The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
SCENE OF HORROR IN GALVESTON
ON THE MORNING OF THE
SABBATH
RRlCK BLOCKS ARE DESTROYED
NOTHING GOULD WITHSTAND THE
FURY OF THE WIND
AND SEA
VESSELS DRIVEN FAR INLAND
Small Craft Found Ten Miles From
the Gulf-Huge Ocean Steamers
Perished in Wreck of
Their Docks.

GALVESTON. Tex, Sept 10-Starting
as soon as the water began to recede the
work of rescuing the wounded and dying
from the ruins Of their homes began
Screaming women, bruised and bleeding,
some OF them bearing the Iifeless forms
of children in their arms, men broken
hearted and sebbing, bewailing the loss
of their wives and children; streets filed
with floating rubbish, among which there
were m any bodies of the victims Of the
storm. constituted part of the scene.
The first less of life reported was at
Reitter's saloon on the Strand, where
three persons lost their lives and where
many others were manned and impris-
oned. The dead were Stanley q. Spen-
Ger, Charles Kellner and Richard Lord
The three were sitting at a table on The
first floor, when suddenly the roof caved
in above them and came down with a.
crash into the saloon, killing them in
stantly. These in the lower part of the
building escaped with their lives in a
miraculous manner. The falling roof and
nooring were caught on the bar the man
stanG1ng near it lodging under the deb
RS 1t required several hours of hard
wcrk to get the men out The negro
waiter who was sent for the doctor was
drowned at the corner of Strand and
w enty-f1rst street, and his body was
Tound short time after. The next pace
visited by the rescuers was the city hall
Here We're congregated fully 700 persons
nearly all of whom were more ar less in
Jured. One man reported the loss of fiftv
persons in the building from which he
escaped. He himself was severely In
Jured about the head.
SAD SUNDAY MORNING.
AS Sunday morning dawned the stres sts
We're lined with wounded and half clad
people seeking medical attention for.
themselves and aid for friends and rela-
tlyess who could not move. Police Officer
Jotln Bowie Was found In a pitiabIe con-
dit1on, the toes of both his feet and two
RIBS were broken and his head bruised
He reported that his house, with wife
and children. had been swept into the
Gulf. tssa s =.
Notable among the sufferers was Pat
O'Keefe, who has for years kept a resort
on the beach and who is known to every
visitor to Galveston. Where his resort
stood on the beach facing the gulf there
is not a vestige of a building to be seen.
The great bathing pavilion known as the
Fagada,. the big pleasure resort known as
the Olympia and Murdochs bath house
were all swept away into the gulf There
were few bodies on the beach. They
had been swept into the gulf or driven
up into the rubbish by the waves
The residences which have escaped de-
struction have been turned into hospitals,
ha
scarcely one of the houses which is left
standing which does not contain one or
more of the dead as well as many in
jured.
The rain began to pour down in tor
rents and THE rescuing party went back
down to fremont street towards the city.
The rain added greatly to the general
distress. Stopping at g small grocery
store the party found it packed with in
jured clamoring for food but the pro-
visions In the stock had been ruined. Fur
ther down the street restaurant, which
had been submerged by water, was serv-
ing out soggy crackers and cheese to the
hungry crowd. On returning to the Tre-
mont hotel the Houston correspondent
found the dead list to be swelling rapidly,
the accounts coming from every portion
of the city. Information from both the
extreme eastern and extreme western
portions of the city were difficult to OBJ
tain but the reports which were received
indicated that those two sections had
suffered fully as much as the rest of the
city. Fifteen men, constituting all that
remained of a company of eighty soldiers
stationed at the beach barracks, were
marched down Market street. The loss
of life among the soldiers In the bar
racks which were destroyed must have
been fully a hundred. AT u:30 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 a half to three feet of water
STEAMERS AND DOCKS DESTROYED.
On the water front the destruction Of
property was almost as great as on the
beach, though the loss of life was not
nearly so large. The wharves of the
Mallory company were completely de-
stroyed. The big steamship Alamo is
lying among the ruins of the PIERS. The
Wharyes of the Galveston Wharf COM
pany are also gone and the great wnarves
Of the Southern Pacific company, which
have been in course of construction for
several months, are damaged to the
amount of 100000. The Norwegian steam
ship ella engaged in the Cuban trade
was stranded up the bay beyond where
the railroad bridges once stood
: The British steamship Taunton is lying
Mexican, big British steamer was
driven up the bay and is fast in the
mud. Another big ship is lying near the
quarantine station The Kendall castle
was driven as far up as Texas City,
where she is now stranded OF the small
shipping only a few boats are left Many
of the little schooners were lifted bodily
out Of the water and flung on the is and
The wrecks of others are scattered along
the bay front. The Charlotte M. Allen,
the steam ferry boat to Bolivar, is safe.
The big dredge used at Texas City was
driven inland for half a mile and can
not be saved. The Pensacola was in port
when the storm began, but Master s. M
mons put to sea In the teeth and it is
feared the boat and her crew Of thu ty-
six men were lost.
PROPERTY DAMAGE ENORMOUS.
The three grain elevators and Reimer-
schoffer's mill are wrecks. Their roofs
and the 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 ton
mage is SO great, is regarded as one of
the worst features of the disaster from
business standpoint