GULF AND BAY ABE
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-flve
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 withir:
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.
In Hardln 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 Christ!
or Rockport on the lower coast.' At Rich
mond .three negroes were killed by the
collapse of a church and three others were
killed near there. One also was killed at
Booth. No names were obtainable.
At Fulshear fifty houses were blown
down. One person was killed near the
town by a falling house.
Many houses were unroofed at Lexing
ton and their contents ruined by the rain.
Forty-two dwelling houses were wrecked
at Wallls.
At Rosenburg, in addition to the dam
age to residences, the opera-house and the
Baptist Church were wrecked. Several
persons were Injured, Mrs. Coots, an aged
lady, probably fatally. Three persons
were killed In the county near here, name
ly. Rev. Mr. Watson.. Mrs. L. J. Cantrell
and a man named Herman.
At Eagle Lake the damage amounts to
$250,000 to the rice and cotton crops and
to residences.
At Altair fruit trees were blown out of
the ground and residences leveled.
At Rock Island the Baptist Church was
totally wrecked and several residences
unroofed.
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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 stores were unroofed and
residences destroyed.
Not a house in the town of Chapelhlll
esbaped 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
HOUSTON (Tex.), Sept. 9.— At Walter
half the houses in the town were demol
ished. The South Texas Baptist College
is badly damaged and the school house ia
a wreck. ."? ."::^
FATALITIES IN THE
INTEEIOE DISTBICTS
The foregoing message Is addressed to
Superintendent Felton of Dallas, and
comes from Mr. Vaughan, manager of the
Western Union ofllce at Houston. v
Two men were picked up tVho floated
across to the mainland, and they ray thi.y
estimate thf loss of life up to the time
they left at 2000.
Two hundred corpses were counted
from tXe train. A large st;a'mcr is
stranded two miles this side of Virginia
Point, as though thrown up by a tidal
wave. Nothing can be seen of Galveston.
DALLAS. Sept. 9.— The following tele
gram just received from Houston says:
A relief train has just returned. They
could not get closer than six miles of Vir
ginia Point, where the prairie was cov
ered with lumber, debris, pianos, trunks
and dead bodies.
but could go no further. They were both
overturned and the cars washed entirely
off the right of way, the crews escaping.
They sot about at once In tho work of res
cuing the people who lived there. Up to
yesterday aftefnoon they had recovered
twenty-live bodies,- ten of whom were
women, and the work is still going on.
G. Rocsing, 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 tho town had been blown down and
made a total wreck, with but one or two
possible exceptions.
COUNTED HUNDREDS
OF DEAD BODIES
Conductor Powers reports that the two
freight trains, one on the International
and /Great Northern, the other on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, which left
Houston at 10:30 o'clock Saturday # morn
ing, arrived at .Virginia Point in safety.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.— A special
from Houston, Texas, says: In the relief
train which Conductor Powers brought in
from Virginia Point to-night was his own
son, who lay in the baggage car a corpse.
Powers was employed at Virginia Point
as a baggage watchman and was 20 years
of a.ge. 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
accident.
BRINGS BACK BODY
OF HIS HEROIC SON
TYLER, Tex., Sept. 9,— A heavy wind
and rain storm visited this nlace this
morning, causing considerable damage in
tho business part of the town and con
tinuing at a steady rate from the north
until 7 a. m. Great damage has been done
to crops. The roof was blown off the
First 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,
fonces, signs, awnings, windows and out
houses were blown down, tin roofs torn
from brick buildings, show windows
smashed and merchandise damaged. Tho
greatest damage in this section is to the
cotton crop, which is blown out and
twisted up In bad shape, involving heavy
loss.
$16,000. The big Masonic Temple, which
is the property of the Grand Lodge of the
State, was partly wrecked. Nearly every
church in the city was damaged. Tho
First Baptist, Southern Methodist and
Trinity Methodist, the latter a negro
church, will have to be rebuilt before
they can be used again. Many business
houses were unroofed. The residence
portion of the town presents a dilapltated
appearance, but the damage in this part
of the city has not been so great as in
some others.
MRS. JUDSON PALMER, wife of .the
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. %
MRS. P. LEVINE and six children.
MRS. JOHN BOONE and three children.
CAPTAIN PIX rnd family.
DR. SAWYER.
MRS. M. J. O'KEEFE.
JOE M. McNAMARA.
MRS. CLAUDE FORDTRAM.
MRS. SARAH SUMNER.
MRS. GEORGE REED.
