The Worthington advance., 1900-09-14
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Inc scenes during the storm, Mr..
Timmins said, could not be described.
Women and children were crowded
into the fremont hotel, where he was
seeking shelter, and all night these un-
tortunates were bemoaning their
losses of kindred and fortune. Thev
were grouped about the stairways and
in the galleries and rooms of the ho-
tel. What was occurring in other parts
OF the city he could only conjecture. :!
City Submerged. 81
ihe city OF Galveston, he says, is now
entirely submerged and cut off from
com nmunication. The boats are gone:
the railroads cannot be operated, and
the water is so high people cannot walk,
out by way of the bridge across the
bay, even should that bridge be
standing. Provisions will be badly
needed as great majority of the peo-
pie lost all they had. The waterworks
power house was wrecked, and a water
famine is threatened, as the cisterns
were all ruined by the overflow of salt
water. This Mr.. Timmins regards as
the most serious problem to be faced
now. The city is in darkness, the elec-
trio plant having been ruined.
There is no way of estimating the
property damage at present. So far
as he could see or hear, Mr.. Timmins
says the east end portion of the CITY.
which is the. residence district, has
been practically wiped out of ex-
lstence. On the west end, which faces
the gulf on another portion of the
island, much havoc was done. The
beach has been swept clean, the bath
houses are destroyed, and many of the
residences are total wrecks.
Death and Desolation.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 1o.-A train
came in on the Columbia tap railroad
Sunday afternoon, and it's crew tell
story of death and desolation through
the country which they passed. Con-
sductor' Ferguson: states that houses.
barns, crops and orchards have been
destroyed, and great damage has been
done. At Oyster creek nine dead bod
les were found.
When the train arrived at Ang.eton.
the Jail, all the churches, and a num-
ber of houses had been blown down.
Three fatalities are known to have oc-
Cured at Angleton, but the train
stopped there only few minutes. and
the number of killed or their names
could not be learned. At Angleton the
conductor decided to return to Hous-
ton, and the extent of the damage be-
yond Angleton was not learned. On
the return trip the crew saw the debris
OF dozens of demolished houses.
At Arcola family named Wofford
had gathered in the second story of
their house. The upper portion of the
house was blown away and Mr.. Wof-
ford's mother was instantly killed.
The hurricane was particularly Sc
we're at Brookshire, 27 miles west of
Houston, on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad. Four dead bodies have
been taken from the debris of wrecked
houses and it is believed that others
have been killed.
Later reports received from Alvin
state that many persons were killed
there. Eleven bodies have been re-
covered.
At Seabrook Mrs. Jane Woodstock
was killed by falling house; Mrs..
Nicholson and Louis Broquet were
drowned.
At Brazoria six people were killed
by falling houses or were drowned,
including George Duff, son of Hon. J.
F. Duff. Judge Duff was himself Sc
verely injured. Reports state that
only the courthouse and two other
buildings are standing there.
A report from Chenango says that
eight people were killed.
Among the passengers who arrived
here on the relief train from Galveston
is Ben w. Dew, an attache of the South
ern Pacific. Dew had been at Virginia
Point for some hours, and said that he
saw 100 to $50 dead bodies floating out
on the beach at that place.
Conductor Powers reported that rs
corpses had been recovered by the life
saving crew, many of them women;
that the. crew had reported that many
bodies were floating, and they were
using every endeavor to get them all
out of the-water. 4.
A. England and his wife, of Texas
City, who were ON the relief train, re-
port that the whole of that town is
blown away and a number of lives
| were lost. There~rwere six women
known toAMr. England who were
drowned and he dissatisfied that many
Others lost stheir, lives. =:
A dispatch from st. Charles, La,
states that passengers from Port Ar
thur, Tex :, report that town four
feet under water.
I ! CropsS Ruined.
A Waco (Tex.) dispatch says: The
big cotton plantations in the Brazos
valley look as if armies had fought
battlesiin them, the. plants being laid
fiat on the ground. The wind blew
60to 20 miles an hour for IA hours be-
fore subsiding. The late peaches,
which were plentiful and had been
sold in advance, were swept clean from
the trees.-~e-sss@ess sss ~ -
I% Damage in Houston.
In Houston one person was Killed
Henry Black, a hack driver. The
property damage is great, conserv-
ative estimate placing it at $25o;ooo:
The Merchants & Planters: oil mill
was wrecked, entailing loss of $780,
600. The Dickson car wheel works suf-
fered to the extent of SIT, ,O00.: The big
Masonic temple, which is the property
of the grand lodge5of the state, was
partly wrecked. Nearly every church
in the city was damaged. The First
Baptist, Southern Methodist and Trim
ity Methodist, the latteranegro church,