The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-14
Nearly Fourteen Inches of Water
Falls Within Twenty Four
Hours.
PART OF THE CITY AFL0AT.
Lower Flonrs Flooded Street
Cars Stopped and business Par
alyzsd for the Timc-Dam-
age Along the Beach.
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Galveston. Tex, July I$.-Thriecu and
| sIxty-thrce hun,rcdths inches If rain has
fallen In Galveston in the last twenty-three
! hours The most of II fell in less than nf-
teen hou-H. Tn SUrplSs. all previous rec
urls Mater twelve ami iftcca inches deep
filled the streets fI-'m cu'1 bling to C'Ir!ing III
the business part Of the city. and in some
portions from hocSa To house. r,odins the
| lower floors and doing considerable damage
10 goods stored therein. wil" in many Of
the resident parts Of the city the water was
from foot to three ieot dep. l; came
down in s.ich torrents that the sewers and
drains were ira,isquate To carr; 1t off,
! Wooden inv, m"u;S on Strand fremont.
Mechanic ard many other streets bee Ime
lons' ted. fi"ateI on the surface of the wa
, ter and broke up when vehicles passed over
them. and finally beclu. 80 d'sint"sraied
| as 10 Ice dangerous.
Tie street ears made a brave attempt To
! run. but after car af:c- ear burned out Ia.
management abandoned the service at D.
! ~ on all lines After that hour hacks. car
riagea and vehicles Of every description
were In demand. AMI did a rushing business
Galveston was a Venice indeed. Instead
| of gonGoliers. bury negroes ferrted many a
vey.d him to his carriage or street car.
while tn. more democratic citizen. with his
| trousers rolled UP above his knees splash-d
| through the waters. either in his bare feet
or with bis shoes on.
The storm started Yesterday afternoon.
The Gulf was high and threatening. and
before dark. big. whitecapped waves were
breaking On the beach with a sullcn roar
hat To u =
were near the shore lire Under the I'M
petus OF a stiff sou,heas, breeze the waves
broke with such force that fences and out
houses were broken down and overturned
The southeastern part of the city Was
most exposed.
rer OF Eighth street and Avenue N. was
completely demolished and the debris is
strewn along the beach. When the house
! started Mrs. Jacobs, aged ~ years and Miss
Dclahanty, residing with her. were In Ii.
hastily packing Up few articles Thes
were rescued 10y Ed Greve. Mss Delahan-
" was badly cut In the back Of her head.
Mrs. Jacobs was slightly bruised and is
suffering from nervous prosiration.
y number of other horses along the
! beach front were more or less damaged.
Wheel lighthouses were overturned, but
casualties occurred.
Much apprehension was fel; for the safe
ty OF Mr.. and Mrs. Saxon. from the ill.,
terror. and Messrs. Briggs and Sweeny.
young men of this city. who had gone to a
fishing pavilion three miles out on the north
jet,y. Captain Bett'son made an unsuc
cessfuI effort TO relieve them last night be-
fore the rain began TO descend hut was un-
successful. After three mere attempts to-
day. they were finally rescued from their
perlous position and safely landed in the
city.
The damage inflicted by the storm to the
streets and property throughout the city is
difficult at this time 20 estimate. az IL Is
not over and rain Is st!ll falling. II will,
however. run into the thousands. Railway
communication with thu interior Is Intact
bat business here for the time being Is par
alyzed. Shipping is uninjured The wind
never at any time exceeded thirty-five miles
hour.