Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-10
CROPS RUINED---COAST TOWNS SWEPT

Houston, Texas, Sept. 1O-A scene
of desolation, not only at Galveston,
but at many inland points of Texas, is
the condition presented today as the
result of Saturdays storm.
The estimated number of dead is
placed between 1900 and $500; the
property loss will aggregate many
millions of dollars, although no accu-
rate figures can be given at present.
The streets of Galveston are mostly
under water; the wires are in hope
less tangle, with dead bodies thickly
strewn among the floating debris. No
complete list of dead is obtainable un-
til the water recedes. narrowing
tales of the loss of whole families
and many miraculous escapes are told
by the few survivors who thus far
have reached this city. Relief trains
which arrived here early this morning
have been the only means of commun-
ication with Galveston.
Eagle Lake, Texas, Sept 10-Three
churches and many houses were
blown to pieces. The rice crop and
pecan crop is ruined. The cotton
crop is nearly ruined. the cane crop
is damaged. The loss from the storm
here is estimated at s25O,000. The
town of East Bernard is blown away
and three persons were killed.
Houston. Texas, Sept. 1O--At an in
formal meeting held at police head
quarters last night it was decided to
dispatch train over the 1nternation-
al & Great Northern to Virginia
Point at as early an hour as supplies
and volunteers could be. provided. One
company of fremen, one company oi
policemen and volunteers, one yaw
from the city park and lot of smaller
craft belonging to the citizens oi
Houston will be sent. Mayor Bra
shear sent out the following circular:
The damage from the storm along the
coast is reported almost beyond des
cription. Hundreds of lives are sale
to have been lost and many are des
titute. A relief train is being made
up. am impelled by these condition!
to ask the merchants of the city tt
contribute supplies for temporary re
lief until an organization can be eff
fected.
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 10-The frs
train from Houston arrived in Dalla
tonight over the Houston C Dalla
Central 1t left Houston yesterday a
$3.50 a. m. and arrived here PRACTICAL.
ten hours late. When it left for tn
south, Texas City was dssolate ant
devastated. The buildings had beel
wrecked and the roofs torn off AM
hurled hundreds of feet through tn,
air. the electric light plant was de
molished and all night long the cit
had been in darkness.
Galveston, Texas, Sept. 10-Si
hundred to a thousand persons wer
killed and the city is almost in ruins
The wharf front is entirely gone, eN
cry ocean steamer is stranded. Deaf
and destruction are on every hand. Wit
money the loss that cannot be csti
mated now, is, as far as can be learr
ed at this hour, the result of the appa
ling calamity that has befallen Calves
ton. Yesterday a boat was chartore
to run from Galveston to Texas Cit
and on this the Houston Post" CORES
pondent had to hurriedly depart. Th
object of sending to Texas City wa
to ask the people of the country to sen
in food and clothing. The waterwork
are in ruins and the cisterns are a
blown away so the lack of water is on
OF the most serious of the preser
troubles. Ruin is everywhere. TheI
is hardly habitable house in the e.
lif6 Cltts NCdA1y CfCAJ buoAAACs
house is badly damaged. The scho'
buildings are wrecked. Fine churche
are almost all in ruins. Elevator
and warehouses are unfit for use, Il
electric light plant has collapsed, /
has the cotton factory.
From fremont to P street, an
thence to the beach. not vestige of
residence Is to be seen.
In the business section of the CT
water was three to ten feet deep
the stores and the stocks Of all kind
including foodstuffs, are total losse
Galveston, Sept. 10-Starting
soon as the water began to reced
the Houston Post" correspondent vi
Others began rescuing the wound
8nd dying from the ruins Of tn