The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-09
GREAT DESTRUCTION
STORM SAID To HAVE WROUGHT
HAVOC AT GALVESTON.
FEARS. FELT FOR THE CITY.
-FOUR LARGE BRIDGES SAID To
HAVE BEEN SWEPT AWAY.

could Not Have Been Done without
Extensive Damage co the City.
Lack of Information Leads 60 Be-
lief There Has Been Great Ca
IamIty-Big Clubhouse at RocLport
Thought 90 Have Been Wrecked
with Loss OF Life
New Orleans. Sept s--A special from
Dallas. Tex. says:
All Texas IL in the keenest state OF
douhs and uncertainty tonight concerning
the fate Of Galveston Island and city.
In everybody's mind is the suspicion
,hat calamity rests behind the lack Of
Information from the Gulf coast.
1t Is said here that immense destruction
has befailen Galveston and other places
IL Is said that the bridges leading from
the mainland to the island have been
swept away by the terrible force Of the
wind and the rolling up OF the water in
the bay. The bridges are four In num-
Der. three for railroad uses. and one the
Galveston county public wagon and pedes.
trian bridge.
II seems hardly credible that all these
bridges could be swept away without the
city suffering tremendously in the loss OF
buildings. general property and lives.
Played Havoc mt Rockport.
A special from Houston. Tex. says:
There Is an unconfrmed rumor that
the hurricane raging along the Gulf coast.
mas played havoc with the town of Rock
port. on the lower coast. and that the
great clubhouse built by +. II. r. Green,
near there. has been blown away with loss
u life. as shere were several guests in
the house. Their names are not known
here.
The same report says a cyclone ragged
through Live Oak county.
The wind has blown a hurricane oil day.
and has been accompanied by a driving
rain in Houston. Considerable damage
has been done but all OF a minor charac-
ser.
There Is a report that the steamer Char
iot,e M. Allen has gone ashore. but. It
cannot be confirmed.
ramage 20 the Southern Pacific whsrves
in Galveston. just being built. Is said TO
have been great. and there Is also some
dlmago to small Graf, along the water
front.
Sen water on the Jevee.
Advlces from Fort ST. Philip late to-
nirht say that the SEQ water backed up
in,o the Mississippi so rapidly that It wen,
clear over the levee and luggers were car
ried into she marshes by the waves and.
with the receding waters. were s,rewn
along the river bank high and dry Tor
mile.
A stern wheel steamer on the way 20
Biloxi. Miss. now lies on dry land in the
back OF house. hve miles above For.
St Philip. The boat was carried a dis
tanee OF two miles across the marsh IN
a few minutes.
The most damage appears 10 have been
done on the east hank OF the river. The
east wall of the jetties was damaged and
many rice fields. upon which harvested
Iiee was piled up. were inundated and
the crop destroyed.
storm Damage in Louisiana.
New Orleans. La. Sept. Sowing TO the
prostration OF the telegraph wires. news
from the storm country trickled into this
city tonight very slowly.
DR.. o. II. Buford and sergt Quinn Of
the United States military forces. who
were reported drowned. had been miracu-
iousiy saved and turned up safe az Fort
s. Philip to-day.
In the southeastern and southwestern
portions OF the state the cane seems to
have been badly blowr. down and rice
fields damaged.
Very heavy damage has been done to
the growing crops on Grand Isle. AS far
g can be learned tonight the storm seems
90 have been attended with practically no
loss Of life.
PEOPLE SEEKING SAFETY.