The Houston Post from Houston, Texas • Page 3

HOUSTON DAILY POST WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1 3 float exaggerate toll the truth just as nearly a It Is possible to summarise It HOUSTGNIANS SHOULD GUARD SITUATION SERIOUS ON THE i And in meantime remember that Houston Is not a wreck, Isn't GULF ACCORDING TO REPORTS ruined, and that the sun will be shining tomorrow. AGAINST HURTFUL STORIES H. A. Arnold, Associated Press operator' for 'The Post, left Houston Tuesday night to reach a telegraph wire probably at Navasota, to send an authentic story of the storm damage In Houston; and vicinity. This was Open Citv Has Alreadv Probably Been In hired bv Ex the first opportunity to give a story from Houston to the outside papers.

aggerated Reports Which Have Been Hastily Officials of Santa Fe Came to Houston Following Effort -To Reach Island City Bearing News of Ominous Character Stopped by High Wind. damage to the rice and cotton croo Printed. the reports are coming In very slowly, telephone wires being down In manv WILL BINZIE RESCUED 21 PERSONS FROM CUPOLA INN for Business places. Webb reports that his big hay barn at' Hill Je, five miles west of here. Is down and the roof on the Bringing stories Indicative of a serious There has been severe damage Inflicted upon Houston by the tornado but there has probably been greater damage Inflicted by the many rumors big barn here Is damaged.

Both barns are practically filled with hay. He reports situation In Galveston and at Texas City, a building or two on his ranch west of a result of the storm of Monday night. which have been printed during the time the city has been cut off from (he world. as Some of the Eigfcs Family Missing When Houston Man Left Sylvan Bcaoh. W.

E. Maxson, general auperintendent, E. E. Taylor, superintendent of the Northern division, and J. E.

McQulllen, mechanic of the Santa Fe road, arrived In town Dlown down. Electric light wires In the north part of town are torn down in a number of places. Home damage has been tlone to the rice mills and elevators. People who experienced the storm six years ago say that this one is not nearly so bad. The wind was There is do doubt for it has happened many times before that while Houston lata Tuesday afternoon, after the wires were down and no true Information could.be obtained that all sorts of stories have been told by "enterprising" fakers In other Texas Usual cities to the Eastern and Northern papers.

In one way a small amount of this can be repaired, but only a minor Will Hlnzi'e of the United' States Coffee and Tea company, returned from Sylvan beach at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, where be apent the night before, and telle a tale of terror about conditions there last night. As he approached Sylvan beach he saw what looked like a sea of water stretch-lne orer the prairies. Ho entered It cau worst here between clock this morning and daylight. TOOK TO STORM CELLARS. Much Damage, But No Casualties, Reported at Richmond.

(Houston Post RICHMOND, Texas, August 17. The high winds which preceded the storm struck Richmond Monday morning and gained in velocity in the afternoon, accompanied by heavy rains. As night ad part of it. When a citizen of Houston writes to friends abroad after com-munlcatlon has been restored there should be Infinite care not to exaggerate, truth is bad enough, goodness knows. taking a special train over that road as far aa Hitchcock In an effort to reach the Island.

Mr. Taylor said that conditions were, extremely bad, according to indications. The water, he said, was much farther Inland than following the storm of 1900, and that dead bodies found floating In the bay near Hitchcock led him to believe that a number may have lost their lives. WITHIN EIOHT MlLES OF THE CAUSEWAY. "We ran' our train down, hoping we could get through to Galveston, If the Tell the' truth about It Just as far as possible and make every endeavor tiously with his machine, and found that he could advance, so went on 10 oyivan.

There he found the bath houses all en tirely out of sight. He said that tne water at 12 o'clock last night was within RED TOP RYE No Orders Solicited and No Shipment Made la Violation of Teaaa Laws. 20 feet of the pavilion. Twenty-one people were at Cupalo Inn causeway is holding up," said Mr. Tay and he carried them in his car to Miller's cafe, except nine who were from the tele us snd who Is quite familiar with that section, told me that it was at least three miles farther Inland than following the severe storm of 1900, when so many lost their Uvea at Galveston.

"What we saw there Indicated that the storm on the Island had been quite severe. Wa couldn't see to the causeway, and of course, couldn't see to Galveston, but things looked mighty bad there." 100" BALES OF COTTON SCATTERED OVER PRAIRIE. Fully 100 bales of cotton were seen scattered over the prairie in the vicinity of Hitchcock, together with a large number of skiffs and small boats and one buoy of the type used In marking steamship roads In Galveston bay, by Maco Stewart of Galveston and Maco Stewart early Tuenday morning. Mr. Stewart and his son spent the night at Hitchcock at the home of W.

C. Morrl-ey, after leaving Galveston about 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. Finding It impossible to return to Galveston they proceeded to Houston Tuesday, arriving at o'clock In the afternoon, They are the guests of Mr, and Mrs. Minor Stewart of this city and will probably return to Galveston Wednesday. SEVEN BODIES WERE RECOVERED.

Bodies of seven' persona who were drowned at Hitchcock Monday night were recovered Tuesday morning. Mr. Stewart learned that at least some of the bodies were those of negroes. Tuesday morning the water stood about Ave feet deep around the dwellings at and in the vicinity of Hitchcock, a stage reported to Mr. Stewart by residents to be more than three feet higher than the 1900 stage.

COULD NOT GET WITHIN MILE OF CAUSEWAY. Attempting to return to GalveBton they were unable to get within a mile of the causeway. Monday as Mr. Stewart and his son crossed the causeway coming phone company and whom he took to the Catholic seminary for boys. Tuesday morning he carried six children out of lor.

