Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-11
Later Reports Add New Horrors to the News
From Galveston.
yiIRs1 REPORTS OF LOSS WERE NOT EXAGGERATED
~ Il s still Conjecture But Can Hardly Bs Lass Than
1900 81 vandalism Rampant a Galveston and Military
Law May 3 Proclaimed APPALLING Loss Of Life and
S Property in All the Surrounding Distriota

the island and the mainland are In
ruins and must be entirely rebuilt. The
and Great Northern and
Santa Fe had considerable track
washed out, while the Galveston. Hous-s
ton & Northern suffered heavily. ALL
the track between seabrooke and vir-
ginia Point, with all bridges, is washed
away and the section foreman and crew
at Nadeau lost.
At local undertaking establishments
are resting the remains OF Ave Houston
people who perished at Seabrooke in
Saturdays hurricane. All the bodies
are so badly mangled as to be difficult
to identity them.
News from the coast along the Gulf
g Interstate railroad. between Sabine
and Bolivar, indicates no one was
killed. No houses were left standing at
Patton or Bolivar.
BOLIVAR SWEPT AWAY.
It is reported that Bolivar was swep,
of the earth and has few Inhabitants
left. The railroad tracks are under wa
ter and the relief party Is on foot. At
.Quintana, a. port at the mouth Of the
;Brazos river, there are not more than
twelve houses left. No one was killed,
but q number We're injured. Everybody
is In need Of food and clothing.
AT Bellville every house was damaged
and several demolished, including two
churches One girl was killed. on
|steel's plantation. near Hampstead, all
the convict buildings. tenant houses
and shops were destroyed. The convicts
were released on parole. The Stone and
Buchanan plantations were swept clear
Of buildings. but every one escaped, tho
q number were injured. On the Anix
plantation every one has gone. Other
plantations suffered nearly as much,
but no loss Of life Is reported. AT Wal.
| Ter the destruction was complete, but
no one was killed.
MANY TOWNS STRUCK.
At Prairie View the normal school
was badly damaged, but no one was
killed. There were two students and. at
Itendants in the buildings. Thirteen ne.
groes are reported killed on various
plantations in Wharton and Matagorda
lcounties. In Matngorda county only
1.-TWO houses are standing.
4 The little town OF Missouri City wa.
practically wiped out. There is larg,
/ list of injured.
Richmond was nearly wrecked. Eight
Ieen persons are reported killed, most o
Them negroes. For twenty-five mile
4 from town not house is standing.
At Elcamp every house was damaged
At Ariola two we're killed and severa
injured seriously At Howze's planta
u tion, two miles west of the railroad sta
A ton, the damage inflicted was great
4 lResidences sugar mills, cane sheds
stock sheds, convict barracks. planta
1tion quarters and everything else in tn
:. way OF Improvements We're either total
! lily destroyed or rendered useless. Crop
!. Iare ruined and much stock was killed
!, Two boarding cars We're blown out o
The main line and whirled along by tn
wind sixteen miles to Sandy Poin
where they colllded with a number {
other boarding cars killing two and in
q juring thirteen occupants.
A dead child, destruction Of all house
except one. and restitution OF fifty fam
lilies is the record at Arcadia. Frol
7Ififty other towns come reports OF build
.|ings wrecked or demolished. Most I
them have injured people in them, b,
. no dead are reported.