Show OP I Great oll of Ir by Houston Tex Sept A wel welt known Galveston newspaper Ilan man auth amI da day correspond elt Putt of time the Pre Press In thai Ott who reached houston toay today after R a terrible experience gives ile the follow following ing tout ton ut of the dIsaster at Oal Calves One of the mot most awful tragedies ot of modern modem times hal line visited Ile The cIty elty II i In ruins arid and the del dead wi will number one thousand I am just from time the clY city corn conI If by time the mayor and citizens committee to get In touch with time the outside world antI and appeal for help was wal Ih the lleret nearest point at which working t could be found t thi as well el u as nearly al all the Iet between Win her and the Guilt ot of MexIco being wrecked When I lef left Oa Galveston I be before fore non noon yesterday ra the were for tor the prompt burial of oC the ot of tOd food all and al all nHa aster necessary w vOrk r after a ot of die TE Time he wreck of Galveston was wal abut about b by a 10 c terrible that no words can describe II its IU in ant I by I to flood whIch turne turned time the city Into a raging H sea Te The weather eather n bureau record howl that th wind at a of eight four miles time ur Pig In an hour when Ia mont blew away 1 so I it II i to tot t tell 1 a hat Wi was the maximum Time The storm bE about 2 Saturday moring to that a great ha hiatt been raging In tle the luIf uM mind time the tide w wi J is high The wind lt at first came thi th north and 11 Ke In dirt direct oP fl to time the force forc COI th the Gulf While time storm In the lf piled the water waler upun th the bedl beach aide tf t the cIty the tim north plied tl timi wate from the bay onto the br bay part purt ot ol tu the cl city WAS A bout About nol noon it II ble became that time cl city Wi was going to be d with disaster ot of along the beach front w re abue to dorI the li lit higher portIons of th Ity by Ever muis open to time tl blak blue or whIte The rIme wind was Jilin using con COD constantly Ind and rall rain fel In The Th Wi Was 1 ter fierce tha that th the rain out B a knife knie I by 1 1 the Waters t f tile the Cult ald awl lA bay lel rend ld I h dl durk rk the entire Pt city was submerged Thi Th flooding of th time electrIc light pIa lt and time the f gas piers let left lb the city In To 1 go out Into the streets a tu to ourt death hl WA was then at cisterns lt of buildings t pule poles and walls al Were failing Mil I th h nolt noise of the Int and tie time of time the buIldings s terr tern h In in n time the extreme The wind and waters rUN rose steadily from cak until 1 t Sunday moring morning I IN A THAI THAP During al all this time the people of oC were Ik like rats In I a tra trap The rhe Irton or of tie time city WI was four to fe five feet teet unde under water while In Inthe inthe the great majority ot of c easis the were to a d depth lh of at ten len I feet To lea leave VI a house w I ac to drown To remaIn was to court death In tie the Such a nIght of agony has hal leldon seldom hOn equalled apparent rea reaIn In son time waters bIn to 10 subside at 14 had a m in two mInutes they gone down own two Iwo tel feet and before daylight the street ere tere practically fre reed ot of the 10 Ilo d waters tnt hI the l meantime the wind had veered to the SOUL IOU hut beast hutA A AN ENE Very 1 few tew It If any building escaped Injury There is II har hardly I a 8 habitable 81 boul house In the city When the people who had elB escaped ed death ent Olt out at daylight to view tl time work ot of lh the ler tern pest and time the Iol floods the II saw w the roost mOlt sIght Imaginable In time blok blocks ruin venue to A Avenue I UI 1 I Itu In street I 1 saw eight hola bodies Four wIre rc Itt In ante yar Yard Time The hol ot of the busIness fron front for three Ihre blocks Ii in room the Gulf were stripped of oC ever er vetle vestige of habitatIon the II establishments and ander ever er structure haing having been eithe cr crIle car Ile tied out to sea or its ruins ruin In a pyramId tar 1110 huG the toI town according to 10 the larel of the tempest Time first hurried Ilane glance over the theet et It showed the largest structures to 1 be tl the mUll molt substantially bui built suffered most The Orphans home bome and Avenue M tel tell like a houa ot of cards ud low how Iny many dele dead children and refuges ate In Ile time ruin could not b be ascertained BUT FEW S SAVED ID IDo o Of the sick lick In St Mar Marys infirmary together wih with the attendants saed eight are understood to have ben been Time The Old home on noan Rosen er erg avenue collapsed ROn Rosen Rosenberg berg school house hOUM II I a mu mus ot of wreck wreckage l age e The Bail 1111 high hol is II but an empty empl shell ah broken Ev Evel el cry church In the city wil with possibly one or I two wo is II II