The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-21
THE CArACLYsM AT GALVESTON
1t Grows More Horrible Every Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. y. Bakers Awful
Experience More Aid for the Suf-
ferers.

The later details about the great
horror at Galveston are distressing be-
yond measure. Some OF the accounts
are incredible and one shudders at the
appalling circumstances No language
can depict the awful experience OF that
Inflated city and imagination cannot
c~onjure what unfathomable sufferings
h people must have gone through
and are suffering today. As almost
unlimited funds will be needed TO re-
lieye the sufferers, The Messenger will
continue to receive subscriptions to help
these people who have survived the
very hesom OF destruction. No person
who can a q cent ought to withhold
il in the trying times that are causing
the people Of Galveston almost to de-
spair. Let Wilmington keep up the
record she has made o years ago.
HOW WILMINGTON DID SIXTY
TWO YEARS AGO.
On Friday, April 9th, 1888. the city
OF Charleston was visited by d calami-
tous fire. The loss OF property was
s 5000, 600, and great was the loss OF life.
A terrible gale prevailed at the time, as
it is reported that cinders were carried
10 miles away and the light OF the fire
was seen eighty miles distant
Wilmington received the news by the
steame North Carolina the next day.
Within W hours a meeting Or citizens
was called and 81. 100. 90 collected and
forwarded by boat
H. L. Pinckney, mayor of Charleston.
S. c., wrote of it as follows:
The subscriber hereby acknowl-
edges the receipt by Captain Reynolds.
Of the steamer North Carolina, OF the
sum of SLIGO, transmitted by the citi-
g.. o. -AIsaf -
the sufferers by the late confiagration.
etc, ETC., May 1, 1885,"
He gives doubly who gives quickly"
Wilmington is four times d. Dig and
twenty times as rich now as sixty-two
years ago. Let US keep up the char
liable work begun SO well, Tor the2dis-
tressed in Galveston, and all lend a
helping land.
FORMER WILMINGTONIAN IN DIS
TRESS.
The N jacob Hardware Company
on yesterday received a col. of The
Galveston Daily News OF Wednesday,
September 18th, the fist copy Of the
paper since the storm. on the margin
Of the paper was written the following:
Dear Mr.. jacob: / send you our pa
per to let you know what me and my
family went through. We lost home,
clothes and everything. But thank
God we are safe. After uritIlng for
three hours while trying to ave women
and children, l was rescued with my
back hurt and my leg cut. For hea-
ven'S sake do something for my family
if you can. H. H. RANSOM"
MIR. AND MRS. BAKERS ESCAPE.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. L. II.
Baker will never cease to be grateful
hat they escaped with their ives on
the occasion of the great storm at Gal
weston, on the fateful Sth of September.
The Messenger a day or two G pub
lished a brief postal card from Mr..
Bake stating that they were saved.
Captain n. w. Schenck permits us to
make the following extract from a let
ter from his son-in-law, Mr.. Ed. n
Baker, who, with Mrs. Baker, nee Miss
Josie E. Schenck, was in Galveston
during the recent terrible storm:
Houston, Texas, September Is.
II wired you Sunday that Josie anC
myself were safe, though l was badly
hurt. We were separated. 1 was dowI
town in Galveston and in a building
where five were killed. We were al
together. 1t is a miracle how l escaped
/ was badly hurt from my hips down
but am getting on quite we'll now.
Josie is here without a change of cloth.