The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-08-27

been injured. There is enough water
in the small reservoir at Galveston to
last a week, by careful economy.
Telegraph, telephone and street car
service was demoraliEed, otherwise
normal conditions are returning to the
city. The water is all out of the
streets and off the island and the PEG
pie have set to work clearing away
the rubbish and setting their house
in order" again.
Greatest property damage was
wreaksd in that portion of the city
which borders the seaWall boulevard
east Of fremont street. This section
felt the full force of the wind and
water and hundreds of houses, their
foundations undermined by rushing
water, were toppled over, although
there was surprisingly little damage
from the wind itself.
The causeway is badly damaged as
the result of the storm. A barge is
lodged at the point where the abut-
ment of the bridge formerly stood on
the Virginia Point side of the bay.
From Virginia Point to the draw
bridge, a distance of some mile and
one-quarter, the structure is lsveled.
At the draWbridge two interurban cars
of the Galyeston-Houston line rest,
half under, half above the water.
Beyond the drawbridge for half mile
the spans Of the structure are intact,
Then again for distance of one mile
or more the concrete gateway to the
Island City is smashed to small bits
of blocks.
In the city the property damage is
far greater according to partial esti-
mates made by Mayor Lewis Fisher
and business men, than in the 1900
storm. Chief of the property loss was
that Of merchants stocks, although
many residences, especially in the
eastern end of the island, have been
demolished by the storm. The great
highway which followed the seawall
is ruined Bath houses, paVilions, fish
ing piers, the white way, and such
structures were taken in great masses.
One Of the peculiarities of the losses
in the eastern end Of the island is
that the residence district has sunk
below the level prior to the storm, and
the seawall stands now above the dis
trict like a great war-wall about a
Chinese protected city.
Fires, three of them, the last the
fiercest and greatest, menaced the
city during the progress of the storm.
Wednesday morning the plant of the
Armour company, the Fred C. Pabst
Real Estate company, the Blum Ma
lions company and the Seinsheimer
G Co. were destroyed. The losses Of
this fire alone were placed conserva-
lively at 100000.
The Known Dead.
Houston-Edward w. Hans, crush
ed under stable, Kirby additions Will
lie Shields, negro, electrocuted on
Mason street; unknown white man,
crushed by building under Main street
viaduct.
LyRchburg-Mrs. Katie Bissonnett,
1920 Rice street, Houston, drowned !;
Mrs, Herman Franks, drowned, resi-
dence unknown; unknown white man,
60 years old, drowned; Eugene Bly,
ard, butcher, Houston, drowned; Mrs.
Eliza Cuny Compton, drowned; limo
thy West, painter, Rutland street,
Houston Heights.
Seabrook-Unknown white man, So
years old; unknown negro, 80 years
old. .
Texas City-PriVate John J. Muir
ply, brother Theo. ]. Murphy, ia
Prospect street, Lawrence, Mass. Pri-
vate Charles E. Miller, mother Mary
Miller, Watertown, N. Y; Private Jos.
P. Shankel, mother Mrs. Anna Betz,
Baltimore; Private Haiman Samet,
cousin Ralph Samet, 10 Railroad ave-
nue., Freeport, L. l.; Private Paul A.
Seureau, father C. G. Seureau, Hous-
ton, Texas; Corporal William H.
Moore, Greensboro, Ca; Private AL
bert Mitchell, father Stephen Mitchell,
3O3 North Lee street. Valdosta, Ga;
Private Thomas A. Watson, father T..
A. Watson, Carthage, N. c.; Private
Henry j. RiVage, father Jacob RiVage.
l16 Spring avenue, Troy, N. Y; Cook
Bader, quartermaster corps (the ad-
Jutant generals record shows no sol
der of this name at Texas City,.
Near Orange-Ira R. Griffith, aged
20 years.
San Leon-Two women named
Smith, Mrs. Harris.
Surfside-John Olsen, member Of
life crew; John Bertran, member of
life crew.
k..D Morgans Point-Unknown white
man. body washed ashore; Roy Riggs,
body recovered.
Virginia Point-Conductor Tread
well, Interurban employee, Galveston
Known Missing.
Surfside-John c. Florea, wife,