The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane and Terrible Rush of Waters; Immense Destruction of Dwellings, Business Houses, Churches, and Loss of Thousands of Human Lives; Thrilling Tales of Heroic Deeds; Panic-Stricken Multitudes and Heart-Rending Scenes of Agony; Frantic Efforts to Escape a Horrible Fate; Separation of Loved Ones, etc., etc.; Narrow Escapes from the Jaws of De
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The steamer “George Hudson” arrived from Beaumont this afternoon with a
carload of ice, 5000 barrels of water, and provisions. Mr. John F.
Keith, who came with the tug, said he would take 100 passengers with him
in the morning, and he would bring the tug on another trip with lime and
provisions. Fortunately, Galveston has not been entirely without ice.
The Red Snapper Company had a large supply on hand, and it has been
letting people have it at wholesale prices. This supply will last a day
or two, and ice will then be gladly received. Three of the schooners of
the Red Snapper Company reached here from Campechy banks to-day, filled
with fish.
DEAD ANIMALS CARRIED ACROSS THE BAY.
The fish were given away by the thousands to all who came for them.
Animals are being dumped into the bay, which go out with the tide and
coming ashore by the hundreds at Bolivar peninsula. Parties started to
bury them, but the few people on the peninsula found it impossible. They
came to the city to implore the authorities to send men there to bury
these animals and to quit throwing them into the bay. The dumping into
the bay had already been stopped, as there was little wind and the
carcasses were cremated.
Between Fifteenth street and Avenue C, running on a line parallel with
the island, a great mass of wreckage is piled as high as a man’s head at
any point and from that to the height of three-story houses. This line
extends as far along as there were houses to wreck and consists of all
kinds of buildings. A half of the section mentioned was traversed by a
“News” man this morning. Names of fully 400 people were found who lived
in that section. The debris is so high above these bodies that it may be
days before all will be removed.
There were a great many injured by the storm, and these are being cared
for at the hospitals, both of which are located at the east end of the
St. Mary’s University building at Fourteenth and Sealy avenue. This is a
building quite well suited to the purpose, but of course it is lacking
in conveniences. A large number of people with broken bones and badly
torn limbs are confined there, and nearly every one of them has lost
either whole families or some member. Drs. Starley and Ruhl are in
charge and have been working night and day tending to those rescued from
the wrecks of their homes.
SCHOOL BUILDING CARRIED A BLOCK AWAY.
The tower of the Rosenberg school fell in and killed about eleven people
during the height of the storm. It was a place of refuge for all the
people driven from their homes by the high water and terrific winds.