Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 11, 1900, Page 1

THE OMAHA ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871, OMAHA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1900—-TEN PAGES. PAILY BEE. SINGLE DESOLATION ON THE ISLAND m,,, ’ I " Site of the City a Scene of Aw.. . Destruction and Gloom, SEA ROLLS BACK LEAVING RUIN GEHIND Recession of Great Wave Makes Its Work More Apparent, 0 E LONG LIST OF Debris of a Crushed City Hides the Bodies of Hundreds of Citizens Whose Lives Went Out with the Sheck, While Shipping Miles In'and Tells Strength of Wind and Wave. of HOUSTON, Tex., Galveston newspaper man ciated Press in tl rible experience, Galveston: Rept. 100 Richard Spillane, a well known and day correspondent of the city, whoo ives the following account of the disaste hied Houston today, after “One of the most awful tragedies of modern times has visited Galveston, The eity is in rains and the dead will number prob- ably 1,000, by the mayor and citizens' committee to get in tonch with the outside world and appeal for help. point at which working tel I am just from the city, having been commissioned Houston was the aph instruments could be found, the wires, as well as nearly al, the buildings between here and the Gulf of Mexico bei wrecked., “When I left Galveston shortly be the people were organizing for the prompt burial of the dead, distri bution of food and all necessary work after a period of disaster, «arry A G SEAL nearest e noon yesterday BECOY “The wreck of Galveston was brought about tempest so terrible that no words can adequately deseribe its intensity and by a flood which turned the city into a The weather bureau records show that the wind attained a velocity of eig four miles an hour when the measuring instrument blew away it is impossible to tell what was the maximuom, “The storm began about 2 o'clock Saturday morning. vious to that a g tide was voery high. was in direet opposition to the foree from the storm in the gulf piled the water upon the be city, the north wind piled the water from the b part of the city. “About noon it became ovident that the city was going to be visited with di Hundreds of residence front were hurriedly abandoacd. the families the in higher portions of the city, ref white it rained in torrents, like a knife, oing ) 1ing sea., P’re- 1. While the ay on to the bay *h to dwellings Lvery home was opened to the e wind was vising constantly and The wind ce that ister, tong the b s, black or Wils No i the rain cut LEFT IN DARKNESS, SRy 3 o'clock the waters of the gulf and bay met and by dark the entire city was submerged. The flooding of the electrie light plant and the gas plants left the city in darkness. To go upon the streets was to court death, The wind was then at eyelonie velocity, roofs, cisterns, portions of buildings, telegraph pole walls were falling and the noise of the wind and the erashir the buildings was terrifyi i the extreme, The wind and waters rose steadily from dark until 1:45 o'clock Sunday morn ing. During in traps. under water, while in the great majority of cases the streets were 'd to a depth of ten feet. To le in was to court death iv the wre “Nuch wind has seldom been equraled, v all this time the people of Galveston were like rats ve a house was to drown. Kage, Without apparent With in twenty minutes they had gone down two feet and hefore day light the streets were practically freed of the flood waters. In the meantime the wind had veered to the southeast HRORS B PME VISR SVeryfew, if any, buildings escaped injury. There is hardly a habitable dry house in the eity. When the people who had escaped death went ount at aaylight to view the work of the submer reason the waters suddenly began to subside at 145 a0 m. tempest and flood they saw the most horrible sights imaginable, | In the three blocks from Avenue N to Avenue P, in Tremont street, I saw cight bodie IPour corpses were in one yard “The whole of the business front for three bloeks in from the gulf was stripped of every vestige of habitation, the dwelli S the great bathing establishments, the Olympia and every stroe ture having been either carvied out to sea or its ruins piled up in a pyramid far into the town, according to the vagaries of the 1empest, PLESS SUF ER MOST, “The first hurried glance over the ecity showed that the largest structures, supposed to be the most substantially built, suffered the greatest. The Orphans’ Home, Twenty-first street and Avenue M, fell like a house of cards. How many dead chil dren and refugees are in the ruins could not be ascertained. “Of the sick in St N infirmary, together with the at- tendants, only eight are understood to have been saved. “The Old Woman's home