The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-23
INCIDENTS Of GIL WESTON
A FEW OF THE MANY STRIKING
OCCURRENCES OF THE AW-
FIL HAPPENING
SOME OF THE PITIFUL TALES
Bodies Found In the Most IncOn-
ceivabIe PIaces-SOme OF the
Marvellous Escapes That
Were Reported.
SOME OF THE PITIFUL TALES

OF the pitiful tales that of Thomas
! klee, OF Galveston. is one of the most
! pitiful. His wife was away from home
! when tie house was destroyed, alWl has
| not since been heard from. klee. with
/ his infant boy and girl in his arms vas
| carried for an hour In the Wnirling wa
/ ter. Once he tried TO fasten the four
!! year old girl in the branches Of tree,
| but she was torn from his arms while
! he was trying to make her fast. When
! lie finally gained firm foothold he found
his boy dead in his arms. Since that
| time. he has hardly been a conscious be-
| ing, and he is still In the hospital at
/ Houston, where he was taken Friday.
| The body of q nephew Of 4&ll John
+ Wagner, youth eighteen years old, was
1 found lodged il the forks of a tall cedar
| tree on Galveston island, two miles from
| his wrecked home, apd tightly clinched
/ with q death grip in his right hand was
| $500 which his father gave him to hold
while his father attempted to close q
door, when the house went down and the
I whole family persisted in the storm and
| food.
Encircling water standpipe with
clasped hands. W. r. Jones and fifteen
other men prevented themselves from
being carried away by the water and
SO saved their lives al Galveston
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| In wooden bathtub Mrs. Chapman
| Bailey and Miss Blanche Kennedy were
carried out into the Gulf, where they
spent Saturday night. Not Til the next
morning did the tide bring them back
! to where rescuing parties could reach
| them, Neither of them has reiatire
in Galveston left alive
| Capt. John Delaney, chef customs in
/ spector of the port of Galveston. is one
! of the courageous men of the town. He
| lost his entire family, wife, son and
! daughters, but his sixty years were not
| bowed by his fate. The day following the
disaster he was at his post attired in q;
suit of overahs, the only clothing he had
saved from the wreck OF his home, and
! he has inspected all the vessels that have
| arrived since then.
The Labett family. of Galveston, lost
| four generations of its members In the
flood. One of the young LaDetts, the
| only member OF the family who esca ped
!
! at his home trying to scrape with his
bare hand graves in the SAND for his IA !,
| Their and mother and sisters.
Along the Galveston wh.rf front the
storm was particularly violent. The big
steel tank of the Waters Pierce Oil com
pany in which was stored during the sea-
son cotton seed oil, at the foot of Fiji
| tenth street was blown to Twenty first
! street, a distance OF six blocks It land
ed on Its bottom and rests now in an up
| right position. 1t is large tank and
heavy, but the clements got the better
of it.
Mrs. Michael C. Mcdonald, of Chicago.
unable to reach Galveston, is in Houston,
mourning the loss of her aunt and uncle
and two cousins, Peter Boss wife and
! two children. Mrs. Mcdonald visited
them in their Galveston hons only three
weeks ago, and narrowly missed being
| their guest at the time of the hurricane,
she having hesitated when asked to pro-
long her visit.
| In the inirmary at Houston Is a boy
! whose name is Hutter He was found
en- Monday morning lying besid. q tcunk
or the land near the town Of Hitchcock,
| which Is twenty miles to the norrhward
of Galveston. This boy is only twelve
mother and two children remained In tn
/ house There was a crash AMI the
/ house went to pieces The boy says that
he caught hold of a. trunk whom he
! found himself in the water. and fioated
off with it He thinks the others were
! drowned. He has ne idea where the
trunk took him; but when da flight came
he was across the bay and out upon The
! still partially submerged mainland.
I
A squad of men discovered five bodies
| in a wrecked building at Galveston.
] Among these bodies was one which a
| member OF the burial party recognized
as his own brother The bodies were all
| in an advanced state of decompositi m.
They We're removed. and a funeral pyrs
was built. al which the brother assisted,
and, with Spartan like frmness. stood by
and saw the bodies of the dead reduced
to ashes:
Ray Ayers. an eight-year-old boy. un-
willingly rescued his sisters two babies.
during the food. He was floating ON
a raft in Galveston when he passed a box
with two children In it, He seized them,