The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-14

Dly one or two exception, is in ruins
NEARLY ALL THE SOLDIERS
DEAD.
"At the forts nearly all the soldiers
are reported dead, they having been
in tmporary quarters which gave
them no protection against the tenn
pest or the flood.
No report has been received from
the Catholic orphan asylum down the
island, but it seems impossible that
1t could have withstood the hurricane.
If it fell ali the inmates were, no
doubt, lost for there was no aid with
in a mile.
The front, from end to end, is in
ruins. Nothing but piling and the
wreck of great warehouses remain.
The elevators lost all their upper
works and their stocks are damaged
by water. The life saving station at
Fort Point was carried away. the crew
being swept across the Day fourteen
miles to Texas City. I saw Captain
Haines yesterday and he told me that
his wife and one of his crew were
drowned.
SHORE LINED WITH WRECKAGE.
THE shore at Texas City contains
enough w~reckage to rebuild a city.
Elght persons who were swept across
the bay during the storm We're picked
up there alive. Five corpses were also
picked up. There We're three fatalities
in Texas City.
GRAVES GIVE UP THAIR DEAD.
In addition to the living and the
dead which the storm cast up at Texas
City, baskets and collins from one Of
the cemeteries at Galveston were being
fshed out of the water there yesterday
In the business portion of the city two
large brick buildings, one occupied by
Knapp Brothers, nj the other by the
u, Cotton Exchange collapsed. In the
Cotton Exchange saloon there were
about fifteen persons. Most of them
escaped.
Tn to the time L left Galveston three
dead a been taken from the ruins.
How many more corpses are there will
not be known until the search is fin
= ished.
1.-The cotton mills, the bagging fac
tory. the gas works, the electric lighl
works and nearly all the industrial es-
Establishments of the city are either
wrecked or crippled. The nood left a
slime about one inch deep over the
whole city and unless fast progress is
made in burying corpses and carcasses
Of animals there is danger of pesti-
lence.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
Some of the stories of the escapes
are miraculous. Willlain NiSbett, a
cotton man, was buried in the ruins of
the Cotton Exchange saloon and when
dug out in the morning ha , no further
injury than a few bruised fingers.
DR.. 5. Q. Young, secretary of the
cotton exchange, was knocked sense
less when his HOUSE collapsed, but was
revived by the water and was carried
ten blocks by the hurricane.
"A woman who had just given birth
to a child was carried from her home
. fn n nrIc n h1A01- L
We're carrying her having to hold her
high above their heads as the water
was five feet deep when she was moved
Many storiS were current Of houses
falling and inmates escaping. C1ar-
ence n. Oustry, editor of The Evening
Tribune, had his family n the fami-
lies of two neighbors in his house
when the lower half crumbled and the
upper part slipped down into the water
Not n in the house was hurt.
of the Lavine family six out OF
seven are reported dead. Of the Bur
nett family; only n is RHswn to have
been saved. The family of Stanley G.
Spencer, who met death in the cotton
exchange, is reported to be dead.
The Mistrot house i'm the westend
was turned into a hospital. All of the
regular hospitals of the city were I'M
available.
"Of the new Southern Pacific works
IllIS IelIIdlHS pul the ping. Half a
million feet of umber was carried
away and Engineer Boschke says, as
far as the is concerned it
might as we'll start over again.
OCEAN STEAMERS STRANDED.
Eight ocean steamers were torn
from their mOoringS and stranded in
theb ay. The Kendall Castle was car
ried over the flats of the third
street wharf to Texas City and lies in
the wreckage of the Inman pier. The
Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded
between Texas City and Virginia
Point. An ocean liner was swirled
around through the west bay, crash
ed through the bay bridges and s now
lying in a few feet of water near the
wreckage of the railroad bridges The
steamship Taunton was carried across
Pelican Point and is stranded about
ten miles up the a 5 bay. The NAL
lory steamer was torn from her wharf
and dashed upon Pelican flats and
against the bow of the British steam
er Red Cross,w hich had previously
been hurled there. The stern of the
Red Cross is crushed. Down the chan
, mel to the jetties two other ocean
steamships lie grounded.
Some SchoonerS, bargeS and smaller
craft are strewn bottom side UP along
the ships Of the piers. The tug Lou.
Use of the Huston Direct Navigation
Company is also a wreck.
1T will take a week to tabulate
the dead and the missing and to gel
anything near an approximate idea OF
the monetary loss.
!, HALF OF THE PROPERTY OF THE
CITY DESTROYED.
1T is safe to assume that ane-hal1
of the property of the city is wiped
: out and one-hal of the residents
l have to face absolute poverty.
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