The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-09-11
LOSS OF LIFE IN GALVESTON CITY
IS AT LEAST TWO THOUSAND.


two large brick buildings. one occupied by
Knapp Bros. and the other by the Cotton
Exchange saloon, collapsed. IN the Cotton
Exchange saloon were about fifteen per-
Sons. Most of them escaped. Up to the time
left Galveston three dead had been taken
from the ruins. They were:
Stanley C. Spencer. manager Of the Elder
Dempster Steamship Company.
Richard Lord. traffic manager Tor George
H. McCadden & Bro
Charles Kilmer OF the firm OF hammers
& Flint.
How many more corpses are there will
not be known until after the search is fin-
ished.
The cotton mills. the haggins factory, tire
gssworks. the electric light works and near
ly all the Industrial establishments of the
city are either wrecked or crippled.
The food left slime about one inch deep
over the whole city. and unless fast prog
ress is made in burying ccrpses and car
casses Of animals there Is danger of pesti-
lence.
Some Of the stories of escapes are Mi
raculous. William Nisbitt. a cotton man,
was buried IN the ruins Of the Cotton Ex-
change saloon. and when dug out in the
morning had no further injury than a few
bruised fingers.
Doctor S. o. Young. secretary OF the Cot
ton Exchange, was knocked senseless when
his house collapsed. but was revived by the
waters and was carried ten blocks BIZ the
hurricane.
ODD RESCUES FROM
THE FORCE OF THE FLOOD.
A woman who had just given birth 70 a
child was carried from her home to a house
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.
Many stories were current Of house. fall
ing and inmates escaping.
Clarence n. Ousley. editor OF the Evening
Tribune, had mis- family and the families Of
two neighbors In his house when the lower
half crumbled and the upper part slipped
down into the water. Not one In the house
was hurt.
or the Lavine family six out Of seven are
reported dead
OF the Burnett family only one is known
to have been saved
The family OF Stanley 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 4 hospital.
OF the new Southern Pacific works little
remains but the piling. Half a million feet
of lumber was carried away. and Engineer
Boshke says, "As far as the company is
concerned It might as well start over
again"
Boats Thrown Four Miles Inland.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from their
moorings ana stranded In the bay.
The Kendall Castle was carried over the
fats from the Thirty-third street wharf to
Texas City, and lies in the wreckage of
the Inman Pier. The Norwegian steamer
Gyller is stranded between Texas City and
Virginia Point.
An OCEAN liner was sailed around through
the west bay. crashed through the bay
bridges and Is now lying In a foot OF water
near the wrecksRe Of the railroad bridges.
The steamship Taunton WAS carried across
Pelican Point and Is stranded about ten
miles UP the east bay.
Tho Mallory steamer Alamo was torn
from her wharf and dashed upon Pelican
Flats and the bow OF the British steamer
Red Cross. which lad previously been
hurled through the stern Of the Alamo, is
stove in.
Down the channel TO the tetties two other
ocean steamships lie aground. Some
schooners. barges and smaller craft are
strewn bottom side up along the slips of
the piers. The tug Louise of the Houston
Direct Navigation Company is also a
wreck.
1t will take a week to tabulate the dead
and the missing and to get anything near
an approximate ;dea of the monetary loss
1t Is safe to assume that one-half of the
property Of the city Is wiped out and that
one-half of the residents have TO face ab-
solute poverty.
At Texas City three Of the -esfcents were
drowned. One man stepped into a well by
mischance. and his corpse was found
there. Two other men ventured along the
bay front during the height OF the storm
and were killed.
There are but few buildings at Texa.
City that do not tell the story of the storm.
Tho hotel Is a complete ruin Nothing re-
mains Of the piers except the piline at
Texas City. The wreckage from Galveston
!itters the shores for miles and is a hundred
yards or more wide. For four miles inland
from the shores it is a common sight to see
small craft, such as a steam launch and
schooners and oyster sioeps.
The hfeboat Of the Bfesaving station was
carried half mile inland, while a vessel
that was anchored in Moses Bayou lies high
arid dry five miles up from Mamarque
The Galveston News asks to have it an
nounced that all the men on its staff are
safe.
Added to the other elements Of suffering
at Galveston incident to the storm are
those OF hunger and thirst. With hundreds
Of people homeless and suffering fror,
wounds there. these new features OF dis