on Rosenberg avenue collapsed; the o' Mlia school is but an empty shell, eroshed and broken. Every chureh fn the city, with possibly one o1 two exceptions, is in ruins, At the forts nearly all the soldiers are reported dead, they having been in temporary quarte tion against the tempest or flood. “No report has been received from the Catholie Orphan asy- Ium down the island, but it s withstood the hurricane, 1 it fell all the inmates were no douhbt lost, for there was no aid within a mile. OME LONG LIST OF RUINS, “The bay front from end to end is in ruins. Nothing but piling and the wreck of great warehouses remains, The elevators Rosenberg school house ix a mass of wreck s which gave them no protee (Continued on Fifth Page,) DREAD DISASTER at storm had been raging in the gulf and the | The wind at first came from the north and ch side of the| T'he highest portion of the city was four to five feet | all High | us impossible that it conld have | CHINA nt Rapidl SURETOLEAVE Policy in the Ori Assuming § | American ape, UNITED STATES MAY ACT INDEPENDENTLY Cable of General Chaffee Points to Coming Events ificantly DELAY OF POWERS TO REPLY HINDERS NOT Agreement Upon Withdrawal of Troops Likely to Be of Two 8ided Nature. ARMY WILL BE SENT TO PHILIPPINES Aristog WASHINGTON, 8 TH lay in t \inese » A spe hdrawal of the hina. Gen wht of h ly significant s point administration | hand of the report ain and Germany have joined remain together in i he other powe being the fact it would doubtless vement of the Ameri firm determination ivolved in any clas pnably be execution of this re ported British-German program ich might rea | pected to follow the Two Things to He Secured. sloners for a final settlement | AFRAID TO RETURN TO PEKIN CcorY FIVE C wr o e, GALVESTON MASS OF RUINS | - : OFFICE O MAYOR, OMATA 10, 1000, To the Citizens of |, | e A | O 1 just received the following telegram from Mayor Brashear | ' Slotsstan, Wi |No Accurate Statement of the Loss of Life HOUSTON, Tex,, Sept, 10, Houn Mayor, Omaha, Nebh. . SRR trom Al commbialoation tireat suering an | Possible at Present. 0 Kopown to exist there Damag wyond deserip | [ Afd showld be sent to Houston, which is nearest Time | < of stipplies and for furnishing help., |l|<.ln.- ivlrv'ul .Iw; mization effected " tAN JAR, Mayor e s e o et e o || ONE- THOUSAND A~ CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE Galveston have apprised our eitizens of the at need there is that im mediate and generons assistance be given to the people of our gulf sea | SRR Jort ore than a thousand lives were lo nillions of dollars of || | i " Fieperty destroyid DILE GHAE sl ; May Largely Exceed This Figure When A4 mecting of a ny Jf philanthropic business men held o my i office at 5 b. M. toduy It was decided to solelt subscriptions at || Wreckage is Explored. once through the papers for the steicken people of Galveston, | All checks ~ImIHI||l T lnwl‘r )hl\luhll‘ |‘I |Tlll|u-v Drake, treasurer, and N 15 | ghould be sent to me in order that proper credit may be given in the daily | Dupers s the checks ure reccived. Ploase send tn your contsivution wany, ||| SURVIVORS ~ ARE DESTITUTE CONDITION for the need is urgent W W, Umsted, Esq general munager of the Western Union Tele, ph company, has kindly offered to forward all b AR+ i e Ribite s b ¢ Rt ' 7\\..1.1” N ““‘w: Practically No Food or Drinking Water in the City—Aid Being GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR AID(.IH\T CROWD AT LA (R“\\IZ Sent from Other Places—Big Ocean Steamer Livsaitint 3 v 5 Ve Bl | Washed Up on the Docks—Whole [ 0 e e Governor Roosovelt Addresses Two Immenso Families Wiped Out. WASHINGTON i 10.~The following | Assemblages, telegrams passed hetween the White House i ‘ REAL ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN ARE MADE PLAIN | HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 10.—The following dispatch was i | received from Galveston by boat to the mainland today: ey and the H at Peee GALVESTON, Toex,, Sept. 10, The loss of life m be stated f Our Durl Townrds fat 1,000 of drowned, killed and missing. The loss will run into | the millions, | - | Scenes of desolation and distress are on every hand. Fully It there have been further responses to o AT e RPN | [ i TR T e L e g % e Taiiae Tote ative to evacuation | foF, three ocks i front of the KUl 18| 4\ oposeE, Win, Sept. 10.