The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-13

!. ASAaSs OcpG. S.--lnIOrma-
tion has just reached me that about
S,oOo lives have been lost at Galveston
with enormous destruction of prop.
erty.
No information from other points
(Signed) Joseph D. Sayers,
Governor"
Dallas. Tex, Sept. 9.-The following
telegram has Just been received from
Houston by the News:
Relief train just returned, it could
not get closer than six miles of Vir-
ginia Point, where the prairie was
covered with lumber, debris, pianos,
trunks and dead bodies.
Two hundred corpses were counted
from the train.
"A large steamer is stranded this
side of Virginia Point, as though
thrown up by. tidal wave.
Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
Two men were picked up who
fioated across to the mainland, who
say they estimate the loss of life up
to the time they left at 2,0O0." :
The above message is addressed to
superintendent FELTON,, Dallas, and
comes from Mr.. Vaughan, manager
OF the Western Union Office at Hous-
ton.
Houston, Tex, Sept. e-The West
Indian storm which reached the gulf
coast yesterday morning wrought
awful havoc in Texas.
Reports are conflicting, but it is
known that an appalling disaster has
befallen the city of Galveston, where,
it is reported, thousand or more
lives have been blotted out and a
tremendous property damage incur.
red.
Meager reports from Sabine Pass
and Port Arthur also indicate heavy
loss of life, but these reports cannot
be confirmed at this hour.
The first news to reach this city
from the stricken city of Galveston
was received tonight. James C. Tim
minis, who resides in Houston. and
who is the general superintendent
OF the National Compress company.
arrived in the city at O'Clock to-
night from Galveston. He was one
OF the first to reach here with tidings
of the great disaster which has be-
fallen the city, and the magnitude of
that disaster remains to be told. After
remaining throughout the hurricane
on Saturday he departed from Calves
ton on schooner and came across
the bay to Morgan's Point. where
ne caught train for Houston.
The hurricane. Mr.. Timmins said.
was the worst ever known.
The estimate made by the citizens
OF Galveston was that 1000 houses.
most of them residences, have been
destroyed. and at least 1000 people
have been drowned, killed or are miss
ing.
Some business houses were also des-
troyed, but most of them stood.
though badly damaged.
The city, Mr.. Timmins AYERS. is a
complete wreck so far as he could see
from the water front and from the
fremont hotel. Water was blown over
she island by the hurricane. the wind
blowing at the rate of eighty miles
an hour straight from the gulf and
forcing the sea water before it in
blg waves. The gale was a steady
one, the heart of it striking the CITY
ABOUT o'clock yesterday evening, and
continued without intermission until
midnight last night, when it abated
someWhat, although it continued to
blow all night.
OF his own knowledge Mr.. Timmins
knew of only one house succumbing
with fatal results, though he heard
Of many residences being carried with
with inmates.
1t was reported that the orphan
asylum and both the hospitals were
destroyed, and if this proves true
she loss of life will be great, as these
Institutions We're generally crowded,
and as they were substantial buildings
she chances are that many had taken
refuge in them.
The water extended across the is
and. Mr.. Timmins said it was three
feet deep in the rotunda of the Ire
mont hotel and was six feet deep in
Market street.
Along the water front the damage
was very great.
The roof had been blown from all
the elevators and the sheds along the
wharves We're either wrecked or had
lost their sides and We're of no pro-
lection to the contents. Most of the
small sailing craft were wrecked and
were either piled up on the harves
or floating bottom side up in the bay
Houston. Tex. Sept. lott is one
great appalling story of disaster and
death at every town on the gulf coast.
From New Orleans to Ell Paso re-
ports are coming in of loss of life and
destruction of property. No one can
estimate the loss of life and property
until something like order can be
brought out of the chaos. At New Or
leans, where the storm did not APP
proach the magnitude displayed at
Galveston, the property loss is esti-
mated at 100000. Tt is rumored
that Sabine Pass was completely des,
troyed.
Big Lumber Deal Is On.
saltwater, Mimi, Sept 1.-THE big