The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1900, Page 2

i ‘WH WOR Unda & SUV RANMA, Pil? basil AS AS HIRST DET AILS OF GALVES' party observed four bodies in one yard and seven In while as many as wixty bodies were to by seen | groups in the apace of one block, that have not been recovered, are it will inke #e 1 daye’ hard work to get) of Miss Sarah Summert wan found near, her and Avenue F, ‘ver hands gradping ber Rescuers Find Bodies in Heaps " All Over the Ruined City. gly and in \ majority of the bodies, howeve ined houses end The body of Tremont stree ame On ener ehuly The report from 81 by sped from ascertained, but the Howe people of that loeality, collapsed Hlamonids | Mary's Infirmary showa thst only elght persons ea the hospital ‘The number of patients aad nurses could not be number of Inmates was eeldom, under a hundred. which was chosea asa place of refuge by the Some of those v/ho had taken refuge thore | were crushed to death in the suis, DAY DAWNED ON HORRORS. \y Sunday morning dawned the streets were Hned with wounded, halt the ald of physicians for themaelves and for friends and ld not wove Pollee Office: John Towle was found in a ondition. the toen on both of his fect and two ribs broken and his Ifo reported that bis house, with wife and clildren, had been Buildings Blown Down Scores, Burying Their Inmates. | Seabed but man enberg xehoolhouse GALVESTON Via Houet front entirely Tex opi) jad people. seeking latives who co pitiable « head bruised A olty alpioat in ruins, the water kone, every ovean | re steamer atranded and death and destruction on every bans and that cannot be eatimoted now, in ‘an be learned at thie hour a mone 0 far ae result of an appalling calamity that has be fallen Galveston wept into the Gut The great storm has left her helples and her sorieken people are com Phe beach resort of Pat O'Keefe, who is known to every visitor to Gal polled to appeal to the outalde world for ald, ‘The wstimates of lors of Tf) verion, was anniniinted Bot @ vestige of the building remaining, Mra vary from 1,500 10 8.000, Wal an a ate count of Ui ad ia Impowsthte 0 wae drowned and the real number of killed in the storm will probably never be Knowl The great bathing pavilion known as the Pagoda, (he }ig pleasure resort No ono attempts to estimate the damage to busineas and: residence property. ‘Phe fine steamer Alamo lew upon the top of the Mallory wharf wd a bie Bogliah cotton laden steamer wae drive hore at Texas City Other veusele are aground tn different parta of the Va me hope 1 wrecked. ‘The tig Louise, owned by the Hotiston ire aVigalion Company, ts under water at Red Fish, ‘Two of the crew tere pwned, the remainder oa eaping In @ lifeboat The water-works are in ening and the eateries all blown away, so that] the lack of water j0 one of the mont serio OF UY wont thlew Ruin iy everywhere, ctric Webt and telegraph poles are nomely down, and the} streets are littered with timbers, alate, gloss and every conceivable character | of debris | There is hardly a habitable house in the ety, and nearly every bieine house ts badly damaged. The sehoo! buildings are taroofed, euch edifices ws the Ball High School and Rosenberg Sehool buildings being bad! wrecked, The fine churches are almost all ia ruins, The elevators and warehouse Afe Unit for ume, (he electric Hight plant bas collapeed wid fo hide the cotton factory ‘WHOLE BILOCKS WIPED OUT. From ‘Tremont to P atreet, thence to the beach, no! residence is (0 be seen In the business section of the city the water a voatige of a] from three to ten feet GALVESTON AND STRAIID STREETS, | TWENTIETH known as the Olympia and Murdooh's bathhouse are all Gulf There were few bodies on the beael swept away into the They had been swept into the qulf or driven up into the rubbish by the waves, Only halla dozen of them were in view from the site where the workers were, All the residences which have escaped destruction have been lurned the leading hotels. There is seareely one of the nto hospitals, aw have Houses which are left standing whieh does not contain one or more of the dead, a» well as many Injured TORRENTIAL RAINS FELL. fhe cain began Co pour down In torrents, and the reseuiag party went city, The rain added greatly to the ‘iopping at a amall grocery store, the party found it clamoring for food, but the provisions in the store had back down Tremont street toward the eneral diptrens packed with Injured yeen ruined Purthor water, Was y atreot a restaurant, whieh had been submerged by orving oul eomey crackers and cheese to the hingey crowd, On fremont Hotel, the Houston Post correspondent found the down deep in stores, and atocks of all icine, Including foodatums, are total