The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-15

either wrecked or had lost their sides
and were of no protection to the con-
were wrecked and were either piled
up on the wharves or floating bottom
side up in the bay.
There is small steamship ashore
three miles north of Pelican island,
but Mr.. Timmins could not distin-
guish her name. She was flying q
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
island an unknown ship lies in help
less condition.
Two Men Rescued.
Mr.. Timmins, and the men with him
on the schooner, rescued two sailors
from the middle bay who had been
many hours in the water. These men
we're foreigners, and could gain no in
formation from them. A wreck of .
vessel which looked like large steam
tug was observed just before the party
landed. In the bay the carcasses of
but no human body was visible.
Sad Scenes.
The scenes during the storm, Mr..
Timmins said, could not be described.
Women and children were crowded
into the fremont hotel. where he was
seeking shelter, and all night these un-
! fortunates were bemoaning their
losses of kindred and fortune. They
were grouped about the stairways and
! in the galleries and rooms of the no.
tel. What was occurring in other parts
of the city he could only conjecture.
City Submerged.
The city of Galveston, he says, is now
entirely submerged and cut off from
communication. The boats are gone;
the railroads cannot be operated, and
the water is so high people cannot walk
out by way of the bridge across the
bay, even should that bridge be
standing. Provisions will be badly
needed as great majority of the peo-
pie lost all they had. The waterworks
power house was wrecked, and water
famine is threatened, as the cisterns
were all ruined by the overflow of salt
water. This Mr.. Timmins regards as
the most serious problem to be faced
now. The city is in darkness, the cleo
trio plant having been ruined.
There is no way of estimating the
property damage at present. So far
as he could see or hear, Mr.. Timmins
says the east end portion of the city,
which is the residence district, has
been practically wiped out of ex-
istence. On the west end. which faces
the gulf on another portion of the
island, much havoc was done. The
beach has been swepG clean, the bath
houses are destroyed. and many of the
residences are total wrecks.
Death and DesoIntion.
Houston, Tex. Sept. 10.-A train
came in on the Columbia tap railroad
Sunday afternoon, and its crew tell a
story of death and desolation through
the country which they passed. Con
ductor Ferguson states that houses
barns. crops and orchards have been
destroyed, and great damage has been
done. At Oyster creek nine dead bod
les were found
When the train arrived at Angleton
the Jail, all the churches. and a num-
Der of houses had been blown down
Three fatalities are known to have oc
Cured at Angleton, but the trair
stopped there only few minutes, anc
the number of killed or their name:
could not be learned. At Angleton tn,
conductor decided to return to Hous
ton. and the extent of the damage be
yond Angleton was not learned. Or
the return trip the crew saw the debris
of dozens of demolished houses.
At Arcola family named Woffort
had gathered in the second story o
their house. The upper portion of tn,
house was blown away and Mr.. Wof
ford's mother was instantly killed.
The hurricane was particularly Sc
we're at Brookshire, % miles west o
Houston, on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad. Four dead Bodies hav'
been taken from the debris of wrecked
houses and it is believed that other
have been killed.
Later reports received from Alvin
state that many persons were killet
there. Eleven bodies have been re
covered.
At Seabrook Mrs Jane Woodstock
was killed by falling house; Mrs
Nicholson and Louis Broquet wer,
crowned.
At Brazora six people were killec
by falling houses or were drowned
including George Duff, son Of Hon.
F. Duff. Judge Duff was himself Sc
verely injured. Reports state tina
only the courthouse and two othe
buildings are standing there.
A report from Chenango says tina
eight people were killed.
Among the passengers who arrived
here on the relief train from Galveston
is Ben w. Dew, an attache of the South
ern Pacific. Dew had been at Virgini;
Point for some hours, and said that h
1 saw 100 to $50 dead bodies floating on
a on the beach at that place.
:. Conductor Powers reported that 2
4 corpses had been recovered by the life
: saving crew, many of them women
! that the crew had reported that man.
? bodies were floating, and they wer
:. using every endeavor to get them al
: out of the water.
: A. England and his wife, of Texa