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TTT A 1 EL PASO. TEXAS, MOND SEPTEMBER 10. 1900. 20th YEAR, NO. 204 1 Last Edition 4:30 s.

its. Great Destruction of Life and PropertyGalveston Huge Wave From tk 6u Swept Over the City, Inundating It To a Depth Of Twelve Feet. FROM 1,000 TO 3.000 LIVES LOST Anil tt! IrllV Property Loss Will Aggre- More Than Ten Million gate Dollars in Galveston Alone. Most Terrible Disaster In American History. The Situation Is Beyond the Power Of Description, and the Extent Of the Disaster Will Not Be For Many Days.

the flood. The city was corupletely by the backed up waters of the gulf. Buildings are wrecked, and dead bodies float about in the re- CPding waters. The etreets are tilled with homclesa fdmiliea, and death by hunger stares in the face those who have escaped death by drowLlng. Mothers and children are for the bodies of their huS' bands and fathers in the ruins, and grief stricken men are around the on rafts and boats trj-" ing to locate their missing families.

gulf have settled into the cellars and the buildings have I crumbled and fallen, damming up -the I water in the streets and making the I situation a thousand fold worse. Hundreds of crushed and mangled bodies are pinned under the debris and hundreds have been caught in the houses of the lower part of the city and have been drowned like rats. The Ball high school and Rosenberg school have been destroyed. Many people who sought refuge there have been killed. The Special dispatch to Herald San AisTOXiO, 5 10 rnor Saye -i receivti he frcjn Chali Splfth of ihu lee, wno rr-ticheu F.iouf^ton in a b' ih i- mt Sept.

10-The city of The waters of the Gslvf SOD is in ruins, bnu ct rtaiCiy many if a'-t dead. Tfe oy the most f-'igui- ful ir at fr- ihe umI itt must be given the feuiTjiiL" je appallicg. Food, clothing, and money are neeued. whole south lart of the city three blocks in from the gulf ii swept clear of every building. The wharf frontage is a wreck and few houses in the entire city are really habitable.

water supply i. cutoff, aufi food in the i'ity is damaged by tish steamers Pelican, Taunton and Mexican, the Norwegian steamer Git4, the Kendall Castle, and others are totally wrecked. Of two hundred soldiers there are only fifteen left, and the fortifioilions are all gone. Undertakers have wired for all over the state. Nawa beine sent by boat regularly to Hous-oa.

Reportd are received hourly at the city hall and the death Is growing t'jlmmense proportions. The scenes of desolStlon and sorrow bricks, timbers, glass and debris of every character. There is hardly a house in the en city which is habitable, and most ness houses are badly School buildings are ail urrocftd, and more or less damaged otherwise, c.f the largest, the Ball high school ftcd Rosenberg building, are aim css completely wrecked. The churches in the city are little mora than huge plies cf deoris. Most of tie elevators and warehouses areundtfor use, and the big electric light plant awful.

Parents are huDting in the ruined. debris for tihelr little ones, and little ones are crying for their dead parenis, Tor water and food. The report sent by Splaine to the governor Is considered conservatlv3 in the extreme, and Is no way exaggeraii ed. It was ordered by the Mayor. The Southern and all other Not a building is left stacdicg from Tremont to Sixth street ard from there to Beach.

Handfrcme residences tvo been converted into piles of SDaked brick and mortar. The is from three to ten feet deep all uver the part cf the city. Storr are Sooded fend wrecked and thwir etoois of merebandite, including aU I HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS bridges are gone and sirhnded steamers litter the bay. Corpses are everywhere, and the work cf gathering the dead bodies is in progress. wind rose as high as eigh'y fojr miles an hour and ttti: carried the government instrument away.

water at CLe time covered the i broker, from his Galveston whole town, and twelve feet who crossed ovsr to Houston, high rolled over to the bay side. disiaoce of fifty miles. In a boat la-t wharves are gone, and all railroad bridges are out, all wires down, and breadstuiis, are a total loss, the cable to Vera Cruz broken. i Women could be seen yesterday in The list of dead is uaobtaiDable. tbettreets, wading neck deep in tti :3 waters weakened the Those known and sent out so far are: ourgicg carrying their bab Spencer, Charles Kaliser, in iheir arms.

Richard Lord, Miss Sarah Summers, Mrs. Claude Portdtran, Policeman heavy tlm- Bowie and family, Mrs. Pat O'Keefe. S5 infirmary with a hundred ing the people under a mass of Those who escaped death by being crushed by the walls and bers, drowned. dispatch to be krald an A ntonio Tex Sept.

10 There is as yet no wire direct to city from Galveston, but a private telegram this morning to Jake Cohen, a patients oollapaed, and only 8 City three lives are known to Tbe wharves at Texas City are gore, and for miles the waterfront is litter'd with wreckage, much cf which blown there from Galveston. AtTexns eaved. The Rosenberg school house, full of been lost, and full reports it is will ehow a greater less of humaa refugees, collapsed and nearly all were i lives. There will be a great and immediate demand for aid for the sufferejs in the Galveston horror. Money left at the HERALD office will be immediately forwarded to the roper authorities.