~The train | ) per cent of the buildings in |.h.n city are more or less damaged., their purport cannot be ascertained. This | tls'w wreck and but few houses ;Mm-g overnor Roosevelt and his party | Whole families and communities being taken from the delay no longer feres with the execu- habitable. The water Supply | jeft for Fargo and the west at 11 o'clock | 1 < g i et s At (¥ A tion of the American The State i DY | (onight. The special train from this point | 4€D1IN and each minute brings the dixcovery of some new vie- department has a reasonably accurate un is composed of a baggage car. a dining car, | tim. On the gulf side of Tremont street the water has made a derstanding of the attitude of even those ipplied especially for the service of news st e o e & G T 5 powers that have made formal responses to paper correspondents; the sleepe e, | Clean sweep of ey vthing for three blocks. All the bath houses the Russian note, so that the mere writ v the newspaper men, and the private | are gone. Debris blocks the sireets to the gulf. | ten record of their views is not of im + coach Minnesota, in which Governor Roose ; 4 satioa T e o withdrawal that remains unsolved is left helpless amo and his secretary all these escaped injury, although the building was damaged to guarantees fo from the world except re were two meetings today, one be . the best means "xi”.\u'ulu x guarantees for |} MICEARE NG AR | viscins ot B Sk o i i 0.0 the extent of several thousaad dollars, the attainment of the few objects set out in EAdGhiimiresy IS5 8 19 RIS e AU CHURRIRG/ G5 " : S . lm,..v.m Hay's note of July & which have o ey, |the city, and one at 8 o'clock, for the I'he Dulitz building, a three-story brick structure, was the not been secured or of Texas, Austin, Tex.: |citizens of LaCrosse and immediate vieinlty | fipgt Jarge building to collapse. Ritter's saloon and restaurant Possibly guarantees must be obtained % A} 20 5 . b 3 A from two sides, the Chinese rnment a e TR e on the Strand collapsed from the top, imprisoning a number of ""1”“' LI AR S .‘,‘.'\mm.)v:‘n“ DEAI) WILL REAC“ I“oUSANDS | persons, among whom were Richard Lord and 17 G. Spencer and the creation of a claims commiss . 4 Wt . tar | which shall provide for the payment of in- | who was killed; the building then gave way with such rapidity Y- | domnity e e el ——— ‘ that it will be impossible to give an approximate estimate, even | citizens, and for the expenditures on ac W LRAR B Jis &late » aitue : ; ; i [ count of the Pekin relief expedition. Then || CHICAGO, Sept. 10.~The following statement of the situation at Gal- | I(,r those who were inside, f[[Ee Gnticdly peasltly SnE lm.n'”Irr re- | [ veston and along the coast was received tonigh | The Rosenberg school, the City and the Balls High school s as necessary, it any of the allles re- | | Y ; | e AR bty i fl‘...|".. b b o DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 10.~Charles 8, Dichl, General Manager the As ‘ | suffered severely. All buildings within three blocks of the beach wquest, that the interest of the United ||| soclated Press,’Chicago, IIl: I'rom the latest orts which are consid |l are destroyed. The city is practically without fire protection. atos in the mutter of trade of the “opeu | (| ered relinble the disnit , ‘at Galvestow ond nlong the const has not been 1| Sl S T LS el e thore were | door ana of all rights now guaranteed to | || ' exuggorated. The waters of the gulf und buy met, covering the island to ||| T4 quipment could not get about the city, even if ther ere | the United States in China ¥ aty be \ depth of six to twelve feet. During this sudden flood a wost terrible ||| wires to give alarms. A mecting was held at the Tremont :',’,'Yl; l‘y'”"““l”:(‘fv:'ii“';"‘::“::‘:\” “ e orn was raging, the wind blowing about efghty miles per hour. || hotel to consider means of relief for the distressed and hom ey It does not follow that because the Muny of t ad have been uncovered: others are still under the debris; | | people. Medieal attention is badly needed, as ave also disin- States troops are to be withdrawn this others carried out to sea. It Is not possible ve at this time, a rella- ||| 60 0 L autumn from China that American interests | (| hle report as to the number of deaths, From esti s made by reliable || [ 1€ ','.‘ 8. A ) g £ | will be left completely at the mercy of the persons who have just come from Galveston, it is believed that not ||| I'he meeting sent dispatches to President MeKinley and other powers | dess than 1500 and p Iy as many as 5,000 persons were destroyed Governor Sayers to the effect that the appeal be published at AFIBE S 0n)te, BRL RSN OF conrse, the wounded and broken are numerous. e damage o prov | gpee and that aid be extended for the relief of the city. Relief On ths ‘eontrary, mushidiupaeitnn Wil Pe ||| erty 18 most shocking "I must come; human i are at stake, as actual starvation and made of those troops that they may. if nec Some of the best public buildings and private establishments were DUSE cOmE; AUMANIYES ALCIAT AERE, A48 ACIMKL/BLATYY