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TORNADO SWEEPS GALVESTON
Ten People Are Swept From
Pier and Lost.
SEA WALL SAVES THE CITY
No Lives Lost in Galvestion and Froper
ty Damage Not Great—But for Sea
Wall City Would Been Whelmed.
UNSCATHED BY STORM
GALVESTON REJOICES
Galveston, Texas.—The city of
Galveston sends greetings to her
sister cities, the people of the
United States and of the world,
in that at this hour it has just
passed through a most formid
able storm, manifesting in its
course some of the most violent
incidents and cyclonic disturb
ances, and its great sea wall has
completely vindicated its etiicien
ciency and protected the city
against dangers from the sea,
leaving such insignificant dam
ages as are incident to all
storms. The city, its great busi
ness interests and its people have
safely passed through a most se
vere hurricane, the sea wall has
proved a complete success. The
city’s great wharves and shipping
interests suffered no damage and
not a life was lost. Lewis Fish
er, mayor; Maco Stewart, presi
dent Security Building Company;
M. E. Kleberg, city attorney; V.
E. Astin, commissioner of
street; E. O. Flood, jjresident
chamber of commerce; B. A.
Doue, president Maritime Associ
ation.
Galveston, Texas. —Man’s strength
and skill were pitted against the fury
of the elements and man won, when
this city, safely entrenched behind
her impregnable 17-foot, sea wall,with
stood, with comparatively trifling loss,
a tidal wave and hurricane equal in
intensity, and destructive force to the
one which destroyed tne city on Sep
tember 8, 1900.
In Galveston and vicinity not a sin
gle life is believed to have been sacri
ficed, but the material loss is quite
extensive. The hurricane swept the
entire gulf coast with an intensity
and . viciousness that has seldom been
equaled in a country where destruc
tive storms are not unusual.
It had its origin on the Atlantic
coast and swept westward and south
ward, devastating the entire gulf
coast even as far south as Matagorda
Bay.
The hurricane struck Galveston
about 1] o'clock Wednesday morning.
The wind, attaining a velocity of near
ly 70 miles an hour, whipped the
treacherous waters of the Mexican
gulf into a fury of destruction. With
the pent-up fury of ten years of hate,
the waves blindly assaulted the grim
parapets of stone which man had
huilded to restrain its attacks. in
vain it hurled its thousands of tons
of water upon the splendid breast
works. Only a feeble burst of spray
and a little water reached its object
ive and the beleaguered city lay calm
and safe behind the wall.
Outside the limits of the city,where
the wall had not been reared and
where the city had not been elevated,
the waters had their way, but they
wrecked only deserted huts and
abandoned territory.
While the city of Galveston was
held safe agajnst the fury of the storm
by the new government $2,000,000 sea
walls, far out in the gulf, on Tarpon
fishing pier, 7 miles from the city,
where the storm whipped over the
jetty into the bay, ten persons were
washed from the rocky promontories
into the gulf. Those drowned were
members of a fishing party and em
ployees of the Tarpon pier, marooned
on the Jatty. Boats were sent to their
assistance, and it was learned that
the house in which they had sought
refuge had been washed away.
Three spans or sections of the
bridge running from the island on
which the city stands to Virginia
Point were swept away when a barge
was hurled against the piers. This
bridge supported all of the telephone
and telegraph lines running into Gal
veston.
Official bulletins issued by the Unit
ed States weather bureau gave warn
ings of the approaching storm, and
in some measure the shipping was
■prepared for it. Before daylight the
storm clouds began gathering in the
south, far out over the waters.
Every moment the wind increased
in velocity until it had attained a
maximum of 76 miles an hour, and
the mercury in the barometer fell
with startling rapidity as the storm
center rushed closer and closer to the
city. The barometer fell as low as
BLAME BUSINESS DEPRLSiION.
/
Idleness Has 3ecome a Habit With
Many.
Washington, D. C.—The recent bus
iness depression had a demoralizing
effect on certain classes of laborers,
according to C. L. Green, inspector in
charge of the New York city branch
of the division of information of the
department of commerce and labor,
who submitted his report for the six
months ending June 30 last, to L. V
Powderly, chief of the division.
The report shows that during the
fiscal year just closed three thousand
eight hundred and twelve men secur
ed employment in the various states
through information furnished by his
bureau.
