Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-09-10
GULF STORM!
Cityof Galveston Almost
Destroyed.
Probably Ten Thousand Peo-
pie Drowned.
Ten Million Dollars Worth Of Prop
erty Washed Into the Gulf.
TERRIBLE LOSS TO TEXAS.

Houston Tex, Sept. 1O.-Additlonal
particulars of the storm at Galveston
show that 1900 persons were drowned
and ten million dollars worth OF prop
ery destroyed There is not a building
In the city not damaged to some ex-
tent. All the bath houses on the beach
are destroyed and the attendants
drowned. Sealy hospital was destroyed
and most OF the patients drowned. The
grain elevators are destroyed. one con-
tanning one million bushels OF wheat
The Ball high school and the Resin
burg school buildings are destroyed and
many persons who had taken refuge in
them killed. Eight big steamship ports
ars all wrecked. All three Of the rail-
road bridges and the county bridge
across to the mainland at Virginia
Point were swept away, and the bridge
tenders and families drowned. The loss
of life and property Is simply appalling
The entire island was submerged and
the water was eight feet deep on Ire
mont avenue probably the highest
point in the city.
The telegraph lines are down and the
cable which connects Galveston with
Mexico is cut.
At Texas city the wharves are de-
stroyed and the water front for a mil,
is Uttered with ruins.
The storm commenced raging be
tween and 10 o'clock on Saturday
morning and by noon the waters from
the gulf had inundated the island "a
far inland as Twelfth street. From
there the waters gradually encroacheC
farther inland, rising about fifteer
inches an hour. At 8 p. m. there wer'
thirty-six inches OF water in the Hobbies
of the fremont hotel, the highest poin
In the city. At 9 o'clock the water OF
Market street was level with the seat
in the street cars. After that 1t grad
ually receded but the wind was cy
clonlc. 1t reached a velocity of eighty
four miles an hour and then the in
struments of the government observa
tory were wrecked.
Starting as soon as the water bega
to recede. the Houston Post correspond
ent with others, began resculng tn
wounded and dying from the ruins o
their homes. Screaming women. bruise
and bleeding. some bearing llfeles
forms OF children, men. broken-hearte
and bewailing the loss OF wives an
children, the streets filled with floatin
rubbish among which were many bodie
of victims OF the storm. constituted tn
scene. In every direction as far as tn
eye could reach, the scene of desola
tion and destruction continued.
The first loss Of life reported was a
Rietter'g saloon on the Strand. wher
three of the most prominent citizens c
the town lost their lives ana many 9th
ers were MANNED. The dead were Stan
ley O. Spencer, Chas Kellner an
Richard Lord. They were sitting a
a table. jocularly telling each othe
they would stay in the city. Suddenl
the roof came down with a crash, xii
ing them. Those in the lower part {
the building escaped In a miraculou
manner. The falling roof and floorin
were caught ON the bar, the peop
dodglng and resting under the debri
II required several hours hard wor
to get them out.
The next place visited was the cit
hall. Here were congregated fully Y
people more or less Injured. One ma
from Lucas Terrace reported the loss I
fifty lives In the building from whiC
he escaped
As many as sixty bodies were to
seen lying singly and in groups in n
space OF one block A report from )
Mary's infirmary shows that only eigl
persons escaped from that hospita
where the number of patients al
nurses was seldom under one hundre
Roseberg school house, chosen as Il