The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-11

sosseesoesssses ssoeeeoe
smaller churches we're wrecked; Ball high
school building is badly damaged.
! Officer williamson and force OF men
did good work rescuing a number OF peg"
pie from the frame portion OF 81. Mary
inhrmary. over thirty persons were res
cued, but quite number perished'
mother and child a Mexican woman ana
child and an elderly woman, while making
their way to the cotton mills were
drowned. while the mill was crowded with
people the tower fell In, killing and In
Turing several persons. over 1000 persons
sought shelter in the county court house
lady and child from st. Louis, names
not ascertalned, who were visiting inc
family of Police Officer John B1we, were
lost. Mr.. Burns. mother of Motorman
Burns, and daughter were lost. Motorman
Parker. wife and children persisted. MRS
Ben Hill and child were drowned. The
three undertaking establishments are al
being utilized as morgues and a fourth
morgue was opened In large building on
Strand. Some OF the dnlymen at first re-
fused to haul over one body at time, de
handing the price OF full load for each
trip. On Sunday evening, however, the
few who made this demand agreed to
bring as many bodies as their carts would
debris 1t is extremely difficult to use any
kind of vehicles and 1t Is only possible
to use the two-wheeled carts.
Many OF those who escaped tell of thrill
ling experiences. DR.. S. o. Young, secre-
tary of the Galveston cotton exchange
lives at Twenty and Avenue Pia.
His family are in San Antonio, fact for
which he is truly thankful. He foated en-
a plank from his residence to Thirty ninth
street and Avenue NJ and says he passed
right over the Gartenverein. He WAS con-
siderably cut up with flying slate and glass
and with drift wood Mr.. and Mrs James
Irwin got out on the roof of their dwell
ling. They were seated on the side of the
comb and when the building blew over
they floated off separately on sections o
the roof. Mrs. Irwin was on the raft
alone all night Mr.. Irwin, who had
found refuge at the Ursuline convent a Vi
who despalred of seeing his Wife again,
heard cry for help, Hoping to res2u
a human being. he pulled off through the
water and was surprised and overjoyed to
find his wife still a1oat on the roof.
County Attorney Ed May, while attempt
ing to go home, was struck in the eye by
a piece of slate.
Oscar Knapp Of the firm of Knapp Broth
ers. printers, was cooped UP in the build
ing occupied by that Arm, which was pa
TALLY demo!Shed. He worked his way cut
, brick by brick and escaped at 0 O'Clock
Sunday morning.
Pilotboat Mamie Higgins, reported lest
is safe in the harbor.
The pilotboat Eclipse has been out sinct
Saturday and unheard from
The American steamship Pensacola, re-
ported to have gone down, came up to he'
berth sunday afternoon.
The city's wafer and light plant WI
blown down and the machinery is buried
| beneath the debris. Superintendent Temp
said to a reporter OF the News that tn;
. boilers are damaged but this part OF the
plant can probably be placed in working
) order in few days, 1t is impossible tc
/ Judge of the damage to the pump an,
, light machinery at this time. Major TEN
} pie says 1T might be that the pumpt
can be repaired in a few days or It nigh
be possible to secure pumps here that will
answer as makeshft Otherwise there
Will be no water in the mains for month
The water supply came fram Alto Iona
? sixteen miles fran Galveston on the man.
land. The water is still flowing into thC
: receiving tanks Mt the pumping station anC
= II Is evident that the pipe line across Gal
4 vestcn bay has not been disturbed. Tn,
K supply comes by gravity pressure, There
are not as many ciiterns in Galveston nov
{ as there were before the new water cork
b were installed and much OF the cisteri
, water hos been ruined BY the salt waite
Q hood. The supply OF fresh water Is shor
. and Major Temple advises everybody I,
a husband 1t and use It as sparingly aspos
= sible.