The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-09-11
GALVESTON STRICKEN.
dences, Were Destroyed BY
tie West India Storm.

HoStCn. lex, Sept. 1O.-Ihe first
news t. reach this city from the
stricken city of Galveston was re-
ceived Sunday night. James c. Tim
minis, Who resides in Houston, and
who is the general superintendent of
the National Compress Co., arrived in
the city at s o'clock Sunday night
from Galveston. He was one of the
first to reach here with tidings of the
great disaster which has befallen that
city and the magnitude 1of that dis
aster remains to be told because of
his endeavors to reach home. After
remaining through the hurricane on
Saturday he departed from Galveston
on a schooner and came across the
bay to Morgan's Point, where he
caught a train for Houston. The hur-
ricane, Mr.. Timmins said, was the
worst ever known.
The estimates made by citizens of
Galveston was that 1900 houses, mose
of them residences, have been de-
stroyed, and that at least 1000 people
have been drowned, killed or are miss
ing. Some business houses were also
destroyed, but most of them stood,
though badly damaged.
The City a Complete Wreck.
The city, Mr.. Timmins AYERS, is a
complete wreck so far as he could
see from the water front. Water was
blown over the island by the hurri-
cane, the wind blowing at the rate
of so miles an hour straight from the
gulf and forcing the sea water before
it in big waves. The gale was steady
one, the heart of it striking the city
about o'clock Saturday evening and
continuing without intermission I'M
til midnight Saturday night, when it
abated somewhat, although it con-
tinued to blow all night.
Galveston Submerged.
The city of Galveston, he says, is
now entirely submerged and cut off
from communication. The boats are
gone, so the railroads can not be OPP
Grated, and the water is so high peo-
pie can not walk out by way of the
bridge across the bay, even should
that bridge be standing. Provisions
will be badly needed, and a great
many of the people lost all they had.
The water works power house was
wrecked, and a water famine is
threatened, as the cisterns were all
ruined by the overflow of salt water.
This Mr.. Timmins regards as the most
serious problem to be faced now.
The city is in darkness, the electric
plant having been ruined.
There is no way of estimating the
property damage at present. So far
as he could see or hear, Mr.. Timmins
says, the east end portion of the city,
which is the residence district, has
been practically wiped out OF exist
ence. On the west end, which faces
the gulf on another portion of the
island, much havoc was done. The
beach has been swept clean, the bath
houses are destroyed and many of
the residences are total wrecks.
Nearly 5000 Lives Lost.
Memphis, Tenn, Sept. 1O.-A spe-
cial to the Commercial Appeal from
New Orleans says: "Advices regard
ing the awful effects of the storm
which has been raging along the gulf
coast of Texas are just beginning to
arrive, and the story they tell is
fraught with horror. First in i'm
portance is the news that Galveston
was struck by a tidal wave and that
the loss of life there was between
$500 and 1900. The water is Is feet
deep over Virginia Point. Telegraph
wires are down to Port Lavaca, Rock
port, Arkansas Pass, Corpus Christi
and Brownsville, on the lower coast,
and grave fears are entertained re-
garding the safety of the inhabitants
Of tboSa TOWNS