Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-09-13

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(Signed) ""Joseph ID. Sayers,
Governor"
Dallas, Tex, Sept. 9.--The following
telegram has just been received from
| Houston by the News:
Relief train just returned, it could
not get closer than six miles of Vir-
ginia Point, where the prairie was
covered with lumber, debris, pianos,
trunks and dead bodies.
1.-TWO hundred corpses were counted
from the train
"A large steamer is stranded this
side of Virginia Point, as though
thrown up by tidal wave.
Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
Two men were picked up who
floated across to the mainland, who
say they estimate the loss of life up
to the time they left at 2,OOO'
The above message is addressed to
Superintendent FELTON,, Dallas, and
comes from Mr.. Vaughan, manager
of the Western Union office at Hous-
ton.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 9.-The West
indian storm which reached the gulf
coast yesterday morning wrought
awful havoc i'm Texas.
Reports are conflicting. but it is
known that an appalling disaster has
befallen the city of Galveston. where,
it is reported, a thousand or more
lives have been blotted out and a
tremendous property damage incur
red.
Meager reports from Sabine Pass
and Port Arthur also indicate heavy
loss of life, but these reports cannot
be confirmed at this hour.
The first news to reach this city
from the stricken city of Galveston
was received tonight. James C. Tim
minis, who resides in Houston, and
who is the general superintendent
of the National Compress company,
arrived in the city at o'clock to-
night from Galveston. He was one
of the first to reach here with tidings
of the great disaster which has be-
fallen the city, and the magnitude of
that disaster remains TO be told. After
remaining throughout the hurricane
On Saturday he departed from Calves
ton on schooner and came across
the bay to Morgan's Point. where
! ne caught train for Houston.
The hurricane, Mr.. Timmins said
was the worst ever known.
The estimate made by the citizens
of Galveston was that 1000 houses.
most of them residences. have been
destroyed. and at least 1000 people
have been drowned killed or are miss
ing.
| Some business houses were also des-
troyed, but most of them stood,
| though badly damaged
| The city, Mr.. Timmins AYERS. is a
complete wreck so far as he could see
from the water front and from the
fremont hotel. Water was blown over
The island by the hurricane. the wind
blowing at the rate of eighty miles
an hour straight from the gulf and
forcing the sea water before it in
big waves. The gale was a steady
one, the heart of it striking the city
about o'clock yesterday evening. and
continued without intermission until
midnight last night. when it abated
somewhat. although it continued to
blow all night.
OF his own knowledge Mr.. Timmins
knew of only one house succumbing
| with fatal results, though he heard
Of many residences being carried with
with inmates.
1t was reported that the orphan
asylum and both the hospitals were
destroyed, and if this proves true
The loss of life will be great, as these
institutions We're generally crowded.
and as they were substantial buildings
| The chances are that many had taken
| refuge in them.
The water extended across the is
and. Mr.. Timmins said it was three
| feet deep in the rOtunda of the Ire
mont hotel and was six feet deep in
Market street.
| Along the water front the damage
was very great.
The roof had been blown from all
| the elevators and the sheds along the
wharves were either wrecked or had
lost their sides and were of no pro-
lection to the contents. Most of the
small sailing craft were wrecked and
were either piled up on the harves
| or floating bottom side up in the bay.
! Houston. Tex. Sept. lot is one
great appalling story of disaster and
death at every town on the gulf coast.
From New Orleans to FL Paso re-
ports are coming in of loss of life and
destruction of property. No one can
estimate the loss of life and property
until something like order can be
brought out of the chaos. At New Or
| leans. where the storm did not APP
proach the magnitude displayed at
| Galveston, the property loss is esti-
mated at 100000. 1t is rumored
that Sabine Pass was completely des-
troyed.
STORM REACHES FLORIDA.