Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-11


across the bay il miles to Texas city.
saw Captain Haines yesterday and he
told me that his wife mad one Of his crew
were drowned.
The shore az Texas City contains enough
wreekage TO rebuild q city Eight prrs3ns
who were swept across the bay during the
storm were picked up there alive. Five
corpses we're also picked D.. There were
three fatalities In Texas city In addition
to the living and the dead which the storm
cast mp At Texas CITY. easkets and eof.
fms from one ~ the cemeteries at Gaiges-
ton were being lshed out Of the water
there yesterday.
In the business portion of the city two
Iarge brick buiiaiHga one occupied by
Knapp Bros and the other o. lie Cotton
Exchange saloon, eolapsea - the Cotton
Exchange saloon there wefe about - per
sons. Most Of them escaped.
Up To the time / left f;alYestTn three
dead had been taken from The ruins. They
were.
STANLEY g. SPENCER. manager Of the
Kldef-Dempster steamship Company
RICHARD LORD, traffic MANAGER for
George II. McFaaden & Bro
CHARLES KELDEIt, Of the firm of Lam
mers x Flint.
How many more corpses are there will
not be known until the search Is finished.
The cotton mills, the Baggihg factory. the
gas works, the electric light works and
HtaftA III iHt INDUSTRIAL tsIHbiishNlshEs III
the city are either wrecked or crippled The
flood left Il slime about Inch deep
over the whole city and unless fast pro-
gress h maae IN bDrylng corpses aud car
casses Of animals there Is danger of pest-
lenee.
Some Of the stories of the escapes are
miraculous. William Slsbit, cotton MIN
was buried | nthe ruins Of the Cotton TX
change saloon aud when dug out In tire
morning had no further injury than Il few
bruised fingers.
Or. $. O. Young, secretary Of the Cotton
Exchange. WAS knocked senseless when his
house collapsed, but was revived by the
water and WAS carried 10 blocks by tie
hurricane.
A woman who had just given birth to Il
child was carried from her home to 4 house
a block distant, the men who We're carrying
her having TO hold her high above their
heads as the water was five feet deep
when she was moved
Many stories were current Of hoases fall
Ing and inmates escaping. Clarence n.
OusIey, editor Of the Evening Tribune, had
his family and the families Of two neigh
bors In his house when the lower hall
erumbled aud the upper part slipped down
into the water Not one in the house was
hurt
OF the Lavine fnnily six out Of seven
are reported dead
OF the Bufnet family only one is known
to have been saved.
The family of Stanley G. Spencer. who
met death in the Cotton Exchange saloon,
is reported to be dead
The Aiistrot house In the west end was
turned into hospital. All of the regular
hospitals of the city We're unavailable. OF
the new Southern Pacific works little re
mains but the piling. Half Il million feet
of lumber was carried away and Engineer
Bosehke says MS far as the company il
concerned mi ~ a n pr
again.
Night ocean steamers were torn from
their mornings AMI stranded In the bay.
The Kendall Castle was carried over the
flats from the Thifty=thifd street wharf ta
Texas City and lies in the wreckage Of the
fnman pier. The Norwegian steamer CYL.
Ter Is stranded between Texas city and
Virginia Point. An ocean liner was swirled
around through the West baE. crashed
through the bay bridges and is now lying
In "A few feet Of water near the Wreekage
of the railroad bridges. The steamship
Taunton was carried across Pelican Point
and is stranded about 10 miles up the east
bay. The MalarF steamer Aama WAS torn
from her wharf and dashed un1n Pelican
flats md against The bow of the steamer
Red Cross, which had previously been
hurled there The stern of the Alamo il
stove In and the bow Of the Red Cross is
crushed.
Down the channel to the jetties two
other ocean steamships lie grounded. Some
sehoonefs, barges and smaller craft are
strewn bottomsde up along the slips OF
the piers. The tug Louise, of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company, is also
wreck.
1t will take week TO tabulate the dead
and the missing and to get anything near
an approximate idea of the monetary loss
1t is safe to assume that one-half of the
property of the city Is wiped out and that
oneshalf of the residents have to face alb
solute poverty.
At Texas City three of the residents
were drowned. one man stepped into a
well by mischaHce and his corpse was
found there. Two other men ventured
along the bay front during the height of
the storm and We're killed There are but
few buildings at Texas City that do not
tell the story of the storm. The hotel IL
a complete ruin. The office of the Texas
City Company was almost entirely de
stroyed. Nothing remains of the piers ex.
cept the pling. The wreckage from Gal
weston filters the shore for miles and is
hundred yards or more wide.
The Galveston News asked to have 1t an.
noaneed that all the men of its staff are
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