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Show GALVESTON'S GREAT jSTORM. Galveston, Texas, cannot be wiped off the map. Winds may blow and waves roll, but Galveston holds fast. Fifteen years ago the city was Inundated. In-undated. Many lives were lost and a large part of the island was strewn with wreckage. -When the flood waters wa-ters subsided, the inhabitants returned return-ed to the task of rebuilding. They constructed a great seawall and defied de-fied Old Ocean. News from the present storm is meager, but a wireless message offers of-fers the assurance that the ocean barrier has resisted the breakers and Galveston, is saved. But the streets have been under five feet of water, which in itself must mean no ( small calamity That depth of water in the business district or homes of Ogden would be viewed locally as a disaster. What the citizens of Galveston have suffered in shock, po one can measure: A wind blowing ninety miles an hour, nushinc: tho Gulf of Mexico inland, threatening to enguir every home on the Texas coast and ripping to pieces frail structures of men must bo a demonstration of the wild powers of nature quite unnerving. unnerv-ing. The women and children of the gulf port are less susceptible to fright than the wom'en and children of Utah, if they were not terror stricken when the wind and the sea menaced their lives. Galveston, when the storm ends, will proceed to clean up, and a month hence the real estate agents will be proving that jthe occasional "blows" do good, that they stimulate and energize en-ergize the population. Galveston can have her storms; we prefer Ogden, where nature never goes on a rampage. on ' |