The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-09-13
DEATH RIDES
UPON THE STORM.
Texas Visited by an Appalling
Calamity.
Galveston Swept Into the Gulf--Ten
Thousand Lives Lost Millions of
Property Destroyed

:, | HFeS nave been IO>t at galveston
: with enormous destruction of pro.
: property.
/ No information from other points.
g (Signedl JOS. u. SAVERS. Gov"
/ Galveston, Tex. by steamship to
: Houston, Sept. 1O.-A death list of
t 1000 to 1900 persons, an appall-
ing list OF injured, a city almost in
r ruins, the wharf front entirely gone,
: every ocean steamer stranded. many
costly and beautiful public buildings
gone the whole island covered with
water, property loss that may reach
$4,000, 200, that is the condition
in which Galveston, the pride OF
Texas, finds herself to-day.
All this death and ruin was caused
by a hurricane which struck the coast
Saturday morning and for n hours
ragged with all the fury of these trop-
zeal storms. Water rose Il inches
each hour
The storm commenced raging be-
tween 8 and 10 o'clock Saturday
morning and by noon the waters
from the gulf had inundated the
island as far inland as Twelft h street.
From there the waters gradually
encrOached father inland. rising
about fifteen inches an hour. At 6 |
p. IN. there were 36 inches of water
i'll the lobbies of the fremont hotel, |
the highest point in the city. Across
the street, where the ground is lower
a horse was drowned. At 9 O'Clock
the water on Market street was level
with the seats of the street cars. AZ
ter that it gradually receded, but the
wind was cyclOnic in its force. 1t
reached velocity of 81 miles an
hour, and then the Instruments in
the government observatory were
wrecked
During all this time the people of ,
Galveston were like rats in traps.
The highest portion OF the city was ;
four to five feet under water, while in
the great majority ofcases the streets
were submerged to depth of ten :
feet. To leave house was to drown.
TO remain was TO court death in the C
wreckage !
'Such a night of agony has seldom
been equaled. Without apparent +
'eason the water suddenly began to @
'ubside at lao a. III. Within twenty II
minutes they had gone down two :
eet, and before daylight the streets =
we're practically freed of the flood
waters. In the meantime the wind
lad veered to the southeast.
"A very few, ifany, buildings escap-
d injury. There is hardly habita-
lie, dry house in the city. When the
eople who escaped death went out
t daylight to view the work of the
empest and the floods they saw the
lost horrible sights imaginable. In
he three blocks from avenue \ to
venue z, in fremont street. saw r
ght bodies Four corpses were in A
he yard.
The whole of the business front l.
'r three blocks in from the gulf were
tripped OF every vestige of habita- [
on, the dwellings, the great bath ?
IL establishments, the Olympia and p
very structure having been either l.
irrled out TO sea or its ruins piled |
a pyramid far into the town. ac- I
'rdlng no the vagaries of the ?.
'mpest.
1t will take a week to tabuIate y
lie dead and the missing and to get /
lything near an approximate idea 1
the monetary loss. 1t is safe to Z.
'sume that one-haf of the property
the city lie wiped out and that one )
LII OF the residents have to face alb 1
lutte prOyertv ?.
Texas. Sept. 9.-From Red !
yer on the north 20 the Gulf on 4
2 south, and throughout the CEN =
al part OF the state. Texas has
en- storm-swept during the last ~
lrtE hours by a hurricane. which >
: Iald waste 10 property interests.
use large loss OF life and effectuaUy
ocked all Geographic and telephone -
south OF here, while | 4
2 operation OF trains has been ser p
lsly handicapped. kE
starting with the hurricane which
'lted Galveston and the Gulf coast ~
turday noon the storm made ~
pid inroads into the center of the n
ate, stopping long enough last p j
;;ht at Houston 70 damage over y
If of the buildings of that city. II
Advancing inland the storm swept fl
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