Show LOSS OF LIFE ng PROPERTY most disastrous storm in history of araca spread death nath desolation and distress in I 1 galveston iveston Ga texas 4 loss of life and property too firmat 6 reat to be estimated widespread distress follows the storm baves piled high upon the neach beach by a furious lotts gale submerge the E etire city to a depth f 5 to 15 feet li ft bhole hole D of ball nutt linis llna I 1 to the ulf ie do straying ying tl TI omen ouan Is I 1 of homes and ca lans asin lii in umberg t deahl a light water craft wael wasl a e I 1 iglai d ten mile a I 1 large steamers stranded Straud ed high a on the beach the storm that swept galveston sunday has proven to be one of the most awful tragedies of modern times na W hile the death I 1 st may not be as large as at first ant it is almost certain to reach mach 1 while the finan cial ruin is beyond comparison 0 no o storm in ame ican history I 1 as ever wrought such havoc and galveston Gal is in ruins large steamers and water crafts are stranded on tl e sites of former large build which were blown and a dept out 0 of f existence people of the stricken city are in actual want as the bait salt water utterly ruined the water su supply p ply and greatly damaged the fool every bridge to the main maidl I 1 ind is destroyed and most all water crafts put out of set service vice so that the transportation of supplies easily secured in nearby cities is a serious question fhe the secret iry try of war by direction of the president has ordered 50 ra to eions and 10 tents foi lot tl e relief of sufferers to be forwarded from the nearest supply depot the wreck of galveston was broi abt yrtl about by a tempi w u ic le ti 11 t ao no ann an adequately oe describe scribe its As in and by a flood which turned the city into a raging sea the weather bureau record shows that the wind at talked a velocity of eighty four miles an hour when hen the measuring inspru ment blew avav so it is impossible to tell what was the maximum the storm began about 2 clock saturday morning previous to that a great storm had been raging in the gulf and the tide was very h gh the wind at first came from the north and was in direct opposition to the theorge ac orce from toe gulf while the storm in ILL the gulf piled the water upon the beach side of the city the north wind piled the water from the bay onto the bay part of the city about noon it became evident that the city was go ng to be visited swit I 1 disaster hundreds of residences along the beach front were hurriedly aban boned the families fleeing to dwellings in higher portions of the city every home was open to the refugees black or white ahe I 1 he wind was A as I 1 is ng con scantly and rain fell in torrents the I 1 I 1 id was so fierce that the rain cut like a knife by 3 0 clock the waters of the gulf and bay met and by dark the entire city was submerged the flood flod ng of the electric light plant and the gas plant left the city in darkness to go out into the was to court death the wind was then at cyclonic velocity roofs cisterns portions of buildings telegraph poles anc walls were falling and the noise of the wind and the crashing of the buildings was terrify ing in the extreme the wind and waters rose steadily from dark until 1 45 0 clock sunday morning during all this time the people of galveston were ill e rats in a trap the highest portion of the city was four to five feet under water while in the great ma majority arity of cases the streets were sub merged to a depth of ten feet to leave a house was to drown to re m un tin was to court de death deith ith in the wreck age such a night of agony has seldom been equalled equal led without apparent rea son the waters began to subside at 1 45 a in within two minutes they had gone down two feet and before day I 1 the streets were practically freed of the flood waters in the meantime the wind had veered to the southeast very few if any buildings escaped injury there is hardly a habitable house in the city when the people who had escaped death went out at daylight to view the work of the tern tem pest and the floods they saw the most horrible sights imaginable the whole of the business front for three blocks in from the gulf were stripped of every vestige of habitation the dwellings establishments and every e having been either car ned ried out to sea or its ruins p led in a pyramid far into the town according to t e vagaries of uie the tempest fhe the first hurr ed glance over the city sl 0 ved that tl it e largest structures supposed to be the most ally built buffered most the orphans home I 1 twenty first and avenue AI V fell like a bouse house of caida how many dead children and refugees aie ate in the ruins could not be aseer ascertained of the sick in bt st mary a s infirmary toge to gethel with the attendants only eight are understood to have beer saved the old women a I 1 auvae me on I 1 osen berl ber avenue collapsed the Po school house is a mass of wreckage fhe the ball h gh school is but an empty shell crussel crust lel and broken every church in the e ty with possibly one or t W vi 0 exceptions is in ruins rut as AA the forts nearly all he the soldiers are reported dead they having been in temporary tem quarters wl ich gave them no arnt p on against the tempest or flo ito d 1 the 11 1 bay front fro n end to end is lu in ruins noth nj n but p ing and the wreck of tl e great warehouses remain the elevators lost all the r super works and their stocks are damaged by water the life saving station at fort point was carried away the crew be ng dg swept across the bay fourteen miles to texas city the shoie at texas city contains enough wreckage to rebuild a city eigl t persons who were swept across the bay during the storm were picked up there alive five corpses were also piel ed up there were three fatalities in texas city in addition to the living and dead chii the storm cast up at texas cit caskets and coffins from one of the cemeteries at galveston are being fished out of the tile water there of the new southern pacific works little remains but the piling half a million feet of lumber was carried awal awa and engineer hoschke says that as far as the company is concerned it might as well stai I 1 over again fight ocean steamers arre torn from their and stranded in the bay it will take a week to tabulate the dead and miss ng and to get anything near an approximate idea of ane loss it is safe to assume that one halt half of the property of the city is wiped out and that one half of the residents will have to face absolute poverty there are few buildings at texas city that do not tell of the storm the hotel is a complete i uin lain Theoffice the office of the tex s city company has some of the walls standing with all of the upper walls stripped off nothing re mains of the p ers except the piling the wreckage from galveston ral veston litters the shore for miles and is a hundred yards or more wide for ten miles inland from the shore share it is a common sight to see small craft such as steam launches schooners and oyster sloops governor bayers sayers in an interview said I 1 think it is the most deflor able catastrophe in the history of america and andi I 1 feel that every possible aid should be lent to the sufferers in the hour boar of great need aiom anfor mation received I 1 aih am led to think that hundreds of families have either lost their deal ones or have been bereft of their homes and the case is one that will certainly appeal to every one I 1 have taken active steps to raise relief for every one that can possibly be looked after I 1 have wiled all the city mayors and all the county judges asking them to secure all funds and provisions possible and theia implies aie ate very gratifying borne some estimates place the number of lives lost as high as and very few place it 4 below 1000 |