g ot AL el b T ortent ||| wreeked. Thousands of homes were swept entirely away. 1t ix quite death from lack of medical attention face many hundreds of o this en o army of Gene Chaffee will L some of the ||| safe to set this down as one of the greatest disasters that has ever vis people. | pleasant brious portion of | (| Ited the United States. The lois of property Is lrre MA!'II" H“' \'* of The more fortunate ones are working heroically to ameliorate ¥ o I'h es. If it s wanted a, in e I8 i i i JALY, Manager 1l s PWS, PO . . T ‘l”h\nlt the army can be e }‘u‘“ %0 Glildeioe LTI i Riiab s SRR L) by | the condition of their afllicted fellows, but their efforts can re- a week, thoroughly refreshed and titted for e S = ® Jicve the distress only in small measure. Individual acts of | effective action t : i Tt A Minister Wu has not vet been clothed | pie | ,f“,‘x“,,,: T ]rt:‘vh”:nulu'nu'l"“‘” heroism and self ritice are so many that it is hard to pick out with powers by his government to effect the « et in an tmmense building, which was | O1€¢ more worthy of mention thun another. But with all this the | ettlement of the Chinese trouble dire ipathy Lo y , o t : el s | with ¢ Washington authorities. The | W atever - “I‘-:q“:,‘l.y\ '(I\‘:“I'Wl’r‘\' "\'w‘w T8 pum vj.1|:I|l|'»|| of |'Iu l\h:‘h d is heartrending in the K xXtre me. I'he officials are inclined to believe that no such | be Klad 1o matinie inea L raneavinederann i TRE (O deRd HiR momentarily and the first estimate of arge power as this will be conferred upon y 1081 stration, not only in numbers, but in feel- | 1,000 deaths is considered too conservative, | him, though he may, as do the Chinese WILLIAM M KINLEY Tk ad antaeite | ministers in Burope, play a most important | A copy of this telegram was sen “\ i & i i STORY OF AN EYE WITNESS, | purt in the preliminaries to the institution | mavor of Galveston, as well as to ¢ bl ¥ L4 R/ ERANRRIIY ' TRRTON Tos ¢ 3ix of regular negotiations through commiss | Bayre The afternoon meeting was called to order GALVESTON, Tex pt. 10.—8ix hundred to 1,000 persons Governor Sayers Re by Congressman John J. Esch of this dis- | Killed, a city almost in ruins, the wharf front entirely gone, every trict, who introduced Senator Knute Nelson ¥ 1 . 3 of Minnesota, who & upon the issues of | OCean steamer stranded and death and destruction on every hand, ety e | the day with great effect for three-quartera | ywi ]y e now, are, so far as can money loss that cannot he esti | 1 have this day requested | of an hour. He asked whether it was wise : § ¢ i Chaflee Says Chinese Ofcinis Wil secretury of w o orbard Fitions | and proper for the people of this country | b€ learned at this hour, the result of the appalling calamity that | Remnin Away as Long ax the and feuts to Galveston. =~ o o, it this time to make a change in the ad- [ has befallen Galveston. | Army Is at Capltal, | Governor of Texa. ministration of the government. He con pie . 5 , it helnl P : irads | el | trasted the condition of the country fn I'he great storm has left it helpless and its stricken people WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The following | austriatly now with what it had been under | ape compelled to appeal 3 ide y s aid. The esti a h § ipelled to appeal to the outside world for aid. The esti- AARHINCTON: e T fllowlsslmEYAS, WILIL. D0 HER: [BEST: duitisuztnentuliinbiat ilnd nesh nada 1 appeal -osleaton it 6l partment thought no man with common sense coutd| Mates of loss of life vary between the figures given, but an accu- TAKU (no date).~Adjutant General, Possl- | fail to percelve that the Industrial situation | pate account of the dead is impossible now and the real number | Washington 2, afternoon 4th —Evidence ple of now was vastly improved from wh was | 3. A accumulates that diplomatic relations w ime. . Killed in the storm will probably never be known. cumula hat dij fe relations will at that time. Under the admin I A | not |,I.- |-~lv‘v|u“| here for a !nl,m' time. l((m- = Mr. McKinley confidenco had been estab No one attempts to estimate the damage to business and sian legation leave very soon for Tien Tsin Eia e s 3 , AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 10.