The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-11

man. was buried IN the ruins OF the Cot
ton Exchange saloon. and when dug oct
In the morning had no further injury than
a few bruised fingers.
Or. 5. o. Young. secretary OF the Cotton
Exchange, was knocked senseless when
his house collapsed. but was revived by
the water and vas carried ten blocks by
the hurricane.
A woman who had Just given birth 10 a
child was carried from her home TO a
mouse a block distant. the men VINO were
/ carrying her having 20 hold her high
above their heads, az the water Was FIVE
feet deep when ste vas moved
siany Remarkable Escapes.
Many stories were current OF houses
falling and inmates escaping Clarence ".
Ousley. editor OF the Evening Tribune.
had his family and the families of two
neighbors in his house when the lowe.
half crumbled and the upper part slipped
down into the water Not one in the house
was nurt
OF the Lavine family, six out of seven
are reported dead.
OF the Burnett family. only one is
known 10 have been saved
The family OF Stanley @. Spencer who
met death In the Cotton Exchange saloon.
Is reported TO be dead
The Mistrot House fin the west End
was turned into hospital. All of the reg
Olar hospitals of the city were unayaila-
pie. of the new Southern Pacific works
little remains but the piling. Half a mil
lion feet of lumber was carried sy.av and
Engineer Boschke says. as far as the
company Is concerned. II might as we'll
start over again.
Eight Oceap etno,,. -
.neir moorings and stranded in the bay.
ne hendail Castle was carried over the
mats OF the Thirty-third street wharf
10 leAas City and lies In the wreckage
OF the lnman pier. The Norvegian
steamer Gyiler is stranded DetW cen
leAas City and Virginia Point. An
ocean inner was sHirled around through
.he west oay, crashed through the bay
DIlugeJ and Is now lying in d few feet
OF water near the wreckage of the rail-
Iodd brldges. The steamship Taunton
was carried across Pelican Point and is
stranded about ten miles up the east bav.
inc Mallory steamer Alamo was torn
from her wharf and dashed upon Pelican
rats and against the bow Of the British
steamer Red Cross. which had previous
y 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
other ocean steamships lie GROUNDED
Some schooners, barges, and smaller craft
are strewn bottom side up along the sims
OF the piers. The tug Louise, of the
Houston Direct Navigation Company, is
also a wreck
Will Take a Week TO Search Ruips,
IL will take week to tabulate the dead
ana the missing and to get anything near
an approximate idea of the monetary loss
1t is safe to assume that One-half of the
property OF the city is wiped out and
that one-half of the residents have to
face absolute poverty.
At Texas City three of the residents
were drowned. One man stepped into a
wei by a mischance and his corpse was
found there. Two other men ventured
along the bay 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 complete ruin. The office
of the Texas City Company was almost
entirely destroyed. Nothing remains
of the piers except the piling. The
wreekage from Galveston litters the
shore for miles and is hundred yards or
more wide
For ten miles inland from the shore il
is common sight to see small craft,
such as steam launches, schooners, and
oyster slcors. The life boat of the life
saving station was carried half a mile
inland while vessel that was anchored
in Moses bayou lies high and dry five
miles up from La Marque
tnAIVGcfnn 20 Z.
announced that all men of its staff are
safe.