The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-18
GALVESTON DEATH
LIST FROM STORM
PROBABLY LARGE
Property Damage 10000 900
to S3.00O.0 OO-Water
Front Wrecked.
WALL SAVED THE CITY:
U. s. VESSEL Is ASHORE

DALLAS. Tex. Aug. 17.-The follc wing
message was received by the Fort Sam
Houston wireiers stauvn at 8 O'Clock to-
night from the United States ira sport
Buford at Galveston:
Water In Galveston streets Is three
feet deep nov. Considerable los OF life
10 reported. Nj business houses and
residences on the water front are ruined.
Grain elevators on the docks are
wrecked. Barges and tugs tied up at
the docks were n Large steamers
broke loose from the docks and were
damaged. The United States transport
Mcclellan is aground high and dry"
Other wireless messages from Calves
ton to Fort sam Houston n relayed
here by telephone say that only the great
concrete seawall saved Galveston from
Q repetition OF the great disaster of
September =. 1900. when thousands Of
lives were lost Although all hst night
and part OF to-day the streets were run
ming with water. sometimes TO a depth
Of Eve feet. and people climbed to second
stories to save themselves, the seawall
held back the force OF the torrent and
only the buildings on the beach were de-
stroyed.
water at second Stories.
During last night and early to-day
she waters of the Gulf OF Mexico were
on a level almost with the second stories
OF buildings in Galveston. The win
blew eighty miles an hour. Fire broke
0ut in tho Grand Central Hotel during
She night and guests were forced to nee
wadtng and swimming to places OF
refuge F1remen fought h flames with
water up to their necks. Reports re-
cetved hero say the flames were checked.
. 49, -AA N hAtUht
o. Ave feet in the Union station, the
highest point in the city. and in other
sections was ten feet high. When the
frst storm warnings came yesterday
morning merchants worked frantically 20
move their stocks 20 upper fpors OF
buildings, but many were caught by the
vhirling waters. II is roughly esti-
mated that the property damage will
reach from $1,000 900 to 100000.
The police organized rescue forces and
c~orrmandeered launches and other small
craft yesterday afternoon. These were
rse,i to transport families from pre-
curious places to the transport Butord.
]: is believed that when the flood sub
sl6es 1t will be found hat the wsters
ave taken their roll Of death.
The eighty mile gale piled up a great
wal. of water that swept across Calves
ton Island and then on 10 the low lying
ecast. causing food damage to Texas
City. Port Bolivar and surrounding
towns. Houston. ffty miles north. was
struck by the gale and many buildings
were unroofed. The storm swept in
ward to central Texas, doing damage at
Temple and Waco
Houses CnroOfed In Dallas.
The wind blew fifty miles an hour in
Dallas tonight and many houses were
urroofed. Torrential rains followed the
hurricane. sweeping out railroad bridges
and tearing down telegraph and tele-
phone wires. Fields OF cotton have been
swept clean and many ONE have been
wrecked. Train service has been de-
mcrsllzed practically over the entire
State.
People at Galveston had ample warn
ing OF the storm and at least ten thou
saud fled over the concrete causeway
that leads to the mainland. 1t has been
denied hat this structure was damaged.
although water swept over IL to a depth
o. several feet.
A; Rockport. Point Isabelle. Corpus
Christi and other southern coast towns
Sc ious storms were experienced. but no
great damage MAS reported.