Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-14
THOUSANDS DIE IN STORM.
Hurricans Trail of Death in
7 Texas.
ENTIRE TOWNS WIPED OUT.
Estimated Loss of Life at Galveston 10
S,ooo-Four Thousand building De-
strOyed in That City-ProPerty Loss
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stroyed in That City-ProPerty Loss
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! Galveston is the center OF a region
Of destruction caused by one Of the
worst hurricanes in the history OF the
United States. Raging from Saturday
noon till Sunday morning. the storm
wiped out of existence whole towns,
both on the coast and inland. flooded
the coast cities win great tidal waves,
and caused a loss of life which Gov
Savers estimates 1900.
Several feet of water covered the
whole island on which the city stands
and large part Of the buildings are
wrecks.
To the northwest of Galveston in the
direction of Houston every village and
town is a wreck. The crew of one re-
lief train that got to a point about ten
miles from Galveston counted 200
corpses from the car windows Hous-
ton. fifty miles inland. itself suffered
severely, many buildings being de-
strOyed, but only one person lost his
life there. The course of the storm ex-
tended northward through central
Texas. causing great destruction in
many towns.
Storm Performs strange Feats.
The storm not only wrecked towns,
but it performed strange feats Among
other things it lifted a large steam
boat out Of the water and stranded it
on the shore north Of Virginia Point
and sent two other vessels onto high
land at other points 1t also blew
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe passenger
train from the tracks north OF Alvin.
Reports from various stricken towns
show the following:
Alta Loma-Not building standing
Alvin 1900 inhabitants. twenty miles
northwest of Galveston-Practically
demolished. Seven lives lost. Bastrop
Loss of life great. Brenham-
Wrecked Wiped out;
four bodies recovered: four houses re-
main standing Chappell Hill
Wrecked Chenango JunctiOn-Town
badly wrecked; bodies of nine negroes
taken from one house. Corpus Christi
Reports of a great disaster Cypress
Twenty per cent OF buildings
wrecked. mpstead-Suffered great
loss. HitchcOck-Suffered great losses.
Hockley-Twenty per cent of buildings
wrecked. MOrgan's POint-Three
drowned. Patton-Under water Pearl
Lost half its buildings. Pearland-
Not a single house standing Port
Eads-Six lives lost. Rockport-TOwn
much damaged ROllever-Under
water Sabine Flooded by water
and several lives lost SeaDrooke-
Two bodies recovered: seventeen per
sons missing: only two houses stand
ing. BADLY wrecked. Tay-
lo.'-Town partially destroyed. TEN
ple-Great damage Waller-Twenty
per cent cf buildings VI eckel. Winnie
Under water
At II o'clock Sunday night Governor
Savers was N receipt Of the infOrma-
ton that the relief train ser out from
Houston Sunday afternoon reached a
point within a few miles Of Virginia
Point, just off the coast from Calves
ton Island. and there the situation
was found TO be deplorable.
The prairie country was covered TO
the depth of several feet with back
water from the gulf. and in addition
to large quantities of hOushold furni-
ture 200 bodies were found floating
around the prairie.
Three Thousand Are Drowned.
Information from Virginia Point
was to the effect that the larger por-
ton of Galveston had been washed
away. and that 5000 persons We're
known to have drowned.
Upon receipt OF this information
Governor Sayers sent Adjutant Gen
eral Scurry by special train to the
scene in order that he and the Texas
Rrangers may take charge and pre-
vent pilfering and maintain a SEM
blance of order in the terror stricken
district.
When the story of the equinox OF
September. 1900 is fully written it is
likely to make all previous ones ap-
pear tame affairs by comparison. Only
fragmentary pieces of the real storm
news are yet know, but they fore
shadow an appalling outcome.
Not a house was left standing at
Pearland.
weston they say everything is de-
stroyed This is approximately true OF
all the gulf coast for one hundred
miles up and down the shore.
At Walter half the houses in the
town were demolished. The South
Texas Baptist College is badly dam
aged. and the schoOlhouse is wreck.
Not a house in the town of Chapel
Hill escaped damage and many We're
demolished. Business houses also Suf-
fered. and a fine gin is a complete
wreck.
At BRENNAN the courthouse waS
nearly wrecked, and the city hall com
pletely so.
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