The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-10
HOUSTON SUFFERED HEAVILY
Streets Are Uttered With Debris and
lmpassabIe-ToWn of Sabine Pass
Is Flooded and the Situa.
'tion is Alarming.

Houston, Tex, Setember 9.-The storm
that ragged along the coast of Texas last
night was the most disastrous that has ever
visited this section. The wires are down
and there Is no way of finding out just
what has happened, but enough Is known
to make 1t certain that there has been great
loss of life and destruction of property all
along the coast and for hundred miles
inland. Every town that Is reached reports
one more dead, and the property dam
age is so great that there Is no way of COM
putting it accurately. Galveston remains iso-
lated.
The Houston Post and the Associated
Press correspondent made efforts to get
special trains and tugs today with which
to reach the island city. The railroad COM
panies declined to risk their locomotives.
All sorts of rumors prevail, but with no
substantial basis. 1t is known that the rail-
road bridges across the bay at Galveston
are either wrecked or are likely to be de-
destroyed with the weight of a train on
them; the approaches to the wagon bridge
are gone, and 1t Is rendered useless. The
bridge of the Galveston, Houston and
Northern Railroad Is standing, but the
drawbridges over Clear Creek and at Edge
water are gone, and the road cannot get
trains through to utilize the bridges across
the bay.
The train went down the Columbia Tap
| road this morning as far as Chenango
Junction. The town was greatly damaged
| and the bodies Of nine negroes were taken
| from the ruins of house. The train
| could proceed no further, and came back
to Houston, leaving the fate of the people
at Angleton, Columbia. Brazoria, Velasco
and Quintana uncertain. The small town
of Brookshire, on the Missouri, Kansas 81
Texas, was almost wiped out by the storm.
The crew of a work train brought this in
formation. When the train left there the
bodies of four persons had been recovered,
and the search for others was proceeding.
Hampstead, across the county from Brook
shire, was also greatly damaged but so far
| as known no lives were lost.
Great disaster at sabine Pass
Yesterday morning the last news from
| Sabine Pass was received, and at that
| time the water was surrounding the old
| town at the pass and the wind was rising
and the waves coming high From the
] new town, which is some distance back,
the water had reached the depot and was
| running through tho streets. The people
were leaving for the high country known
| as the Back Ridge, and It Is believed that
all escaped. Two bodies have been brought
In from Seabrook, on Galveston bay, and
seventeen persons are missing there. Three
persons were drowned at Morgan's Point
and others are missing. With the excep-
ton of those Of Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs.
Jane Woodlock, the bodies of the dead
| have not yet been identified
, In Houston one person was killed-Henry
| Black, a hack driver.
The property damage is great, conserv-
| otive estimate placing II at 3250,000 The
| Merchants and Planters OIL mill was
| wrecked, entailing a loss Of $4,000 The
! Dickson Car Wheel Works suffered to the
| extent of $4,000. The big Masonic temple,
| which is the property OF the Grand Lodge
| of the State. was partly wrecked Nearly
| The First Baptist. Southern Methodist and
Continued on Sacond Pa9al