The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-11
DESOLAHONO Of GALVESTON
Continued From First page.

across the bay were picked Up inefs avs
Five coi'pses we're ALSO picked up. III &
were three fatalities IN Texas CITY. In
addition to the living and the dead which
the storm cast up at Texas City, baskets
and collins from one Of the cemeteries at
water there yesterday.
BRICK BUILDINGS WRECKED.
In the business portion of the city two
large brick buildings, one occupied by
Knapp Bros. andE thek other by the Cot
ton Exchange saloons COLLAPSED. In the
Cotton Exchange saloon there were
about fifteen persons. Most of them es
eapeds -,Ss;sfsfsse- 44s.
'FUp to the time.,I left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins.
! They We're: s .:ss.ass:~s
STANLEY G. SPENCER, manager Of
the E1der-Dempster Steamship Company.
RICHARD LORD, traffic manager for
George H. McCadden & Bro.
CHARLES KELDER, of the firm of
hammers & Flint.
How many more corpses are there
will not be known until the search is
finished. The cotton mills, the bagging
factory, the gas works, the electric light
works, and nearly all the industrial es-
adjustments of the city, are either
wrecked or crippled. The food left a
slime about one inch deep over the whole
! city, and unless fast progress Is made in
/ burying corpses and carcasses' of animals
/ there is danger of pestilence.
Some Of the stories of the escapes are
miraculous. William Nisbftt, a cotton
man, was buried In the ruins of the Cot
ton Exchange saloon, and when dug out
! in the morning had no further injury
than a few bruised fingers. DR.. S. O..
| Young, secretary of the cotton exchange
was knocked senseless when his house
collapsed, but was revived by the water
and was carried ten blocks by the hurri-
cane. A woman who had just given
birth to a child was carried from her
! home to a house block distant the men
who were carrying her having to hold her
/ high above their heads, as the water was
five feet deep when she was moved
Many stories were current of houses
/ falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
N. Qusley, editor of the evening Tribune,
had his family and the families of the
two neighbors in his house when the low
er half crumbled and the upper part slip
! ped down into the water. Not one In
the house was hurt. OF the Levine fam
lily, six out of seven are reported dead.
I OF the Burnett family only one g known
to have been saved.
1.-THE Mistrot house. in the west end,
was turned into q hospital. All of the
I
available. OF the new Southern Pacific
works, little remains but the piling Half
! million feet OF lumber was carried
away, and Engineer BoschlSe says, as far
as the company is concerned, it might
as well start over again.
STRANDED STEAMSHIPS.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from
! their moorings and stranded in the bay
| The Kendall Castle. was carried over the
flats from the Thtrty-third street wharf
/ to Texas City, and lies in the wreckage
of the Inman pier.a The Norwegian
steamer Gyller is stranded between Tex
as City and Virginia Point. An ocean
liner was swirled around through the
west bay, crashed through the bay
bridge, and is now lying in few feet
of water near the Wreckage of the rail-
road bridges. The steamship Taunton was
carried across Pelican Point, and is
stranded about ten miles up east bay.
The Mallory steamer Alamo was torn
from her wharf and dashed upon Pelican
flats, and Inc bow of the British stear1-
: er Red Cross, which had previously been
| hurled through the. stern of the Alamo,
is stove in, and the bow Of the Red Cross
J is crushed.
Down the channel to the jetties two
| other ocean steamships lie grounded.
Some schooners; ,harges and smaller craft
are streWn bottom side UP along the slips
| of the piers. The tug Louise of the
Houston Direct Navigation company is
also a wreck --g'ss-.-- sastv--
'It will take. a week to tabulate the
dead and missing and to get anything
ike an approximate idea Of the monetary
loss. 1t is safe to assume that one-half
of the property of the city is wiped out
and that one-half of the residents have
to face absolute poverty.
were drowned. One man stepped Into
well by n1ischance and his corpse was
found there Two other men ventured
along the bay front during the height Of
the storm and were killed. There are but
few buildings at Texas City that do not
tell the story of the storm. The hotel is
a complete ruin. The office of the Texas
City company has some of the walls
standing with all the upper walls stripped
eff Nothing remains of the piers except
the piling. The wreckage from Galveston
filters the shor6 for niles and is a hun
dred yards or more wide. = sz'-ns--
For ten miles inland from the shore
it is q common sight ITO see small craft,
such as steam launches, schooners and
oyster sloops. The life boat of the life
saving station was carried half mile
inland while a vessel that was anchored
in Moses bayou Hes high and dry five
miles up from Gamardue. E-Ea
1.-THE Galveston News asked to have 1t
announced that all the men Of Its staff
are safe
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