29.56, as against 27.50 when the 1900
storm was at its height.
The waves, rolling high, dashed fu
riously against the massive concrete
sea wall, hurling dense clouds of
spray and spume into the air, where
it was caught by the wind and driven
back across the city in torrents.
Far more rapidly than it had swept
down upon the city, the wind sub
sided. With the passing of the storm
the fright of the citizens passed, as
they realized that their sea wall,
which had been built at a cost of
$2,000,000, had held fast, and to it they
probably owed their lives and prop
erty.
Rescue parties were sent out onto
the beach, for there it was that th*
storm did its damage. Bath houses,
pavilions and booths along the speed
way, as the driveway outside of the
seawall is known, were turned topsy
turvy, the more frail ones being crush
ed and splintered by the force of the
wind and w-aves.
Houston, Texas. —Other than to add
several hu.rdred thousand to the mon
etary less, dispatches from the storm
swept coast sections of Louisiana and
Texas and into the interior for a hun
dred miles add but little to that al
ready told of the hurricane, which ri
valed in intensity the storm of 1900.
The number of killed is conservative
ly estimated at twenty-five, those
more or less seriously injured twice
as many and the property los sis con
servatively estimated at approximate
ly a million dollars. While belated
reports may add to the list of casual
ties and the property damage, other
than to isolated points, communica
tion has been restored.
New Orleans, La. —That the hurri
cane which swept the gulf coast of
Texas and Louisiana, levied a far
heavier toll in loss of life and prop
erty damage than that at first suppos
ed. was indicated when points which
had been cut off from communica
tion again got in touch with the out
side world.
I That the property loss will run into
the millions was made a certainty
when the whole towns which were
not at first believed to have suffered,
were definitely reported to have been
wrecked. Nearly a score of persons
are now believed to have lost their
lives.
NEW RELIGION JWf THE WORLD.
It is Coming Soon, Says Dr. Eliot of
Harvard.
Cambridge, Mass.—Charles W. El
in an aduress before the Harvard
iot, president emeritus of Harvard,
summer setiool of theology, prophesied
tne advent of anew religion.
“It will not be bound by dogma or
creed,” he said. “Its working w r ill
be simple, but its field of action lim
itless. Its discipline will be the train
ing in the development of co-operative
good wilt. It will attack all forms
of evil. There will be no supernatu
ral element; it will place no reliance
on anything but the laws of nature.
Prevention will be the watchword and
a skilled surgeon one of its members.
“It will not deal chiefly with sorrow
and death, but with joy and life.
“God will be so imminent that no
intermediary will be needed. Its
priests will strive to improve social
and industrial conditions. The new
religion will not attempt to reconcile
peoples to present ills, but the prom
ise of future compensation.”
Dirt Flying on Canal.
Washington. D. C. —Substantial pro
gress in canal construction all along
the line is shown by reports coming
to the Washington office of the isth
mian canal commission. Excavation
work by the Americans now approxi
mates 80,000,000 cubic yards, almost
as much as the total quantity of dirt
taken out by the French during the
period they were engaged in opera
tions there. Less than 100,000,000
cubic yards of earth remain to be re
moved from the ditch. Colonel Goe
tlials has estimated that the great
waterway will be completed by Jan
uary 1, 1915.
Daughter ol Ex-President Taylor Dead
Winchester, Va. —Mrs. Elizabeth
Taylor BandrAige, daughter of Gen
eral Zachary Taylor, twelfth president
of the United States, and sister-in
law of the first Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
died at her home here Sunday, aged
85 years. Mrs. Dandridge was the
third daughter of General Zachary
Taylor, twelfth president of the Unit
ed States, and was born at Fort Snell
ing, Minn., April 20, 1824.
High Heels May Cost Life.
New York City.—Mrs. Arthur W.
Teels, who lives in an apartment
house at 422 West End avenue, fell
thirty feet into an areaway from the
window of her suite, and received in
ternal injuries which may cause death.
Mrs. Teele was wearing high heeled
flippers, and one of them caught in
a rung and threw her forward. The
window was low and she tumbled out.
Lett-Handed Trains to Go.
Chicago, ill.—" Left-handed” trains
will be given up by the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway in a
few days. The switches and signals
are being rebuilt, and all trains will
be run on the right-hand track as
they are on every other railroad of
consequence in the country except
one, the Chicago and Northwestern.
