Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-09-11
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Inc body OF Miss Sarah Summers was
found near her home on the corner of
fremont and Avenue F, her lips smil-
ing but her features set in death, her
hands grasping her diamonds tightly.
The remains of her sister, Mrs. Claude
Fortran, have not been recovered.
Only Eight Escaped.
The report from st. Marks infirmary
shows that only eight persons escaped
from that hospital The number of pa
tients and nurses could not be ascer-
tanned, but ordinarily the numer of In
mates was seldom under 100.
Rosenberg schoolhouse, which was
chosen as a place of refuge by the peo-
pie of that locality, collapsed. Some of
those who had taken refuge there es-
caped-how many cannot be told. Of
| those who did not escape nothing NOR
tai remains except the inanimate flesh.
AS Sunday morning dawned the
streets were lined with people half clad,
crippled in every conceivable manner,
| hobbling as best they could to where
they could receive the attention of ply
sicians for themselves and summon aid
for friends and relatives who could not
move, Police Officer John Bowie, who
recently was awarded q prize as the
most popular officer in the city, was
found In most pitiable condition, the
toes on both his feet were broken, two
ribs caved In and his head badly bruised,
but his own condition. he said, was
nothing.
Lost Their All.
''My house with wife and children
are in the gulf have not thing on
earth for which to live"
Notable among the sufferers was Pat
/ n hon
| ular resort on the beach and who is
known to every visitor to Galveston. AS
the old man came trudging along he
was bemoaning the loss of his wife and
everything he had on earth. Where his
resort stood ON the beach facing the gulf
there is not vestige of building or pill
| ing to be seen. The great bathing pa
vilion known as The Pagada, the big
pleasure resort known as The Olympia
and Murdoch's lighthouses are all swept
away into the gulf There were few
| bodies on the beach. They had been
swept into the waters or driven into the
rubbish by the waves. Only half a dozen
of them were in sight.
One incident was that of a 3-year-old
boy who sat holding his broken head in
his two hands, making not a nlurmur of
complaint. He was taken back into
/
partnership after his awful experiences.
He will probably recover.
| The houses of all prominent citizens
which have escaped destruction have
been turned into hospitals, as have the
leading hotels.
Every House a Tomb.
There is scarcely one of the houses
left standing which do not contain one
or more Of the dead as well as many in
jured.
The rain began to pour down in tor
| rents and the party went back down
fremont street toward the city, the
misery of the poor people all mangled
and hurt, pressing to the city for medi-
cal attention, was greatly augmented by
this rain. Stopping at a small grocery
store to avoid the rain the party found
| it packed with injured. The provisions
| in the store had been ruined and there
was nothing for the numerous custom
ers who came hungry and tired. The
| place was hospital, no longer a store.
/ Further down the street restaurant,
which had been submerged by water;
was serving out soggy crackers and
cheese to the hungry crowd. That was
all that was left. They were soaked full
Of water, but the people who were fort
innate enough to get these sandwiches
wore hungry and made no complaint.
On returning to the fremont hotel,
| which is the news center Of the city,
they found the death list to be swelling
rapidly, the accounts coming from every
| portion of the city.
| It is hard to determine what section
of the city suffered the greatest damage
and loss of life. Information from both
the extreme eastern and extreme west
ern portions of the city were difficult to
obtain. In fact it was nearly imposSt-
bic, but the reports which were received
indicated that those two sections had
suffered the same fate that the rest of
the city had, and to a possibly greater
degree. Fifteen men constituting all
that remained Of a company of regular
soldiers stationed at the beach barracks
were marched down Market street.
One Hundred Soldiers Perish.
The loss of life among the soldiers in
the barracks, which were destroyed,
must have been fully 100, and perhaps
later reports will swell the list.
At 80 o'clock Sunday morning the
i, water had receded from the higher por-
tions of the city, but the streets near the
bay front contained from az to 3 feet
Of water.
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chanic street, was flooded. The back
end Of the building caved in and the en-
CINE and boilers were filed with water,
making it impossible for paper to be
| issued.
At the depot scenes similar to those
were met with Baggagemaster and
depot officials were engaged in resou1ng
the injured about the building. The
station building had been selected as a
| place Of refuge by large number Of
| people. All the windows in the build
ing and a portion of thewan at the top
was blown in and the occupants ex-
pected every minute to be their last.
! But escape was impossible, for about the
building the water must have been fully
10 feet deep. A couple of small shanties
were floating about, but there was no
means Of making a raft or getting a
boat.
Scenes on the Water Front.
On the water front the destruction of
property was almost as great as on the
beach, though the loss of life was not
nearly so large. The wharves of the
Mallory company were completely de-
stroyed. The big steamship Alamo is
lying among the ruins of the pier. The
wharves of the Galveston Wharf COM
pany are gone and the great wharves of
the Southern Pacific company, which
have been in course of construction for
the past several months, are damaged to
the amount Of 100000.
| The Norwegian steamship ella, which