We were able to get within 14 miles of that city and eight miles from the causeway, which Is farther than others had gone at that time. At Hitchcock, which Is the farthest point we reached, we encountered some water. The track was covered with debris, and when the park to the seminary, bix lames tie brousht back to Houston with him. The vanced, the wind blew a hurricane, frightening the people who have been through two severe storms. Every one who had a storm house took refuge In It.

From 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 a. m. the wind, from the northeast, blew In gusts with a velocity of 85 or 90 miles an hour, tearing up trees by the roots and levelling fences all over town.

A few negro shacks were blown down, but so far no casualties have been reported. Most of the telephones are out of commission, as poles and wires are on the ground. The wind has completely changed and Is now blowing a gale from the southwest with a heavy rain. It is Impossible to secure Information from the country yet, but it is believed an incalculable damage has been done to' corn and cotton. seminary took care of 100 people during to impress it as.

the truth. Houston has not been wrecked by any means. In the aggregate great damage has been inflicted; but the city has not been wrecked, nor is it a ruin. The damage will require much work to repair but It can nearly all be repaired. And what needs must be Vebullt can be accomplished out great difficulty.

Only Two Lives Are Known to Hare Been Lost. Despite the fact that the city has been buffeted by one of the greatest hurricanes known to the historians of the weather department, few houses have been demolished and most of those of the cheaper variety. Some Industrial plants have suffered severely, but as a whole the factories of the 'city wlllbe able to resume operations after minor repairs have been made. The crash of a few feet of plate glass sounded like the entire building the night, mere was not anotner car from Houston In sight. TheOitgg family were all- missing.

Their home was on Morgans point. The storm raged so put men out to remove it, they found the wind so strong that they could not stand fiercely that one could not see a quarter of a mile ahead on the road. up before It. at 11 o'clock In the morning. It was estimated that the The steamer that was reported In an wind was blowing at the rate of 60 or 60 afternoon paper as being stranded and damaged was not a ship but Itr was an empty boiler.

miles an hour. from Galveston they saw a large pile driving, barge at the Causeway and are. inclined to believe that thla barge may have caused much of the reported dam age to the causeway, They came from Hitchcock to Alvtn in the private car of a railroad, official and thence came to Houston by ralL At Alvln they reported a large number of houses we're seen that had been 1 damaged and many that had been blown; down or overturned. MANY FREIGHT CARS WERE OVERTURNED. Along the railroad line they saw many.

freight cars turned over on their aides, several of which were loaded wth One locomotive had been blown off the track and'partlally ditched. The wind at Hitchcock appeared to have reached its maximum about 1 o'clock: In the morning when Mr. Stewart judged that it had a velocity greater than 100 SEVERE 8TORM ON WIND SUBSIDED AT EL CAMPO. ISLAND WAS INDICATED. "I saw a number of bodies of animals floating about in the water.

There was Reports-Coming In Slowly on Damage In vicinity. (Houston Post Special.) Kit CAMPO, Texas, August 17. The also a quantity of cotton, compressed and wind after blowing a steady gale from flat, In the water. I was told by a member of our party that the bodies of seven men had been seen there. STORM REACHED EDNA.

No Damage of Any Extent Done to Buildings. (Houston Post Stecial.t EDNA. Texas. August The worst storm In many years came up Monday forenoon and continued for about 18 hours, reaching its worst about 3 o'clock this morning. The wind was accompanied by a heavy downpour of rain.

No damage to any extent was done to buildings, but shade trees and fences and telephone and telegraph poles were badly damaged. the north for over 34 hours changed about had gone but most of them are still standing despite the loss of the glass and the ornamentals. And only two lives were lost, a negro who ran into a live wire, and a carpenter, whose barn fell on him. The precautions taken promptly in cutting of the electrical current while there was still darkness and loose wires were dangling was a wise one and no doubt many were saved from injury. In or wiring to your friends when communication is restored o'clock this morning and for five or am not aa well acquainted with that six hours blew from the northwest.

It Is now blowing- from the southwest and district as some of the others in the party, but I could plainly see that the has subsided somewhat. More or less rain accompanied the wind all the time. It is hard at this time to estimate the water was much farther Inland than normal. One of the mea who came back with miles per hour. I 'T ilrln TLX It 8 II 41! mmftr'ft i fJ II s.WTmM TTGTTt ITtL iS lf Wsr 1 Hi f- ymW II rt II? mmm lllnstii m.i..

j. ij-ffy- i Umm wum in i i i i i i i i mmmm-mm i ii i ohuroh and and Fannin shattered. i No. 7 Shattered windows and fallen No. 6 Fence enoloslng botanical gar- signs of shops on Texas avenue near No.

1 Rumed Episcopal tower on Taxas avenue or McQowan and Crawford whloh col-1 No. Lake formed by railroad tracks lapsed Tuaaday morning. I jat Montrose; water entering houses. No. 10 Shack at Tsxas snd SmltB wnicn tollapaed and fell Into the bayou, No.

11 Broken signs and debris front bulidnga at oornor. of. Texas an4-TrYi fany at Main and Rusk, with sky-Ights removed. No. 9 Store at corner of Main and Texas which suffered sovery.

I Na. a Slda and rai nortlnna af aalm dans at Texas and Louisiana entirely I Travis sireai. street. I A No. 4V Bollfraea Pharmacy I No.

a Hot house of Quit Florist Com- no. loum pneipa noma. aw Main 4 atroat, J.ROOI jifjod aftTtnd interior torn down, ,4 at jklia aornarj lapaaa auildmfe i I vV.