton man, was buried in the ruins of
the Cotton Exchange saloon, and when
dug out in the morning had no further in
jury than -ew bruised fingers. DR.. S. o.
Young, secretary of the Cotton Exchange,
was knocked senseless when his house col
lapsed but was revived by the water and
was carried ten blocks by the hurricane.
A woman who had just given birth to a
child was carried from her home to house
a block distant, the men who were carry
ing her having to hold her high above their
heads, as the water was five feet deep when
sne was moved.
Many stories were current of the house
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence d.
Ousley, editor of the Evening Tribune, and
his family and the families of two neigh
bors were in his house when the lower half
crumbled and the upper part slipped down
into the water. Not one in the house was
hurt. OF the Lavine family, six out of
seven are reported dead. OF the Burnett
family, only one is known to have been
saved. The family of Stanley G. Spencer,
who met death in the Cotton Exchange
saloon is reported to be dead. The Mis-
trot house, in the western portion was
turned into hospital. All of the hospitals
OF the city were unavailable. The new
Southern Pacific works were destroyed.
"A half million feet of lumber was car
ried away, and Engineer Bosco says as far
as the company is concerned, 1t might as
well start all over again. Eight ocean
steamers were torn from their moorings
and stranded In the bay. The Kendall cas-
tie was carried over the flats from the
Thfrty-third street wharf to Texas City.
THE Norwegian steamer Gwyller was
stranded between Texas City and Virginia
Point. The ocean liner was swirled around
through the west bay, crashed through the
bay bridges and Is now lying in few feet
of water near the wreckage of the railroad
bridges The steamship Taunton was car
ried across Pelican Point and Is stranded
about ten miles up the east bay. The NAL
lory steamer Alamo was torn from her
wharf and dashed upon Pelican flats and
the bow of the British steamer Red Cross,
which had been hurled there. The stern of
the Alamo Is stove in and the bow of the
Red Cross crushed.
Down the channel to the jetties two 9TH
er ocean steamships lie grounded. Some
schooners, barges and smaller crafts are
strewn up both sides and along strips. The
tug Louise of the Houston Direct Naviga-
ton Company is also a wreck.
''It will take a week to tabulate the dead
and the missing and to get anything near
an approximate idea of the monetary loss.
1t is safe to assume that one-half of the
property of the city is wiped out, and that
one-half of the residents are in absolute
poverty.
zone man stepped into a we'll by a mis-
chance and his corpse was found there
Two other men ventured along the bay
front during the height of the storm and
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