Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11

one Dlock. Inc majority or the bodies
that have not been recovered are un-
der the ruined houses and it will take
several days hard work to get them
out
The Dead.
The following is partial list of the
dead:
STANLEY j. SPENCER.
RICHARD LORD.
CHARLES KILMER
MRS. GAORGE BURNETT.
MRS. GEARY BURNETT and child.
MRS. JUDSON. PALMER, wife of
the secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
MRS. P. LEVIN and six children.
MRS. JOHN BOONE and three
children ----~-
CAPTAIN PIX and family
DR.. SAWYER.
MRS. M. j. O'KEEFE.
I JOE M. MCNAMARA.
I CLAUDE FORDTRAM.
| MRS. SARAH SUMNER.
MRS. GEORGE REED.
MR.. and MRS. JOHN BECKER and
four children.
A report from st. Mary's infirmary
shows that only eight persons escaped.
from the hospital, The number of pa
| tients and nurses could not be ascer-
tanned. Rosenberg school house, which
was chosen as place of refuge by
many people. collapsed. Some Of
those who had taken refuge there yes-
capped; how many cannot be told. AS
Sunday morning dawned, the streets
were lined with people half.elad and
4 crippled in every conceivable manner,
hobbling the best they could to where
they could receive the attention Of
| physicians for themselves and sum-
mon aid for friends and relatives who
could not move.
The houses of all the prominent cit
izens which escaped destruction were
turned into hospitals, as we'll as many
of the leading hotels. There is scarce
ly house left standing that does not
contain one or more dead, as well as
many injured. The loss of life among
the soldiers in the barracks, which
4 were destroyed, must have been fully
a hundred. At 1880 o'clock Sunday
morning the water had receded from
the higher portion of the city, but the
streets near the bay front still contain
ed from two and half to three feet of
water.
The Galveston News Office was flood
ed and it was impossible for the paper
to be issued. At the union depot
scenes familiar to those met with in
other portions of the city were founa.
Baggagemaster Harding picked up the
lifeless form of a baby girl within a
few feet of the station. It's parents
are supposed to be lost. The station
building had been selected as place
of refuge by large, number of people.
All the windows in the building and a
portion of the wall were blown in and
the occupants expected every moment
to be their last. Escape was imposes.
BILE for the water about the building
II u.
i On the water front the destruction OF
property was almost as great as on the
beach tho the loss Of life was not near.
ly so large. The wharves of the Nal
lory Co. and Galveston Wharf Co. are
also gone and the great wharves Of the
Southern Pacific Co. were damaged to
tho ovtont of eenn
II The Norwegian steamship Gila, the
British steamships Taunton and Mexi.
can, and another big ship are stranded
in the bay. OF the small shipping on
i ly few boats are left. The Pensaco
la was in port when the storm began
but Master Simmons put to sea in the
teeth of the brewing storm and it is
feared the boat and crew of thirty-siy
are lost. In the business portion OF
the city the damage cannot be approx
mately estimated The Wholesale
houses along the strand had about sew.
en- feet of water on their ground floors
and all the window panes and glass
protectors of all kinds were demolish
ed.
Appeal for Aid.
i New Orleans. Sept. 1O.-The follow
ing message has been received fror,
Mr.. Hayes, a newspaper correspondent
well known thruout the south:
Houston, Sept. 1O.--Just arrived
: from Galveston by boat. The storm
destroyed s1o,ooOooO worth of proper