The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-11

or crippled. The flood left a slime
about one inch deep over the whole
city, and unless fast progress is made
in burying corpses and carcasses or
animals there is danger of pestilence.
Some of the stories of escapes are
miraculous. William Nisbett, a cotton
man, was buried in the ruins of the
Cotton Exchange saloon. and when dug
out in the morning had no further in
jury than few bruised fingers.
DIR. s. O. Young. secretary of the
Cotton Exchange. was knocked sense
less when his house collapsed, but was
revived by the water and was carried
ten blocks by the hurricane
"A woman who had just given birth
10 a child was carried from her home
to a house a block distant, the men
who were carrying her having to hold
her high above their heads, as the
water was five feet deep when she was
moved.
Houses Fall on Inmates.
Many stories were current of houses
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
n. Ousley, editor of the Evening Tri-
bune, had his family and the families
of two neighbors in his house when
the lower ralf crashed and the upper
part slipped down into the water. No
one in the housA was hurt
"Of the Lavlne family six out of
seven are reported dead.
"Of the Burnett family only one is
known to have been saved.
1.-The family of STANDBY G. Spencer,
who met death in the Cotton Exchange
saloon, is reported TO be dead.
THE Mistrot house, in the west
end was turned into a hospital.
.'All the large ships of the city were
I unavailable.
"Of the new Southern Pacific works
little remains but the piling. Half a
million feet of lumber was carried
I -. ~,
as far as the company is concerned
it might as well start over again.
Steamers Dashed About.
Eight ocean steamers were torn
/ from their moorings and stranded in
the bay. The Kendall Castle was car
/ ried over the flats from the Thirty
! third street wharf to Texas City, and
/ lies in the wreckage of the Inman
pier. The Norwegian steamer CylleI
! is STRANDED between Texas City and
/ Virginia Point An ocean liner was
/ swirled around through the West bay
/ crashed through the bay bridges and
/ is now lying in a foot of water near
| the wreckage of the railroad bridges
The steamship Taunton was carried
across Pelican Point. and is stranded
about ten miles up the East bay. The
/ Mallory steamer Alamo was torn from
her wharf and dashed upon Pelican
/ flats and upon the bow of the British
/ iously been hruled there.
1.-The stern of the Alamo is stove IL
| and the bow of the Red Cross is crush
! ed.
! Down the channel towards the Ket
ties two ocean ships lie aground Som
schooners, bargeS and smaller craft arr
| strewn bottOmside UP along the piers
: The tug Louise of the Houston Direc
I Navigation company is also a wreck
| 1t will take q week TO tabulate tn
dead and missing and to get anything
! near approximate idea of the loss i
is safe to assume that one-half of tn
| property of the city is wiped out. an'
| that one-haIf of the residents have Z
face absolute poverty.
Ruin in Texas City.
"At Texas City three of the resident
were drowned. One man stepped int
a well by a flischance and his corps
was found there. Two other men ven
tured along the bay front during tn
height of the storm and were killed
There are few buildings at Texas Cit,
that do rot tell OF the storm. Tn
hotel is a complete ruin. The Office o
the Texas City company has some o
the walls standing, with all the up
per walls stripped off. Nothing re
mains of the piers except the pilinG
The wreckage from Galveston litter
the shore for miles. and IS hundre'
yards or more wide.
For ten miles inland from the shor