Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-11

modern times has visited Galveston.
he Mayor and citizens committee to
appeal for help.
Which working telegraph instruments
arly all the buildings between here and
hen L left Galveston, shortly before
zing for the prompt burial of the dead,
work after Il period of disaster
hit about by a tempest so terrible that
tensity and by a flood which turned the
ureau records show that the wind at
II hour when the measuring instrument
hat was the maximum.
day morning. Previous to that a great
the tide was very high The wind M
rect opposition to the force from the
ed the water up the beach side of the
ON the bay onto the bay part of the
also picked up. There were three ia
tnlities in Texas City. In addition to
the living and the dead which the
storm east up at Texas City, caskets
ana collins from one OF the cemeteries
at Galveston were being fished out of
the water there yesterday.
In the business portion of the city
two large brick buildings. one occu-
pied by Knapp Brothers, and the other
lapsed. In the Cotton Exchange sa-
loon there were about fifteen persons.
Most of them escaped.
THE DEAD.
UP TO the time 1 left Galveston three
dead had been taken from the ruins
They were:
Stanley G. Spencer, manager of the
Eider-Dempster Steamship Company.
Richard Lord. traffic manager for
George Fl. McFadden G Brothers.
charles kelder. of the firm of Lam
mers &c Flint.
How many more corpscs there are
VIII not be known until the search is
finished.
FACTORIES RUINED.
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 u slime about
one inch deep over the whole city. and
unless fast progress is made in bury
ing the corpses ana carcasscs of ami
mails there is danger of pcstience.
some of the stories of the escapes are
miraculous William Nisbett. a cotton
man. was buried in the ruins of the
cotton Exchange saloon, and when dug
out in the morning had no further in
jury than Il few bruised fingers.
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 c.. Spencer.
Who met death in The Cotton Exchange
saloon. is reported to be. dead
IMPROVISED HOSPITALS.
The Minister House, In the West End.
was turned into II hospital All of the
regular hospitals of the city were un-
available.
OF the new Southern Pacific works
little remains but the piling. Half a
million feet of lumber was carried
away, and Engineer Boschke says, as
iar as the company is concerned, it
might. as we'll start over again
Eight ocean steamers were torn from
their moorings and stranded in the bay.
The Kendall Castle was carried over
the fats of the Thirty-third street
wharf to Texas City and lies in the
wreckaGe of the Inman pier The Nor
wegian steamer Gyllcr is stranded be-
tween Texas City and Virginia Point.
An ocean liner was swirled around
through the bay bridges and is now
lying in a few feet OF water near the
wreckage OF the railroad bridges. The
steamship Taunton was carried across
Pelican Point and is stranded about ten
miles up the East Bay. The Mallory
steamer Alamo was torn from her
wharf and dashed upon Pelican flats
and against the bow of the British
steamer Red Cross which had pre-
Niously been hurled there. The stern
OF the Alamo is stove in and the bow
Of the Red Cross is crushed Down
the channel to the jetties two other
ocean steamships lie grounded. Some
schooners. barges and smaller craft
are strewn bottom side up along the
slips of the piers. The tug Louise. of
the Houston Direct Navigation Com
pany, is also a wreck.
NUMBER OF DEAD.
1t Will take & week to tabulate tbe
dead and the missing and to get any
thing near an approximate idea of the
monetary loss. II is safe to assume
that one-half of the property of tho
city is wiped out, and that one-half OF
the residents have to face absolute
poverty. AT Texas City three of the
residents We're drowned. One man
stepped into well by n mischance and
his corpse was found there Two
offer men ventured along the Bav
front during the height of the storm
and were killed. There are but few
buildings at Texas City that do not
tell the story OF the storm.
THE WRECKAGE.
The hotel is complete ruin The
Office of the Texas City Company was
almost entirely destroyed. Nothing re-
mains of the piers eXccpt the pilinr