The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1900. 3 THOUSANDS OF DEAD STREW “ Great Elevators and Tall Buildings Crumble and Ships Pile Up in Wrecks land City Cut " Off From Outmde World I‘ =hi! orts to Reach Suf- ferers Prove Un- availing. s Three thousand persons are re- ported to have met death in the se- vere storm which swept over the entire Gulf Comst mnd the property loss i imealculab Texas cittes are inundated and the brackish water which now fills thesr streets bloated hears mpon 1its surface bodies and tons of flotsam and jet- sam onee part parcel of happy homen, The loss of life is only a matter snjecture. but nccording to most anthentie estimates 1t will run well uy to the thousands. The city of Galveston is entirely under water and it is almost impossible to ob- tain ar eliable information re- ng conditions there. Build- »fed by the ants drowned out by the wind and and the tidal wave ra B swept up from the Gulf of Steamers are reported aground at ral points. No one knows their p whence they came or the their crews. Bridges have swept sway, railway tracks wu and en reported. is merged disasters to ins have finite inf tion lacking. orts received so far have a and when the rep iservative trend, facts are msade known it is proba- ble that the fatalities will far ex- ced the original estimate. ADVERTISEMENTS. FAGLESON&CO. Shirts And Men’s rnishing Goods. , select from ey ELIABLE GOODS TORY PRICES. MRI\ ‘T STRE'T,| Ave. fAU 1 Grant 7 HONTGOMERY STREET. EABLEMATIC CARDS 75¢ per 100, For Sale at 504 Post St., 'lf‘J. S.G. W | mate placing it at §250,00. The Merchant i e b4 WW»WW TR ST R s ot o e e s s AR Hurricane’s Sweep in Texas Metropolis Drives the Sea Over the lil-Fated City Alon ery 2g the great in Wh cut off from ce ats are gone, the rail- A rerated and the water E nnot walk out w the bay uld standing Provisions Needed. needed, as lost all the er house was mine is t s all rul salt water. This Mr. he most serious problem ¥ is in darkness, been ruined 1 the prop- v as he mmins says the sidence wiped out of which faces of the island, E suses are 1 wrecks. MANY MISSING AT SEABROOKE 9.—Sabine Pass ha new town, which k, it was reported ched the depot the ught in i1rom nd seven- ore versons were drowned at Mor- t and others missing. With the ¥ £ Mr. Nicholson and Jane Woodlock, the bodles of the d not yet been identified. A one person w Kkilled— | | Henry vk, a hack driver. prop- erty damage is great, a conservative es and Planters’ Oll Mill was wrecked, en- | tailing a loss of $40,000. The Dickson Car- | wheel Works suffered to the extent of | | freight property. GALYESTON'S TALE OF HORROR ““No information from other points. THREE THOUSAND LIVES ARE o EW YORK, Sept. 9.—The World to-morrow will print the following : “AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 9.— Information has just reached me that about 3000 lives have been lost at Galveston, with enormous destruction of JOSEPH D. SAYE| I?S, Governor.’ REACHES AN AWESTRUCK WORLD e e Communication Established at an Early Hour This Morning With the Stricken City. | ALVESTON, Tex hundred to sons killed, . the Sept Six one strand struction on every loss that cannot be w s0 far as can be le Jour, the re- sult of the that h befallen Gal The great s has left r stricken people rm her helpless are compelled to $16,000. The big Masonle Temple, which | e property of the Grand Lo of the | was partly wrecked. y every church in the city was damaged. The | First Baptist, Southern Methodist and Trinity Methodist, the latter a negro church, will have to be rebnilt before they can be used again. Many husiness s were unroofed. The residence rtion of the town pre: a dilapitated appearance, but the damage in this part of the city has not been so great as in some others TY Tex., Sept. 9—A heayy wind storm visited this place th causing considerable damage in Iness part of the town and con- t a steady a. m rate from the north Great damage has heen done The roof was blown off the irst National Bank and considerable loss sustained. A number of small buildings were wrecked BRYAN, Tex., Sept. 9.