Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-09-10


ports received indicated those two Sec
tions suffered the same fate the rest
Of the city had and TO possibly a
greater degree. Fifteen men consti-
tuting all that remained of the com
pany Of regular. soldiers stationed al
Beach barracks, were marched down
Market street. The loss Of life among
the soldiers at the barracks. which
were destroyed, must have been fully
100. At 1880 Sunday morning the
water har decided from the higher
portions OF the city. The wharves ol
the Mallory company were complete
ly destroyed. The big steamship
alamo" is lying among the ruins oi
the pier. The wharves of the CAL
weston wharf company are also gone
The great wharyes of the Southern
Pacific Co. are damaged to the
amount of 100000. The Norwegian
steamship "Gila," engaged in Cuban
trade, was stranded up the bay be
yond. The British steamship 'Taun
ton" is lying on Pelican island fast
aground. The Mexican" a big Brit
ish steamer, is fast stuck in the mud
Another big ship is lying out near the
quarantine station. Kendall Castle
has been driven as far up as Texas
City where she is stranded OF the
small shipping boats only few are
left.
Telegraph lines are down, the cable
which connects Galveston with Mex
leo is cut.
Galveston, Sept. 10-Following is q
partial list of the dead: Stanley G
Spencer, Richard Lord, Charles Xii
mer, Mrs. Geo. Burnett, child, Mrs
Geary Burnett and child, Mrs. Jud
son Palmer, wife of the secretary Of
the Y. M. c. A., Mrs. P. Levine and
six children, Mrs John Boone, and
three children, Captain PIX and fam
lily, DR.. Sawyer, Mrs. M. J. O'Keefe
Joe M. Mcnamara, Mrs, Claude Ford
tram, Mrs. Sarah Sumner, Mrs. George
Reed, Mr.. and Mrs. John Becker and
four children.
Houston, Tex.s Sept. 10-Addition-
al particulars of the storm at Gal
weston show about 1900 persons
drowned and ten millions dollars
worth of property destroyed. There
is not building in the city not dam
aged to some extent. All the BATH
houses on the beach were destroyed
and the attendants drowned. The
Sealy hospital was destroyed and pa
tients drowned. Grain elevators were
destroyed, one containing 1000 O0(
bushels of wheat. The Ball higf
school and Resinburg school buildings
were destroyed and many persons who
had taken refuge in them killed
Eight big steamships in the port were
all wrecked. All three railroad bridges
and the county bridge across to The
mainland at Virginia Point were
swept away. The bridge tenders ant
families drowned The -lsss of lif,
and property is simply appalling. Til,
entire island was, submerged and ths
water was eight feet deepsat Tremon
avenue, probably the highest point il
the city.
| At Texas City the wharves are de
stroyed and the water front for a mil,
is Uttered with ruins The storm
commencedsFag between 8 and Il
o'clock Saturday morning. BY noon tn,
waters from the Gulf had inundate,
the island as far inland as aTwelftl
street. From there the waters gradu
ally encroached farther inland risin
about fifteen inches an hour. At I
m. there were thirty-six inches of wa
ter in the lobbies of fremont hote
the highest point in the city. At
O'Clock the water ON Market street wa
level with the street cars. After tha
| it gradually receded but the wind wa
cyclonic with it. 1t reached a velot
ity of eighty-four miles an hour, the
the instruments of the government oil
seryatory were wrecked.
Houston, Texas, Sept. 1O-A tropica
hurricane swept this city oaturda
night and part of Sunday. 1t is est
mated the damage amounts to $4,000
One life was lost, a colored man bein
killed by falling timber The street
are strewn with the wreckage Tt
Masonic temple, four stories high,
a wreck. The school house is DANA,
ed $4,000. Several churches al
damaged. The Capital hotel sustain
ed damages of $4,000 4 large po
tion of the building was unroofed. Tt
Lawler hotel was damaged $1,000
Hutchin's hotel lost part of the roo
damage 100000 Not house escape
! damage. The Merchants and Plan
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