Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-09-12
ILL THE CHURCHES ARE DAMAGED
Only One Life Lost, But the Storm
Was Severer Than That Of 1875.
The UnrooRlng of Buildings
Very General.

The storm that visited Houston on
Saturday night was the most destructive
known in the. history of the citv. The
oldest ,rhahi,on. ,,os ,,roo,od o,,t %,
""e ~'
once, and he admitted that not even the
storm of 1875 was to be compared With
the fury of the wind To that of SATURDAY,
nisn''
1t struck the city about p. m. With
considerable fury, and the wind blew 8
uo,o tror, ,ho ,or,haos, ora oo,t.n,ed :,
-, 'ns mo- $3.50
piow until ABOUT O'CLOCK sunday morn.
ing. The storm reached Its height aboui
midnight and most of the damage I,
.,,,,s,r 49, at,o,,. H.. .,n,a
"as uoiie aD. 'NN'
The total damage to property Is esti'
mated all the way from 100000 to $500,
ooo but stranye 70 saw only ono life
80 ~. nal, ~,
was lost tnae OIL Henry ~ pi''A' NV
hack driver, who walked into live wire
in front of the Gibbs building. on Frank.
lin ,ayorro about an o,c,ocl, on sunda,
s.
morning. whlle on MS way nome Aow
Westheimer's stables.
The unronane Of buildings in the bust.
III 1880. H.. -. ooi a,d ~,
ness uis'i4'' was very e'"' 'AN
destruction OF shade trees was genera
throughout the city.
OF course. in order to mention every
building in the CITY that was damaged 4
would be necessary to mention abou
avery one on every street in the city; bu
! only the most important ones will BE-
chronicled here.
-The business houses seemed To have
suffered most. Commencing at the foo
of Main street. almost every building
was damaged TO some extent.
The build ne occupied by the Houston
| Drug eoinnanv at the corner of Com.
4 merce ana Tyavia was ,inroofed and sew
eral thousand dollars worth of good were
DESTROYED by water
Henry Alexander, candy manufacturer.
| suffered oonslderablv bv The storm HIN
building was unroofed and about <$1O0t
/ worth Of goods destroyed by wateH TIM
rear portion Of the building was also
Knocked down by some heavy (piece Of
! timber that must have been blbwn from
building in the Fifth ward. The real
walls of the building were torn dowr
and the smokestack of a new engine and
boiler. which had been placed in position
was wrecked.
The building OF the Houston Produce
company. corner of Main and Commerce
was unroofed and otherwise injured.
| The COnVersp building on the ODDOslte
aide of the street was also partly un.
rooted by the wind.
THE Kiam building was also partially
unroofed. The buildings occupied By
Hamilton Bros and Jones & Bergamint
were completeIy unroofed and both irmi
Inst heavily from water.
The CapitoI hotel was partially unroof.
ed and n will take several thousand dol.
| lars 10 renair the damage.
The roof and portion OF the top story
OF the Masonic Temple were blown away
and the damage here was about $4,000.
The roof of the build ng on Preston
avenue occupied bv N. Randolph & SOM
wa. blown away and the damage to theiJ
stook il probably $4,000.
James Butte on Texas avenue, suffered
a damage of about $1,000 from a PARTIAL,
unroofed building.
wall q stances establishment. on Prai
rie avenue was completely unroofed.
All the churches IN the CIV were dam.
| aged more ar less The First BAPTIST
church and the sbearn Methodist ohurcb
suffered more than any Of the others Il.
rho front section of the shearn church
nearest Travis street was blown away !.
The tower Of the First Baptist church
was blown down and the building is al.
most a comnlete wreck. A ANAL section
Of the wall OF Christ church was blown
down and The damaoe IL NOT heavy The
greatest damage 70 the First Presby.
terrain church was the partial destruction
81 the memorial windows Of the Wilson'S
and the Aliens. The Church of the An