—A terrific_hur- ricane visited this section to-day. Trees. s, signs, awnings, windows and out es were blown down, tin roofs torn hou appeal to the outside world for ald. The| estimates of loss of life vary between the figures given, but an accurate count of the dead is impossible-now. the real number killed in t storm will probably never be known The following is a partial list of the | dead: STANLEY G. SPENCER. RICHARD LORD. CHARLES KILMER. M GEORC BURNEF MRS. GEARY BURNETT S 'T and child. and child N Y PALMER, wife of, tha | M.C. A nd six children. nd threc children. cnd family. ry of the P. L FORDTRAM. SARAH SUMNER. GEORGE REED. and MRS. MR four children. but could go no further. overturned and the cars washed entirely off the right of way, the crews escaping. They set about at once in the wotk of res- They were both cuing the people who lived there. Up to ve afterfoon they had recovered twenty-five bodles," ten of whom were v id the work is still going on. G. Roesing, a contractor, who lives in the Bruner district, came in from Genoa, | where he had been constructing a school building, and reported that every building in the town had been blown down and made a total wreck, with but one or two possible exception - COUNTED HUNDREDS OF DEAD BODIES DALILAS, Sept. gram just received from Houston says: A relief train has just returned. They uld not get closer than six miles of Vir- ginia Point, where the prairie was cov- cred with lumber, debris, pianos, trunks and dead bodles. from brick buildings. show windows | "L O UG o, copted . ed and merchandise damaged. The | oon® @l EE, Ratnli greates rL\rra;:"h:.n ni.m section Is to the | (T M, L K es this Virsinls gotton. gEon, WUIEH 38 blown [out 80| piint, as theugh thrown up by sted up ad shape, involving heavy | (20 15 HioE T e seen of Ic B D BRINGS BACK BODY OF HIS HEROIC SON NEW ORLEANS, S from Houston, Texas, s In the relief train which Conductor Powers brought in from Virginia Point to-night was his own who lay in the baggage car a corpse. Powers. was. smplojed st Viegtales Pohut as a baggage watchman and was 20 years of age. He had distinguished himself as a life saver at Texas City, having res- cued many people. After saving the lives of others he himself was drowned by an dent. Conductor Powers reports that the two tralns, one on the International and /Great Northern, the other on the Missourf, Kansas and Texas, which left Houston at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morn- ing, arrived at Virginia Point in safety, pt. 9.—A special alv Two men were picked up wvho floated across to the mainland, and they say they ¢ the loss of life up to the time they left at 2000, The foregoing age Is addressad to Superintendent Felton of Dallas, comes from Mr. Vaughan, manager of the Western Union office at Houston, kst e, FATALITIES IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS HOUSTON (Tex.), Sept. 9.—At Walter haif the houses In the town were demol- ished. The South Texas Baptist College is badly damaged and the school house is a wreck. Not a house in the town of Chapelhill escaped damage and many were demol- ished. Business houses also suffered and a fine cotton gin is a complete wreck. At Brenham the court house was nearly wrecked and the city hall was completely The following tele- | and | so. Every business house and residence suffered to a greater or less extent. The | fire apparatus is under the ruins of the city hall and a guard Is maintained for fire duty. | At Guston store | residences destroyed. At Rock Island the Baptist Church w totally wrecked and several residences | unroofed. | | At Eagle Lake the damage amounts to | $250,000 to the rice and cotton crops and to residences. At Altair frult trees were blown out of the ground and residences leveled At Rosenburg, In addition to the dam- age to residences, the opera-house Baptist Church were wrecked | persons were injured, Mrs. Coots, an aged | lady, probably fatal Three persons | were killed in the county near here, name- ly, Rev. Mr. Watson, Mrs. L. J. Cantrell | and a man named Herman. Many houses were unroofed at Lexing- ton and their contents ruined by the rain. Forty-two dwelling houses were wrecked at Wallis. At Fulshear fifty houses were blown | down. One person was killed near the | town by a falling house. In Hardin County a large amount of lumber was blown down and there was | much damage to property at Village Mills. | | No damage was done at Corpus Christi | or Rockport on the lower coast. At Rich- | mond three negroes were killed by the | were unroofed and | collapse of a church and three others were killed near there. One also was killed at Booth. No names were obtalnable, e GULF AND BAY ARE FILLED WITH WRECKAGE | HOUSTON, Sept. 9.