Loases for a mite | Peturnlng te the ‘e 4 City , ven are doatroved 4 t ater front At Texay City the wharves are dostroyed and the w ron oath Jlat-to le eaptdly ewelling, te adeounte coming teow avery portion of | fa littered with rulne mueh of the debris having been blown there from ' f the lity | MPa Veaton inf tion from beth Ub xtrem astern and extreme western por RAILWAYS WASHED QUT. Jiioun of the elty was difficas. to obtain, bik the reports whieh were re The railway trach ie Waahed away and (he only es hy foo | weottons had suffered Ciliy as much aw the (J (ndioated (hat thoae two veyance to La Marque, on the International and Great Northern Railroad | ess of the etty The stor commenced vagh oh Hand 10 o'elock satieday morn Fifteen men uuting all that remained of a company of regulir oon the waters from the gulf had iiunda Jand an fw {ng and by Hoon tt Tadd (nitty vit and nef tationed al the beach barracks, were marched down Market street inland a Vwolt treet Frotn (hore he WAM mrad neroachod lomm of life among th |b 1 the barracks, whieh were destroyed further injan!, rlaing about fifleen jnohee an hou ‘ have boon Cully din At 6 P.M. there was thivtyoals hen of wate te len of the std nday morning the water had receded from the higher portion Tremont Hotel and the biel eat polit tn the city, Aerown the vtre or hy ofty, lit the streots near hay front aul) contained from 21-2 to 4 the ground iy lowe he wild dows At tavoloek the water on Market | jot ot water reel W a I eva 0 he n er th eradual street Wa vt Me of t t Afton thiat It wraduntly We Galventon News offlee on Mechanie street was flooded and the back receded, Wut & 1 wai lon th ite fores, Tt reacted a Joolt end of the Wutldiog caved in At the Unlon Depot were seenes similar to #4 cites an how thone met th other porions of the elt en people wor J rapidly by in bonis, and, colliding With eome . AL Umer 5 would gall rapl 8 1H nd Hig WITH kon Hangage Mastor Harding ploked up the lifeless form of a baby girl Ovatruction, would be p within a few feet of the station Lis parer 1 not be located and are Dr, 6.0, You Beoretary of (he college, Wee dviven from tile home iH sippoded to have been lowt mounted # board and wa ed with vert toward the bay © xtadon building had been selected as a place of refuge by a large | Atriking some obstruction he wax oroly ent and brated about the head numb af people All windows tf fhe baildipg and @ portion of (he wall and fave, besides receiving bodily injuries ‘ at the top Were blown in The water around the «tation was probally (welve DOCTOR DROWNEM IN FLOOD. | feet deep Dr. West one of the most prominent physicians in Galveston, war STEAMSHIP ALAMO WRECKED, drowned near the Rosenberg dehoel building, whither be bad gone te On the water front the destruction of property was almost as great as Attend vA pationt who was reported to be Injured ‘on the beach, though the loss of life was not nearly so large, The wharves As noon as daylight came of rescue and searching for th reporter counted seven dead bod The Tremont Hotel was made and children elopt in the dintngyr floors in the hallways A big wagon bridge went down with a crash, any tt is Dridges, three fn number, are totally Screaming women, bruised and bleeding Jess forme of children in their arms nd the fury of the wind had abated the work | of the commenced Mallory were completely destroyed lying among the ruins of the plere of the Galveston W\iarf Company are also gone, and the of the Southern Pacific Company, whith have heen th course yf construction for several months, are damaged to the amount of $60,000 The Norwegian steamship Gila, engaged In the Cuban trade, stranded up the bay beyond where the railroad bridges once stood British steamship Taunton ix tying on Pelican Island lard aground The Mexican. a big British steamer, was driven up the bay and is fast in the Another big ship te lying out near Quarantine station Company ‘The big steamship dead In one room the P Alamo | The wharves 0 rendezvous for the ome and parlor living, The women | treat wharve ind the men lay on the was hought the other | reeked ! vw them bearing the life men, broken-hearted and sobbing, be | mud or almont totally yme ‘walling the lows of their wives and children; streets i with floating rub- | fhe Kendal Castle wae driven as far up ae Texas City, where she te dish, among which there were many bodies of the victim of the storm, con-| How stranded, Of the small shipping only a fow boats are left, Many of stituted buta tithe of the terrible scene [the lttle schooners were lifted bodily out of the water and flung up on the The frat loss of fe reported wis that at Kietter’s saloon, on the Strand, | island, The wrecks of othert