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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When morning came they found that they were alone in the open Gulf on a
tree. The tree soon broke adrift from the mast, and, strange as it may
seem, brought them in shore. They finally landed and started west, not
knowing which direction to take. They finally brought up at a house
something like two miles from the place where the home had been but so
recently located. There they found their location, but were unable to
get anything to eat because the woman in the house had nothing herself.
So they came on toward the city, but it was a long, hard pull through
wet sand, and hungry and faint for the want of fresh water and food.
They brought up at a house that had gone through the storm, was partly
demolished and at the back of which was another house supporting it.
There they remained during Sunday night, and were afraid every minute
that the force of the little blow that came up during the night would
demolish the place of refuge. But it stood, and in the morning they
started on, reaching the home of young Murney during the day. There they
got food and dry clothes. The other two boys were taken to the
infirmary, where they are being cared for.
NEW FEATURES OF THE CALAMITY.
Another account is as follows and contains new pictures of the scene:
The elements, which had been cutting up didoes and blowing every which
way during the preceding twenty-four hours, got down to it in earnest
fashion Saturday morning, when a strong wind, accompanied by rain, which
first came in great splashing drops which one could almost dodge, but
afterwards became a hard, driving rain, began to get in its work.
Along the bay front the waves rose higher and higher and tossed about
the small craft anchored in the slips like cockle shells. Striking the
bulkheading of the wharves with mighty force the waves broke into clouds
of spray, which leaped over the wharves and drenched the men whom duty
or curiosity caused to be in that neighborhood.
Although the wind was in the north, a heavy sea was running and the
breakers rolled up the beach with angry roars. The little bath houses on
wheels scattered along the beach were picked up by the great waves and
dashed against the row of little, flimsy structures along the Midway and
piled up against them in uneven stacks. Early in the forenoon the Midway
presented a picture almost of desolation, filled as it was with debris
from the small platforms, stairways and landings along the beach front,
which had been carried away and washed up by the sea. At times the waves
would recede, leaving the beach almost bare of water, and then, as if
gathering force anew they would sweep in, rolling several feet high,
passing over the shelving beach, lapping over tracks of the street
railway and gushing the water into avenue R.