The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-10

three miles north of Pelican island, but
Mr.. Timmins could not distinguish her
name. She was flying a British flag.
Another big vessel had been driven
ashore at Virginia point and still an
other aground at GrayS City.
At the south point of Houston island
another ship lies in a helpless condition
The lightship that marks Galveston
harbor, is hard and fast aground at
Bolivar point.
MIR. TInmins and the men with him
on the schooner rescued two sailors
from the middle bay who had been
many hours in the water. These men
We're foreigners and he could gain no
information from them.
A wreck of a vessel which looked like
large steam tug was observed just
before the party landed.
In Vie bay the carcasSeS of nearly 200
horses and mules We're seen. but no
human body was visible
Wall For Lost Relatives.
The scenes during the storm, Mr.
Tlmmins said, could not be described
{ Women and children were crowded into
the fremont hotel. where he was seek
ing shelter. and all night these unfOr-
tunates were bemoaning their loss of
kindred and fortune
They were grouped about the stair
ways and in the galleries and rooms of
the hotel
What was occurring in other parts Of
the city he could only conjecture.
City Is Under Water.
The city of Galveston. he says. is now
entirely submerged and cut off from
communication.
The boats are gone the always can
not be operated and the water is so
nigh that people cannot walk out by
way of the bridge across the bay, even
should that bridge be standing.
Provisions viii be badly needed. as d
great majority of the people lost all
they had.
The waterworks power house was
wrecked and a water famine is threat
ened; as the cisterns were all ruined
by the overflow Of salt we ter.
This MI. Timmins regards as the
most serious problem to be faced now.
The city is in darkness the electric
light plant having been ruined.
Residences Are Gone.
There is no way of estimating the
property damage at present. So far as
he could see or hear. Mr.. Timmins says,
the east end portion of the city, which
is the residence district, has been prac-
tically wiped out of existence.
On the west end, which faces the gulf.
another portion of the island, very
much havoc was done.
The beach was swept clean, the bath
houses are destroyed and many of the
residences are total wrecks.
Disaster All Along the Coast.
The wires are down and there is no
way of finding out just what has hap
pended. but enough is known to make
il certain that there has been great
loss of life and destruction of property
all along the coast and for a hundred
miles inland Every town that is
reached reports one or more dead and
the property damage is so great there
is no way of computing il accurately.
Galveston remains isolated. The
Houston Post and the Associated Press
corresDondents made efforts to get spe-
cial trains and tugs today with which
TO reach the island city. The railroad
companies declined to risk their loco
motives.
All sorts of rumOrs prevail, but with
no substantial basis.
It is known that the railroad bridges
across the bay at Galveston are either
wrecked, or are likely TO be destroyed
with the weight of a train on them;
the approaches to the wagon bridge are
gone and it is rendered useless.
The bridge Of the Galveston. Houston
& Northern railroad is standing. but
the draw bridges over Clear creek and
at Edgewater are free and the roads
cannot get trains through to utilize the
bridge across the bay.
A train went down the Columbia Tap
road this afternoon as far as Chenango
Junction.
The town was greatly damaged and
the bodies of nine negroes were taken
from the ruins of one house.
The train could proceed no further
and came back to Houston. leaving the
fate of the people at AngeltOn, Column
bia. BraZOra. VelascO and Quintana un-
certain.