The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-09-14


the secretary of war to supply tents
and provisions to the flood sufferers
upon his request.
1T IS SIMPLY APPALLING.
The Loss of Life is Now Being Esti-
mated at Ten Thousand.
Dallas, Tex, Sept. 11.-Houston q
Texas Central railroad officials have
received bulletins from their general
Offices in Houston, that the loss of
life will reach 1000 in Galveston. The
Missouri, Kansas d Texas relief forces
near Galveston and along the coas.
telegraphed at noon that the loss of
life will not be less than 5000 and
ulay reach 10000.
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 8, 10 p. m
The West Iudia storm, which
reached the gulf coast yesterday
morning. has wrought sad havoc IN
Texas. Reports are conflicting, but
it is known that an appalling disaster
has visited the city of Galveston,
where, it is reported, thousand or
more lives have been blotted out and
a tremendous property damage in.
CURED.
Meager reports from Sabine Pass
and Port Arthur also indicate
heavy loss of life. but those reports
c4nuot be confirmed at this hour.
Escaped on Schooner.
The first news reaching the city
from the stricken city of Galveston
was received at 8 clock tonight.
James T.. Tlmmlns, who resides in
Houston, ana Is the General Super
intendent of the National Compress
Company, arrived i'll the city at s
O'Clock tonight from Galveston. He
was one of the fist to reach hete
with tidlngs 4 The great disaster
which has 0etalleu tnat city, and
the magnitude of the disaster re-
maine to be told because of his en-
deavors TO reacn home.
After remaining through the hur.
ricane on Saturday, lie departed
from Galveston on Il schooner and
came across the bav to Morgan 5
Point, where he caught a train Tor
| Houston. The hurricane, Mr.. Tim
minis said, was the worst ever
known. The estimates made by
citizens of Galveston was that 4,0U0
houses, most of Them residences,
| have been destroyed, and that at
least LOCO people have been drowned,
| killeu or ale missing. Some busi-
ness houses We're also destroyed, but
must of them stool, though badly
damaged.
Complete Wreck.
The city, Mr.. Timmins AYERS, is a
complete wIecK, so tar as he could
see from the water front and from
the fremont Hotel. Water was
blown over tie Island by the hurri-
cane, the wind blowing at the rate
of eighty miles an hour straight
from the gulf and driving the sea
water before it in big waves. The
gaie was IA steady one, the heart OF it
striking the city about O'Clock yes
i tel day afternoon and continuing
without Intermission until midnight
last night, when It aOated somew hat.
although it continued 10 blow all
night.
Nine Killed in One House.
OF his own knowledge, Mr.. Tim
Minis knew of only one house sue
cumblng with fatal results, though
he heard of many residences being
carried away with the inmates. The
house that he saw destroyed was
Ritter's saloon and restaurant at
2l09 strand, the principal house
street of the city. A three. story
building was blown down and nine
men - prominent cIIiz. MS = were
killed.
1t was reported that the Orphan
AsS lum anu both the hospitals wei q
destroy go, and, if this proves true,
the loss of life viii be great, as these
institutions were generally crowded,
and, as t@ey were substantial build
ings, the Chances are that many bad
taken refuge In them.
Most OF the small sailing craft was
wrecked aud was either piled up On
the harves or was floating bottom
side up at the bay.
The scenes during the storm, Mr.
Timmins said, could not be descr.b-
ed. Women aud children were
crowding into the fremont Hotel
where he WAS seeking shelter, and
all night these uniOrtunates were
bemoaning their losses of kindred
and fortune. They we're grouped
about the stairways and in the gal
leries and rooms of the hotels.
The water-wOrks power-house wa'
wrecked aud water famine Ii
threatened, al the cisterns were al
ruined by the overflow of salt water
This Mr.. Timmous regards as th,
most serious problen to be faceC
now. The city is In darkness, II,
electric plant beng among the insti
tutions ruined.