Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-09-10
APPALLING. PART OF GALVESTON, TEX, SWEPT AWAY BY A
 HURRICANE. HUNDREDS ARE DEAD. Loss to Property $Io,ooo,ooo Pine Blufians Are
 There.
 
HUNDREDS ARE DEAD.

Houston, .!.Tex., Sept. 10-The most appalling calamity in the his- tory of modern times has befallen Galveston. Every wi ere there ie death and rHin and desoIation. A great commercial city is striken with misfortune and her people appeal to the outside world fir help.
 Estim a tes of the loss of life vary from 600 to l, 900. Parents mourn for their children and children are made orphans by the terrible hurri- cane which swept all of south Texas Saturday and Saturday night.
 The damage 10 business end resi- denee property is beyond compute tion. The city is almost ruined. The wharf front is entirely gore Every ocean steamer is stranded The Alamo lies upon top Of the Nj allory wharf and a big English cotton laden steamer was driven ashore al Texas City. Other vessels are aground in different parts of the bay, some hopelessly wrecked. The property loss is estimated at $10,- 000, 900.
 No pen could depict or language adequately describe the hideousness of the situation. It is simply im- mebse, unparalleled, and even those who went through the experience of of the storm and survived are so dazed they can hardly realize the enormity of tie luss.
 Debris is every where. The electric light and telegraph poles are nearly all prostrated and the streets are filtered with timbers, slate, glass and every conceivable character Of debris. There Is hardly a habitable house in the entire city and nearly every business house is badly dam aged. The school buildings are High School and the Rosenberg School buildings are badly wrecked The fine churches are almost in ruins. The elevators and warehouses are unfit for use, the electric light plant has collapsed and so has the cotton factory.
 From Fremont to P street to the beach not vestige of 6 residence is to be seen.
 In the business section O the city the water was from three to ter. feet deep in stores, and stocks of g DOds of all kinds, including food stuffs, are total losses.
 To add, if possible, to he calamity the city is cut off entirely from he outsi ie world. The telegraph and telephone lines are down and the cable which connects Galveston with Mexico is cut.
 In sailing for T. xas City yesterday the Post correspondent us d strong glasses but could see nothing of any of the bridges which connect the island with the main land, but " here bridges should be an ocesn vessel WAS stranded.
 The storm com uenced raging be tween and 10 o'clock $ turday morning and by noon the water from he gulf had inundated he city as far inland as T W elf street. From there the waters gradually encroach- ed further infant, risil 2 about tif- teen inches an hour.
 At 6 ?. III, there was thiFty-sx inches of water in the boies ef the Fremont Hotel, the highest point in the city. Across the street, where the ground Is lower, hqrse was drowned.
 Al o'clock the water on Market street was level Wieh the seat I q the cars. After that it gra iu. Il reccd- ed, bat the wind was cselonic i'll its force. 1t reached vel ,city of S4 miles an hour and then the lnstru-