Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-13
near the Rosiberg school building,
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whittier he had gone to attend pa-
tient.
AS soon as daylight came and the
wind abated the work of rescue and
searching for the dead commenced.
In one room reporter counted seven
dead bodies. The fremont hotel was
made ii rendezvous for the living.
The first house to collapse was a
new three-story brick known as the
Dulitz building. Next Reuters sa-
loon, two-stofy brick, fell with a
crash, killing three of the most prom
inent men in Galveston, Stanley r..
Spencer, agent of the German Lloyd
Steamship company; Richard Lord
and Charles Kilmer, cotton men, The
next place visited was the city hall
Here were congregated fully 200 peo-
pie, who were more or less injured
Some of the Known bead.
As many as sixty bodies of storm
victims were to he seen in the space
of one block. n majority OF the
bodies that have not been recovered
nre 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.
CH.tS. KI1MER.
MRS. GEO. BURNETT and child.
MRS. GlI.Al2Y BURNETT and child.
MRS. JUDSON PALMER, wife OF
the secretary of the Y. NJ. c. \.
MRS. PLENINE and six children.
MRS. JOHN BOONE and three chill
dren.
CAPTAIN rim and family.
DIR. SAWYER.
MRS. NJ. j. O'KlIEFE.
JOE NJ. M'NAMAR.A.
MRS. CLAUD FORTEAM.
MRS. SARAH SUMMER.
MRS. GEO. REED.
MIR. AND MRS. JOHN BECKER
and four children
~ report from ST. Mary's iniirnaly
shows that only eight persons escaped
from the hospital The number of pa
tlents and nurses could not be ascer-
tanned. The Rosenbomrg 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 We're lined with people, half
clad. and crippled i'm every conceiv.
able manner. hobbling as best they
could to where they coull receive The
attention of physicians for themselves
and summon aid for friends and rela-
tlves who could not move The
houses of all prominent citizens which
escaped destruction We're turned into
hospitals There is scarcely house
left standing that does not contain
one or more dead and many injured
Barracks Destroyed.
The loss of life i'm the barracks
which was destroyed, must have been
fully 100
At 1890 Sunday morning the water
had receded from the higher portions
of the city, but the streets near tho
sea front still contained from two
and Il half to three feet of water. The
| Galveston News Office is flooded and
it is impossible for the paper to be is.
sued
At the union depot Baggage Mas.
ter Harding picked up the lifcless
form of baby girl within few fee,
of the station. Its parents are sup
posed to be lost. The station build
'"s nav ASVIl >SltStttl us II pace Ol
refuge by a large number of people
All the windows in the buildings ant
portion of the wall were blown in
The occupants expected every min
ute to be their last, but escape wa.
impossible, for about the building tho
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
Tbe wharvcs of the Mallory compan,
and the Galveston Wharf company
are gone and the great wharves of TIL,
Southern Pacific company are dam
aged to the extent of 100000 III,
Norwegian steamship Gila the Brit
ish steamship Taunton and the Mex
lean and another big ship are strand
ed in the bay. OF small shipping onl,
a few boats are left. The Pensacol;
was in port when the storm began
but Master Simmons put to sea i'm thu
teeth of the brewing storm and ii i.
feared his boat and crew of thrty-si,
Were lost.
In the business portion of tho cit,
damage cannot be even approximate,
estimated.