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 — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
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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In one place near Tremont street and Avenue P four roofs and remnants of
four houses are jammed within a space of about twenty-five feet square.
Beneath this long ridge many hundred men, women and children were
buried, and cattle, horses and dogs and other animals were piled
together in one confused mass. While every house in the city or suburbs
suffered more or less from the hurricane and encroachment of the Gulf
waters, the above section suffered the most in being swept as clean as a
desert. Another area extending east to Thirteenth street and south of
Broadway to the Gulf suffered greatly, and few of the buildings
withstood the storm, none without being damaged to a more or less
extent. From Tremont street and Avenue P½ wind came northward for about
two blocks and then cut across westward to the extreme limits of the
city; in fact, swept clear on down the island for many miles. The path
of the levelled ground west from Avenue P cleared the several blocks,
extending south to the beach and west to Twenty-seventh street. It cut
diagonally southwest on a straight line within three blocks of the beach
and down west on the beach many miles beyond the city limits. This does
not mean that the path of the storm was confined to this stretch of
territory—not by any means. There were many blocks in the centre of the
city almost totally demolished by the fury of the wind and sea, but the
above long line of about four miles of the city proper and many miles of
country land were swept clean of buildings and all other obstructions.
NO VESTIGE LEFT OF BUILDINGS.
A few of the piles that once supported the street-railway trestle
extending from Centre street to Tremont street on the beach are all that
remains to mark the curved line of right-of-way. Not a vestige of the
three large bath-houses of Keef’s Pagoda and Murdock is to be seen.