The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-11
CITY OF GALVESTON IN RUINS,
Perhaps Fifteen Hundred Lives Have Been
Lost in the Appalling Disaster.
TEN MILLIONS IN PROPERTY DESTROYED

are understood to have been saved.
The Old Woman's Home, on Rosen-
berg avenue, collapsed and the Rosenberg
school house is mass of wreckage. The
Ball High School is but an empty shell,
crushed and broken. Every church in
the city with possibly one or two ex-
ceptions, is in ruins. At the forts nearly
all the soldiers are reported dead, they
having been in temporary quarters which
gave them no protection against the
tempest or the flood.
No report has been received from the
Catholic Orphan Asylum down the is
land, but it seems impossible that it
could have withstood the hurricane. If
it fell all the inmates were no doubt
lost for there was no aid within mile.
The bay front from end to end is in
ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreck
of great warehouses remain. The eleva-
tors lost all their upper works and their
stocks are damaged by water.
The life saving station at Fort Point
was carried away, the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City. / saw Captain Haines yesterday
and he told me that his wife and one
of his crew were drowned.
MASSES OF WRECKAGE.
The shore at Texas City contains
enough wreckage to rebuild city. Eight
persons who were swept across the bay
during the storm were picked up there
alive. Five corpses were also picked up.
There were three fatalities in Texas City.
In addition to the living and the dead
which the storm cast up at Texas City,
caskeSs and coffins from one of the ceme-
teries at Galveston were being fished out
of the water there yesterday.
In the business portion of the city two
large brick buildings, one occupied by
Knapp Brothers, and the other by the
Cotton Exchange saloon collapsed In the
Cotton Exchange Saloon there were about
fifteen persons. Most of them escaped
Up to the time l left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins.
They were
Stanley G. Spencer, manager Of the
Elder -Dempster Steamship Company.
Richard Lord, traffic manager for Geo.
II. McFadden and Brother.
Charles Kelder, of the firm of Lam
mers and Flint.
How many more corpses are there will
not be known until the search is finished.
DANGER OF PESTILENCE.
The cotton mills. the bagging factory,
the gas works, the electric light works
and nearly all the industrial establish
ments of the city are either wrecked or
crippled. The flood left a slime about
one inch deep over the whole city and
unless fast progress is made in burying
corpses and carcasses of animals there is
danger of pestilence.
| Some of the stories of the escapes are
| Ooirapulnuc William Nicho
man, was buried in the ruins of the Cot
| ton Exchange Saloon and when dug out
in the morning had no further injury than
| few bruised fingers.
DR.. S. o. Young, Secretary of the Cot
ton Exchange, was knocked senseless
when his house collapsed, but was re-
vived by the water and was carried ter
blocks by the hurricane.
A woman who had just given birth to g
child was carried from her home TO q
house a block distant, the men who were
carrying her having to hold her high
above their heads as the water was five
feet deep when she was moved.
HOUSES CRUMBLED UNDER THEM
Many stories were current of houses
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
N. Ousley, editor of the Evening Tribune
had his family and the families of two
neighbors in his house when the lower
half crumbled and the upper part slip
ped down into the water. Not one in
| the house was hurt
| OF the Lavine family six out of seven
| are reported dead.
OF the Burnett family only one is known
| to have been saved
The family of Stanley G.. Spencer, who
met death in the Cotton Exchange saloon
is reported to be dead.
| The Mistrol House in the West End
was turned into a hospital. All of the
regular hospitals of the city were un.
available. OF the new Southern Pacific
| works little remains but the piling Hall
| million feet of lumber was carried
away, and Engineer Boschke says as fal
| as the company is concerned, it might as
| we'll start over again.
| CRAFT SWEPT TEN MILES INLAND
| Fer ten miles inland from the shore il
| is a common sight to see small craft
such as steam launches, schooners anC
| oyster sloops. The life boat of the life
saving station was carried half mile
inland, while a vessel that was anchored
in Moses Bayou lies high and dry five
miles up from La Marque.
The Galvston News asked to have i
announced that all the men of its stat
! are safe.
EIGHT STEAMERS STRANDED.
| Eight ocean steamers were torn from
| their moorings and stranded in the bay
The Kendall Castle was carried over the
| flats of the 33rd Street wharf to Texas
| City, and lies in the wreckage of the In
man Pier The Norwegian steamer Gyllel
is stranded between Texas City and Vir
! ginia Point. An ocean liner was swirle(
around through the west bay, crashed
| through the bay bridge and is now lyins
in a few feet of water near the wreckagt
of the railroad bridges. The STEAMSHIP
| Taunton was carried across Pelican Poin
and is stranded about ten miles up tht
east bay. The Mallory steamer Alamo
was torn frcFm her wharf and dashed upol
| Pelican flats and against the bow of thu
| British steamer Red Cross, which hat