, Russia Conquering Cholera.
St. Petersburg.—The cholera situa
tion now seems to be well under con
trol, and the Russian authorities are
confident that it will not reach the
proportions of the 1903 epidemic. Af
ter remaining stationary for several
weeks with a maximum of 120 cases,
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
The royal train bearing King Victor
Emmanuel to his summer palace at
Racconigi ran down and killed a flag
man at a crossing near San Vin
cenzo. The king ordered the train
stopped and, alighting, ordered his
secretary to see that the needs of the
man’s family were provided for.
Struck by a bolt of lightning a* he
sat on his piazza at Broxton. Mass.,
his hand resting on the brass-studded
collar of his dog, George E. Bowman,
a twenty-year-old artist, whose work
recently won him a prize of SSOO at a
New York exhibition, is lying at his
home speechless and sightless.
On board the United Fruit com
pany’s steamship Limon when sue
reached port at Boston, Mass., from
Port Limon, Costa Rica, was no less
distinguished a personage than
’ King” Alonzo Adams, supreme rul
er and owner of Swan Island, situat
ed in the Carribbean sea, and one of
the most important strategic points in
the entire West Indies.
While exact figures are unobtain
able, it is conservatively estimated at
Pittsburg, Pa., that a loss of $60,000 is
incurred each day the steel car strike
continues. Nearly six thousand men
are idle. The plant has a capacity
of about one hundred cars a day,
which sell at an average price of
SI,OOO each. The figures show that
the company is sustaining a tremen
dous loss while no product is being
turned out.
So fond of jumping was Heather
bloom, the $20,000 world’s champion
jumping horse, that he topped eVery
fence built for a paddock. He reach
ed his limit, however, trying the high
est fence ever placed around him,
and was so badly injured that, in
mercy, he was shot. He was owned
by Howard Willets, of White Plains,
N. Y., and Marlborough, Mass. Mr.
Willets refused SIO,OOO for him from
Barnum’s circus only this season.
Heatherbloom had held the world’s
record, eight feet, six inches, having
made the record in C'hicago, winning
from a class of fifty horses.
Washington.
The figure heads, used for orna
ments on the battleship Alabama and
the cruiser Montgomery, will be given
to Montgomery, Ala. Such accessor
ies are being taken from all the war
ships and Congressman Dent has se
cured these two for Montgomery.
It is reported here that prominent
American bankers are to refund t-he
public debt of Honduras at the pres
ent time, amounting to about SIOO,-
000,000. The firm of J. P. Morgan &
Company is mentioned as among
those who have the matter in hand.
There is a decided sentiment for
the abolishment of the Panama canal
government as it now exists and for
the substitution of a “one-man rule”
in the canal zone. In the opinion of
members of congress who have look
ed into conditions in the canal zone
and who have examined the ' great
work of construction, there hs too
great a division of responsibility and
authority under the commission form
of government as it now exists.
A special meeting of the cabinet
was held at the white house to dis
cuss further the matter of cutting
down the estimates of the various de
partments for the coming fiscal year,
according to the statements of sever
al of the cabinet members before en
tering the consultation Foom with
President Taft.
It is clear that the widely published
attack on the estimate of farm ro
ss*tes of wheat on March 1 was with
out basis; that it was unjustifiable and
that its sole object was to enable
the speculators who made it to gain
personal profits at the expense of the
general public, was the summing up
of Secretary Wilson in a statement
given out in answer to the criticism
from several quarters that the depart
ment’s estimate as to the amount of
wheat on farms in the United States
was entirely too high. The secretary
says that “the estimate was challenged
as being much too large, and consid
erable agitation was aroused by specu
lative interests desiring to create a
public belief in a serious shortage in
wheat supplies.”
The conferees on the tariff bill for
mally adopted the corporation tax
amendment as redrafted by Atttorney
General Wickersham, with practically
no amendment. The amendment re
duces the rate of tax from 2 to 1 per
cent, eliminates the holding compan
ies and strikes out that part of the
original amendment which made
building and loan associations subject
to the act.
The city of Panama is anxious to
have an officer of the American army
detailed for duty as inspector and in
structor of the national police of that
city. A cable resolution making such
a request has reached the state de
partment. The army, however, is
short of officers and it is not likely
the request will be complied with,
a similar request from Bogota, Colom
bia, recently having been declined.
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