Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
HOUSTON TEXAS
STORM AS EXP
ERIENCED BY
MARTIN BEVER
HCuston, 1exas, Aug. Is, 1915.

I1CuStOts 1SAdog <ALE5s sA0s lgA1a
,J,ar LrOluel and Sisters
mas Is the second day after the
great storm anu / am surely thank
i. ul ,u.t, 4 slu mere, as Monday night
/ uld not tnlAA LWOuld ever see an
otaler aay. the storm was the most
te4I3Dle i have ever even imagined.
All the windows il the house 1 Was
al. Du1 luree pew in and the whole
pace was deluged with water, as
II was raining torrents All the time
anu the WIuu blew tTon SOTO 100
mues per hour and seven inches OF
ram reA ue wind blew like this
~ over twelve hours 50 YOU cam M
l5Ine uhe suspense during all that
uIlue. ine women and Children all
uau Mysteries, as the house would
raise up ON one side andthensettle
down and it shook and creaked like
4 uo.t IN a s.orm. There is not a
building in Houston thatWas not dam.
aged and tWo-thirds the trees in the
city are down. The street in front
on my boarding place was literally
Dlou4ed with trees and / worked all
day yesterday with an axe getting a
road thru. Then / temporarily fixed
the WINDOWS, asa it will be weeks
before we can get glassput IN, for
there are thousands and thousands
OF winaows broken Not plate glass
FROM in the city escaped.
The surrounding country is terri
ole, aluho have not been able to hear
much ON account of all wires being
down and all roads being blocked
by debris. HIVE not heard word
from Galveston but it is reported
that the Causeway was washed out
and that the water was 4 feet high
er than during the great storm OF
1900 when 10000 lost their lives
there. They have tried every way
co get there but have not been able
1910 so up tOthishoT Quite mum
Der of the soldiers at Texas City
were drowned but the commanding OF
ficer saw the danger in time and
moved most OF his troops farther
inland. ...IaL
wired you all today but as all
messages are taken subject TO
delay this letter may reach you be-
fore my wire Not a wire out OF
Houston and they say it may take
days to establish service of any kind
I am well and certainly thankful
that | came thru it all right. but
only one life was lost in Houston
and all because it was daring the
night. If it had been during the
day people would have been out loo6-
ing for what they considered safer
places and would have been hit Y
flying debris. but as it was the BLACK
est darkness no one dared to venture
from where the SUOIlllOu uubHOLu
Must stop now but win try and
send you some papers after we get
some authentic reports from Cal
weston. ALI we are getting now Is
Extras based on hearsay and that
makes matters worse Th@ Houston
Post just got out AM extra saying
that $500 feet of the Great Cause
way had been washed way andthat
a great fire could be seen raging IN
This Extra was based on
the information OF one OF its cor
respondents who got as far as Vlr-
ginia Point and told what he saw
from there. One Interurban train
is reported to have gone into the bay
while crossing the Causeway Mon
lay night bat this is not certain.
Even if everything is better than We
IAN hope it viii stil be appalling.
Affecttonately,
Martin BeVer.