are scattered along the bay front where three persons lost their lives and where many others were malmed| The Charlotte M. Allen, the steam ferry-hoat to Bolivar, Is safe. The big and imprisoned. Charles Kellner and) dredge used at Texas City was driven inland for half a mile and cannot be Richard Lord. saved | Those three were sitting ata table on the fret Moor The Pensacola was in port whon the storm began, but Master Simmons roof caved in, killing ail of them instantly Those in the lower part of the| put to sea in the teeth of the storm and it ie feared (hat the boat and her building escaped with (heir lives in a miraculous manner ie falling root! crew of thirty-six men was lost and flooring were caught on the bar, the people standing near {t dodging | BIG ELEVATORS RUINED. Under the debris, It required several hours of hard work to get them out . (he three grain elevators and Rey-Merschoffer mill are wrecks, Thelt The negro waiter, who was sent for the doctor, waa drowned at th per of the Strand and Twenty-firs) and his body snd the top storfes have gone, and grain stored therein has probably ined by the rain. , time after The damage to the ehips at this time, when the demand for tonnage la ‘ FIFTY WERE KILLED THERE. vo great, (s regarded as one of the worst features of the disaster irom a bus. The dead were titanley 6 when suddenly the} cor 3 wtreet wa ested # found ® short been r TON CALAMITY. visions !n the wholesale groceries and goods on the lower floors were pattir-’ ated and rendered valuelone. | The engine-house of the Tremont Hotel was caved in by the failing | smokestack, The damage to the hootel building will amount to $25,000. The power-house of the street railway company was destroyed and the il on machinery and building is eatimated at $70,000, There are no wires of any sort standing In the city, They are lying in tangled masses across the streets and will have to be cleared away before horses aad vehicles can move about the atreets, Col. W. B. Denson's Residence in Galveston, DEATH AND HAVOC IN MANY TOWNS. us towns | killed at Hoot! st Boaaly section Of" LETITIA IS A WRECK. PROOK SHIRE, Sept, 1—Letitia te a aad 9 Pee bd fi! Lavepenaattedl Despatel os from the vant ind four lives were tort RUSHING AID TO. - \ Texas show an increasing death Hat THE STRICKEN CITY, jan a wider range of hays hurricane-swept The houses which ator ot in the noluding a depot, have been HAVOC AT RICHMOND, = | the ground and the timbers (Mpsclal to The Byening World RICH MONI . i ry \tr vm some of them carried for mil . t M Sophia ach rh} ° HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 1o—At 2 As M. eltizens were trying tO MAD) gt pepeine wtormn thal haw ever vintted re. Att plan formerly of Hous ton, wie tugs oF any other craft they could press into. wervice to wo to the rallet! ii, ceosioy of ihe lato wiruck thin EAGLE LAKE RUINED. of the stricken people of Galveston town Gaturda 2 ( 1000. Many Owners of craft on Huffalo Bayou were unwilling to trust thetr Vensels | wuttdings waren iniatiy. Aadtanved h ash Hh LAKE, Tex, Bept, 10, saddle . ‘ ‘ rehow, together with many houses, tou the angry water The Bayou, usually stagnant, Is banked high and), tebibuee wae prea: ‘dam ha med. Wobl Nibibs SPA; GORDI LOI | Miled with driftwood and the wreekage of hundreds of housos aged ‘he Haptian Church i a total! blown to plecew th Baturday night's Many offers were made by thoae having friends and relatives in the) wre}, while (ie Methodial Churol ie storm, Crops of all kinds are almost stricken city to buy craft outright to go to thelr réllef, almort deatroyed » lowe to thine community i Three lives were jowt in the Colored he a pags hut the tow | Bapide, Charoh. Henry Ransom and . 1,200 BODIES WASHED ASHORE. Mev on the relief train that returned here at 8 o'clock last night, baying gone no further thin Hiteheoek, sis miles north of Virginia Point and twelve miles nort of Galveston, report 1,200 bodies washed ashore above the Point. ‘The place itsolf was Afteen feet under water That meant that Galveston Island, on which stood a elty of 39,000 In- | habitants, was entirely submerged Only quick reacue for those surviving in the inundated city can avert | 4 disaster that would have no parellel in histor’. | Nernard: wae nlown away ani A Wo cbildrer colored) one 10.9) 61018) 01910) #8 O NRO HOEY STEAMSHIPS WRECKED IN TEXAS HURRICANE. Dimension pe EEE. SAL NIM POMLTEV RLY seer jor SAL ENDS PORITIVELY Smet, 10M. If Ordered Before Saturday Night. Do you know that this sale of ¢lothes made to your order is conducted by a tailoring company standing high in the trade; that it is held in accordance with a settled policy to cut the price for a certain fixed period