Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-11
Residence Portions of Galveston
Were Swept Clean Every
Hour Brings New
Horrors.
BOLIVAR WIPED OFF THE MAP
Waves Wash Up the Dead
Whole Families Suffer
Extinction,
GREATER FINANCIAL LOSS

Houston, Texas, Sept. 11.-G. J.
Russ, who was AMONG The refugee
who reached this city at midnight
said: when l left Galveston mel
armed with Winchester rifles wer
standing over burying squads aud a
the point of rifles. compelling ther
to load corpses on drays to be haule'
to barges on which they were towe'
into the Gulf by tugs and tossed int
the sea. This manner OF burial !.
Imperative, the living must lie I'rote.i
ed"
Adjutant General Scurry says tn
state militia will probably be sent t
Galveston to prevent looting and othe
lawless acts.
Dallas, Texas, Sept 11.-A specia
to the News" from Galveston. Tex
brought to Houston by the tug Bruins
wick" gives the following additiona
particulars of the storm;
The big iron oil tank of the Waters
Pierce Oil company, was picked Vi
from the Fifteenth street pier ans
carried to Thirtieth street.
In the business district not build
ing escaped Injury. Among the build
ings destroyed was the Galveston OF
phans' home, all the children beint
reported unhurt. Owing to the stree
being full of debris, it is extremely
difficult, it being possible TO use only
two wheeled carts to haul bodies
Many who escaped tell thrilling ex
periences. The city is without waite
supply and is in total darkness.
washington, Sept. 11-Adjutan
Corbin received dispatch from Cal
tain Rafferty,, commanding battery {
First artillery stationed at Galveston
Texas, dated Sept. 9Th. 1t reports n
loss of life in his command but say
the records of the post weredestroye'
Houston, Texas, Sept. 11-At Hitc
cock, sixteen lives were lost.
Houston, Texas, Sept. 1.-THE fe
lowing additional names of dead I
Galveston have been received: Mr.
Sam Motley and four children, al
ten other women and children in M
Nolley's house; Mrs. Irene Hess, MI
Rose, wife of the commissary Sc
geant, Franklin Rose, U. S. N, MI
Lafayette, and two children, MI
George Burnett and child. wife
Vim. A. Coates of the Galyest'
News" wife and two children of
L. Woodward, of the Galvest'
News" and the wife of George II
bosius, of the Galveston News al
two sisters; Mrs. Kate Bross, Cha
lotte M. Allen; five members of t
P. j. and j. P. McKenna families;
w. Watkins, and about twenty 9th
persons in the same house; Thorn
Rhymes, wife and two children,
bert Hunter and wife, F. Hume, M
Frank Parker and two children, M
Dorian and five children, and nj
other persons in the one house. 7
daughter and SON zof James Ode
Mrs. Lasocco and twenty-five othe
in her grocery; Edward Eichter a
daughter; Mrs. Collins, Henry P
rere, Adolph Schuler, mother a
five sisters. Among the missing al
Labbitt, daughter of DR.. Stackpo
family of p. Withey, A. r. Edwar
and family; H. B. Cullom, and wi
L. Minor. Mrs Rhea and Miss Mar
Rhea, Giles county, tennessee, N
r. J. Bergman and daughter.
Buildings that hitherto stood. Il
bled and crashed, carrying death
hundreds of people. Roofs sal
through the air, windows we're dri'
in with crash or shattered by
ing slate. telegraph, telephone. e
tric light poles. with their mass
wires, were snapped off like /
stems, and water pipes broken w
velocity the wind attained after
thermometer blew off Is purely I
ter of speculation. The lowest p'
touched by the barometer in the pi
correspondents Office. which was fi
by frightened people. was 2S.04
this was about 1880 p. N. It then
gan to rise very slowly and by L
m. had reached 2S.0g The wind
gradually subsiding and by nlidn
the storm had passed The W
which had reached the depth OF E
feet on the Strand at 10 o'clocl
m, began to ebb and ran out rap
and by a. m. the crown of the It
was free of water. Thus passed
one Of the most frightful and desi
tive storms which ever devastated
coast Of Texas. The city is {
with destitute. bereft and home
while in lmprovised morgues are
rigid forms Of hundreds Of Wet
Whole families are side by side
The city beach in the south wes
part Of the city was under ten
Il water and the barracks, l9c