The free press., 1900-09-13

happy homes, dazed and bleeding
from wounds, the women wading
neck deep with babies in their arms.
To add, if possible, to the calamity,
the city is cut off entirely from the
world. The telegraph lines are down
and the cable which connects Calves
ton with Mexico is cut.
In sailing for Texas City Sunday
the Post correspondent used a strong
glass, but could see nothing of any
OF the bridges which connect the
island with the mainland, but where
the bridges should be a big ocean
vessel was stranded.
At Texas City the wharves are de-
stroyed and the water front for
mile is Uttered with the ruins and
much OF the debris blown there from
Galveston. At Texas City three lives
were lost.
Galveston is situated on an island
extending east and west for twenty
seven miles and is seven miles in it's
greatest width north and south. No
city could be in greater danger with
such a horrible visitation as has come
to Galveston. In no part of the city
with its G6, GOO population is 1t more
than feet above the sea level. The
fiat condition not only points to the
desperation of the situation of the
people at such time as this, but
their danger may be considered EN-
phasized when it is known that ex-
actly where the city is built the is
land is only one and one-quarter
miles wide.
The storm commenced raging be.
tween 9 and 10 O'Clock Saturday
morning and by noon the waters from
the gulf had inundated the island as
far inland as Twelfth street. From
there the waters were gradually en-
croached further inland, rising about
Is inches an hour. At p. m. there
was 36 inches OF water in the lobbies
Of the fremont Hotel, the highest
point in the city. At 9 o'clock the
water on Market street was level
with the seats OF the cars. After
that it gradually receded, but the
wind was cyclonic in its force. 1t
reached velocity OF 81 miles an hour
and then the instruments in the gov
ernment observatory were wrecked.
DR.. West, one Of the prominent
physicians in Galveston, was drowned
near the Roseberg school building.
AS soon as daylight came and the
fury of the wind had abated the work
Of rescue and searching for the dead
commenced. In one room the Post
reporter counted seven dead bodies.
The fremont hotel was converted
into rendezvous for the living. The
women and children slept in the din
ing rooms and parlors and the men
lay on the floors and in the hall
ways.
The first house to collapse was a
new three-story brick known as the
Dulitz building. Next the Reuters
saloon, a two-story brick, fell with
crash, killing three OF the most
prominent men in Galveston-Stan-
ley E. Spencer, agent of the German
Lloyd Steamship company; Richard
Lord and Charles kilmer, the latter
cotton men.
At noon the big wagon bridge went
down with crash and it is thought
the other bridges are totally or al
most totally wrecked.
Partial List of Dead.
The following is partial list of the
dead:
Stanley E. Spencer, Richard Lord,
Charles Kilmer, Mrs. George Burnett
and child, Mrs. Geary Burnett and
child, Mrs. Judson Palmer, wife OF
secretary of the Y. NJ. G. A, Mrs. P.
Levine and six children, Mrs. John
Boone and three children, Captain
Pix and family, DR.. Sawyer. Mrs. NJ.
J. O'Keefe, Joe NJ. Mcnamara, Mrs.
Claude Fordtram, Mrs. Sarah Sum
mer, Mrs. George Reed, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Becker and four children.