Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

Spillane, a well known Galveston news the Associated Press in that city. who reached Houston today after a terrible experience, gives the following ac- count of the disaster at Galveston: "One of the most awful tragedies of modern times has visited Galveston. The city is in ruins and the dead will probably number 1000. I am just from rhe city. having been commissioned by the mayor and citizens committee to get in touch with the outside world and appeal for help. When I left Gal weston, shortly before noon yesterday. the people were organizing for the prompt burial of the dead, the distri- button of food and all the necessary work following the awful disaster.
 "The wreck of Galveston was brought about by a tempest so terrible that no words can adequately describe its intensity and by flood which turned the city into d raging sea. The wealth CT bureau rec0rds show that the wind attained a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour when the measuring instrU ments blew away. The storm began at o'clock on Saturday morning. Previous to that a great storm had been raging in the gulf and the tide was very high. The wind al first came from the north and was in direct op- position to the force from the gulf. While the storm In the gulf piled the water upon the beach side of the city, he north wind piled the water from the bay into the bay part of the city.
 ON MY
 By o'clock the waters of the gulf and bay met, and by dark the entire city was submerged. The flooding of the electric light plant and the gas plants left the city in darkness. The wind was then at cyclonic velocity. roofs. portions of buildings. telegraph poles and walls were falling and the noise of the wind and crashing of buildings was terrific
 ''The wind and waters rose steadily flom dark until 1:45 o'clock Sunday morning. During all this time the people in Galveston were like rats in a trap. The highest portion of the city was from four to five feet under water. while in a great majority of cases the streets were submerged to a depth of ten feet. To leave a house was to VII IO I6llIetll Was lO Npul uCd LII ir the wreckage. Such a night of az cny has seldom been eQualled. With out apparent reason the waters gan to subside at 145. Within two min u;es they had gone down two feet and before daylight the streets were prac- tically free of foodwaters. In the meantime the wind had veered to the southeast
 SEEN IN THE MORNING.
 Very few. if any buildings escaped injury. There is hardly a habitable house in the city. Wh=n the people who had escaped death went out at daylight to view the work Of the tenn pest and floods they saw the most hOr- rible sights imaginable. In three blocks from Avenue N to Avenue P. in Fremont street, I saw eight bodies. Four dorpses were in one yard. The whole business front for three blocks in front of the gulf was stripped of every vestige of habitation. dwellings, great bathing establishments, the Olympia and every structure having been either carried out to sea, or it's ruins piled In pyramid far into the town.
 "The Orphans home, on Twenty first street ana Avenue M, fell llne a house of cards. How many dead children and refugees are in the ruins could not be ascertained. Of the sick in St. Mary's infrmary, together with the at tendants. only eight are understood to have been saved The Old Womans' home on Rosenberg avenue collapsed. The Rosenberg school house is a mass of wreckage. The Ball high school is but an empty shell.
 Every church in the city. with pos sibly one or Svo exceptions, is in ruins. At the fort nearly all the sol diers are reported dead No report has been received from the Catholic orphan asylum down the island, but it seems impossible that 1t could have withstood the hurricane. The bay front from end to end is in ruins. Noth- ing but piling and the wreck of great warehouses remain. The elevators lost all their upper works and their stocks are damage d by water
 SOME STRANGE THINGS.
 Carried Across the Bay to Texas