The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1900-09-14

ent rea son the waters suddenly began
to subside at 1:45 a. m. Within twenty
minutes they had gone down two feet.
and before daylight the streets were
pretty free of the flood waters. In the
meantime the wind had veered to the
southwest. Very few, If any, build
ings escaped injury. There is hardly
4 habitable dry house in the city.
When the people who had escaped
death went out at daylight to view the
Work of the Tempest
ana the floods they saw the most hor-
rIble sights imaginable. The whole OF
&he business front for three blocks in
from the gulf was stripped Of every
vestige of habitatios, the dwellings,
the great bathing establishments, the
Olympia and every structure having
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 the 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
Is in Ruins.
Nothing but piling and the wreck OF
great warehouses remain. The eleva-
tors lost all their superworks 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
City The cotton mills the bagging
factory, the gas works, the electric
light works and nearly all the indus
trial establishments Of the city are
either wrecked or crippled. The food
left a slime about one inch deep over
the whole city, and unless fast prog
ress is made burying corpses ana car
casses of animals there is
Danger Of Pcstilence.
Some of the stories of the escapes are
miraculous. The Mistrot house IN the
West End was turned into hospital.
All of the regular hospitals of the city
were unavailable OF the new South
ern Pacific works little remains but the
piling, Half a million feet of lumber
was carried away, and Engineer Bosch
Ike saws s ofar as the company is con-
cerned it might as we'll start over
again.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from
their moorings and stranded in the
bay. The Kendall Castle was carried
over the flats from the Thirty-third
street wharf and lies in the wreckage
of the Inman pier. The Norwegian
steamer Gyller is stranded between
Teas 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 steamship
Taunton was carried across Pelican
Point and is, stranded about ten miles
up East bay. The Mallory steamer
Alno 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 the 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 litters
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 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. -. DR.. Louis
Klopsch of the Christian Herald yes
terday telegraphed $1,000 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.