The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-19
TRAM OF TORNADO.
Whole Villages Swept From Face
OF The Earth.
MANAGE DONE ATGAI UECTON
DAMAGE DONE AT GALVESTON
Human Yultmes Rob Dead Bodies of
Jcwelryand Yaluables.
RELIEF TRAINS TO THE RESCUE.
Early Rumors of the Catastrophe
COMMUNICATIONS of Life Not less
Than 1000 Souls-Bodles of Vic
Tins Taken TO Sea In I3nTges
Aud Given Watery Graves
40 Prevent Pestilenpo-

Houston, Tex, Sept. 11.-Details
from the storm-swept district of Texas
hourly disclose more heartrending fea-
lures and confirm earlier rumors OF
one of the greatest catastrophes of
late years. No wire communication
is yet possible with the city of Calves
ton and the only definite news obtain
ed SO far has come by tugboats and
refugees. There seems to be no
grounds for the hope that fuller de-
tails would show a reduction IN the
number of lives lost and a conserva-
tive estimate is given at 1000 dead,
all told. The property loss is perhaps
higher than at first given.
In the city of Galveston, the dead
are being gathered up as rapidly as
possible, taken to sea on barges and
there consigned to their last resting
place. This action is necessary to pro-
tect the survivors from pestilence and
because the ground is too wet to per-
nit of digging graves. Ghouls have
been doing their work and dead bodies
are being stripped of jewelry and val
uables.
Relief trains are hurrylng forward
with supplies as rapidly as possible.
Outside Galveston smaller towns are
beginning to send in reports as tele-
graphic communication improves and
many additions to the list of dead and
property losses are received.
The railroads will suffer millions of
dollars in actual damage to say moth
ing of the loss from stOpplge from
business. The international and
Great Northern and Santa Fe have
miles of track washed out and the
bridges connecting Galveston with the
mainland must be entirely rebuilt.
Devastation ut Galveston.
Late advicCs from Galveston show
that west of Thirty-third street, the
storm swept the ground perfectly
clear of the residences that once stood
upon it and piled them up in a con
glomerated mass five blocks back on
the beach, strewing the plling with the
debris, and the bodies of many vic
tins. Many of these were lying out
in the sun and were frightful to look
upon. The fearful work of the storm
was net confined to the district along
the beach, but took in all the district
in the city, but it was near to the
beach that most destruction to human
life occurred. The waves washed
away the Home of the Homeless and
it is thought that the inmates, con-
sisting OF 10 orphans and three ma
irons were drowned. Out in the Den
yer rcsurYey the destruction was ter
rible, and 1T is thought many of the
soldiers at Fort Crockett, together with
a number of residents of that place
were among the many victims of the
storm. The government works were
greatly damaged and the buildings on
the beach were washed out into the
gulf and their occupants are thought
to have perished. In the north part
of the west end the damage was great
also, almost every building being
damaged to some eXtcnt and many are
completely wrecked. The cotton and
lumber yards which are in that sec
tion of the city were completely raZed
and much valuable machinery is ruin
ed. However, the loss of life was not
nearly SO great in that district rs it
was out towards the beach.
The Santa I"e ran its first relief
train at Hitchcock. Homeless inhabit-
ants of the section travcrscd were found
housed in empty box cars, while 9th
ers were sitting on the wreck of their
household effects piled together in
promiscuous heaps. Many sufferers
are destitute ana without means to
reach friends or relatives in other
portions of the state and will have to
be given free transportation to places
whore they are sure of obtaining shell.
ter and sustenance.
Along the Coast.
Every building in Pearland was eth.
er damaged or destroyed, but no lives
were lost there.
At Alvin, the story is also gloomy.
Besides the great damage to property,
that town has three deaths to record,
in addition to seven previously re-
ported.
Information from Angelton is that
it and the surrounding country suf-
fered severely from the storm and that
assistance is much needed.
Algoa and Alto Iona show signs of
the severe visitation and many are in
need of help. Two children lost their
lives at Alto Iona.
At Hitchcock, 16 lives were lost.
Two Italian families of 13 people lost
12 of their number by drowning. a
number of bodies floated in from across
the bay but could not be identified.
Many refugees have been picked up
here and taken to the Jacquehard
notel, WneIc Iney dIe USluS SNen
every possible attention. Many or
those refugees were suffering from in
jurles and had been in the water some
time. Most of them noated in on
drift and RATS and one came ashore
on a piano. One hundred ammunition
boxes from Camp Hawley we're found
near Hitchcock and a piledrlver from
the Huntington wharf was driven in
land to within few hundred yards OF
the town. The prairie is covered with
drift of all kinds, dead cattle, water
Iraft of all sizes, buggies, wagons and
such like. Searching parties had up
to noon found dozen bodies in Halls
bayou and buried them and the work
was not half completed. Tho railroad
track from Hitchcock to Virginia
Point has been washed away from the