twice a year in order to keep a great fone. of skilled cutters and men tallors busy “between seasons,’ and that you can Ket the right kind of a Fall Suit or Overcoat at a low price if you order it NOW instead ot two weeks from now ? FALL SUIT OR OVERCOAT Choice of all MADE TO ORDER, s J Wi sd Fall Fabrics. ship ALAMO (Nir GLA Warns. TALYEON OANLE MENIOAN (ie : : 9 . : ‘ : : 2 ° : i WESDAL (Me, Haster A Co PRNBAOCOLA Chm) be AY, AR, Co COO OO OOO UOGO OU CC UC OOUOO OU DOCU O UO OOO OCU. UU) Tonnage, . Mallory tine, gaat ieeadiaae aeDtine ZO Bond Kot nn 100 ooo _ tents and M \ K IN LE Y inne ‘6 ‘he feo vautterers upon and which Wwe make at no othar time for less than $15.00, Every pattern is ngweand shdwn in the full piece, All the fashionable Fall stripes in Cassimere and Untinished Worsted, Alsoan extensive assortment of black goods in Vicuna, Diagonal that will not gloss), Thibet and heavy weights in Melton, Kersey, English Worsted and Whipcord. None of the exclusive * Pall SENDS AID. anxious WELaTives. Poraons tn ‘Phte Ch y Imawteing |f Openings’ to come will offer tiner goods; no buyer of a $30.00 sult will be Orders War Officials to Abuwt Dear Ones it Devane better dressed than (hose whu seize this opportunity, ed int Supply Tents and Food A, for Destitute. ‘ls Pordon, of Pearl street fe anxious to know the fate] rand her, Mr and Mra ity ENTIN' William Pore and hie eliter, Mlew) WASHINGTON, Hep MooThe P Katte Pordon. ' ve World will) Cor, Nassau and "Ann ‘Sts., N, ¥. endeavor to give him the Aret news | AVOID MIBTAKES. t to teday recelved a telegram from Muller, of a2 Produce Bax: thiw otty, Is fearful of the fate Htnat haa befation hie wife and children | at tiely home in adiveston The en hie home for than thi Wy row Look for Building Covsred toith Red Revolving Umbre Mr Spillane, of Hot Tox las, he Miyor and Citigens Comm ilveston, white: * that mor : rod and stot hing are needed im: ih ¢ busine The Wediate aloo that the must b fur ar ye aged e' w. ld Wa 4 ato yy the tate and halon Meh a Naughter twentyeone y inp iy orld Wan TD uBGR TRS’ USAT JahC ali “phe home waa localed at 18 Ce Sul BRORITY i Being ali Nae went a telegram as ora Went twenty: ags| ‘or » the ayo) 1 * A " ne aven me it haa Galveston, [Aurea Me TMS a rternoon, concert enin O tii that he had inatructed the Se iP damuel W. Jones, a prominent 1aW- he of War to immed furniah | yor of Galveston Tava wAnen LIA rd Help and provisions velit donee ved att a tip PF all Wants e in wciiveaion and exspreasing hie} wth Toe. wite, ane. paver shliaren 0 ity for twene sympathy with the ufferers has ben promt _Preilent MoKiniey also sent a “a sfve yea eaten Moin aio van o wie lta was una cat's | DE vess Croods. whrk h he save that he will Inatruct the} prening Sadi eld BUT ket Wat 289 i Paid Rig! bg Bed th York &. Combined We are iis Plain and Novelty \ ‘ auenrs aw” KTOMRN WORK walt B.AltmansGo Dress Fabrics | ah © oh) came from the leading manufac-|tymneuonne .. | Noowwman 0% | Via) poenuaanol by aner oi France, Germany, (Rees iss 'S| oma Cnt | ’ aA} CHAMBERMALD® ..20| OFFICR DOYR.. 8 BLANKET DEPARTMENT. England & America) shins. \ time 9 OM “MA % | Califomia and Austrian Jacquard Blankets in| represented, | inon™ °° rane patterns suitable for Wrappers, Bathrobes and | ‘The indications from the | ynussanuns | sranouens ite la 4 vi wNORAVRRS i Bo gl ee Ween. yall provill, fmenorwen | rununs AORNOY §| TINSMITIG Lord & Taylor, | river \\ciwane 3 oo roe weve it | waren Broadway & 20th St. JANETRNOSHO |... | MINCKELANROUR 248 JANITORA POWERED | POTA see ee OM 400 pairs of White Californie Blankets, for single beds, + ~- 93,90 Pai, ‘The next place visited by the reseuers was the City Hall Here wore iness standpoint. eongregated fully 700 people, most of whom were more or leas injured One| In the business portion of the city the dam jon ¢ y e age cannot be even approxi- man from TAicas Terrace reported the lows of fifty lives in the building from | nmtely estimated. The wholesale houses along the Strand had about seven “whieh he escaped. He himeolf wan severely injured about the head, | foot of water on thelr ground floors, and window pancs and glass protectors Aedgge feveral ladien were imprisoned ir « residence by the water | ot all kirls were demolished, ley were |rencued bY a party hoaded by apt, Theriot, Sev- ‘The top of the Moody Bank Bulldin 8 Was blown away, and the fixtures pty hurt, Coming back to Tremont street apt going) of every house on this long businers thoroughfare wore destroyed. i tho pitee of Jumber which had once be comamentind Rowdee yet on ver Le , “All proe for double beds, $4, 75 and 96,50 Pair. 200 Sateen Down - Filled Comfortables, Arsiaiteln toll ates #3,50. met 4