Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-13

"SS, esedoiisnmentS and
every structure having been either car.
ried out to sea or its ruins piled In a
pyramid far into the town, accordino
TO the vagaries of The tempest.
Inc hrst hurried glance over the city
showed that the largest structures,
supposed to be the most substantiallv
ouiit' suffered most. The Orphans
nome, Twenty-frst and Avenue NJ. fell
IKE house OF cards. How many dead
children and refugees are in the ruins
could not be ascertained.
vi the sick in st. Mary's infirmarv.
together with the attendants onlv
eight are understood to have been
saved
Inc Old Women's home, on Rosep-
berg avenue. collapsed. The Rose berg
school house is mass of wreckape.
The Ball high school is but an empty
shell, crushed and broken. Every
church in the city, with possibly one or
two exceptions, is in ruins.
AT the forts nearly all the soldier.
are reported dead, they having been in
temporary quarters which gave them
no protection against the tempest or
flood.
Inc bay front from end to end is in
ruins Nothing but piling and the
wreck of the great warehouses remain.
The elevators lost all their superworks
and their stocks are damaged by water.
The life'saving station at Fort Point
was carried away, the crew being swept
across the bay fourteen miles to Texas
City.
The shore at Texas City contains
enough wreckage to rebuild a city.
Eight persons who were swept across
the bay during the storm were picked
up there alive. Five corpses were also
picked up. There were three fatalities
in Texas City.
In addition to the living and dead
which the storm cast up at Texas City,
caskets and coffins from one of the
cemeteries at Galveston are being
tished out of the water there.
OF the new Southern Pacific works
little remains but the pilng. Half a
million feet of lumber was carried
away and Engineer Hoschke says that
as far as the company is concerned Il
might as well start over again. Eight
ocean steamers WIRE torn from their
moorings and stranded in the bay.
1t will take week to tabulate the
dead and missing and to get anything
near an approximate idea of the loss.
1t is safe to assume that one-half of
the property of the city is wiped out
and that one-half of the residents will
have to face absolute poverty.
There are few buildings mt Texas
City that do not tell of the storm. The
hotel is complete ruin. The office of
The Texas City company has some OF
the walls standing with all of the
upper walls stripped off, Nothing re-
mains OF the piers except the piling.
The wreckage from Galveston litters
the shore for miles and is a hundred
yards or more wide.
For ten miles inland from the shore
1t is common sight to see small craft,
such as steam launches, schooners and
oyster sloops.
Governor Sayers in an interview
said: II think it is the most deplor-
able catastrophe in the history of
America, and feel that every possible
aid should be lent to the sufferers in
The hour of great need. From infor.
nation received | am led to think that
hundreds of families have either lost
their dear ones or have been bereft of
heir homes, and the case is one that
will certainly appeal to every one.
have taken active steps to raise
'elief for every one that can possibly
De looked after. l have wired all the
,ity Mayors and all the county Judges,
lsking them to secure all funds and
provisions possible, and their replies
ire very gratifying"
Some estimates place the mum Der .of |
ives lost as high as 5000, and very few |
,lace IL below 1000. 1