Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-09-13
A CITY SUBMERGED.
Awful Hurricane Visits Galveston.
Causing Great Loss of Life.
First Report Said Over 200 People Were
Killed and 1000 Houses Were De-
strOyed = Later Accounts May
Swell the Death List.

Saturday night was the most disas-
trous that has ever visited this sec
ton. The wires are down and there
is no way of finding out just what has
happened, but enough is known to
make it certain that there has been
great loss Of life and destruction of
property all along the coast and for
100 miles or so inland. Every town
that is coached reports one or
more dead and the property damage
is so great that there is no way of
computing it accurately.
Galveston remains isolated The
Houston Post and the Associated
press correspondents made efforts to
get special trains and tugs yesterday
with which to reach the island city.
The railroad companies declined to
risk their locomotives.
A train went down the Columbia
Tap road yesterday morning as far
as Chenango Junction. The town was
greatly damaged and the bodies of
nine negroes were taken from the
ruins of one house. The train could
proceed no further and came back
to Houston, leaving the fate of the
people at Angleton, Columbia, Bra
fora, Velasco and Quintana uncer-
tain.
The small town of Brookshire on
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas was al
most wiped out by the storm. The
crew of a work train brought this
information. When the train left there
the bodies of four persons had been
recovered and the search for others
was proceeding. Hampstead, across
the country from Brookshire, was
also greatly damaged, but so far as
known no lives were lost.
Sabine Pass was not heard from yes
terday. Saturday the last news was
received from there and at that time
the water was surrounding the old
town at the pass and the wind was
raising and the waves coming high.
From the new town, which is some
distance back, it was reported that
the water mad reached the depot and
was running through the streets.
The people were leaving for the high
country known as the back ridge and
it is believeWd that all escaped.
Two bodies have been brought in
from Seabrooke on Galveston bay and
II persons are missing there. Three
persons were drowned at Morgan's
the exception of those of Mrs Mich
olson and Mrs. Jane Woodlocl< the
bodies of the dead have not yet been
identified.
In Houston one person was killed,
Henry Black, a hack driver. The
property damage is great, conserv-
ative estimate placing it at $250,0OO
The Merchants and Planters oil mill
o.
600. The Dickson car wheel works
suffered to the extent of $4,000. The
big Masonic temple, which is the
property o. the grand lodge of the
state, was partly wrecked. Nearly
every church in the city was dam
aged. The First Baptist, Southern
Methodist and Trinity Methodist, the
latter a negro church, will have to be
rebuilt before they can be used again.
Many business houses were unroofed.
The residence portion of the town
presents a dilapidated appearance,
but the damage in this part of the
city has not been so great as in some
others.
The town of Alvin is reported prac-
tically demolished and Alta Iona has
rot house standing. Hitchcock and
Pearl have also suffered severely. A
Santa Fe -rain was literally lifted
from the track near Alvin and pas
senger was killed and several others
injured.
The streets are almost impossible.
because of the litter of shade trees.
fences, telephone wires and poles.
Report That $500 Are Dead at Galveston.
Chicago, Sept. 1O.-A dispatch to
the Chronicle from San Antonio, Tex,
says: The startling news has just
flashed over the wires informing
Gov. j. d. Sayers that a messenger
at great risk of hs life has reached
Virginia point from Galveston with
the report that $500 are probably
DEAD as a result of the fearful storm.
An urgent appeal to all Texas for help
was made. The messenger said that
the grain elevators at the water front
are wrecked and hundreds of build
ings have collapsed or were carried
out to sea- The greatest distress is
said to prevail.
Awful Effects of the Storm at Galveston.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 10.--James G..
Timmins, general superintendent of
the Natio AL Compress company, has
Just arrived from Galveston after a
perilous trip. He reports that more
than 100 people have been drowned,
killed or missing and over 1000
houses have been destroyed. He says
the magnitude of the disaster re
mains to be told.
DIspsat en- from GOV. Savers
New York, Sept. 1O.-The World this
morning printed the following dis
patch from Austin, Tex, signed by
Gov. Sayers: Information has
just reached me that about 5000 lives
have been lost at Galveston, with