The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-09-14
WRECK and RUIN IN GALVESTON.
Waters of Gulf and Bay Rose,
Moved Together and Met Over
City.

Houston, Tex, Sept. 1O.-Mr.
Richord Spillaue, a well known newe-
? poy u:aa and day correspondent. Of
de Associated Press ia that city. who
reached Houston today, after ~. BIZ
cNpc'i2uce, gives tho following sc.
c2un. of the disaster AZ Galveston:
One Of the most awfrltiagedies Of
mOdcrn times has visited Galveston.
The CITY is in ruins and tho dead Will
number cne thousand. I am just from
the city, having been commissioned Iv
the mayor and citizens committee 10
get il touch with the outside world
and appeal for help.
Houston was the nearest poin! IT
which work ug telegraph Instruments
could be found, the wires as we'll as
uear!y all the buildings between here
and the Gulfof Mexico being wrecked.
When 1 left Galveston shortly before
hoon yesterday the people were organ
lied tjr the prompt burial Of the dead,
distribution of food and ell necessary
work sitter period of disaster.
The storm began at 2 o'clock Sat
urday morning. Previous to that q
grcat storm hai been raging in the
guif and the tide was very high. Tie
wind at fifsS came from the north and
was in direct opposition to the fore,
from the gulf. While the storm in
the frs: part piled the water upon the
leach side of the city, the north wind
piled the water on the bay part of the
city.
About noon it became evident that
the city was going to be visited with
disaster. Hundreds of residences
along the beach front were kurriedly
| abandoned, the families fleeing to the
dwellings in the higher portions of the
city:
Very few if any buildings escaped
ujury. There is hardly a habilable
!ry house in the city. When the peo.
10 who had escaped death went cut
at daylight 10 view the work of the
tempest and the floods they saw the
most horrible sights Imaginable. In
the three blocks from Avenue n to
Avenue P in fremont street l saw
ei5ht bodies. Four corpses were iii
ono yard.
The whole Of the business front for
.ar=e tiocks in from the gulf was
stripped ofevery vestige of habitat;on,
the dwellings the great bathing estab.
lishnents, the Olympia and every
structure having either been carried
ont TO sea or its ruins piled in q pyra.
mid far in tue town, according to the
vagaries of the tempest.
The Orphans Home, Twenty. first
street and!Avenue NJ, fell like a house
ot cards. How many dead children
and relugoes are in the ruins cannot
! BE. ascertained.
| OF the sick in St. Mary'S Infirmary
togother with the attendants only
eight are understood to have been
! slved.
The Old Woman's Home on R9sen-
5urg avenue collapsed snd the Rogcn.
burg school house is a mass of wreck,
age. The Ball high school is but ali
ompty shell, crushed and broken,
Every church in the city, with uossi
by one or two exceptions is in ruins
AT the forts nearly all the soldier;
are reported dead they haxja" gsVe
N NJ Ieln nS protection from the tempes
Ok The ,+s boy from: from end to end is II
rr;rp Nothing but piling and In
wreck cf great warehouses remaiI III,
| rho elevators lost all their superworR
I'D tbeir rocks are damaged by wate
The life saving station at Fort row
!. ,sas carried away, the crew pgll n
y sw.,t w across the bay IA miles 10 10
as City. c;,u ooptai
ngh wreckage to rebuild INC ~, W
E;rht persons who we're swept aoi "
~ tbe h.y during the storm were plch
,o, Sn' "m +hero alive. Five corpses W
Vs. UP, up licked up. There were tn
III fsto,iues in Texas City: In aoui'
rry ,"' ,a ,ba living and the dead when
ou! ~ S.orm cast up in Texas CITY cas-, cas-
T"I !; - a~d cofins from one of the ceme'e u
'h3t t,., ~ m Galveston were being hsheo o'
d to Il the water there yesterday, .,
the '"S Ths cotton mills, the baggiing
ao s2o tory, the gas works, the . electro irIn,
here WORKS ahus o;ther wreck
the Embellishments arc 80 1.-Two
for crippled. The tooo leiC =
deed. ,ne inch deep over the whoi'
prices "a unlssa fast progress ID MAJ
.rS pre- e. bursing corpses and carcassas o,
Try " LII .is there ia danger OF pestilenc