Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-11
their heads, as the water was five feet
deep when she was moved.
MANY Rema rlS ble ERcaDea.

MANY Remarkable Escapes.
MANY stories were current of houses fall
ing 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 slipped
down into the water No 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 salooh'
is reported to be dead.
The Mistrot House, in the West End was
turned into l. hospital. All OF the regular
hospitals of the city were unavailable OF
the new Southern Pacific works little re-
mains but the pling. Half a million feet
of lumber was carried away, and Engineer
Boschke says as far as the company is
concerned it might as well start over
again.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from their
moorngs and stranded in the bay The
Kendall Castle was carried over the mats
of the 33d street wharf to Texas City, and
lies In the wreckage of the Inman pier. The
Norwegian steamer Gyller is stranded be-
tween Texas City and Virginia Point. An
ocean liner was swirled around through
the west bay, crashed through the bay
bridge and is now lying in a few feet of
water near the wreckage of the railroad
bridges. The steamship Taunton was car
ried across Pelican Point and is stranded
about ten miles up the east bay. The NAL
lory steamer Alamo was torn from her
wharf and dashed upon Pelican flats and
against the bow of the British steamer Red
Cross, which had previously been hurled
there The stern of the Alamo is stove in
and the bow Of the Red Cross is crushed.
Ocean Steamships Aground.
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 Company is also wreck.
1t will take a week to tabulate the dead
and the missing and to get anything near
an approximate idea Of the monetary loss.
1t Is safe to assume that one-half Of the
property of the city is wiped out and that
one-half of the residents have to face alb
solute poverty.
At Texas City three of the residents were
drowned. One man stepped into well by
a mischance, and his corpse was found
there. Two other men ventured along the
bay front during the height of the storm
and were killed. There are but few build
ings at Texas City that do not tell the story
of the storm.
The hotel is a complete ruin. The office
of the Texas City Company was almost en-
tirely destroyed. Nothing remains of the
piers except the pilng. The wreckage from
Galveston filters the shore for miles, and is
a hundred yards or more wide.
For ten miles inland from the shore it is
a common sight to see small craft. such as
steam launches, schooners and oyster
sloops. The life boat of the life-saving sta
ton was carried half mile inland, while
vessel that was anchored in Moses bayou
lies high and dry five miles up from La
Marcue
The Galveston News asked to have it an
nounced that all men of its staff are safe.