| Show or LIFE ng PROPERTY most disastrous storm in history of spreads death desolation Desol atlon and distress DI in galveston Gal yeston texas loss of life and property too TOD great to be estimated widespread distress follows the storm hillh ih it all bf by a rosco 11 hoir rc th h eater city jet a clito as 1 1 theand Th ernd hd of it 11 slava 4 11 I light cra washed tem tr 64 lary stra tided a like tk the storm that wept swept calveston snoday aliat proven lo 10 be one of u tic the alt LIA ua timex ibe the doth death hit list in ty not be as large as an it sit first anticipated UIal it Is almost moU certain to reach flow while the flou rain cial rule rula Is I 1 beyond ix I 1 N 0 0 storm 1 in n Aine Atu elcan kan hamory has ua ever wrought such havoc and iti alveston Is I 1 in ruins large learner steamers aud and water crafts aru ru stranded on the altes sites of former large building buildings which ere blown and nd swept out ot of existence I 1 stople of the stricken city are in lie actual want as a the tile salt water utterly rul ruined tile mater nater apply supply and greatly dant sied the food lvery bridge to the mi mu Joland luland la is destroyed and most nil all water crafts put out of service so 0 o that 1 the tile transportation iran la lion of supplies easily 11 secured to a nearby colln la Is a serious qu quett loa the secretary ecret ary of war by direction of the president preil ilent has lia ordered ra eions and 10 OW leath for the tb relief of sufferers ut to be forwarded froin the near flea r at t apply supply depot tie the reck reek of Galve wits brought about ty it tempest tempe t to 0 o terrible that no 1 word words cun lun adequately describe tta its ID in aud by a bood which turned lailo 1 The neather veather bureau record allows that tse the wl wind ad at tatted ft a velocity of eighty four milea miles an hour when ilu the measuring lostau ment blew aawar awer eo to it ie Is impossible to tell what was wa tile th maximum the storm began bout about 9 3 clock saturday snorts morning ing ax to vint a great storm had been raring la in the fruit gulf aad ai d tir the if tile to wa was very high the wind at first came from the north and wat wjk s la direct indirect appos lion to the force froia froin toe gulf ualle hile the storm in 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 pert of aba tl city a about noon it became evident that the was going log to be visited flatted with dimiter disaster hundreds of almog the bech beach front were hurriedly eban doc edthe families beef fleeing ing to d iris io in higher portion por lloa of the city lvery home wae was open to the tile refugee refugees black or while white I 1 he lie wind waa was rising con eon allott Is nod and rain fell in torrents tie the wind was wits eo so fierce that the rain cut ilk a knife by 3 the waters of the gulf boil aol bay laet met and by dark the entire city submerged aub merged the flooding of the electric light plant and the gaa gas plant left the city la in dark dar knepa neu to go oat out la III to the tb streets was to court death the wind mind was then atcy cloute velocity roof roofs cistern cisterns portions por llona of buildings 1 Itel graph poles pates and ata walia were falling and this noise of the wind and the crash lair of the building buildings waa wax terrify ing la ila the extreme the nind wind aed waters rose steadily atea dlly from dark until I 1 43 sunday morning during all this time the people of Galve 11 were like rates in a 1 ap 91 the highest portion of the city waa was four to fir ties feet ander under water while la lathe the great majority of cases the ivere were tub sub merged to a it depth of ten f fet fel el lo 10 lease 1 a IL louie house wf wp to drown to era re MAIO ivaa was tp 10 court death in the wreckage finch suell a lot night might of agony baa has seldom beta quailed qu ailed apparent rason tl U a e waters began to subside at I 1 45 a 11 ob N athia two minute they tad ad gobe gone down two feet and beor day light the be streets were practically freed of lie the flood food water in ia the lb meantime the rind wind had veered to the sout southeast beast lery rry few if it any buildings escaped there as hardly a habitable bouse in the city 11 uen hen the people w who acad escaped death went out at daylight to view the work of the tem pett rest and od the floods they saw the moat most horrible sights imaginable ib the whole of the business front for three blocks in from the gulf were pled of every vestige of habitation the dwella if establish me a is and n every structure truc ture having been either car call red ruins p cl in Is pyra pyramid inid yr far into the town according to the vagaries va garlea 44 0 the SL the ilia first hurried the tile city allowed that tie ila largest structure reg supposed to be the ina inot 1 fly built suffered inot the orphan home twenty brat and alvenu BI fell like a house of carda dead children aad and refugees refue ea train tre la the ruins could not ix be ascertained of be the sick in st sit mary infirmary together with tile only elgal aru arv understood to have boon wen saved ted the old liuo lionie house ua an lon berg bero avenue colli sl the Hoen brg befool 1 Is I 1 a mass of wreckage the aall high a boul bout 14 I 1 but an empty in ply helt heft crul crusted and broken every church in the city with possibly poel bly one or two exceptions Is la in at the lite fort forts bearly all 11 II the soldiers are re reported lead they having 11 been in temporary quart ra which vave thera them no protection tile tempest or flood the bay front from end to end Is I 1 in rain ruins othla but piling and nd tile wreck of the great re a ia the elevate el eTtor lol nil all their super works and their stoc tock klare tire damaged by water the life 0 o at tort I 1 ort boint croes across the bay iau mile miles to text texas city the hore shore nt at texas city contains cont klo enough wreckage re chife to rebuild a city I 1 light ight persons who were wept swept acreal the bay luring the storm were pt picked cited up there alive live five corpses were also picked up there were abree fatalities in texas city ina in edition to the hein end de dead d which the atoru cast 1 up at texas clis city caskets and coffina from one of the cemeteries reme at galveston Gal reaton are being tinned fished out of the tile water there of the new southern Paci pacific fito work works little remains in bat but the piling half a it million feet of 0 lumber was wits carried away and engineer llos chice ay says that an a far as the company Is concerned it might well start over again ei eight a ht ocean steamers birre toro torts from the their ir mooring moorings and stranded rd in the bay bey it will take takei a vs cek to tabulate the dead and mis is id ad to get anything near an approximate idea of the loes JOSL it ia to eafe safe to assume thao one half of the th property of 0 the lite city ia Is wiped oat out and that one half hilfor of the resident residents will hae have to face absolute alto lule poverty there are few buil buildings dingis xa city that do nol not tell liell of f t in tle the hotel a a it complete ruin the of the texas city att ctt company ba bas some of the wall walls standing with all of the upper wall walls stripped off nothing bothi remain at it the tile pier piers except the the wreckage froia from 11 litter litters the shore for tulle wiles and la is a hundred yard yards or tIde for ten ralle miles inland island from the oe shore it is I 1 common ai tight gh t to see mall small craft such as a steam schooners ac booner and oyster alood governor hayers in ao an interview aid 1 61 I thick think it IL antho ia the most 1 delaar deplorable catastrophe in the history of Am abrica rica and I 1 feel feet that every ible lid id should be biant lent to the sufferers uffe ref in to the hour of grat need from anfor in matlon a 0 on or tee I 1 I 1 Q I 1 a am to I 1 led C d to t thick il ask that hundred hundreds of families be have either lot lost dear ones or have been bereft of their home homes tad and the case in I 1 on one a that will certainly appeal to every one I 1 have kakta active tepa steps to raise ral relief for every one on that can 1 be looked after I 1 have wired all the city mayors ami all the county judge judges asking them to secure all fa fand in ds and provisions possible and their tbell re repete P lea ere are very a bom bome etl estl pite place the number ot of lives lot lost as a high aa as 1000 aia very fw few ace it below 1000 |
