The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-11

to sea or it's ruins piled in pyramid
far into the town, according to the vag-
aries of the tempest. The first hurried
glance over the city showed that the
largest structures, supposed to be the
most substantially built, suffered the
greatest.
The Orphans home at Twenty-frst
street and Avenue NJ fell like house
of cards. How many dead children and
refugees are in the ruins could not pc
ascertained. OF the sick in ST Mary s
infrmary, together with the attendants,
only eight are known to have been
saved. The Old Woman's home on Ro-
senberg avenue collapsed and the Ro-
senberg schoolhouse is a mass or
wreckage. The Ball high school is but
one empty shell, crushed and broken.
Every church in the city, with possibly
one or two exceptions, is in ruins. At
the forts nearly all the soldiers are re-
ported dead, they having been in tenn
porary quarters, which gave them no
protection against the tempest or the
flood
No report has been received from the
Catholic orphan asylum down the Is
land, but it seems impossible that 1t
could have withstood the hurricane IL
it fell all the inmates were no doubt
lest, for there was no aid within a male.
The bay front from end to end is IN
ruins Nothing but piling and the
wreck of great warehouses remain. Inc
elevators lost all their superstructure'
and their stocks are damaged by water.
The lfe-saving station at Fort Point
was carried away, the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City.
In the business portion of the city,
two large brick buildings, one occupied
by Knapp Brothers and the other by the
Cotton Exchange saloon, collapsed. IN
the Cotton Exchange saloon there were
about fifteen persons. Most of them es-
capped.
Up to the time 1 left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins,
There are: Stanley G. Spencer, manager
of the Elder Dempster Steamship COM
pany; Richard Lord, traffic manager
for George H. McFadden & Bro;
Charles Kellder of the firm of Larmers
/ & Flint. How many more corpses there
are 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 establish
ments of the city are either wrecked or
crippled. The flood left a slime about
one inch deep over the whole city and
unless haste is made IN burying the
dead and carcasses of animals there
is danger of pestilence. Dr. s. O.
Young, secretary of the cotton exchange
was knocked senseless when his house
collapsed, but was revived by the wa
ter and was carried ten blocks by the
hurricane.
A woman who had Just given birth
to a child was carried from her home
to 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. Ousley, editor of the Evening Tri-
gune, 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. No one in
the house was hurt OF the Lavine
family six out of seven are reported
dead.
The family OF Stanley G.. Spencer,
who met death in the Cotton Exchange
saloon. is reported lost
The Mistrot house in the west end was
turned into a hospital. All of the reg
ular hospitals of the city We're unavAil-
able. Half a million feet of lumber was
carried away and the engineer of the
Southern Pacific works, says as far as
the company IS concerned, it might as
well start over again.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from
their moorings and stranded in the bay.
The Kendall Castle was carried over
the flats to Texas City and lies in the
wreckage of the Inman pier The Nor
wegian steamer Giller is stranded be-
tween Texas City and Virginia Point,
An ocean liner was swirled around
through the west bay, crashed through
the bay bridges and Is now lying in a
few feet Of water, near the wreckage
of the railroad bridges The steam
ship Taunton was carried across Peli-
can Point and is stranded about ten
miles up the east bay The Mallory
steamer Almo was torn from her wharf
and dashed upon Pelican Flats and
against the bow of the British steamer
Red Cross which had previously been
hurled there. Down the channel two
ocean steamships lie grounded. Some
schooners, barges and smaller craft are
thrown bottom side up along the slips
of the piers. The tug Louise Of the
Houston Direct Navigation company is
a wreck. 1t will take week to tabu-
late the dead and the missing and to
get anything near an approximate idea
of the monetary loss. 1t Is safe to as
sumo that one-half of the property Of
the city is wiped out and that one-half
of the residents have to face absolute
poverty. AT Texas City three of the
residents were drowned. One man
stepped into a well by mischance and
his corpse was found there. Two other
men ventured along the bay front dur
ing the height of the storm and We're
killed. There are but few buildings at
Texas City that do not tell the story
of the storm. For ten miles inland
from the store it is a common sight to
see small craft, such as steam launches,
schooner and oyster sloops. The life
boat of the life saving station was car
ried over mile inland, while a vessel
that was anchored in Moses bay lies