New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-11

minutes they had gone down Two ieoN INV
fore daylight the streets were practically freed
Of the food waters In the mean time the wind
had veered 10 the southeast.
Very few if any. buildings escaped injury.
There is hardly a habitabie dry house in the
city When the people who had escaped death
went out al daylight view the work Of the
tempest and the floods they the most horri-
bic sights imaginable. In the three blocks from
Avenue to Avenue p in Tremont-st., saw
eight bodies -Four corpses were in one yard.
BUSINESS PORTION DEVASTATED.
The whole OF the business front for three
blocks In from the Gulf was stripped Of every
vestige OF habitation. the dwellings. the great
bathing establishments the Olympia and every
structure having been either carried out to yea
or its ruins piled in a pyramid far into the town.
according to the vagaries OF the tempest.
The first hurried glance over the city showed
that the largest structures. supposed 10 be the
most substantially built. suffered the greatest.
The Orphans Home. Twenty-f1rst-st. and
Avenue II, fell like house of cards. How many
dead children and refugees are IN the ruins
could not be ascertained.
"of the sick in St Mary's InfirTnary, together
with the attendants. only eight are understood
TO have been saved.
THE Old womens Home on Rosenberg ave,
collapsed, and the Rosenberg schoolhouse is
mass OF wreckage. The Ball High School is but
an empty shell, crushed and broken. Every
church in the city, with possibly one or two
ceptions. is in ruins.
SOLDIERS PERISH AT FORTS.
AT the forts nearly all the soldiers are re-
ported dead they having been in temporary
quarters, which gave them no protection against
the tempest or the food.
NE report has been received from the Catholic
Orphan Asylum. down the island, but it seems
Impossible that it could have withstood the hur-
ricane. If it fell all the inmates were no doubt
lost for there was no aid within a mile.
The bay front from end to end is in ruins.
Nothing but piling and the wrecks of great
warehouses remain. The elevators lost all their
superworks, and their stocks are damaged by
water.
1.-The life saving station at Fort Point was car
rted away the crew being swept across the bay
fourteen miles 10 Texas City.
Il saw Captain Haines yesterday, and he told
that his VIE ana one OF MS ere" were
drowned.
SHORE sTREwN WITH wRECKAGE.
The shore at Texas City contains enough
vreckage TO rebuild city. Eight persons who
were swept across the bay during the storm were
picked up there alive Five oorpses were also
picked up. There were three fatalities in Texas
City In addition 20 the living and the dead
which the storm cast up at Texas City, caskets
and collins from of the cemeteries at Gal
weston we're being hshed out O. the water there
yesterday.
''In the business portion Of the city two large
brick buildings one occupied by Knapp Broth
ers. and the other by the Cotton T7~"han~~
saloon. collapsed In the Cotton Exchange
saloon there were about fifteen persons. Most
OF them escaped.
up to the time left Galveston three dead
had been taken from 14lIe ruins. They were
Stanley C. Spencer manager Of the Elder
Dempster Steamship Company; Richard Lord,
traffic manager for George H. McFadden
Brother, and Charles Kelder. of the firm OF
hammers g. Flint
How many more corpses there will not
\ be known until the search is finished
The cotton mills. the bagging factory. the
gas works the electric light works and nearly
aH the Industrial establishments of the city are
either wrecked OF crippled The food left
slime about one inch deep over the whole city,
and unless fast progress is made in burying
corpses and carcasses Of animals, there is dan
ger Of pestiience
Some Of the stories of the escapes are miracu-
i~'s. William Nisbett, cotton man, was buried
IN the ruliis -ft the Cotton Exchange saloon and
when dug out in de morning had no further
injury than few bruised fingers
DR.. S. o. Young. secretary of tho Cotton ~
change' was knocked senseless 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 to a house a
DOCK distant. the who were carrying her
having to hold her high above their heads, as
the water was five feet when she was moved,
Many stories were current Of bousee faIIi,
and inmates escaping. Clarence n Ouslex Edi
tor Of The Evening Tribune, had his family
and the families Of two neighbors in his house
"hen the lower half crumbled and the upper
half slipped down into the water Not one in
the house hurt.
FAMILIES ALMOST ANNIHILATED.
"of the Lavine family six out of seven are
reported dead
'of the Burnett family. only one is known to
have been saved
The family OF Stanley G. Spencer who mat
death in the Cotton Exchange Saloon ora -