Let El Paso show once more her splendid generosity toward those who need help in affliction. The McGinty band has already tendered its services for a benefit entertainment. The opera house and splendid talent have been offered gratis. To start the baP rolling HERALD tuts down for ten dollars Who will be the next? i This telegram is fent by order of Mayor Jones of Galveston, ana Is authentic. Special dispatch via Houstoc.

alveston Sepi. morning over four hundred bodies nad been recovered of those who perished in the most destructive gale and liood in the history of the United Spates. The deaa are literally lying about in groups, and it is impoeeibie to estimate what the total will be. It la bellevoid today, however, that Governor eetlmate of three tboueand llvee lost will prove to be an exaggeration- The persons who lost their lives will certainly number, however, at least a thousand. The storm raged for thirty hours, from Saturday morning until yteterday.

The city today is in ruins. Every oceaa steamer in the harbor has stranded, and there is death and destruction on every hand. The great storm left the inhabitants helpless. The hurricane was over this morning, but the rumbliogs of the storm and the tremendous seas in the bay and the gulf still give signs of the horrible disaster. The wires i-re expected to be in operation by noon.

The property lose is over ten million dollars. Special dispatch to the kkai HoUisTON, Sept. city is full of refugees from Galveston who are pouring into Houston on every barge and tug which could be mustered. The -torii are told of the tl' od aro beyond Iptlcr Commuiilcallon betw en the and KG in bb receiveci from the fcc iii of li ept by I. The people who hi-vr; tV.

olty tell in a graphic the PiMry fif night, confirms the reports that have been current here, that the splendid dry of Galveston Is glmost wiped the earth. A private message received in tbe same way by the manager of tbe Postal Telegraph company confirms this reporw. At this time any estimate of the loss of life and the damage to property is impossible, but that thousands of lives have been lost seems to be authenticated. Houston snflPered also, from a wind storm, and the Capitol hotel, opera house, and other prominent buildings were more or loss damaged, some reports eay wrecked. Many small buildings were wrecked.

Only one life was lost however. Many small towns along the coast were swept away and the inhabitants killed. The messages mentioned above said that the waves swept over the whole town, tearing down business houses and reeldencts, and drowning the inmates by the hundreds. Among property destroyed in Galveston was tbe Water Wurke plaLt, and the people are without fresh water. No boats oan get oat or take water in to them.

The sufTering is terrible from this alone. flicks has called a meeting at San Antonio tonight to raise funds for tbe suflerers. Wpccial dispatch to the kham an A ntonio Sept. 10 and bfliy, lirst authentic report from Galveston, are covered with wrecks of craft hav all over the cushed and big are high ai-d dry everywhere. Tne Mallory licer Alanio, the Bri- killed.

Private residences and hctrl- are turned Into hospitals, and eearcely house Is standing that does nut contain a corpse. At Lucas Terrace fifty persons were drowned In one building, which collap- Railroad hava been washed away, and the only exit is by oi or cjiiveyance to Tumarquo on the Inver- natioral and Great Northern, or by boat. The elorm commenced raging ly after 9 Saturday morDice, sed while they there. Tne dredge used at Texas City was driven inland half a mile. Three big grain elevators were wrecked and over a million bushels of grain ruined.

The damage to the business portion of the city cannot be even ly estimated. The wholesale houses along the Strand have about esven feet of water on the ground floors, and all window panes and glass protectors are demolished. The fixtures In every house on this long business thoroughfare are destroyed. Meohanlo street is under watar almost as deep as that on the Strand. All provisions and wholesale groceries on lower floors are eaturated and ender- ed valueless.

The englna house at the Tremont hotel was caved In by a falling stack, and oooking is Impossible. The damage to the hotel building about sixty five thousand The power house of the street railway oompany is destroyed and the lose of maohinery and building is estimated at seventy thousand dollars. No wires of any sort are standing. The Alamo, a large steamer has been washed up on Mallory wharf, and a big Engllih cotton steamor is ashore at Texas City. Mjkny other versels ar aground atdllTdrent placeri cn the bay, some of them beinti total The of El' usto'' upoc'- iit Two of tbe where there Is ruin.

Telegraph acd light pries and the are lUtered wliti were seeking refuge noon the water from the Gnlf had flooded the Inland as far inland as 12ih street. From that time the water enoroachod further inland, rlaisg at rate of about 15 inches per hour. The best estimate is that about flf- tasen hundred people their lives in Galveston. allas Texas, Sept ton and Texas Central railway ofticca have received bull etins frtm the general offices in Hous ton that the loss of life will reach 3000 in Galveston. The railway relief forces near Galveston and aloogthe coast send word that the total loss of life from the storm the coast will be lea-t 5000 and possibly as much as 10,000.

dispatch to the erald A ustin Sept. Sayers this morning wired all the cities for help fjr Prumptness, he says is for the iis terrible. Mocey should be sent tim direct, and cicthing the mavor ot Houston. Special to the HtRALD, Sugarland, Sept. 10.

the ba'ld- ings on the Cunningham plantation are reported entirely wrecked, with a damage of three million dollars. Sept. have been cause 1 by the flooca and many buildings a-e ruined. lodine SapL. 10, At this town, a station on the Sun Antonio Aransas PiiS-i near all houses have been bl )Vk flown.

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