The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-21

Houston. Texas, July 21,-Reports
of a storm of hurricane proportions at
Galveston have reached here over d
telephone line. All wires are reported
down. Two bathing pavilions are said
to have been wrecked and Bettison's 5
fishing piers were swept away. The
surf is jumping over the sea walls In
several places. The wind has reached
q velocity OF sixty miles an hour.
The appearance of the storm along
the gulf coast was indicated before
daylight this morning. and at o'clock
the wind was blowing at the rate Of
- forty-five miles an hour. Later 1t In
creased in velocity, but dispatches
from Galveston up TO 1890 a. m. did
no. indicate any damage in that city
and narbor.
Shortly after that hour, the tele-
graph companies reported all wires in
10 Galveston had been lost, and the
only means OF communication was over
single telephone wire.
Over this circuit 1t was learned that,
at ] o'clock, the wind had attained a
velocity OF sixty miles. and there has
been some damage along the beach. In
addition 10 the wrccking Of the bath
ing pavilous. It Is reported that three
sections OF the railroad bridge were
damaged. and no trains can so or como
urt OF the city.
A fishing sloop, hurled by the wind,
broke through the center OF the bridge
between the mainland and Galveston,
Sestroying all wires. The reported
destruction of the bathing piers is be-
nevcd to he exaggerated, although the
waves Gre breaking over the sca-wall'
erected by the federal government
water Is flying over the speedway and
Measure parks of the island. Waves
twenty feet high washed the floors OF
The bathing pavilions that remain. and
inhabitants have hunted the few high
snu,s from the city. The last report
from Galveston indicated wind We
locity Of Gu miles an honr. aud a
barometer OF 29l. The baromcter AZ
the time Of the great storm several
wears ago registered 275.
Manager Van Week OF the Southern
Pacific lines has sent special tram
to collect frightened inhabitants OF
Scahrook. Porte and Bay Ridge and
bring them TO Houston.
Sabine Pass is largely under water
and the tracks OF the Southern Pncihc
are Inundated High winds prevail.
all along the gulf coast No wen
grounded report of loss OF HE mas
reached here from any point ShiiunG
wins and a driving rain prevail III
Houston. but no damage is reported.
Southern Pacific officials are senu
Ing repair train 10 Galveston ano
have inauEuratcd a special tram serNi''
as far as Virginia Point.
wire was secured into Galveston
at o'clock this afternoon. AZ tha'
hour the Galveston Tribune wired tn'
Houston Chronicle as follows:
"The storm atIGalveston blew dowr
SIurdock's bathing pavilion and the ole
fishing pier at Twentieth street F1l,N
feet of tho railroad bridge was KNOCK
ed out bv a barge. The wind Die" ~
miles an hour but has nearly subsided
No lives we're lost The Mallory nm
steamer left Galveston for Ne" 1ori
at noon today"
From the nature OF Gulf OF Mexico
hurricanes, II can he said WIN cer
tai1ty that If the water at Galveston
has risen so the surf Is jumping owe
tho sca-wall. there is also periousl'
HIGH water along the Texas coast 10
scores and perhaps hundreds oil mhe
on either side OF Galveston Siha'