iii ruhl ruins all tl time soldiers At lb time forts fort nearly al ae are reported dead they ha having been In the theno them no protectIon against Ile the tempest lr or flood No 0 report imas hu been from the Orphan asylum down own tIl Ott Illat Island but It seems c impossible that It ft could have haTe withstood the I It I It tel full Al alt the we were wIthout doubt lost for tor there lher wa was no aid within mile a mie E Tle Time l bay front from frum end to 10 end II Is In ruins ruin Nothing but and th tha a rek reck ot of the great remain Til Time elevators lost al alt their ork and their stocks arc 1 by wat wat I IThe The Ing station n at Port rort 1 t was wal carried away awa th the crt crew clime Ie t ac across the thc baY mit I II to Texas Texa CI City I sav RW la nut t naI y l lenay and hI he told me that hit his hla o tr it tran an arid on one ot of hIs crew Ill rt t The shore at Texas City It wreckage ll tt rebuild a ct Eight who ho kere re th the b bay thi h storm were Ihk d duS uS up ther there alive Ii corpses were al ate I UI up Ther There were rt three In fel CIty n Tm TIlE DMD In III adion addition to 10 the living Ind and den hi h storm fOt east up UI at t el It I caskets nod And train from one ot of Ihl the cemeteries at Oah I were dl faie fished Ot out ot of tie the WI Ir there la laIn In thit business ot of tle time two lare large brick Oll one by urns anti th other hy by 11 Ui iMon I Ithe Cotton oton II the Coton Cotton lalu the there were Rout Hal about escaped fifteen persons Most t ot of Time oil rails tim th h trigging factory th the gas th the light works work al and 1 nearly al all the Inu Industrial establish mounts ment ot of time the tl city ar either wrecked I crippled Th Time flood oo tl a abul about one ne Inch df deep over th tb whole ct city anti and Unless fUt fist I is made In burt bur II log and Kr ar R asses tl ot of thre thare I Is danger ot of OF F AlI S Sma Some or of the torIm ot of eaI escapes Ir or miraculous William a Inan Was wa burt burled In the h ot of I iii h Colon Cotton ant and when lii out In had further the Ike no 11 in injury jury titan than a tow fw bruIsed fingers br r S O una secretary of th the Coton Cotton was knoke knocked n lu when hi house but aim K revived bJ by the and al as cannel ten 1 by th the hurricane A woman who ho had just given birth to 1 a was Ul from br her bout boutto to a II a block Ut time men who w were carryIng her r having to boil her li imIg above their h a U as tb Ih Water was wa five ft feet deep when III aim I moved Man Many I it II iii rm nf f 9 Ind antI CI Cla Cur I It I X N eitor edItor ot of the Evening i 1 1111 I hla Ind mind tho rl fain II m lt j nel hlll In his hll ou V h nth n the halt half crushed Ind and the art slipped down Into the water ater Nu No OO In this hoW house was hurt Of if th Ott tamly family six alx out of I mire report df dead ot Of the Bur Thur family oe one II known to hye have I Id The fl family of O I Who ho met deth death In tb the Cotton Culton dead lon I Is to b be HALF TiE TilE CIT CTT The h hOU houes lit In the WOt west end 1 mu turned Into a Ot Of the new Suter Southern works little remain but the piling half a amilon milon million feet ot of lumber Wi was anal 8 ald ad Engineer niner Hoschke says that 11 Its for far as the company is II concerned I It I as well el tart start lver over again alI 0 oa kIm steamers were torn from their and stranded lu lit the by bay It wi will take lake a week to tabulate thi th and mIssing to lei get 1 ml Ir lIT an aim approximate Ide Idea of the loss It II is safe lare to assume that ot of oth lii h property If of time Itle city II I wiped out ld that ot of the resIdents wi will have to tae face absolute poverty TELtI CITY CTT At TeA Teas City three ot of the resident were drowne drowned One man Into Inlo it a wel well by a mischance and his hll crp corpse 11 was fould found there Two other men yen lur the lr bay trout during durIn the height of th the storm were er kie killed There are few tew buildings at Texas Texal City that do not tIl tell of the torm The Th lot 1 I Is a complete rin ruin The olee office of tb the TX City CUy company h comae lt of the lall walls standIng wih with al all ot of 11 upper al all stripped ed of off Nothing remains ot of the pl piers except time piling The wreck wreckage alf age from Galveston litters the shore for tor mie miles and I Is a yards or mor more wide For ten miles inland from time the short Ula it Is a common sight 1111 to l see craft such as tam steam la is che ches schooner and oyster olter slops The Tb lifeboat m I the sta Ita 1101 WOI a arl hlll halt a mie nib Illand Inland while a t I lat jat w was anchored In Moses Oie Bayou I lime high and dry five mi mites un UD from la Marque The News wa asked to have haveIt I It that al nit time the men merm ot of III it ll ar are sate late I |