MR. and MRS. JOHN BECKER and
four children.
appeal to the outside world for aid. The
estimates of loss of life vary between
the figures given, but an accurate count
of the dead is Impossible- now, and the
real number killed in the storm will
probably never be known. ¦
The following is a partial list of the
dead:
STANLEY G.' SPENCER.
RICHARD LORD.
CHARLES KILMER.
MRS. GKORGE BURNETT and child.
MRS. GEARY BURNETT and child.
QAL.VESTOX. Tex., Sept. 10.—
Six hundred to one thousand
Persons killed, a city almost in
ruins, the wharf front entirely
gone, every ocean steamer
stranded, and death and de
struction on every hand, with a money
loss that cannot be estimated now, Ms, so
far as can be learned at this hour, the re
sult of the appalling calamity that has
befallen Galveston.
The great storm has left her helpless
and her stricken people are compelled to
Communication Established at an Early Hour
This Morning With the Stricken City.
DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 9^-The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas northbound flyer was
wrecked at Sayres early this morning.
One passenger was injured.
NORTHERN FLYER
WRECKED AT SAYEES
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Sept. 9. -A special to
PORT ARTHUR UNDER
FOUR FEET OF WATER
the" Commercial-Appeal from New Or
leans says: !
"A dispatch from St. Charles, La.,
states that passencers from Port Ajthur,
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._
COHASSET, Mass.. Sept. 9.— The excur
sion steamer John PJndicott. on the Bos
ton and Plymouth line, struck a sunken
rock just east of MInots I-lght thi3 after
noon and tore a hole In her side, so that
she was obliged to run full steam for the
shore off Xorth Scituate. where^he foun
dered. There were on board COO passen
gers at the time of the accident, but by
the hasty use of all her lifeboats, and
with assistance from the boats near by,
every person aboard was saved.
EXCURSION STEAMER
STRIKES SUNKEN ROCK
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. Tho 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 everybody aboard well.
She will be towed to this city for repairs.
STORM MOVES ALONG
THE MISSISSIPPI
HOUSTON*. Sept. •>.— The Santa Fe train
which left here at 7:55 Saturday night
was wrecked at a point about wo miles
north of Alvin. Mrs. Prather of Rosen
berg. Tex., was killed, and several other3
were injured.
The train was running slowly when it
encountered the heavy storm. It is re
ported that the train was literally lifted
from the track. Mrs. Prather was thrown
across the car and half way through a
window. When the car was reached it
was found that her head had been un
der water, and she was drowned. Sev
eral passengers. Engineer John Martin,
Fireman Thomas Doyle and Conductor
M. H. Donnelly were killed.
SANTA FE TBAIN IS .
LIFTED FROM THE THACK
The lat** peaches, which were plentiful
and which had been sold in advance, were
swept clean from the trees. In Central
Texas 50,000 late peach trees have been
planted within the last three years. The
crop of fruit on these trees is all gone,
and also other late fruits. The vineyaTds
present a scene of desolation.
WACO. Tex.. Sept. 9.— The wind blew
tempestuously here from 3 o'clock this
morning until 5 this afternoon, the chief
damage being to fruit trees and the cot
ton crop. The cotton plantations in the
Brazos Valley look as if armies had
fought battles in them, the plants being
laid flat on the ground. The .wind blew
sixty to seventy miles an hour for four
tc.cn hours before subsiding.
DESOLATION IN
THE COTTON FIELDS
"I was in the storm which struck Gal
veston in 1S75, but that one. bad as it
was, was nothing in comparison with
Saturday's. The Gulf and bay are full of
wreckage of every description and it
seems as If ever? frame house in the
town must have been blown down and
knocked to pieces. Judging from the
amount of driftwood that Is floating
about. I am going back to Galveston
jus; as soon as I can to find my sister's
body and those of her children."
I have no idea how many lives were lost,
but think there will be several thousand
deaths reported besides many people
whom we will know nothing about.
In Houston one person was killed—
Henry Black, a hack driver. The, prop
erty damage is great, a conservative esti
mate placing It at $250,000. The Merchants'
and Planters' Oil Mill was wrecked, en
tailing a loss of $40,000. The Dickson Car
wheel Works Buffered to the extent of
Three persons wore drowned at Mor
gans Point and othc-rs are missing. With
the exception of those of Mr. Nicholson
and Mrs. Jane Woodlock, the bodies of
the dead have not yet been Identified.
The bodies have been brought in irom
Seabrooke, on GalveFton Bay. and seven
teen persons are mis^ins there.
HOUSTON. Sept. 9— Sabine Pass has not
been heard from to-day. Yesterday morn
ing the last news was received from
there, and at that time the water was
surrou"n<!ing the old town at the pass and
the whvl was rising and the waves com
ing higher. From the new town, which
1? some distance back, it was reported
that the water had reached the depot and
was running through the streets. The
people are leaving for the high country
known as the Lark ridge, and it is be
lieved th.it all escaped.
