Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-10

bruised, but his condition, he said, was
nothing.
"My house, my wife and children ale in !
the gulf I have not a thing on earth |
for which to live"
WRECKS ON THE BEACH.
Pat O'Keefe, who mas for years Kept |
a popular resort on the beach ana who !
is known to every visitor to Galveston,
was bemoaning the LIS, of his wife ard |
everything he had on earth. Where his |
resort stood on the beach facing the |
gulf, there is not a vestige of build |
ing to be seen. The great bathing pavil- |
ion known as The Pagoda, the big pleas |
ure resort known as The Olympia, and
Murdoch's bath house, are all swept |
away into the gulf. There We're few bod
les ON the beach. They had been swept !
on into the gulf or driven UP into the |
rubbish by the waves. A threeyear-old
boy sat holding his bleeding head in his |
hands, making not murmur OF COM I
plant. He was taken back into town, |
smiling at the joy of human companion
ship after his awful experience. He will
probably recover. The houses of all
prominent citizens which have escaped
destruction have been turned into hos
pitfalls, as have the leading hotels. There
is scarcely a house left standing which
as well as many injured.
sUFFERINGs OF THE POOR.
The rain began to pour down in tor
rents and the party went back down
fremont street toward the city. The mis-
cry of the poor people, all mangled an 4
hurt, pressing to the city for me iical
attention, was greatly augmented by the
rain. Stopping at a small grocery store
to avoid the rain, the party found it
packed with injured. The provisions in
the store had been ruined and there was
nothing for the numerous customers who
came hungry and tired. The place was
a hospital, no longer a store. Further
down the street, a restaurant which had
been submerged by water, was serving
out soggy crackers and cheese to the
hungry crowd. That was all that was
left.
On returning to the fremont hotsl,
which is the news center of the city, the
reporter found the death list to be swell
ing RAPIDLY the accounts coming from
every portion of the city
It is hard to determine what section OF
the city suffered the greatest damage
and loss of life. Information from both
the extreme eastern and extreme western
portions of the city We're difficult to OBJ
tain. but the reports received indicated
that those two sections had suffered the
same fate that the rest of the city had
and to a possibly greater degree.
ONE HUNDRED SOLDIERS KILLED.
Fifteen men, constituting all that re-
manned of company of regular soldiers,
stationed at the beach barracks were
marched down Market street. The loss
of life among the soldiers in the barracks,
which were destroyed, must have been
fully a hundred and perhaps later re-
ports will swell the list.
At 11:3O Sunday morning, the water
had receded from the higher portions OF
the city, but the streets near the bay
front still contained from two and half
to three feet of water.
The Galveston News Office on Mechanic
street was flooded. The back end of the
building caved in, the engine and boilers
were filled with water, making 1t impos-
sibe for paper to be issued.
| At the union depot scenes similar to
| those met with in other portions OF the
CITY are to be found. Baggage Master
Harding picked up the lifeless form of a
| baby girl within a few feet of the sta
ton, It's parents could not be located and
are supposed to have been lost. The
station building had been selected as a
/ place of refuge by large number OF peo-
nle. All the windows in the building and
a portion of the wall at the top were
blown in, and the occupants expected ev-
ery moment to be their last. But es-
| cane was impossible, for about the build
ing the water must have been fully
twelve feet deep. A couple OF small snan-
ties were floating about but there was nc
I
SHIPS WRECKED.
On the water front the destruction Of
property was almost as great as on the
| beach. although the loss of life was mo-
NEARLY SO large. The wharves of the Nal
lory company We're completely destroyed
The big steamship Alamo is lying amont
the ruins of the pier. How great thu
damage is to the ship cannot be told un
til she is dragged out into the stream t.
lbe examined. The wharves of the Gal
weston Wharf company are also gone, an'
1.-THE great wharves Of the Southern Paci
ific company, which have been in cours
of construction for. several months. ar
damaged to the amount of 100000. AM
months of work will be necessary t.
REPLACE them in the same condition a
they were. The Norwegian STEAMSHIP
Gi,am, which was engaged in the Gu
ban trade, was stranded up the bay be
. yond where the railroad bridges were
. The British steamship Tauton is lyin
on Pelican Island hard and fast aground
, The Mexican, big British steamer. wa
driven up the bay and is fast stuck |
the mud. Another big ship is lying ou
near Quarantine Station. 1t looks lfk
she tried to put to sea and was drive
, ashore. The Kendall Castle has bee