The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-10

the Rosenberg school building whlthe
he had gone to attend to some one who
was reported to be injured.
AS soon as daylight came and the fury
of The wind had abated the work Of rescue
and searching for the dead commenced.
In one room The Post reporter counted
seven dead bodies
The fremont hotel was converted into
rendezvous for the living. The women
and children slept in the dining room and
parlors and the men lay on the floors and
in Railways
The first house to collapse was new
three-story brick, known as the Dolitz
building.
Next the Ritter saloon. two-Atory
brick. fell with a crash, killing three OF
the most prominent men in Galveston.
Stanley, agent of the German Lloyd
Steamship company, and Richard Lord
and Charles Kilmer. the latter cotton
man
At noon the big wagon bridge went
down, and it is thought the othor bridges
are totally or almost totally wrecked.
AT Webster the wind had completely d.
molished half the houses in the town and
one house was turned completely bottom
side up, resting on its peak.
At Cedar Creek stores and residences
had been blown down and at Dickinson the
havoc was almost complete, SIX persons
were killed and number of dead cattle
lined the side Of the track. having been
killed by flying timber
The prairie was covered with water
and tubs, buckets, doors and timber. which
had been carried several miles by the
wind, were in evidence.
Refugees from Virginia say every
thing there was swept away and that the
beach there was strewn with pianos and
household effects from Galveston
One party says he saw six dead bodies
on the beach, but this was not confirmed.
All kinds OF wild and evidently unre-
liable rumors are in circulation.
This story Mr.. South wrote before he
left Galveston in the hope of getting 1t
through by some means; there seemed
to be no chance for getting out but he
had story ready in case there was;
Galveston, Texas, September 9.-The
meet terrific storm in tho history of this
city struck here in full force about 1880
p. m. yesterday afternoon and ragged with
undated violence until 800 The wind
reached a velocity of eighty four miles
per hour when the gage broke In the
weather bureau. The waves of the bay and
gulf met in the west end Of the city about
o'clock and by o'clock the water was
about for feet deep all over the island. AT
6 O'Clock the water was twenty-six
inches deep in the lobby OF the fremont
hotel, while the water on the streets was
from eight to fourteen feet in depth.
The loss of life and property can NOT
be estimated and the scenes of desole-
tion and distress oeggars description.
Fully IS per cent of the buildings in the
city are more or less damaged. ana he
loss of life will be appalling. Whole fami.
4 lies and communities are being taken
from the debris. and each minute brings
the discovery of some new victim. o.
the gulf side on fremont street the wa
ter has made a clean sweep of everything
for distance Of three blocks. The olym-
pia, Murdoch and all the bath houses ana
residences along the beach are gone. and
mas blocked the approaches of the streets
to the gulf
{ About thousand people took refuge in
the fremont hotel and all these escaped
injury. though the building was damaged
to the extent of several thousand dollars.
The Dulita building three-story brick