The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-15

sravna ~ charge and placed her s,ms
him with al, Y Ssr s .1sa .od her to hold on to
l. Tne supreme moment ma. -. 80,
n nn peen thwarted In its ana, psno
mem. put In the struggle Charlie ,n 20 crush
nbn Iu Pesn TORN loose from his iady sr,enS
wave. up oy the raging
divine he ~ 20 once began search BY feeling ana
:, Not a nash Of lightning nor tina ,,,u
IL. aIc ileht was visible for iiha -,
NE OF this dear creature Who - Ike ne
W sne torrent waters. they had ron. su,iea
nened W 'un,su,e, r markab!e thing han.
lie Ala he mad decided to dive once m MAD
ne tEoueht to he his m,ss,,r ~. OF what
e Mns overloyed, but upon bringing her re
another. was not her, but
by this time that IL was in,ras. 30 IN depth
attempt to wade and about M. for hini
q Sop came along and no crawl. une
IN while drifting about on Il ia" W. upon
.His ,r onys from to ~ wears az p's Nc
., as rs lrall craft finally drifted - " age.
81 ,l saiety. where he ana his yo,,r 20 place
lens were rescued - A'' young compan-
~ many are the stories, so harro,,n 4,
ue'alis and so miraculous the e,canas - ~.
. present the experiences OF ffsrsn,
on the night Of the storm in MI.
"'''aet no attention, in fact, II nor.
ssSn wished TO tell OF his exnar,o,, -
an 'sson mat night he could scarceiy q "a "a
an interested listener Hni
ne SeS tbs Mr.; Fred Gladly. who live,
,utpslng MS life that fatal n ght as "A nv
w" passed through its fury in tho -
Vi uaiveston and escaped. ''' way
ahnni macy IN let Ihe Capitol hotel for home
OF the storm eie intensity
"a. Aiper an hours fighting the strong wind
ana rain and dodging falling trees and and
helse u oSiy OF a AL Kinds he arrived at hs
naoy Darricaded by a large fallen tres
NCIninK daunted, however Mr. Gladly i'm.
heeialey proceeded to make his way roma
trance there. can "n GU
ne was walking in a crouching poslt,on
Win MS head bent down so that ma wina
would not strike him squarely In tho face
i Inu was not looking ahead. therefore the
taIse cypress clstern, as II tottered on ia
Ioundatlon preparatory to being blown down
dodge 1t. wv i"'e W
:, The eistern was blown over turning twice
IN rapid succession. falling top downward
ciIactly over Mr. Gladly.
inc clstern was about one-third full OF
,waier. but as Mr.. Gladly was already
tInl8oroughly wet the water made very ltda
olierence. as II soon ran out.
NJ. Gladly called loudly fer help hut
owing to the pandemonium caused BY tre
hurricane, no one heard him.
me next morning the carpenter came to
nix the cisiern and after raising 1t dlgcov-
cred Mr.. Gladly who was nearly smoth-
cred to death.
one OF the experiences OF the storm was
that OF Miss Refine Stanton of Houston, who,
with her father and a younger sister, were
camp ng on her farm two and a half m los
from Let.tia. Tho house rolled for dis
tance of geo yards and then col apsed The
girls were rescued several hours later in
an unconscious condition, but, though quite
seriously injured, they are improving All
tho buildings on the place were wrecked.
~
You have often heard that men are fond
OF the Jug. " said one OF the refugees to
Pest man yesterday.
We'll. am fond Of two jugs, for they are
the cause of my being here today. own ID
a little shanty on the west end OF Galveston
island, and, like many others who lived
sEere, | thought and argued that we were not
IN the storm center. aud had seen the water
come up near my shanty many times before
and recede. This time watched IL, not
only come up to my little home, but into e.
After waiting patiently for 70 to go down n
Kept climbing higher and higher into Il. II
dawned upon ms all Of sudden that all
1
around for something that would bear my
weight upon the water saw in the corner
of my house two gallon jugs. took
them and securely fastened stopper In each
and got piece of rope and then fastened
them 10 my body by passing the rope around
under my arms. and securely tieing them to
each other. l then went out on the gallery
and when the crash CAME dove of into the
maddening waters. 1 suppose that was
carried about twenty miles down the island
and thpurn haCk end kuOWa how N and
inland about eight miles When became
conscious it was nearly daylight Monday
morning. walked here. whore I have some
friends. and have been recuperating.
yes believe in Jugs. at least for life
sa wing purposes only
~
An amusing incident occurred at the In
ternational and Great Northern depot yes
terday One OF the ladies' relief corps from
tie North was highly indignant and pitched
into Superintendent Trice because sleapers
were not attached to the train going down
TO Texas City.
We've rode in those Pullmans all the way
from New York, and It's a shame and an
outrage that you intend making us ride in
Il day coach now. We want those sleepers
10 live in" She was wrathy, but when the
colonel informed her that before the party
got out OF Galveston they'd have to walk
on dead bodies, wade through slush and
slime and have tough time generally she'd
think a day coach was palace, she wilted.
1t is evident that some Of the relief corps"
consider the trip pleasure jaunt. When
they have been in Galveston few days they
will probably change their minds.
~
First reports OF storm damage are always
rather exaggerated" remarked J. H. B.
House Of the Arcola plantation AT hrst
everything looks as though 1t were completely
wrecked. but after the calm comes and the
work OF Strengthening up begins 1t is aston
shire to s.e how little property really as
We had considerable damage on
Jur place. The cabins blew down ana the
convict house was uproofed. When this oc-
CURED we turned ali the conyiets out on tue
prairie and next morning all OF them yolun-
iarly reported for duty except six and they
worked like trojans assisting IN the work OF
1ieaning up. expect 10 be under fun ope'
ration In few weeks. The reported damage
on the Cunningham place has been grsatiy
None of the refinery or the
refining machinery on the Cunningham place
was damaged. The cane crop suffersd con-
siderably. but Is by no means loss. II is
nicely. Very little corn was
lost, BECAUSE most OF It was gathered.
~
Mr.. Fred Erickson. who returned from
Galveston yesterday. says he saw lady
who was drowned among the many other.
on a burial barge who had on fine
watch, diamond warnings, several dis'
mond finger rings. besides he noticed
that she wore gold clasp garters with
her name upon them.
He asked the party in charge why
al and