Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

two large Dllck DullGlnSS, one occupied by Knapp Bros. and the other by the Cotton Exchange saloon, collapsed. In the Cotton Exchange saloon there were about fifteen persons. Most of them escaped. The oil mills. bassging fac tory, gas works, electric light works and nearly all thc industrial establish ments of the city are either wrecked or crippled. The flood left slime about an inch deep over the whole city. and un- less fast progress is made in burying the corpses and carcasses of animals there Is danger of pestilence.
 Some of the stories of escape are miraculous. William Nisbett. cot ton man, was buried in the ruins of the Cotton Exchange saloon and when dug out in the morning he had no further injury than a few bruised fin gers. Dr. g. O. Young, secretary of the Cotton Exchange, was knocked sense less when his house collapsed, out he was revived by the water ana was car ried ten blocks by the hurricane. A woman who had just given birth to child was Ldrried from her home to house a block distant the men who were carrying her having to hold her high above their heads as the water was.five feet deep when she was moved.
 MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
 Many stories werE current of houses falling and the inmates escaping. Car ence N. Ousley. editor of the Evening Tribune. had his family and the fam flies of two neighbOrs in his house when the lower half crumbled and the upper part slipped down into the water. s No one in the house was hurt. Of the Lavine family. six out of the seven were repOlCed dead. Of the Burnett fam ily one only is known to have escaped. The family of Standley G. Spencer, who met death in the Cotton Exchange saloon, is reported to be dead. The Mistrot House. in the west end, was turned into a hospital. All of the reg ular hospitals of the city were un- availabl
 END OF HUNTINGTON'S FOLLY.
 Of the new Sou.hern Pacific works little remains but the pilng. Half a million feet of lumber were carried away and Engineer Hoschke says that so far as the company is concerned it might as well start over again. Eight ocean steamers were torn from their moorings and stranded in the bay. The
 
 flats from the Thirty-third street wharf to Texas City and lies in the wreck age If the Inman pier. The Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded between Texas City and Virginia Point. An ocean liner was whrled around The southwest bay. crashed through the bay bridges and Is now lyirg in 6 foot of water near the wreckage of the hi ton was carried across Pelican Point and is stranded about ten miles up the east bay. The Mallory steamer Alamo was torn from her wharf and pushed upon Pelican flats and up1n the boy of the British steamer Red Cross, which had previously been hurled there. The stern of the Alamo is stove in and the bow of the Red Cross is crushed. Down the channel toward the jetties two ether steamships lie grounded. Some schooners. barges and small craft are s.rewn bottom ssie up along the piers. The tug Louise of the Houston Direct Navigation company is also a wreck.
 HALF IS GONE.
 It will take weeks to tabulate the dead and missing and to get anything near an approximate idea of the money less. II is safe to assume that one-half of the property of the city is wiped out and that one-half of the residents hays to face absolute poverty. At Texas City three of the residents were drowned. One man stepped into a well 1 by mischance and his corpse was found there. Two other men Ventured along the bay front during the height of the storm and Were killed. There are few buildings at Texas City that GO not tell of the storm. The hotel is l cOnDlete rl1iD