Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-09-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Death and Destruction by Storm.

which ragged in this city Saturday.
The CITY is almost in ruins. Every
ocean steamer ia stranded, and death
and destruction is on every hand. IL Is
impossible to give an accurate count OF
The dead, and the actual number Killed
will probably never be Known. The
large steamer Alamo is on top OF the
Mallory wharf and big English cotton
steamer is ashore at Texas City. Other
vessels are aground in parts Of the bay
some totally wrecked. Every where
there is ruin. Telegraph and electric
light poles are down and the streets
are Uttered with brick, timber, glass
and debris of every character. There
is hardly house in the entire city
which is hsbitable. The school build
ings are all unroofed and more or less
damaged. The handsomest churches
OF the city are little more than huge
piles of debris. Most of the elevators
and warehouses are unfit for use aud
the electric light plant is ruined.
From fremont TO z street and from
there to the beach, not a single resi-
dence house is left standing. All over
the business portion of the city the wa
ter is from TO 10 feet deep and tbs
stocks OF all kinds of merchandise in
Guiding food stutfs are total loss.
Won could be seen in the streets neck
deep in water carrying children in their
uplifted arms. The wharyes at Texas
City are destroyed, and for mile the
water front is Uttered with wreckage,
much OF which was blown there from
Galveston. At Texas City 3 lives are
known to be lost, and full reports will
show other deaths it is believed. The
railway tracks are washed away, and
the only exit is by foot. The storm
commenced raging shortly after 3
o'clock Saturday morning, and by noon
| the water from the Gulf had flooded the
island ss far inland as 18th street &.
From that time the water encroached
farther inland, rising 10 inches an hour.
The barracks 10 which the regu lar
soldiers were stationed has been de-
stroyed and it is believed that all but 10
of the full company are dead. Among
the vessels known to be ashore are The
Kendall Castle, Taunton, Mexican and
ella. The Pensacola, with d crew OF
SO men, put to sea during the storm and
1t is feared that the vessel with all on
| board ia lost. At noon, Sunday, the
water had receded from the higher por-
tons of the city. The Galveston New
office is a wreck.
Hundreds OF injured people are walk
ing the streets, seeking relatives or
friends, or looking for refuge. The
most serious problem that contronts the
sufferers today is the lack of fresh water,
all the csterns having been flooded
with salt water End the Waterworks be-
ing in RUNE. Only eight persons escaped
alive from St. Marys Iufrmsry, where
there are ordinarily 100 patients and
attendants. AT least 30 people are be
ieved to have been killed in the Rosen-
burg schoolhouse which collapsed sooD
after scores of people had taken refuge
there.
Houston, Tex, 10.-A relief train
from here tried to reach Galveston yes
terday. 1t got to within 10 miles Of
there. The railroad tracks and bridges
are all washed away beyond this. There
was fearful loss of life and property
along the road, the train crew seeing
two hundred dead bodies near the
tracks. Not house was left standing
at Pearland. Every thing is destroyed
after getting half way beyond Houston
and toward Galveston. This is approx
imately true of all the coast country
for 100 miles up and down the Cult
coast. The water is 10 feet deep at Vir
GINA Point, which is enough to sub
merge Galveston Island. Additional
particulars of the storm at Calves
ton show that about 1000 per-
Sons were drowned and $4,000,
600 worth of property was destroyed.
There is not building in the city that
was not damaged to some extent. All
the bath houses on the beach were de-
stroyed and their attendants drowned.
The Ealy Hospital was destroyed and
most Of the patients were drowned. The
grain elevators were destroyed, one OF
them containing 100000 bushels OF
wheat. Eight big steamships in POI
were wrecked. All three railroad |
bridges and the county bridge across t.
the mainland were swept away and the |
bridge tenders and their families drown
ed. The loss o. life and property is |
simply appalling. The entire islaod |
was submerged and water eight feel |
deep on fremont avenue, probably the |
highest point in the city.
Austin, Tex, Sept. 10 AT 10 O'Clock |
last night the relief trains en- route from |
Houston reached within few miles OF
Galveston island, where the situation |
was found to be deplorable. The prai-
RE country was covered to a depth OF
several feet of back water from the Gull |
and in addition large quantities OF
household furniture, two hundred dead
bodies were found floating around the
prairie.
Dallas, Sept. 10.-Houston 81 Texas
Central officials at noon received bulle-
tins from their general offices in Hous-
ton that the loss of life will reach three
thousand in Galveston. The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad relief forces
near Galveston and along the coast tel
egraphed a. noon that the loss OF life
will not be less than FIVE thousand and
may reach ten thousand.
New Orleans, Sept. 10.-Advices 10
cotton brokers received this morniDe
state that the reports of the wreck of
Galveston by the storm are not any way
overdrswn. Southern Pacific officials
say that not a single bridge remains
the main land with Gslves-
ton island. 1t will be several weeks
before any sort of traffic communics-
ton can be established and months be.
fore the bridges can be restored. The
states that all the grain ele-
vators, cotton warehouses, and termns
there belonging to it, were
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