MANY MISSING
AT SEABROOKE
There is no way of estimating the prop
erty damage at present. So far as ho
could see or hear, Mr. Timmins says the
east end of the city, which iB tho residence
fiislrict. has been practically wiped out of
existence. On the west end, which faces
the gulf, another portion of the island,
very much havoc was done. The beach
was swept clean, the bath houses are de
stroyed and many of the residences are
total wrecks. » r /
Provisions will be badly needed, as a
great majority of the people lost all they
nad. The waterworks power house was
wrecked and a water famine is threat
ened, as the cisterns •were all ruined by
the overflow of snlt water. This Mr. Tim
mins regard? .is the most serious problem
to be faced now. The city is in darkness,
the electric plant having been ruined.
Provisions Needed.
The city of GaJveston. he said, is now
entirely submerged and cut off from com
munication. The boats are gone, the rail
ways cannot be operated and the water
is so high that people cannot ¦walk out
hy way of the bridge across the bay,
even should that bridge be standing.
In the bay the carcasses of nearly 200
horses and mules were seen, but no' hu
man body was visible. The scones during
the storm. Mr. Timmins said, could not
be described. Women and children were
crowded into the Tremont Hotel, where
he was seeking shelter, and all night these
unfortunates were bemoaning their loss
of kindred and fortune. They were group
ed about the stairways and in the gal
leries and rooms of the hotel. "What was
occurring in other parts of the city he
eould only conjecture.
Mourning for Lost Ones.
tions were generally crowded and as they
were substantial ouildings the chances
are that many persons had taken refuge
in them.
The water extended across the island.
Mr. Timmins said it was three feet deep
in the rotunda of the Tremont Hotel and
'six feet d«^ep In Market street.
Merchandise Destroyed.
Along the water front the damage was
very great- The roofs had been blown
from all the elevators and the gheds along
the wharves were either wrecked or had
lost their sides and were of no protection
to the contents. Most of the small sailing
craft were wrecked and were either piled
up on the wharves or floating bottom side
up in the bay. There Is a small steamship
ashore thrr«» miles north of Pelican Isl
and, but Mr. Timmins could not distin
guish her name. She was flying a British
flag. Another l*ig vessel had been driven
ashore at Virginia Point and still another
is aground at Texas City.
At the south point of Houston Island
an unknown ship lies in a helpless con
dition.
The lightship thnt marks Galveston bar
is hard and fast aground at Bollivar Point.
Mr. Timmins and the men with him
on the schooner /e.«oued two sailors from
the middle bay who had heen many hours
in the water. These men were foreigners
and he could gain no information from
them.
A wreck of a vessel which looked like
a large steam tug was observed just be
fore the party landed.
SCENE ON WATER FRONT AT GALVESTON AND HAP OF THE INUNDATED DISTRICT.
HOT.-PTON. Tex.. Sept. 9.— The
West Indian storm which
reached the Gulf coast yester
day morning has wrought
awful havoc In Texas. Re
ports are conflicting, but it is
nown that an appalling disaster has be
'.:> v. the city of Galveston. where it is
reported a thousand or more lives have
a "..intred out and a tremendous prop
. r\ o (image mf.icted. Meager reports
'rom Sabine Pass and Port Arthur also
odfeate heavy loss of life, but these re
l% cannot be confirmed at this hour.
'; ! ¦•¦¦ first new? to reach this city from
..'.• stricken city of Galveston was re
> ¦'•! to-n5jrht. James C. Timmins of
i'"i;st^n. grrneral superintendent of the
S ;.:'.' vpA Compress Company, arrived
¦ r- at * o'clock to-nip-ht from Galveston.
\1'.r>r r^Tr.aininBT through the hurricane he
'•¦; :irt ¦ <i from Galveston on a schooner
.:.¦: <itnp across the bay to Morgan's
i'oir.t. where he caught a train for Hous
¦¦-. The hurricane. Mr. Timmins said,
iraa the worst ever known.
• • siimates made by citizens of Gal
¦ :-, was that J000 houses, most of them
•:• :ic<--s. iteveaNeen destroyed, and that
.: least lOOOifM^Ple have been drowned.
! or are missing. Some business
i were also destroyed, but most of
~tr>rid t though badly diimag^d.
Town Completely Wrecked.
