The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-11

have been bully 100 O., ana perhaps later
At N. 40 o'clock Sunday morning. the
water had receded from the higher por-
tons of the city. but the streets near
tbe hay frent still contained from two
ana a baIfto three feet of water.
me CSaIsestcn News Office, on Me
cbanic street was flooded The back
end of the building caved in, the engine
and boile5s were filled with water,
makine h impossible for paper to be
issued
Depot Is a Refuge.
AT the Union depot scenes similar to
those met with in other portions of the
city arctic be found BaggagemaSter
Harding picked up the nfeleSS form OF
n baby girl within Few rect OF the
station. Its parents could not be found
and are supposed to have been lost
The station building had been Sc
lected SIS a place of refuge by a large
number of people. All windows in the
building and portion OF the wall at
the tor were blown in. and the occu-
pauts Expected every moment to be
their last But escape was impossible,
for about the building the water must
have been fully twelve feet deep A
couple of small shanties were floating
about but there was no means OF max
ing a raft or getting boat
Havoc on the Water Front
Onithe water front the destruction of
property was almost as great as on
the beach. although the loss of life was
not nearly so large The wharVes OF
the Mallory company We're completely
DESTROYED The big steamship Alamo
is Hing among the ruins of the pier.
J How great the damage is to the ship
cannot be told until she Is dragged
/ cat into the stream TO be examined
/ The Wharves of the Galveston Wharf
company are also gone, and the great
wbarves of the Southern Paclnc COM
pSnv. which have been in course OF
/ construction for several months are
! damaged to the amount of S6O,O0O and
/ months of work will be necessary 10
/ replace them in the same condition
! they were in when they were struck
/ The Norwegian steamship CLAN,
/ which was engaged in the Cuban trade.
| vas stranded up the bay beyond where
I the railroad bridges once stood
Ships High and Dry.
The British steamship Taunton is
lying on Pelican island, hard and fast
aground. The Mexican, big British
steamer was driven uD the bay and is
( fast stuck in the mud Another big
I ship is living out near Quarantine sta
4 ton 1t looks as if she tried TO put 70
sea and was driven ashore
/ The Kendall Castle has been driven
/ as far up as Texas City, where she is
now stranded
] OF the small shipping only a few
( boats are left. The little scheOners
have been lifted bodily out OF the
water and flung uD on the island
4 Others will bleach their bones on the
mainland coast The big dredge used
at Texas CITY has been driven inland
/ for half a mile, and she can never be
! gotten off except in pieces the Pen
sacola was in port when the storm be-
/ gan. but Master Simmons put to sea
Z in the teeth of the brewing storm, and
I il is feared that the boat and her crew
of thirty-six men have been lost.
There are now no big vessels about
the wharVeS which were alive with
/ seamen and longshoremen Friday at
/ ternOOn slowing cargo The three grain
| eleVa tors and Retymerschoher mill are
| wrecks. They are not down. but their
/ roofs and top stories have gone and
/ grain stored therein has probably been
ruined by the rain
| The damage to the ships at this time
when the demand for tonnage is so
1 great is regarded as one of the worst
features of the disaster from a bust
ness standpoint None Of the vessels
are irretrievably lost, but 1t will take
some time to get the boats of and to
get them repaired even though they
are not wrecks.
Business Portion in Ruins.
In the business portion of the city the
/ damage cannot be even approximately
I
Strand have about seven feet of water
! on their floors and windows were de-
molished- The top of the Moody bank
building was blown away and the fix
lures OF every house on this long bust
ness thOroughfare was destroyed.
On Mechanic street the water was
almost as deep as on the Strand Al
provisions in wholesale groceries and
goods on the lower floors were SaIu-
rated and rendered vaIueless.
The engine room of the fremont no
1 tel was caved in by the falling smoke
stack and the cooking was made an i'm
possibility The damage to the hOJe
: building viii amount to $3.50 at least
The power house Of the street railway
company was destroyed and the loss OF
machinery and building is estimated
at $4,000. There are no wires of any
sort standing They are lying in tan
gled masses across the street and vii
? have to be cleared away before horses
and vehicles can move about tn
streets