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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Galveston 8000 $10,000,000
Houston 2 300,000
Alvin 9 100,000
Hitchcock 2 75,000
Richmond 3 75,000
Fort Bend county 19 300,000
Wharton 40,000
Wharton county 8 100,000
Colorado county 250,000
Angleton 3 75,000
Velasco 50,000
Other points in Brazoria county 4 30,000
Sabine 40,000
Patton 10,000
Rollover 10,000
Wennie 10,000
Belleville 1 50,000
Hempstead 1 15,000
Brookshire 2 35,000
Waller county 3 100,000
Arcola 2 5,000
Saratatia 5,000
Other points 100,000
Dickinson 7 30,000
Texas City 5 150,000
Columbia 8 15,000
Sandy Point 8 10,000
Near Brazoria (convicts) 15 1,000
Damage to railroads outside of Galveston 200,000
Damage to telegraph and telephone wires outside of Galveston 30,000
Damage to cotton crop, estimated on average crop of counties affected,
50,000 bales at $60 per bale; total, $3,000,000. Losses to live stock
cannot be estimated, but thousands of horses and cattle have been killed
all over the storm district.
RELIEF PUSHED FORWARD NIGHT AND DAY.
Relief for those stricken in the awful calamity is now beginning to pour
in from all over the country. Relief committees are being organized, and
food, clothing and money raised to be sent here as rapidly as the
special trains can carry the supplies to the people so sorely in need of
them.