Evening journal., 1900-09-11
NEED FOR IMMEDIATE HELP
FOR STRICKEN SURVIVORS
OF THE GALVESTON HORROR
One of the Most Awful Tragedies of Modern Times
Has Visited the Texas City Laying the Place
in Ruins and Staying Hundreds

constructed raft. They were all bruis-
ed and cut from their s-ruggle with
flying debris.
An entire family living on Thirty
sixth street was swept away The fam
ily consisted Of Angeline Parker and
grandchild, Tommy Lesker, Sullivan
Parker and his wife, Lily, and their
three children.
The bodies of four white persons and
seven colored we're found in the first
story of w. j. Reitmeyers residence
Sunday morning Reitmeyer and fam
fly were in the second story and es-
capped
Mrs. J. p. Treadwell and infant, Mrs.
G. T. Clark and infant, Mrs. A. Long
necker, Mrs. Beveridge, and two chill
dren, Mrs. George M. Schroeder and
four children and the mother of United
States Deputy Marshal Wood were all
lost in one building. Mr.. Longnecker
escaped with serious injuries.
Francois, well known waiter, re-
ports the loss of % persons who took
refuge in his house, six of them being
members of his family.
The Mistrot 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.
Half a million feet of lumber was car
ried away and Engineer Boschke says
as far as the company is concerned 1t
might as well start over again.
ocean Steamers stranded.
Eight ocean steamers were torn from
their moorings and stranded in the
bay. The Kendan Castle was carried
bver the fats, Thirty-third street
wharf. to Texas City, and lies in the
wreckage Of the Inman pier The Nor
wegian 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 bridges, and is now lying in a
few feet OF water near the wreckage
of the railroad bridges. The steam
ship Taunton was carried across Peli-
can 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 previ-
ously heen hurled there. The stern 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.
1t will take a week to tabulate the
dead and the missing and to get any
thing to 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 absolute
poverty.
At Texas City three of the Hesidents
were drowned. There are but few
buildings 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 piling. The wreck
age from Galveston litters the SHORE
for miles. and is a hundred yards OF
more wide
For ten miles inland from the shore
II is a common sight TO see small craft
such as steam launches, schooners and
oyster sloops. The lifehoat of the life
saving station was carried half a mile
inland. while a vessel that was anchor
ed In Moses Bayou lies high and dry
five miles up from La Maruue.