The sun., 1900-09-11
] City Of Galveston Laid
Low by Storm.
IEATH LIST ENORMOUS
Istimates of Number of Dead
Vary From 1900 to 1900.

Reach Many MiI1ions-scenes of
Horror In the Doomed City-Res-
tuers Hard at Work Under Great
bifacuities = Many Inland Points
feel the Eject of the storm-Har-
rovvfnE Tales Told by Survivors.
Many Places Yet to Be Heard From.
cotton and Rice Crops Devastated.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 10.-A scene OF
Isolation and death, not only at Calves
ia, but at many inland points in Texas,
the condition presented as result OF
aturday's storm.
Estimates of the number of dead are
laced between 1,500 and $500. Ihe
roperty loss will aggregate many mil
ons of dollars, although no accurate
gnres can he given at present ne
breets of Galveston are mostly unuer
later, wires are in hopeless tangle, ana
cad bodies are thickly strewn among
Dating debris No complete list of dead
! sobtainable until the water recedes.
Narrowing tales of the loss of whole
emiiies and many miraculous escapes
Re told by the few survivors who nave
Aus far reached this city. The relief
Eains which arrived here have been the
hIv means of communication with storm
went Galveston. and definite informa.
ION as to the present situation is scarce.
1.-THE cotton and rice crops throughout
be district devastated by the storm are
Adly damaged in many places and IN
HERS totally destroyed.
iIieports from Richmond, Tex, Letitla
nd Eagle Lake bring additional lists OF
cad and property losses, and many
daces cut off from all communication are
let to be heard from.
4The Progress of the storm.
EA dispatch from Austin says:
"Stating with the hurricane which Wis
ted&Galveston and the gulf coast Satur-
lav and which is still prevailing there 70
such an extent that no communication
san BE- had with the island to ascertain
ylaat the loss OF life and property Is, the
Itorn made rapid inroads into the center
,f the state, stopping long enough last
light Mt Houston to damage over half Of
he Buildings Of that city.
N-Advancng inland, the storm swept
nto Hampstead, 30 miles above Hous-
on; thence to Chappell Hill, 20 miles
.arther: thence to BRENNAN, 50 miles
.arthcr, wreckiuS all three towns nnd ter
.orizing the people beyond expression.
s'irhe storm lit these points blew over
l,iite a number of houses, and several
persons were killed Owing TO the de-
struction OF the telegraph and long dis,
lance telephone wires il is difficult to get
news from any Of the points named, but
it is known that the loss to property in
terests and to live stock as well rs lifC
has been great.
"Tla Rlzos bottom, which was THE
scene of such disaster Last gear as tht
result of the food, suffered a large share
Of damage at the hands Of the cyclone
and was swept for fully 100 miles of it:
length. everything being turned topsy tur
w by the high winds, and much destruc
ton resulting TO crops as well as farm
house property.
"The cyclonic winds were accompanied
by heavy RAINFALL which served to adj
to the horror
HAD Eeen Predicted.
TT had been long predicted that Gal
weston would suffer avercly from over
flow from the sea. The fact that III
town of Indianola, on the Texas coast
was completely washed away and Seveia
hundred persons drowned i'll 1856 ha
caused many to believe that simila
fate might come to Galveston. Thcr
have been many severe storms on tn
coast before this, however, and they di
SO little damage that the residents Z
Galveston no longer feared them.
"The present storm last i much longe
and was ol Il more severe character tina
any storm of previous years. Beg min
late on Saturday, it filed the island wit
water in an incredibly short space {
time and kept piling it mp until the who
CITY was inundated. Added to this tloo
was terrific hurricane that LITERAL
swept buildings off their foundations
Gas the storm gathered in force tho
sands of the inhabitants left their eli
homes and gathered on the highest poil
of the island where they were huddle
together like sheep all through the nigl
and during the greater part of the da
MANY persons We're so fortunate as to
able to get into the business portion
The city and seek refuge in the more su
stantial buildings there. The Tremo
hotel was filed with refugees, althou:
the water was still three feet deep
that hostelry, according to the repo
brought to the mainland by the schoon
messenger.
aGreat damage was done along t
wharf frontage. and the extensive wha
;u,nroyements which the Southern I
citie company was making are practic'
ly total loss"