The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-11

tElVpttus \ 10 nova ltiA a hlAlut AOhAN |
one inch deeD over the whole city, and
unless fast work is done burying corpses
aud cArcAsses OF animals there Is danger
OF pestilence.
Some of the stories OF the escapes are
miraculous. william Nisbett. cotton
man. was buried In the ruins Of tho Cot
ton Exchange saloon and when dug out
IN the morning had no further injury |
than the bruising OF few fingers. pr.
s o. Young. secretary OF the cotton cx- |
change was Knocked senseess when his |
house collapsed. but was revived by the
water and was carried ten blocks by the
hurricane
A woman. who had Just given birth to
a child. was carried from her home TO
a house a block distant the men who
were carrying her having TO hold her
high above their heads as the water was
Ave feet deep when she was moved
Many stories were current OF houses
falling and inmates escaping. Clarence
y. Ousley editor OF the Evening Tribune,
had his family and the families of Two
neighbors In his house when the lower
hair 6rumhled and the upper part slipped
down into the water. Not one In the
house was hurt. OF the La Vine family,
six out OF seven are reported dead. OF
the Burnett family only one is known TO
have been saved. The family OF stanley
c. Spencer. who met death in the Cot
ten Exchange saloon. is reported to be
all dead.
The Mistrot house in the West End
was turned into hospital All the rog
uiar hospitals OF the city were unaNati-
eble, or the new Southern Pacific wosks
/ little remains hut the piling. laif n
million feet OF lumber was carried away,
and Engineer Bosehke says as far as the
company is concerned 1t might as Well
start all over again.
/ Eight ocean STEAMERS were torn from
! THAR lin stranded lNeI
1 BAY The Kendall Castle was carried
\ over the fats from the Thirty third
| street wharf TO Texas City and lies in
the wreckasc OF the lnman pier, lhn
Norwegian steamer Gyllee is stranded be-
/ tween Texas City and Virginia Point. AZ
ocean liner was swirled around through
| the west bay. crashed through the bay
bridges and is now lying in few feet
I OF water near the wreck of the railroad
bridges. The steamship Taunton was
carried across Pelican island and IS
stranded about ten miles UP the cast
( bay. The Mallory steamer Alamo was
( torn from her wharf and dashed ufoA
Pelican flats against the bow Of The Brit
lsh steamship Red Cross. which had pre-
viouslY been hurled there. Tho sto"n Of
/ the Alamo is stove in. and the bow OF
| the Red Cross crushed. Down the chan
mel to the ietties two other ocean steam
, ships lie grounded. Some schOoncrs,
tom side up along the slips OF the I'cIs.
/ The tug Louise OF the Houston Direct
Navigate company was caps Eel neas
Texas City; two Of the crew wer;
drowned.
1 1t will take a week to tabulate the dead
and the missing and 10 get anything
near an approximate Idea OF the none
tary loss. II is safe TO assume that one
half of the property of the city is wiped
out and that half Of the residents
have to face absolute poverty.
Al Texas City three of the residents
were drowned. One mau stepped into Il
we'll by mischance and mis- corpse was
found there. Two other men veuturcd
along the bay front during the height OF
the storm and were killed. There are Il
few buildings at Texas city that do not
tell the story OF the storm The hotel
Is complete ruin. Tho Office OF the
Texas City company has some OF the
walls standing with all the upper works
r stripped on Nothing remains OF the
Imam compress except q little OF the
, heavier machinery. Most of the buiid-
ings are in a state OF collapse. Nothing
remains OF tho piers except the pilinG.
The wreckage from Galveston filters the
shore for miles and is hundred yards
or more wide.
For ten miles in from the shore It ia
a common sight TO see small craft such
, as steam launches. schoouers and oyster
sloops The life boat OF the life saving
. station was carried half a mile inland.
while n vessel that was anchored In
Moses bayou lies high and dry five miles
up from La Maruue.
Tho Galveston News asked 10 have
Il announced that all the men Of It's stan
are safe. The families OF Proof Readers
Woodward and Coates. however are lost.
All OF tho employees Of The Tribune are
? believed to have been saved.
' Ten were reported dead at Dickinson
yesterday and every little town has its
D tale of horror. Five miles Of the La Porte
t track, just north of Texas City junction
. were submerged yesterday. All the draw
g br dyes between Virginia Point and Gal
! weston are gone. The county bridge, which
. cost $26j.000 and which Is the ongeet
= wagon structure In the world, collapss d
before the storm got real good Roadway.
D An ocean steamship powed its way
: through the piing of two of the oth
u bridges. IS far as is known all the
bridge tenders are dead
The first vessel to leave Galveston after
the storm contained a party delegated to
. inform the outside world Of the caihs-
trophe and to ask for help. II consisted
!. OF Lieutenant ]. ]. De Laney OF the South
! ern Pac nc, Il. G. Cox OF the firm o.
:, Thomas Taylor & Co, e, l.. Porch Of
+, Wells & Porch Tom S3uth, Galveston cor
respondent OF j ne IlOhAAOH IbalI huh ~
a Spillane OF the Galveston Tribune. Their
d boat was the steam yacht Pherabe owned
). by Colonel W. L. Moody, and the crew was
q made up OF volunteers. Lawrence V.
h Elder superintendent Of the Galveston
a Cotton mills, acting as engineer, and all
2. hands being stokers The trip across the
s bay was one Of the most tempestuous i'm
aginable. squat struck the bay Just
@ as the Pherabe got out in the channel
: and from the Galveston wharSes TO Texas
: City the boat was one time pointed to-
J. ward the sky and the next moment to-
. ward the bowels Of the earth The en-
. glneeT declined TO take HE boat any fur
!. Their than Texas CITY. declaring that she
y could not live in such sea. Lieutenant
= De Laney, who was an officer in the
: Japanese navy and commanded one OF the
+ wanships in the battle of the Yalu rivel
" and was later lieutenant in the United
4 States navy, said the trip across the by
was far more desperate struggle for lie
+, than that during the hurricane OF tbs
II night before and he also said that in al
s his experiences at sea he never knew of I
Y. craft surviving through such strain
u To get into Texas City we had 10 breal
away through a lot of wreekage and ther
IS had to make our way for nifty or seventy
1t five feet walking on wreckage before 80
y could get TO shore From Texas City Il