Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-10
TEXAS STORM SWEPT
An Appalling Loss Of Life and Of
Property Along the Gulf
Coast.
THOUSANDS ARE DROWNED
The City Of Galveston Was Submerged by
the Waves and Is Now Mass Of
Ruins Terrible Scenes Of
Destitution.

Houston, Tex, Sept. 1O.-Additiona
particulars of the storm at Galveston
show that about 1,5OO persons were
drowned and SIC, ,OOO,O 900 worth of prop
erty were destroyed. There is not 9
building in that city not damaged tt
some extent. All the bath houses or
the beach are destroyed, and the at
tendants drowned. The Sealy hos
pital was destroyed and the patients
drowned. The grain elevators are
destroyed, one containing l,0O0,OO(
bushels of wheat. The Ball high school
and the Resinburg school buildings are
destroyed, and many persons who had
taken refuge In them killed. Eight big
steamships in the port are all wrecked.
All three railroad bridges and county
bridges across to the mainland at Vir.
ginia point were swept away and the
bridge tenders and families were
drowned. The loss OF life and prop.
erty are simply appalling. The entire
island was submerged aud the water
was eight feet deep on fremont avenue,
probably the highest point in the city.
TWO TOWNS THAT ESCAPED.
Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 10. - The
towns of Sabine Pass and Port Arthur,
news from which have been anxiously
awaited, passed through the terrific
storm on Saturday virtually unscathed.
HOUSTON WILL SEND SUCCOR.
Houston, Texas, Sept. 1O.-At an in
formal meeting held at police headquar-
ters last night it was decided to dispatch
train over the International and Great
Northern to Virginia Point at as an early
hour as supplies and volunteers could be
provided. One company of firemen, one
company of policemen and volunteers,
one yawl from the city park and lot of
smaller craft belonging to citizens of
Houston will be sent
Mayor BraShear sent out the following
circular: The damage from the storm
along the coast is reported almost beyond
description.
Hundreds of lives are said to have been
lost and many are destitute. A relief
train is being made up. am impelled
by these conditions to ask the merchants
of the city to contribute supplies for
temporary relief until an organization
can be effected.
DESTRUCTION AT HOUSTON.
Dallas, Texas, September 1O.-The
first train from Houston arrived at Dal-
las last night over the Houston and
Dallas Central. 1t loft Houston yester-
day at $50 a. m. and arrived here prac-
tcally ten hours late. When 1t left the
devastated. Buildings had been wrecked,
through the air, the electric light plant
demolished and all night long the city
had been In darkness.
AN APPALLING LOSS.
Galveston, Texas, September TO-
Six hundred to a thousand persons we're
killed and the city is almost in ruins.
The wharf front is entirely gone, and
every ocean steamer is stranded. Death
and destruction are on every hand.
With the money loss that can not be
estimated, this now Is, as far as can be
learned at this hour, the result of the
most appalling calamity that has ever
befallen Galveston.
Yesterday boat was chartered to
run from Galveston to Texas City and
on this the Houston Post correspondent
had to depart hurriedly. The object of
sending to Texas City was to ask the
people of the country to send food and
clothing. The waterwOrks are in ruins
and the cisterns are all blown away, so
lack of water is one of the most serious
of the present troubles. Ruin is every
where. There is hardly a habitable
house in the entire city. Nearly every
business house is badly damaged. The
churches are almost all In ruins.> Ele-
Nd nhnn A. fnr
and electric light plant has elapsed; so
has the cotton factory. From fremont
to P street, thence to the beach, not q
vestige of residence is to be seen. In
the business section of the city the water
was three to ten feet deep and in the
stores stocks of all kinds, including
foodstuffs, are total loss.
SCENES OF DEVASTATION.
Galveston, Tex, September 1O.-Start-
ing as soon as the water began to recede,
the Honston Post correspondent with
others began the rescuing Of the wound
ed and the dying from the ruins of their
homes. Screaming women, bruised, ,
bleeding and some bearing lifeless forms
of children, men broken hearted, bewail-
ing the loss of wives and children, streets
filed with floating rubbish among which
we're many bodies of the victims
of the storm, constituted part of
the scene. In every direction, as far as
the eye could reach, the scene of desola-
tion and destruction continued. The
first loss of life reported was at Rietter's
saloon on the strand, where three of the
most prominent citizens OF the town lost
their lives and many others we're main.
ed. The dead were Stanley G. Spencer,
Charles Kellner and Richard Lord.
They were sitting at table, jocularly
telling each other that they would stay
In the city. Suddenly the roof came
down with crash, killing them. Those
In the lower part of the building escaped
In q miraculous manner. The falling
roof and flooring were caught on the bar,
the people dodging and resting under the
debris. 1t required several hours hard
work 0get them out.
MANY DEAD BODIES.
The next place visited was the city
hall. Here were congregated fully 7O(
from Lucas Terrace reported the loss oil
fifty lives In the building from which ht
escaped. As many as sixty bodies were
10 % seeh lyins s,Hsiy "nu III sloups u
the space Of one block. A report from
st. Mary's infrmary shows that only {
persons escaped from that hospital
where the number Of patients and nursel
was seldom under hundred. TIL,
Rosenberg school house, chosen as plac,
Of refuge by the people In that locality
collapsed.
A SAD. CASE.
As Sunday dawned, the streets wer,
lined with people half clad, rippled II