The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-09-15

The first house to collapse was q
new three-Rtory brick known as the
GDulitz building. Next Reuters IA
loon, q two-story brick, fell with q
crash, killing three Of the most prom
$inent men in Galveston, Stanley T..
Spencer, agent of the German Lloyd
Steamship company; Richard Lord
and. Charles Kilmer, cotton men. The
next place visited was the city hall
Here We're congregated fully 100 peo-
PIE, who were .lnorcsor less injured.
Some OF tn. Knowi.S Dead.
As many as sixty bodies OF storm
victims were to be seen insthe space
of block. A majority of the
bodies that have not been recovered
are under the ruins of houses and it
will take several days hard work to
get them out. Following are among
the known dead:
STANLEY SPENCER.
CHAS. KILMER.
MRS. GEO. BURNETT and child.
MRS. GEARY BURNETT ard child.
MRS. JUDSON PALMER, wife OF
the secretary of the Y. NJ. C. "A. SIS.
MRS. PLEVINE and six children.
MRS. JOHNSBOONE and three chill
dren.
CAPTAIN Rlx and family.
DIR. SAWYER.
MRS. NJ. j.. O'KEEFE.&
JOE NJ. MCNAMARA.
MRS. CLAUD FORTEAM.
MRS. SARAH SUMMER.
MRS. GEO. REED. 55
MIR. AND MRS. JOHN BECKER
md four children
A report from st. Mary's infirmary
shows that only eight persons escaped
from the hospital. The number Of pa
tents and nurses could not be ascer.
tanned. The Rosenbourg school house,
which was chosen as a place of refuge
by the people, collapsed. Some Of
those who had taken refuge here es-
capped. How many can't be told.
AS Sunday morning dawned the
streets were lined with people, half
clad, and crippled in every ~conceiy-
able manner, hobbling as best they
could to where they could receive the
attention Of physicians for themselves
and summon aid for friends and rela-
tives who could not move. The
houses of all prominent citizens which
escaped destruction were turned into
hospitals. There is scarcely a house
left standing that does not contain
one or Q dead and many injured.
Barracks Destroyed.
The loss of life in the barracks,
which was destroyed, must have been
fully 100.
At 11:ao Sunday morning the water
had receded from the higher portions
of the city, but the streets near the
sen front still contained from two
and q half to three feet of water. The
Galveston News office is flooded and
it is impossible for the p to be is
sued.
At the union depot Baggage Mas
ter Harding picked up the ~lifeless
form of a baby girl within a few feet
of the station. Its parents are sup
posed to be lost. The station build
ing had been selected MS n place OF
refuge by a large number of people.
All the windows in the buildings and
q portion of the wall We're blown in.
The occupants expected every min
ute t ODE their last, but escape was
i!a impossible for o inc building the
water was fully twelve feet deep.
On the water front the destruction
OF property is enormous, although
loss of life was not nearly so large.
The wharves of the Mallory company
and the Galveston Wharf company
are gone and the great wharves of the
Southern Pacific company are dam
aged to the extent of 100000. The
Norwegian steamship Giln, the Brit
ish steamship Taunton and the Mex,
lean and another big ship are strand
ed In the bay. of small shipping only
q few boats are left. The Pensacola
was in port when the storm began.
but Master Simmons put to sea III the
teeth of the brewing storm and 1t is
feared his boat and crew of thirty-six
were lost.
In the business portion of the city
damage cannot be even approximately
estimated.