—~When asked to- | lished everywhere and manufacturers had | o 0 L g i o . tor Appears (o me certain Chinese government | ,on by roprosentative of the Associated | been stimulated until it had brought a flow | residence property. I.Iu fin st¢ amer ,}l.nnu lies upon Hm'Mp B :""' whilat ';“"““ BTY | progs for an expression us to the flood | of gold to our land, until the weaith of the of the Mallory wharf and a big English steamer was driven | rematns and it this true our legation can K aat O tion now surpassed that of any other " : i i situation along the gulf coast, Governor|nation now surpassed that ny o asl s | s City Other ves: s e B 1 liffer transact no business. My opinion Pekin to | & I BNty Andk RA! sota (e "l ashore at Texas City. ther vessels are aground in different | Baris aaid coun governments o rope w»l» merely eamp foreign army pending sets | "y’ i 1 | were down on thelr knees asking us to lend | parts of the bay, some hopelessly wrecked. tlement by powers at other points I | the one o A s ¥ S CHAFFEE." | Hem akey I'he tug Louise of the Houston Direct Navigation company [PATCH UP MILES’ | Brothers Agree That No Far | tempt Wil the Made wit 1 KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 10 fal Telegram.)—Joseph H. Miles " re of Fal City, Neb w N | defendant in the sensational suit to break | the will of his father, Stephen B. Miles, i3 | in Kansas City enroute ho e trom Colo rado, where he spent most of the summe He told today of the Feconciliation which has taken place between him and hi Samuel A. Miles, who had at 1 to break the father's will Miles received the bulk of hi alued at $3,000,000 her, received con rtion of it which was brought m was made that This was not satistaction of the court and the recently ided in favor of J. H Miles. A notice of appeal was given, but the appeal has not yet heen made My brother and I recently had a long talk about the whole case’ said J. H Miles at the Coates house this morning He told me that the fight would be dropped and that he is anxious to have the settied so that he can get the share bequeathed to him. It was his money In the to break the will will had it the ¢ | been discovered. | the was that was used in the fight against the will Another suit has, 1 lerstand, been started to break my father's w It is in the federal court and is in the name of some citizen of Missouri. But | think this down easy ust one way of letting things CASE | proved to | tents will 1 ad 1 the situation at pre rse, will be 10 thirst ter oF eat, but we' w 1 orde d or 3 tern men wha ing ism, while I remain ne at Breyan, BRYAN Sept. 9.—A terrific hu cane visite section today. Trees,| my fences, signs, etc., were hlown down, roofs | whet {turn from brick buildings, show windows | M mashed and merchandise damaged. The | greatest dan in this vicinity is to the | | cotton was blown out and twisted | in b involving a 10ss which cans not be estimated, but which will be great Cotton « rop. | 10.—There is no | this year the cotton has grown to weed | %a it ranges from six to ten fect high and is | | very rank with leaf, velt Recelved with ( Nelson introduced . who was received course of his speech said nfronted in this camy of which 8 and the oth aramount’ iss! ning w to plank of the wber, the t they in the Dollar and M have iaa expressed m 1 are no ng ine is he timt b ot t { be our ow I perity that we now ha H (Continued on Fifth Page.) with flatter- | [ | [ heers. ¥ i . is under water at Redfish. Two of the crew were drowned, the remainder escaping in the life Yesterday morning a boat | was chartered to ran from Galveston to Texas City and on | this the Houston Post correspondent had to hurriedly depar gD Wt gt from what he saw and heard from some of the leading busi- ness men he can assure the public that the people of Galveston | need immediate relief. The object in sending to Texas City was Ito get in touch with the outside world and let it know that a | stricken eity ix in misfortune and asks the people of the country to send food, clothing and water. The water works are in ruins [ and the cisterns all blown away, so that the lack of water i of the most serious of the present troubles Ruin is everywhere, | B trie light and telegraph poles are nearly all prostrated and the streets are littered with timbers, slate, gl and every con- able charvacter of debris, DWELLINGS ALL Governor Governor one DAMAGE There is havdly a habitable house in the entire city and nearly every business house is badly damaged. The school buaild ings are unroofed, such edifices as the Ball High school and buildings being badly wrecked. The fine re almost in roins. The elevators and warehouses are The electrie light plant has collapsed and so has From Tremont to 1Post , thence to the f o residence is to be seen, Rosenburg i churches for use, factory beach, not a vestige 14 mik a thes | unfit im: | the cotton in the business section of the city the water was from PRI three to ten feet deep in stor wl stocks of all kinds, including B ot | foodstufts, ave total losses. While the Post correspondent was in [ Galveston Saturday night it was a common sight for him to see | women aud children emerging from once comfortable and happy atd times