Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-13
THE GALVESTON HORROR.

THE GALVESTON HORROR.
In loss of life and property the Calves
ton calamity is the most terrible recorded
in the annal of the nation.
Very few of the great battles of the
war of the rebellion approached in the
destruction of human life the tidal wave
which rushed upon the shore near the
beautiful Texan metropolis and left in
its wake such a scene of desolation that
the country has not yet realized it's hor-
ror nor conceived it's extent.
Who shall ever describe that carnival
of death? Who, except the victims of it.
could possibly comprehend it's vast and
deadly scope? Think of 10000 people
: peacefully engaged in their usual avoca-
tons, many of them asleep, all of them
without thought of danger. suddenly i'm
mersed in an oncoming wave of %irresis-
tible force and volume, II in a moment
whirled from the absolute security OF
homes, streets and business finding
themselves struggling for life in the
midst of an angry flood of the ocean!
Think of thousands of human beings
washed off their feet by a mad rush of
water, sweeping AVA houses, fences.
cattle, everything that could swim or
float. while the roar of the winds pune
the drowning added indescribable terrors
to the storm. Surely mortal mind can
not grasp the awfulness of such a scene
nor find words of Christian solace on such
an occasion.
In Montana on the tops of glorious
mountains, safe from tidal waves and
prairie cyclones we seem not to compre-
bend what has happened in our sister
state or why cities are built where they
can be washed away in a moment, but
on that account we should be no
the less generous in doing all
in our w to relieve the suf-
ferers. Butte, the most fortunate city
in the United States should not hesitate
another hour in fastening to the relief of
the most unfortunate. If the mines of
Butte should open and swallow ten thou
sane of our people we should have an
idea of what has happened at Galveston.
But surely the details as furnished by the
Associated Press have been sufficiently
vivid to arouse every generous emotion
in the hearts of the people of Montana.
Let us to the rescue. Let the mayor re-
ceive subscriptions.
The CITY of Galveston was founded IN
1888, on the extreme east end of the
Island of Galveston, which lies very
close to the mainland. 1t is well built
up, having streets lined with semi
tropical trees, numerous beautiful parks
and many fine buildings. Its population
is about 81, 900. The harbor is excellent,
though not deep. The government has
spent millions of dollars for it's improve
ment with a view of makiniy it a great
grain and cotton shipping point. It's
cotton trade is tremendous, half the
product of Texas and much of that of
Arkansas, Indian territory and Louisiana
going there for shipment. It's manufac-
turing facilities are important, consist
ing chiefly of cotton mills with 30, 200
spindles), cottonseed oil factories, a bag
ging factory, cotton compressors, ETC.,
the total annual alu of whose product
is about $12. 900, 900. The city's chief OBJ
ject of interest is the harbor ~jetties, con-
structed of stone dumped in parallel
ines six miles out to sea. They are fifty
feet wide at the bottom and five feet at
the top, where they protrude five feet
above low tide. Within the jetty lines
the water is now twenty-one feet deep.
Whether or not the jetties have been de-
stroyed by the storm which wrought so
much havoc is not known.