The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-09-17
GALVESTON STDUCK
BY THE HURRICANE
Wind Blowing IS Miles Hour
Streets Under Water
NO HARM DONE SHIPPING
Huge Waves Break Harmlessly Over
Sea Wall; No Damage From {.
Wind.

j. Galveston, Texas, Sept. 14.-With
65-mile wind, high tides and heavy
seas, the tropical storm struck Gal
weston this morning, tidewater from
the bay flooding the business section
of the city and the north side of the
island with three left of water. Huge
waves broke harmlessly on the sea
wall and there was no material dam
age from the wind. Shipping is this
vicinity weathered the storm. The
wagon bridge across the bay was not
damaged and tonight was open to
traffic.
Two thousand feet of track on the
causeway and railroad bridge connect
ing Galveston with the main land was
washed out, destroying rail communi-
cation with the outside world but Of
ficials of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railroad said this would be repaired
within twenty-four hours.
Water carly tonight still stood to
the curb in the streets for five blocks
from the bay, and resident went about
necessary business in boats, top boots
and bathing suits, accepting the stu
tion good naturcdly.
: Calm as Storm Approached.
Galveston residents APPARENTLY re-
garded the approach Of the storm with
cquanimity and took it as matter of
course when it struck At midnight
there was light wind and no rain
but the streets were practically de-
serted.
Small crowds gathered on the boule-
ward which skirts the sea wall, but
they soon dispersed. Later, when the
water backed in fro mthe bay, refugee
began struggling through the streets,
carrying bundles and babies, some of
them in night raiment.
A number Of refugees found shelter
in Office buildings others were housed
in the courthouse, the pu bile library
and the city schools. A Ycw sightseers
in top boots staggered about the wind
had left the city yesterday on advise
Of beach front hotel proprietors,
number Of whom emptied their houses
A small number of Galveston residents
went with them.
I Stores Move Goods Upstairs.
Water was standing in Market
street, center Of the business section,
when some stores were thrown open
and emergency workers began carry
hn, - Ton Dln
I work was finished before the water
entered the buildings.
Wheat and other grain stored in
elevators awaiting export had been
moving to the mainland for two days
and it was said there was little left to
be damaged. More than one hundred
train loads of wheat was hauled out
yesterday.
When day borke the rain, which for
a while had ceased, began to fall again
Pieces of driftage floated on the water
in the streets. A buggy and an ice
wagon appeared and here and there
men waded hip deep in water. Soon
gasoline launches came up Twenty
second street and hungry refugees
waved greetings from windows and
called out eagerly, but the launch
chugged on.
Before noon the streets were carni
val. Motor boats, sail boats skiffs,
wagons and buggics passed back and
forth and number of negroes astride
large timbers, poled their unwieldly
craft along. Boys pretended at fish
ing, ducked each other, pcdded their
papers or turned somesaults in the
streets.
Men and women in bathing suits,
sGme with raincoats flying in the wind
straight back from their shoulders,
promenadcd arm in arm. Women fas-
t!diously dressed swished about in
water to their waists. The rain fell
in torrents.