—Mr. Joyce, another | refugee from Galveston, makes the fol- | lowing statement: “The gale was blow- ing Saturday night at about seventy-five miles an hour, blowing the water from the gulf and completely covering the city. The people of Galveston did not think it was much at first and kept within their homes. Consequently when the Wind began blowing as it did and the water dashing against the houses, completely demolishing them, many lives were lost. which left | | was w int about wo miles | north Mrs. Prather of Rosen- | | berg. was killed, and several othe were injured The was running slowly when it | encountered the vy m. It is re-| ported the train was rally lifted | from the track. Mrs. Pratl | across the car and half way | | window. When the car was r that her head had b . and she was drowned. S Zngineer John Mar Fireman Thomas Doyle and Conductor M. H. Donnelly_were killed | dered. | every person aboard was saved. but thi death; whe many people g about. be n we will know n storm wh was in the 1 struck Gal- n in 1575, but that one, bad as it | was nothing in comp: son with l iulf and bay are full of ry description and it | seems as if everg frame house in the | town must have been blown down and | knocked to pleces, Jjudging from the amount of driftwood that Is floating about I am going back to Galvesto just as soon as I can to find my sister’s | body and those of her children.’ - DESOLATION IN THE COTTON FIELDS 9.—The wind b from lock t the chief | WACO, Tex sixty teen h rd which had n from th ed within the 1 crop of fruit on the ‘nul also other late fruit sent a 24 S s Egaes n =0ld 1 tree The vineyar esolation. ds scene SANTA FE TPAIV Is LIFTED FROM THE TRACK | HOUSTON STORM MOVES ALONG THE MISSISSIPPT | NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.—The damage | in the storm-stricken section along the | Mississippi River, starting thirty miles | below this city and reaching to the gulf, | is $100,000 to the rice crop and a like | amount to truck farms, cattle, poultry | and other property. The river rose six | feet during the storm and flooded the | country through which it passed. The | disabled steamer Oteri was towed Into Port Eads with evervbody ahoard well She will be towed to this city for repafrs. | g EXCURSION STEAMER STBIKES SUNKEN MCK COHASSET, Mass., Sept. 9.—The excur- ; sion steamer John HFndicott, on the Bo: ton and Plymouth line, struck a sunken rock just east of Minots Light this after- | noon and tore a hole in her side, se that she as obliged to run am for the shore off North Scituate, wherefshe foun- There were on b passen- gers at the time of the ac . but_by the hasty use of all her lifeboats, with as: ance from the boa s SR PORT ARTHUR UNDER | FOUR FEET OF WATER MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 9.—A special to thé Commercial-Appeal from New Or- | l?ans vs: “A dispatch from St. Charles, La states that passengers from Port Agthur, Tex., report that town four feet under water. One of the New York Dredge Company’s boats was wrecked, and sev- eral lives have been lost S NORTHERN FLYER | WRECKED AT SAYRES DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 4—The Missouri, Kansas and Texas northbound flyer was wrecked at Sayres early this morning. One passenger was injured. /THE RUINS OF GALVESTON "I Havoc Wrought in Many Texas Cities. Not a House Stand- ing in Alta-or Alta Loma. OUSTON, Tex. Sept. 9.—Gal- BEf- lated. spe- to-day reach the isl- railroad com- t k their locomotives. Al sorts of rumors preva It is know the bay are at (¢ ke e When the trai four per Hempstead try from rookshire, v 1amaged —_—ee e —— A warm snap for cold a chance to get snaps; an overcoat for winter at a dis- count. You'll need one soon, better SO '\'OU. choose now vhile stocks big and prices little. All kinds, shades are in and and raglans, all S h a p €s styles; top coats, ulsters, storm coats, and dress coats. Marked from 22 ¢5 to $20 and from now until Saturday night 10 per cent off these marked prices. 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