Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-10
Thomas Doyle, Conductor NJ. H. DON
nelly.
Several other passengers We're also
slightly injured.
A STORY OF THE STORM.

HUUSION, Tex, Sept. y, IU p. H.
The West Indian storm. which reached
the gulf coast yesterday morning
wrought awful havoc in Texas.
Reports are conflicting, but it is
known that an appalling disaster has
befallen the city OF Galveston, where
it is reported. thousand or more lives
have been blotted out and a tremen-
dous property damage incurred. Mea-
gre reports from Sabine Pass and PORT
Arthur also indicate a heavy loss oil
life, but these reports cannot be con-
filmed at this hour.
The first news to reach this city
from the stricken city of Galveston
was received tonight. James c. Tim
Minis, who resides in Houston, and who
is the general superintendent of the
National Compress Company, arrived
in the city at eight o'clock tonight
from Galveston. He was one of the
first to reach here with tfdings of the
great disaster which has befallen that
city, and the
Magnitude of Tint Disaster
remains to be told, because of his en-
deavors to reach home.
After remaining through the hurri-
cane on Saturday he departed from
Galveston on a schooner, and came
across the bay to Morgan's Point
where 4Ie caught a train for Houston
The hurricane, Mr.. Timmins said. was
the worst ever known.
The estimates made by citizens OF
Galveston was that four thousand
houses, most Of them residences, have
been destroyed, and that at least 1,00s
people have been drowned, killed Oh
are missing Some business houses
were also destroyed, but most OF them
stood, though badly damaged.
The city, Mr.. Timmins AYERS, is
complete wreck, so far as he could see
from the water front, and from the
fremont hotel
Water was blown over the island by
the hurricane, the wind blowing at the
rate of eighty miles an hodr straight
from the gulf, ana forcing the sea wa
ter before it in big waves. The gale
was a steady one, the heart OF 1t
Striking the City
about five o'clock yesterday evening,
and continuing without intermission
until midnight last night, when II
abated somewhat, although it .contln-
ued TO blow all night.
OF his own knowledge, Mr.. Timmins
knew of only one house succumbing
with fatal results, although he heard
-. many residences being carried away
with inmates. The house that he saw
destroyed was Ritter's saloon and res
taurant. at 2109 Strand street, prirl-
cipal business street of the city. This
three-story building was blown down,
and nine men, prominent citizens,
were killed.
Among the dead are:
CHARLES KELNDR, ST., a cotton
buyer for an English firm.
STANLEY SPENCER, general man
ager of the Elder-Dempster S. S. line.
RICHARD LORD, manager for Nc
Faddens Cotton Company, whose body
is still in the ruins.
Secretary Bailey, of the Wharf COM
pany, and several walters and custom
ers, saved themselves by jumping from
the upper story just before the crash
came.
1t was reported that the orphan asy-
lum and both the hospitals were de-
stroyed, and if this report proves true,
The Loss of Life
will be great, as these institutions were
generally crowded, and as they were
substantial buildings, the chances are
that many had taken refuge in them.
The water extended across the island,
and Mr.. Timmins said it was three feet
deep in the rotunda Of the fremont ho-
tel and six feet deep in Market street.
Along the water front the damage
was very great The roofs had been
blown from all the elevators, and the
sheds along the wharves were either
wrecked or had lost their sides and
were of no protection to the contents.
Most of the small sailing craft were
wrecked, and were either piled up on
the wharves or floating bottom up in
the bay. There is small steamship
ashore three miles north Of Pelican
island, but Mr., Timmins could not dis
tinguish her name. She was flying a
British flag. Another big vessel has
been driven ashore at Virginia Point
and still another is aground at Texas
City At the south point of Houston
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