The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-15

from the gulf was stripped OF every
vestiee Of habitatios, the dwellings,.
the great bathing establishments. the,
Olympia and every structure havin0
been either carried out to sea or its
ruins piled in a pyramid far into the
town. according to the vagaries OF the
tempest. The first hurried glance over
the city showed that the Largest
structures, supposed to be the most
substantially built, suffered the great
est. Every church in the city with
possibly one or two exceptions, Is In
ruins. AT the forts nearly all he SOL
diers are reported dead, they having
been in temporary quarters which
gave them no protection against the
tempest, or the flood. The bay front
from end to end
IL in Ruins.
Nothing but piling and the wreck OF
great warehouses remain. The eleva-
tors lost all their s~uperworks and their
stocks are damaged by water. The
life saving station at Fort Point was
carried away, the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles. to Texas
Citv. The cotton mills, the 'bagging
4 ctorv. the gas works, the electric
lipht works and nearly all the Indus
trial establishments of the city are
either wrecked or crippled. me nood
left q. slime about n inch deep over
the whole city, and unless fast prog
ress is made burying corpses and car
casses Of animals there Is
Danger of Pestilence.
Some of the stories of the escapes are
miraculous The Mistrot house In the
west End was turned into a hospital.
All of the regular hospitals OF the city
were unavailable. OF the new South
.ern Pacific works little remains but the
Milling. Half q million feet OF lumber
was carried away, and Engineer Bosch
lie saws 9 ofar as the company is con-
cerned it might as well start over
again.
their moorings and stranded. In the
bav. The Kendall Castle was carried
over the flats from the Thirty-third
street wharf and lies in the wreckage,
az the Inman pier. The Norwegian
steamer Gyller is stranded between
Teas city and Virginia Point. An.
ocean linerw was swirled around through
the west bay,
Crashed Through
the bay bridges and is now lying IN g.
few feet of water near the wreckage OF
the railroad bridges. The steamship
Taunton was carried across Pelican
Point and is stranded about ten miles;
UP East bay. The Mallory steamer
Almo was torn from her wharf and
dashed upon Pelican flats and the bow
of the British steamer Red Cross,
which had previously been hurled
through the stern Of the Alamo, is
stove in and the bow Of the Red Cross;
Is crushed.
Down the channel to the jetties two
other ocean steamships lie grounded.
Some schooners, barges and smaller
craft are strewn bottom side up along
the slips Of the piers. The tug Louise
Of the Houston Direct Navigation COM
pany Is also a wreck.
Half the City Destroyed.
It will take a week to tabulate the
dead and missing and to get anything
near an approximate idea of h money
loss. It is safe to assume that one
half Of the property Of the city Is wiped
out and that one-half Of the residents:
have to face absolute poverty.
The wreckage from Galveston filters:
the shore for miles and is a hundred
yards or more wide. For ten miles in
land It is a common sight to see small
craft, such as steam launches, schoon-
ers and oyster sloops. The life boat
Of the life-saving station was carried
half a mile inland, while a vessel that
was moored in Moses bayou lies high
and dry five miles up from Lamarque.
Relief for Sufferers.
New York, Sept. IL. - Dr.. Louis
Klopsch Of the Christian Herald yes
terday telegraphed 5 1000 to Gov. Say
ers Of Texas to be applied to the i'm
mediate relief Of the Galveston flood
sufferers, and further very effective re-
lief measures are contemplated by the
same agency.