The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-11


Dr. s o. Young. secretary Of the Cot
ton Exchange. was knocked senseless
when his house collapsed, but was revived
BY the water ana was carried ten blocks
by the hurricane
A woman who had just given birth TO
child was carried from her home TO a
house a block distant. the men who were
carrying her having to hold her high above
their heads as the water was hvo feet
deep when she was moved.
Many stories were current OF houses
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
y. ousley. editor OF the Evining Tribune.
had his family and the families of two
neighbOrs In his house when the lower
half eTumbled and the upper part slipped
down into the water Not one in the
house wss hurt
OF the LAvins family. six out OF seven
are reported dead.
or the Burnett family only one is known
to have been saved.
The family OF Stanley G. Spencer. who
met death in the Cotton Exchange house
saloon. IS reported to be dead;
The Mistrot House in the west end was
turned into a hospital All OF the regular
hospitals Of the city were unavailable.
OF the new Southern Pacific Works lit
tie remains but the piing Half a million
feet OF lumber was carried away and the
engineer says a. far as the company is
concerned. It might as well start over
again.
Many Vessels wrecked.
Eight ocean steamers we're torn from
their moorings and stranded In the bay.
The Kendall Castle was carried over
the na,s Of the Thirty-third street wharf
to Texas city. and lies in the wreckage
Of the Iumsn pier.
The Norwegian steamer Gy,ier is strand
81 between Texas city and Virginia
Point.
An ocean liner was swirled around
through the west hay. crashed through
the bay bridges and Is now lying in a few
feet OF water near the wreckage Of the
railroad bridges
Tho steamer Taunton was carried
across Pelican Point. and is stranded
about ten miles up the east bay.
The Mallory Line steamer Alamo was
torn from her wharf and dashed upon
Pelican fats and against the bow Of the
British steamer Red Cross. which had
previously been hurled there. The stern
of the Alamo Is stove in and the bow OF
the Red Cross is crushed.
Down the channel TO the jetties two or
three ocean steamships Ne grounded.
some schooners. barges and smaller craft
are strewn bottom side up along the slips
Of the piers. The Tug Louise of the Hous-
ton Direct Navigation Company is also
a wreck.
WIN Take a week 60 Get Details.
II viii take a week to tabuiaie the dead
and the missing and 10 get anything near
an approximate idea OF the monetary loss.
II Is safe 90 assume that one half OF the
property Of the city Is wiped out and that
one half OF the residents have to face abb
solute poverty.
At Texas city three OF che residents
were drowned. one man slipped into
well BY a mischsnoe and his corpse was
found there. Two other men ventured
along the hay front during the height OF
the storm and were killed. There are but
few buildings at Texas CITY that do not
tell the story OF the storm.
The hotel is a complete wreck. The Of
fee Of the Texas city Company was al
most entirely destroyed. Nothing remains
Of the piers except tho piIing The wreck
age from Galveston litters the beach for
miles.
The Hfeboat Of the life-saving station
was carried hoif a mile inland. while a
vessel that was anchored IN Moses Bayou
lies high and dry Ave miles up from la
MaTque.
The Galveston News asked 10 have n
announced that all the men OF its san are
safe.
STATEMENT FROM HOUSTON.
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