Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-09-13
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Great Loss Of Life Along the Coast
Of Texas.
AWFUL EFFECTS FELT At GALVESTON
One Thousand People Said to Have Bsen
Drowned, Killed or Missing and Over
1000 Houses Destroyed - Sabine
Pass Completely Destroyed.

that ragged along the coast OF Texa
Saturday night was the most disas
trous that has ever visited this sec
ton. The wires are down and ther'
is 20 way Of finding out just what ha'
happened, but enough Is known t.
make 1t certain that there has beer
great loss OF life and destruction Of
property all along the coast and fol
100 miles or so inland. Every town
that is reached reports one OF
more dead and the property damage
Is so great that there Is no way Of
computing 1t accurately.
Galveston remains isolated. The
Houston Post and the Associated
press correspondents made efforts to
get special trains and tugs yesterday
with which to reach the island city.
The railroad companies declined to
risk their locomotives.
A train went down the Columbia
Tap road yesterday morning as far
as Chenango Junction. The town was
greatly damaged and the bodies OF
nine negroes were taken from the
ruins Of one house. The train could
proceed no further and came back
to Houston, leaving the fate OF the
people at Angleton, Columbia, Bra
cora, velasco and Quintana uncer-
tain.
The small town OF Brookshire on
the Missouri, Kansas g. Texas was al
most wiped out by the Storm The
crew of q work train brought this
information. When the train left there
the bodies Of four persons had been
recovered and the search for others
was proceeding. Hampstead, across
the country from Brookshire, was
also greatly damaged, but so far as
known no lives were lost
Sabine Pass was not heard from yes
ter1ay. Saturday the last news was
received from there and at that time
the water was surrounding the old
town at the pass and the wind was
raising and the waves coming high.
From the new town, which Is some
distance back, 1t was reported that
the water mad reached the depot and
was running through the streets.
The people were leaving for the high
country known as the back ridge and
II IL belieyewd that all escaped.
Two bodies have been brought In
from Seabrooke on Galveston bay and
n persons are missing there. Three
persons were drowned at Morgan's
point and Others are missing. With
the exception of those of Mrs. Mich
olson and Mrs. Jane Woodlock the
bodies Of the dead have not yet been
identified.
In Houston one person was killed,
Henry Black, a hack driver. The
property damage is great, a conserv-
alive estimate placing It at $25O,OOO.
The Merchants and Planters oil mill
was wrecked, entailing a loss OF $4O,-
600. The Dickson car wheel works
suffered to the extent of $4,000. The
big Masonic temple, which is the
property o. the grand lodge OF the
state, was partly wrecked Nearly
every church in the city was dam
aged. The First Baptist, Southern
Methodist and Trinity Methodist, the
latter negro church, will have to be
rebuilt before they can be used again.
Many business houses were unroofed'
The residence portion of the town
presents dilapidated appearance,
but the damage In this part OF the
city has not been so great as in some
others.
The town of Alvin is reported prac-
tically demolished and Alta Iona has
not a house standing. Hitchcock and
Pearl have also suffered severely. A
Santa Fe rain was literally lifted
from the track near Alvin and pas
senger was killed and several Others
injured.
The streets are almost impossible,
because of the litter Of shade trees
fences, telephone wires and poles
Report That 1880 Are Dead at Gaiv"ston
Chicago, sept. 10.--A dispatch TIC
the Chronicle from San Antonio, Tex.
says: me srartllng news mas jllsl
flashed over the wires informing
Gov. J. D. Savers that a messenger
al great risk of his life has reached
Virginia point from Galveston with
the report that $500 are probably
DEAD as u result of the fearful storm
An urgent appeal to all Texas for help
was made. The messenger said that
the grain elevators at the water front
are wrecked and hundreds of build
ings have collapsed or were carried
out to sea- The greatest distress Is
said to prevail.
Awful Effects ~ the storm at Gs,,esto ,
Houston, Tex, Sept, i0,--lames C.
Timmins, general superintendent Of
the Natio mi Compress company, has
Just arrived from Galveston after 0
perilous trip. He reports that more
than 100 leople have been drowned
killed or missing and over 1000
houses have been destroyed, He says
the magnitude of the disaster re-
mains to be told.
D'spaich from Gov. Seve-s
New York, Sept. 10.-The World this
morning printed the following dis
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