The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-11
OVER FIFTY TOWNS RUINED

ern part OF the city was under ten feet of
water and the barracks, located there.
are destroyed. the soldiers having a mir
acuIous escape. from drowning Many
substantial residences In the western and
southwestern part of the city were de-
stroyed and the death list from there
viii be large.
a heavy mortality list is expected
among the residents down the Strand
and adjacent to the coast on the main
land. as both were deeply flooded and
the houses We're to a great extent inse-
cure The heaviest losers by the storm
viii be the Galveston Wharf company,
the Southern Pacific railway and Gulf.
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway COM
pany and the Texas Lone Star FIGURING
company.
RAILROADS LOSE MILLIONS.
Houston. Tex, Sept 1.-THE railroads
Will suffer the loss of millions Of dollars
in actual damage to say nothing of the
loss from stoppage Of business At CAL
and tracks are ruined The costly bridges
which connect with the island are in
ruins and must be entirely rebuilt
The International and Great Northern
and Santa Fe have considerable track
washed out while the Galveston, Hous-
ton & Northern viii suffer heavily
Superintendent AIulvey has received
notice that all the track between Sea-
brooke and Virginia Point with all of
the bridges has been washed away and
Section Foreman Seaman and all his
crew at Nadeau were lost
SOLDIERS ALL SAFE
washington. Sept u-Adjutant Cen
eraI Corbin has received a dispatch from
Captain Rafferty,. commanding battery
o. First artillery stationed at Galveston,
Tex dated Sunday, September 3. 1t re-
ports no loss of life in his command but
says that the records of the post have
been destroyed and asks for duplicate
records from the war department.
GROUND SWEPT CLEAN
E4o11Stor TTek Sent Additional
details by tug frord Galveston show that
west OF Thirty-third street the storm
swept the ground perfectly clear of the
residences that once stood upon 1T and
piled them up in a conglomerated mass
i've blocks beyond the beach. strewing
the piIing with the debris and bodies OF
victims The fearful work of the storm
was not confined 10 the district along
the beach but took in all the city dis
trict and the Denver Re-survey. hut If
was in the vicinity of the beach that the
most destruction to human life occurred
The waves washed away the Home for
the Homeless and it is thought that the
inmates, 13 orphans and three lady mat
rons were drowned The government
works were greatly damaged In the
north part of the west end the damage
was great also. almost every building
being damaged to some extent and many
were completely wrecked
4ae COtIOQ ana IQn0er YARDS WNlcQ
are in that section Of the city were COM
pletely destroyed and much valuable
T77arGfnerv is ruined However. the loss
OF life was not 90 heavy in that district
Al q IOcai undertaking glisnmenr
in Houston are resting the remains Of
five Houston people who perished at
Seabrook in Saturdays hurricane They
are
Mrs. c. H Lucy. her two small chill
dren-
The f7ve-year-0ld son Of David Rice
The latter was visiting the family Of
Mrs McIIhenny at the time of the dis
aster.
All of the bodies are so badly mangled
as 10 make it difficult TO identify them
They were washed ashore near Seabrook.
TENTS AND RATIONS.
Washington, Sept n.-Orders have
been issued by the war department for
$50 tents and $4,000 rations- These stores
and supplies are divided between St
Louis and San Antonio and probably
will be delivered tonight or tomorrow
as the government has on hand at the
places named but it is stated at the de-
partment that the order could be dupli-
Gated in a day.
DEAD ESTIMATED AT 1000
Houston, Tex, Sept "details from
the storm swept district of Texas hourly
disclose more heart rending features and
confirm early rumors Of one of the
greatest cataStrOpheS of late years. NO
wire communication is yet possible with
mite news obtained 50 far has come by
tug boats and refugees
There seems TO be no ground for the
hope that fuller details would show
reduction in the number of lives lost and
a conservative estimate is given at 900
dead. all told The property loss is per-
haps even higher than at first given.
In the city of Galveston, the dead are
being gathered up as rapidly as poSsi-
bic, taken to sea on barges and there
consigned to their last resting place
This action is necessary to protect the
is too wet to permit of digging of
graves
Ghouls have begun their work and
bodies are being stripped OF their vaIu-
ables-
Relief trains are hurrying forward
with supplies as rapidly as possible
Outside Galveston smaller towns are
beginning to send in reports as teIe-
graphic communication improves and
many additions to the list of dead and
property losses are received Richmond
and Hitchcock each report 16 lives lost
Alta Iona, Arcadia, Velasco Sea brooke
BelevflIe, ArCOla and many other towns
have from one to eight dead In most OF
these places many houses have been to-
tally destroyed and thousands of head of
hive stock killed The railways alone VIII
suffer millions OF dollars in actual dam
age TO say nothing Of the loss from stop
page OF business. The International and
Great Northern and Santa Fe have miles
OF track washed out and the bridges
connecting Galveston with the mainland
must be entirely rebuilt
PATH OF DESTRUCTION
Included More Thar Pifsx- T,o1ns .ra