New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-10
SUBMERGED BY THE GULF.
Rim WROUGHT BY WIND AND WAVES
AT GALVESTON.

Memphis. Tenn. sept. o-A special from
Sew-OrIeans states that Il message
ceived this evening fixing the loss of life at
Galveston at 1900. The message came by
cable from Vera Cruz.
Dallas Texas. Sept. 9.--The following tele-
gram just received from Houston by The
News:
Relief train Just returned. They could not
get closer than six miles of Virginia Point
where the prairie was covered with lumber.
debris pfanos, trunks and dead bodies.
Two hundred cOrpses were counted from
the train.
A large steamer is stranded two miles this
side of Virginia Point, as though thrown mp
by a tidal wave
Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
Two men were picked up who hoated
across 10 the mainland, who say they esti-
mate the loss of life mp the time they left
at two thousand.
The above message is addressed to superin-
tendent FELTON,, Dallas Texas. and comes from
Mr. Vaughan, manager of the Western Union
Office al Houston.
A bulletin tonight at 8 o'clock says that
One-haIf of the city is estimated destroyed
and not less than $500 lives lost. The
scenes north of Virginia Point are indie
scribabIe In their horror.
New-orIeans. Sept. "a second telegram to
AIIgeyer. dated Houston, 10 p. m, says:
Galveston almost totally destroyed"
Houston, Tex, sept. 9-Jnmes s. Timmins,
general superintendent of the National Com
press Company, arrived here this evening
from Galveston after rerfIOus trip. He
reports that more than one thousand people
have been drowned, killed missing, and
that four thousand houses have been de-
strOyed. He says the magnitude of the dis
aster remains to be told.
The storm that ragged along the coast Of Texas
last night was the most disastrous that has ever
visited this section. The wires are down, and
there is no way Of finding out just what has
happened, but enough is known to make IT GER
tain that there has been great loss Of life and
destruction Of property all along the coast and
for a hundred miles inland. Every town that
is reached reports one or more dead, and the
property damage is so great that there is no way
Of computing il accurately.
Galveston all day remained isolated. 'The
Houston POST and The Associated Press made
efforts TO get special trains and tugs with which
TO reach the island city. The railroad companies
declined to risk their locomotives.
All sorts Of rumors prevailed. Tt was known
that the railroad bridges across the bay at Gal
weston were either wrecked or were likely to be
destroyed with the weight Of train on them;
the approaches to the wagon bridge were gone
and the bridge was rendered useless. The bridge
Of the Galveston, Houston and Northern Rail
road IS standing, but the drawbridges over Clear
Creek and at Edgewater are gone, and the road
cannot get trains through to utilize the bridge
across the hay
A train went down the Columbia Tap road
this morning as far as Chenango Junction. The
town was greatly damaged. and the bodies Of
nine negroes were taken from the ruins Of one
house. The train could proceed no further and
came back 10 Houston. leaving the fate Of the
people at AngIeton, Columbia, Brazoria. Velasco
and Quintana uncertain.
The small town Of Brookshire, on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas. was almost wiped out
by the storm. The crew of a work train brought
this Information When the train left the bodies
Of four persons had been recovered and the
search for others was proceeding.
Hampstead across the country from Brook
shire, was also greatly damaged. but so far as
known no lives were lost
Sabine Pass has not been heard from to-day.
The last news was received from there yester-
cay morning and at that time the water was
grounding the old town at the pass, the wind
IS rising and the waves were coming high
rom the new town, which is some distance
ack. the water had reached the station and
Fas running through the streets. The people
were leaving for the high country known as the
Back Ridge and # is believed that all escaped
Two bodies have been brought in from Sea-
brooke, on Galveston Bay, and seventeen per
sons are missing there
Three persons were drowned at Morgan's
Point and others are missing. With the excep-
ton Of those Of Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Jane
Woodock the bodies OF the dead have not yet
been identified
In Houston one person was killed-Henry
Black hack driver. The property damage is
great, a conservative estimate placing it at
10000. The Merchants and Planters Oil Mil
vas wrecked, entailing a loss Of $4,000 The
Dickson Car Wheel Works suffered the ex-