Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-11

The death list from there VIII pc large
A heavy mortality list is expected
among the residents and down the is
land and the adjacent coast on the
mainland, as both were deeply food
ed and houses were to a great extent
insecure. The heaviest losers By the
storm will be the Galveston wharf
company. the Southern Pacific rail-
way company. the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe railway company. and the
Texas Lone Star flooring company.
Houston. Texas, Sept. 1.-THE
railroads will suffer loss of millions
of dollars of actual damage, to say
nothing of the loss from the stoppage
of business.
Houston, Texas. Sept. 11-Addition-
al details by tug from Galveston show
that west of Thirty-third street. the
storm swept the ground perfectly
clear of residences. piled them ZIP for
five blocks back on the beach, strew-
ing and piling with debris and the
bodies of victims. The fearful work
of the storm was not confined to the
district along the beach but took in
all the city district and the Denver re-
survey but it was in the vicinity of
the beach most of the destruction of
human life occurred. The waves
washed away the home for the home
less, it is thought the inmates. thir-
teen orphans, and three lady matrons
We're drowned. The government
works are greatly damaged. In the
north part. of the west end the dam
age was great also, many cotton and
lumber yards were destroyed and
much valuable machinery ruined
At the local undertaking establish
ment are resting the remains OF FIVE
Houston people who perished at Sea-
brooks during Saturdays hurricane.
They arei Mrs. G. H. Lucy, her two
small children, Have McIlhenny The
dve-yearold son of David Rice.
Houston, Sept. 1.-THE Santa Fe
ran the first relief train to Hitchcock
today, finding the conditions along the
line similar to those prevailing along
The Galveston, Houston & Henderson.
In many places the homeless inhabi-
ants Of the section traversed were
housed in empty box cars, while 9TH
ers were sitting on the wrecks OF their
household effects. Many sufferers
ire destitute and will have to be Civ
IN free transportation to places
where they are sure of obtaining shell
s~s s--a- --.-A--------eA Es.farv Tssstla,no
in Pearland was either damaged or
destroyed but no lives were lost there.
Alvin reports the following deaths in
edition to the seven previously re-
oorted: Mrs. ]. G. Collins. w. P.
| 1awley. Angleton severely suffered
md assistance is greatly needed
Algo Arcadia and Alto Iona show
signs of the severe visitation. many
ire in need of help. The twelve-year
I'D son of James Rodacher was killed
Ut Arcadia. Two children lost thei
ives at Alto Iona. At Hitchcock six
cen lives were lost. The bodies float
I'd in from the bay and could not b.
Identified. Many injured refugees
ire being given attention. Most o
hem fioated in on drift and RATS
rhe prairie is covered with drift of al
dnds.
Bodies were washed ashore nea
seabrooks. Mr.. McIlhenny vas res
ued alive He said the water cam
p so rapidly he and his family an
drs. Lucy and children sought safet
n the roof. Finally the roos Dle'
| If the house into the water. In
REF space Mcllhenny witnessed tn
oss of his family one by one.
Houston, Sept. lit is reporte
that Bolivar, opposite Galveston, wa
wept off the earth and has few il
abitants left. At Quintana a POI
t the mouth of the Brazos rive
here are not more than twelv
louses left. At Belleville, ever
rouse was damaged Not house
eft at Patterson. At Waller the de
ruction is complete. Thirteen n
groes are reported killed at variol
plantations in Wharton and Matago
la counties. In Matagorda count
,nly two houses are left standin
Missouri City was practically wip'
,ut. At Sartatita, the Ellis sug
liant is in ruins. Richmond is I
lorted to have been nearly wrecke
Eighteen persons are reported kille
nest of them negroes in the count
Immediately about the towns. F
twenty-five miles from town there
lot q house standing on the prair
Most of the dead so far located a
c Il "a 6 ! II 50 X aSs'