Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-19

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Hayden vas sent to Galveston Mon
day night and vas In the first boat
/ 10 reach the stricken city from the
mainland.
sea wan Saved.
Dallas. Texas. Aug. Ig-With infor-
nation from Galveston and other
points on Texas southeast gulf coast
slowly sitting through It seemed Ger
/ tain early today that she terrific tTopl-
: cal storm Of this week had eXactea only
+ "a comparatively small number of hu-
man lives and that the toll ON properly
jH the city Of Galveston. at least. was
small as compared TO the storm Of
1900
Taat The great s250o.o00 sea wall
saved the city Of Galveston from even q
worse horror than that Of 1909 was evil
denced by the fact that the storm Of
last Monday and Tuesday caused prom
erty damaged estimated ar S2.000.009
ia Houston which is nearly four times
larger than the damage resulting from
the 1900 hurricane there The damage
ia Galveston this week, based on
meagre reports, is placed at 100000,
with the loss Of IA lives. In 1900 5000
persons met death and tn property
loss reached $4,000. 600
Enormous losses TO Farms.
Enormous losses also were sustain
ed In the farming regions and oil
fields swept by the storm and only the
most meagre estimates OF damage in
these sections we're obtainahIe
The Galveston sea wall was not
washed out, according to The Asso-
cjated Press representative who left
Galveston at 1880 a, IN. yesterday
Earlier reports had said the terrific
rush of water had made a gap in the
wall through which the sea poured,
engulfiug the city. The report that the
sea wall remained intact was born out
by statement sent out from Calves
ton and which was signed by Mayor
Fisher and a number of prominent cit
liens DIR. Vernon Powell, official rep
resentative of the Galveston CONNER
ciaI association, Who arrived in Hous-
ton late last night. also said the sea
wall had done its duty fully and saved
Galveston,
The greatest damage in Galveston
was along the beach and to buildings
that received the force Of the food Of
waters whipped over the sea wall by
the hurricane.
The causewaE connecting Galveston
island with the main land was washed
cut from both the east ana west ends. .
according to The Associated Press (
man who brought the first authentic .
account Of the disaster to Houston. He !
said the draw bridge was not injured. /
The boulevard along the Galveston I
sea wall was washed out for many
blocks from Seventeenth street east.
Monuments Blown Away.
The terrific force Of the wind and
waves which battered the sea wall at
Galveston can be somewhat estimated +
from the fact that the big granite mon
unents at the foot Of fremont street, /
torn from their bases. were hurled /
completely across the boulevard
Many Of the iron light poles
were uprooJed from their concrete
base and blown for blocks
The United States weather bureau .
had heralded the storm two days in ad-
vance and for This reason the city
was not taken unprepared. By repeat F.
ed warnings every man, woman and f.
child had ample time 10 seek places
o1 safety.
Fires began to break out at the,
height Of the storm Ats o'clock Mon /.
day night q fire alarm was sounded 4
from 3 laundry. A 63-mile an hour
gale was blowing when the fire depart
ment responded 70 the call The
frightened horses refused to pull the
equipment after going a few blocks
and the fTemen carried the hose half
a mile en- their shoulders to the burn
Ing building On their arrival they
found the water supply cut off and they
stood by while the fire burned itself
put