, 1900-09-11

people. who were more or less injured
in various ways. One mar from Lu-
cas- terrace reported the loss of fifty
lives in the building from which he cs-
capped. He himself was severely in
jured about the head.
Women imprisoned.
On Avenue NJ several ladies were
imprisoned in a residence by the wa
ter and debris. They were rescued by
a party headed by Captain NJ. Theriot.
Several of them were badly hurt, but
they are still living. Coming back to
fremont street and going out to Ave
nue. 2, by climbing over the piles OF
lumber which had nee been resi-
dences, four bodies We're observed in
one yard and seven in one room in an
other place, while Is many as sixty
bodies were to be seen lying singIy
and in groups in the. space OF II
block. A majority OF the bodies, how
ever, that have not been recovered are
under the ruined houses and it will
take several days hard work to get all
Summers was found by the CORE
spondent near her home on fremont
and Avenue +, her lips smiling. but her
features set in death, her hands grasp
ed her diamonds tightly. The remains
of her sister, Mrs. Claude Fordtran.
have not been recovered. The report
from st. Mary's intirmary shows that
only eight persons escaped from the
hospital.
The number of patients and nurses
could not be ascertained, but Ordinari-
ly the number OF inmates was seldom
under a hundred. Rosenberg school
house. which was chosen as a place of
refuge by the people of that locality,
collapsed. Some of those who had
taken refuge there escaped. how many
cannot be told. OF those who did not
escape nothing mortal remains except
the inanimate flesh.
Awful Scenes Witnessed.
AS Sunday dawned the streets were
lined with people half clad, crippled in
every conceivable manner, hobbling as
best they could to where they could
receive attention of physicians for
themselves and summon aid for
friends and relatives who could not
move. Police Officer John Bowie, who
rec rntly was awarded a prize as the
most popular officer in the city, was
met by the Post correspondent in a
pitable condition, the toes on both Of
his feet were broken. two ribs caved
in and his head badly bruised, but his
own condition, he said was nothing.
MY house, with wife and children,
are in the gulf. | have not a thing on
earth for which to live.
Notable among the sufferers was
Pat O'Keefe, who has for years kept
a popular resort on the beach and who
is known to every visitor to Galveston.
AS the old man came trudSing along
he was ~bemoaning the loss of his wife
and everything he had on earth
Where his resort stood on the beach.
facing the gulf, there is not a vestigc
of a building to be seen. The great
bathing pavilion. known rs the Paga-
do. the big pleasure resort known as
the Olympia, and Murdoch's bath
house. are all swept away into the
gulf. There were few bodies on the
beach. They had been swept into the
gulf or driven up into the rubbish by
the waves. Only half a dozen of them
we're in sight from the site where the
workers were. One incident was that
of a ~3-year-old boy. who sat holding his
bleeding head in two hands, making
not a murmur of complaint. He was
taken back in town, smiling at the joy
of human companionship after his aw-
full experience. He will probably re-
cover. The houses of all prominent
citizens which have escaped destruc-
ton have beer turned into hospitals,
as have the leading hotels.
The Rain in Torrents.
The rain began to pour down in tor
rents and the party went back down
fremont street toward he city. The
misery of the poor people. all mangled
and hurt, pressing to the city for med
ical attention, was greatly augmented
by this rain. Stopping at a small gro
Gerry store to avoid the rain the party
found it packed with injured. The
provisions in the store had been ruin
ed and there was nothing for the nu-
merous customers who anne hungry
and tired.
The place was a hospital, no longer
a store. Farther down the street, a res
taurant which had been submerged
by water was serving out soggy crack
ers and cheese to the hungry crowd.
Fifteen men, constituting all that
remained of a company of regular SOL
diers, stationed at the beach barracks,
were marched down Market street.
The loss of life among the soldiers in
the barracks, which were destroyed,
must have been fully a hundred and
perhaps later reports will swell the
list. At 1880 Sunday morning the
water had receded from the higher