The Worthington advance., 1900-09-28

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/ Through the storm District. L
ED1roR ADVANCE: ss.s. .sF.ss ],
Thinking that few notes in regard
to my trip south and especially a. dis Il
cription Of the sightsI have Witnes sed E
in the vicinity Of Galveston might in.
terest your readers.
I herewith send you some hastily
written lines: Leaving Wo,thington
on the 4:90 p. M, train ever the
Omaha Tuesday; Sept. l8, we arrived
at Kansas City az o'clock the next
morning. Il was. raining when we
left Worthington and it cont ;nued all
the way to Kansas City, but cleared
off beautifully, about 8 a m. : At 9:20
a. M, we pulled out of Kansas City
over the Sante Fe, on No. S, drawn by
two engines with Is caches and
every one loaded to its full capacity.
Talk about travel. We think there
is good deal of travel over our
Worthington roads but there is only
one of ten passenger trains that goes
west from Kansas City over the
Santie Fe ldes every day j., the week.
Then there are a number of other
railroads running west and sonth, but
travellers say that the Sante F. with
it's smooth rock ballasted roadbed; it's
splendid equipped trains, with free
reclining chairs, and it's excellent SER
vice, easily draws the north travel.
!. We swiftly glide over the prairies
of Kansas, passing the historic old
town of Lawrence where the first con-
aict in the great civil war began,
Through Tokeka, the capital of Kansas
where we take dinner, on past EN-
porie, Florence, Peabody, Newton, a
} great railroad junction; the greatly
doomed, beautiful city of Wichita
with its $4,000 populations; past Win:
field and Arkansas City, where We
cross the Arkansas river and entel
Oklahoma. The town I have named
are merely cities of from eight to TO-,
! 600 population. Times are are very
lgood in Southern Kansas and eviden
ces of prosperity are visible on every
hand. We now pass Newkirk, the
capital of Kay county, Okla, on pas1
t Ponca City, Perry, Guthrie, the cap
tai of the territory, Edmond, the sea-
> of the territorial normal school arriv
D ing at Oklahoma City about mid
. night Wednesday. There has beer
a great many improvements made anc
new enterprises started since 1 lef
here two months ago.
u The new five story brick hotel Lee
is now open to the public; the Carne
G lgie public library building is abou
finished and it is a beauty, the Battl'
Creek Midi -Sanitarium is under way
A large packing house is being built
. Several business blocks and residence
too numerous to mention. Some east
y ern capitalists have bought some lant
y across the river and have plated il
>, A quarter of land ad joining it tha
4 was offered to our Minnesota folk
two months agn for $4,000 canno
. be bought for $4,000.
Everybody seems happy and pros
perous; the farmers are busy SOWING
O wheat and a great deal of it is up.
u Leaving Oklah ma City at LIS r
i M, Thursday over the Santa 'Fe,
! arrived at Galveston about noon Fri
p day on the first passenge train run
ming into since the storm, and let M
> say right here that no newspaper &C
> count. No description of mine cal
give you correct idea of the ruin ant
desolation on every hand. It must b
seen to be realized,a The first indi
cations of the storm were seen a
Somerville, 125 miles from the coast
Bp the time we had got within 81
T miles of Galveston wreck and ruiz
> were on every hand. At least one
half of the trees in the forest were up
rooted and torn to pieces, houses ant
: barns wrecked, hardly leaf left on
tree or plant. At A]orn, lately be&u
D tiful town of 1900 people and the cen
+ ter of a fine peach and gardening
, lregion, nearly every house that wa
u not a heap OF wreckage, was twis'et
all out of shape The proprietor o
the leading hotel told me that he wa
NOW keeping hotel in a box car. Thi'
was bad enough but when we got tt
, Hitchcock, II miles from the city
{ from there on, where the waves of the
q sea rolled from four to six feet high
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