Evening journal., 1900-09-11


NJ, fell like a house OF cards How
many dead children and refugees are
IN the ruins could not be ascertained.
OF the sicR'in St. Mary's lnhrmary, to-
gether with the attendants, only eight
are understood to have been saved.
The Old Woman's Home, on Rosen-
berg avenue, collapsed, and the Rosen-
berg school house is a mass of wreck
age. The Ball high school is but an
empty wall, crushed and broken. Ev-
cry church In the city with possibly one
or two exceptions is in ruins.
At the fort nearly all the soldiers
are reported dead, they having been In
temporary quarters. which gave them
no protection against the tempest or
the food.
At military headquarters. depart
ment Of Texas, at San Antonio, the in
formation is that of 120 men stationed
at Fort San Jacinto, Galveston, only
Is escaped. Further information is
that the captain IN command Is among
the victims. Lieut.. Col. c. s. Roberts,
adjutant general, department of Tex
as, Is in Galveston on a tour of in
spectlon. II is not known IL he is
among the small number at the fort
who escaped.
No report has been received from the
Catholic Orphan asylum, down the ISL
and, but II seems impossible that It
could have withstood the hurricane.
If it fell all the inmates were no doubt
lost. for there was no aid within a mile.
The bay front from end to end is in
ruins. Nothing but piling and the
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The elevators lost all their upper
works., and their stocks are damaged
by water.
The life saving station at Fort Point
was carried away, the crew being
swept across the bay Ia miles to
Texas City. / saw Capt. Haines, and he
told me his wife and one child and one
of the crew were drowned
Enough WreciSnRe to Rebuild n city.
The shore at Texas City contains
enough wreckage to rebuild a city.
Eight persons whom were swept across
the bay during the storm were picked
up there alive. Five corpses We're also
picked up. There were three fatalities
In Texas City In addition to the liv-
ing and dead which the storm cast up
at Texas City caskets and collins from
one Of the cemeteries at Galveston
were being fished out Of the water
there Sunday.
In the business portion OF the city
two large brick buildings, one occu-
pied BY Knapp Brothers, and the other
by the Cotton Exchange saloon, col
lapsed. In the Cotton Exchange sa-
loon there were about Is persons. Most
OF them escaped
Up to the time I left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins.
They were; Stanley G. Spencer. man
ager of the Elder-Dempster Steamship
company. Richard Lord, traffic man
ager for George II. McFadden & Bro;
Charles Kelder. of the firm of Lam
mers & Flint.
How many more corpses are there
will not be known until the search Is
finished.
The cotton mills. the bagging fac
tory. the gas works, the electric light
works and nearly all the industrial es-
adjustments OF the city are wrecked
or crippled. The flood 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 Nisbett, a cot
ton man, was buried in the ruins of tho
Cotton Exchange saloon, and when dug
out in the morning had no further in
jury than few bruised fingers.
DR.. S. Q. Young, secretary of the
Cotton Exchange, was knocked sense
less when the house collapsed, but was
revived by the water and was carried
ten blocks by the hurricane
A woman who had just given birth
TO a child was carried from her homo
to house block distant, the men
who were carrying her having to hold
her high above their heads. as tho
water was five feet deep when she was
moved.
Some Miraculous Escapes.
Many stories were current of houses
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
II. Ouley, editor Of the Everying Tri-
bune, had his family and the families
of two neighbors In his house when
the lower half crumbled and the upper
part slipped down into the water Not
one in the house was hurt.
OF the Lavine family six ont OF
seven are reported dead
OF the Burnett family only one Is
known TO have been saved.
The family of Stanley C. Spencer
who met death in the Cotton Exchange
saloon, is reported to be dead.
Thirteen were killed in one buildins
on Eighth street and Broadway Dom.
mick Porretto is the only one of tn,
party who lives TO tell the tale Amonf
the dead are James Wren, his wife anC
six children.
4 DR.. /. NJ. Cline, local forecast OF
fetal of the United States weather bu
reau, his brother, Joe Cline, and thre,
children drifted about in the raging