Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-09-10
The Damage Widespread.


tist college is badly damaged, and the
Sehoolhouse is wreck.
Not house in the town of ChapDell
Hill escaped damage, and many were
demolished. Business houses also suf-
fered, and fine gin is complete wreck.
At Brennan the courthouse was near
!y wrecked and the city hall completely
so. Every business and residence house
suffered to greater or less extent. The
fire apparatus is under the ruins of the
city hall, and guard is maintained for
fire duty.
AT Custom stores We're unroofed and
residences destroyed. At Rock Island
the Baptist church was totally wrecked
and several residences unroofed.
At Eagle Lake the damage amounts to
S2JO,OOO to the rice and cotton crops and
TO residences.
At Affair fruit trees were blown out
of the ground and residences lcveled
AT Rosenberg, in addition to the dam
age to residences, the opera house anG
the Baptist church were wrecked. Sev-
eral persons were injured, Mrs. Coots,
an aged lady, probably fatally. Three
persons were killed in the country near
here.
Many houses were unroofed at Lcxing-
ton and their contents ruined by the rain.
Forty-two dwelling houses were wreck
ed at Wallis.
At Fulshear 80 houses were blown
down. One person was killed near the
town by falling house.
In Hardin county large amount of
timber was blown down, and there was
much damage to property mt Village
Mills. No damage was done ut Corpus
Christi or Rockport, at the lower coast.
At Richmond three negroes were killed
by the collapse of church, and three
Others We're killed near there. One also
was killed at Booth.
Superintendent Timmins' story.
Thrilling details of the great damage
done by the hurricane in Galveston were
given by James c. Timmins, superin-
tendent of the National Express compa-
ny. Mr.. Timmins, after great effort, sue
ceeded in making his way to this city.
When he had recovered somewhat from
the fatigue of his journey, he told of the
terrible conditions in Galveston. He was
there during the hurricane and after
ward boarded schooner and went across
the bay to Morgan's Point, whence he
took Il train to this city.
The city, Mr.. Timmins says. is com
plete wreck, so far as he could see from
the water front and from the fremont
hotel. Water was carried over the is
land by the hurricane, the wind blowing
at the rate of so miles an hour straight
from the gulf and forcing the water be-
fore it in big waves.
He thinks that more than 1000 peo-
pie have been drowned, killed or missing
and that 1000 houses have been destroy
ed. He says the magnitude of the dis
aster remains to be told.
The gale was II steady one, striking
the city about o'clock Saturday and
continuing without intcrmisson until
midnight Sunday night, when it abated
somewhat, although it continued to blow
all night.
OF his own knowledge Mr. Timmns
knew of only one house succumbing with
fatal results, though he heard of many
residences being carried away with in
mates. The house that he saw destroyed
was Ritter's saloon and restaurant at
21O9 Strand street, a principal thorough
fare of the city.
This three story building was blown
down, and nine men, prominent citizens,
We're killed.
Among the dead are Charles Kelmer
Stanley c. Spencer, general manager of
the Elder Dcmpster steamship line; Rich
ard Lord, manager for McFadden's Cot
ton company, whose body is still in the
ruins, and Secretary Bailey of the Wharf
company. Several walters and customers
saved themselves by jumping from the
upper story just before the crash came.
Asylum and Hospital Destroyed.
II thnt npt,ln
lum and both the hospitals were destroy
ed, and if this proves true the loss Of
life will be great, as these institutions
We're generally crowded and as they
We're substantial buildings the chances
are that many had taken refuge in them
The water extended across the island.
Mr.. Timmins said it was three feet deep
in the rotunda of the fremont hotel and
was six feet deep in Market street.
Along the water front the damage was
great. The roofs had been blown from
all the elevators. and the sheds along the
wharfs We're either wrecked or had lost
their sides and were of no protection to
the contents.
Most of the small sailing craft were
wrecked and We're either piled up on the
wharfs or floating bottom up in the bay
There is n small steamship ashore three
miles north of Pelican island, but Mr..
Timmins could not distinguish herr name.
She was flying British flag.
Another big vessel has been driven
ashore at Virginia point, and still an
other is aground at Texas City. AT the
south point of Hudson island an unknown
ship lies in a helpless condition.
The lightship that marks Galveston
bar is hard and fast aground at Bolivar
point
Mr.. Timmins and the men with him
on the schooner rescued two sailors from
the middle bay who had been many hours
i'll the water. These men We're foreign
ers, and he could gain no information
from them.
The wreck of a vessel which looked like
large steam tug was observed just be-
fore the party landed.
In the bay the carcassss of almost 20b
horses and mules were seen, but no hui
man bodies We're visible.
Galveston Entirely Submerged.
The scenes during the storm, Mr.. Tim
Minis said, could not be described. Wo-