• dtjr, Mr. Timmins. avers, is a com
p i •¦¦ so far as he could see from
•- water front and from the Tremont
Hotel. Water was blown over the island
by the hurricane, the wind blowing at the
r?.tc of eierhty miles an hour, straight
from the pulf. a.nd forcing the sea water
before it in big waves, The gale was a
steady one. the heart of it striking the
:ity about 5 o'clock yesterday evening
iTid continuing without intermission until
midr.icht last night, when it abated
somewhat, although It continued to blow
all night.
Of his own knowledge Mr. Timmins
kne-w of hut one h«vjs»_- with
fatal results, though many residences
were carried away, with the inmates.
The house that he saw destroyed was
Bitter's saloon and restaurant, at 21C9
strand street, a r>rm<~ipa! business street
sf the city. This three-story building was
blown down and nine men, prominet citi
les, were killed. It was reported that the
orphan asylum and both hospitals were
flestroyed. ar.d if this proves true the
loss of life will be preat. as these tnstitu-
Definite Information Is larklnc.
The report* received no fnr hare a
conaer-ratlve trend, and when the
fact* are made known It 1* proba
ble that the fatalitle* will far ex
rcfd the eric inn! cr.tlmate.
Steamer* are reported nsrround at
fieveral joint*. No one known their
nn.me», whence they came or the
fate of their crew*. Drtdarex have
been swept away, railway track*
are *nbmerfred nnd disasters to
trulns have been reported.
The loud of Hfe In only- a matter
of rnnjrrtnrr. but nocorillnK to n»o*t
nnthentlc pxtlmntr* it vrill run well
up into the tliotiKundn. The city of
Gnli-enton l« entirely nnder water
and It 1« nlmowt lmpo«»lble to ob
tain any reliable information re
cardlne condition* there. ltnilil-
Inct were nnrnnfrd by the wind and
their occupant* drowned ont by the
torrents of rain nnd the tidal uavc
vrfifch Mirpt np from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Three thentand pemons art re
ported to harr met dmtb In the «e
r#»re Ktorm wlileh nwept over the
entire Gnl( Const find the property
lot* la InrnlrnlRhlr. Texas eitle»
nre liitinrinted ami the brnckf«t»
vratcr which noir fill* their ntreet*
hc«n Bpon ttn xnrfaoe bloated
bndlm and tons of flotonm and J<*t
¦nm once part and parcel of happy
Ii (intern.
Efforts to Reach Suf
ferers Prove Un
availing*
Island City Cut
Off From
Outside World.
THOUSANDS OF DEAD STREW
THE RUINS OF GALVESTON
HOUSTON. Tex.. Sept. 9.-Gal
veston remains isolated. Ef
forts were made to get spe
cial trains and tugs to-day
with which to reach the isl
and city. The railroad com
panies declined to risk their
locomotives.
All sorts of rumors prevail, but with no
substantial basis. It is known that the
railroad bridges across the bay at Oalves
ton are either wrecked or are likely to be
destroyed with the wetpht of a train on
them. Tho approaches to the wagon
bridge are gone and It is rendered use
less.
The bridge of the Galveston. Houston
and Northern Railroad is landing, but the
drawbridges over Clear Creek and at
Edgewater are gone and the road cannot
get trains throush to utilize the bridge
across the bay.
A train went down the Columbia Tap
road this afternoon as far as Chenango.
The town was greatly damaged and the
bodies of nine negroes were taken from
the ruins of one house. The train could
proceed no further and came back to
Houston, leaving the fate of the people
at Angleton. Columbia. Brazora, Velasco
and Quintana uncertain.
The town of Alvin la reported to be
practically demolished. Hitchcock has
suffered severely from the storm, while
the little town of Alta Loma is reported
without a house standing. The town of
Pearl has lost one-half of its buildings.
President Carlton of the BusineTa
League of Alvin and a prominent mer
chant there, reports that not a building li
left standing In the town, either business
or residence; stocks of goods and house
furniture are ruined and crops are a total
less.
The small town of Brookshlre on the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas, was almost
wiped out by the storm. The crew of a
work train brought this information.
"When the train left there the bodies of
four persons had been recovfred and the
search for others was proceeding.
Ilempstead, across the country from
Brookshire. was also creatly damaged.
Not a House Stand
ing in Alta -or
Alta Loma*
Havoc Wrought
in Many
Texas Cities
' Great Elevators and Tall Buildings
Crumble and Ships Pile Up in Wrecks
Hurricane's Sweep in Texas Metropolis
Drives the Sea Over the III-Fated City
THE SA> T FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1900.
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THREE THOUSAND LIVES ARE LOST.
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CtlEW 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
property.
11 No information from other points. JOSEPH D. SAVERS, Governor."
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