The Great Galveston Disaster. Paul Lester

ENTIRE FAMILIES LOST.

       THE CRIES OF THE DYING.

       WHITE MEN AND NEGROES PLUNDER TOGETHER.

       NAMES OF DEAD WILL NEVER BE KNOWN.

       MISSING ONES SWELL DEATH LIST.

       CHAPTER XI. Galveston Calamity One of the Greatest Known to History—Many Thousands Maimed and Wounded—Few Heeded the Threatening Hurricane—The Doomed City Turned to Chaos.

       WATERS CREPT HIGHER AND HIGHER.

       TREMENDOUS FURY OF THE GALE.

       TOO MANY ON THE COMMITTEE.

       SOLDIERS HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

       SIGHT-SEERS BARRED OUT.

       BOYS RESCUE FORTY PEOPLE.

       TWISTED INTO ALL SORTS OF SHAPES.

       AWFUL NIGHT IN THE LIGHTHOUSE.

       GENEROUS OFFER OF HELP.

       VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE CALAMITY.

       GHOSTLY SCENES OF NIGHT.

       HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CARRIED OUT TO SEA.

       HUMAN VULTURES PILFERING AND LOOTING.

       BURYING THE VICTIMS IN TRENCHES.

       VISITORS DO NOBLE WORK.

       DEAD ANIMALS CARRIED ACROSS THE BAY.

       SCHOOL BUILDING CARRIED A BLOCK AWAY.

       GREAT WRECK OF ST. MARY’S INFIRMARY.

       HOUSES PLACED BACK TO BACK.

       HORRIBLE BEYOND DESCRIPTION.

       CHAPTER XII. Thrilling Narratives by Eye-witnesses—Path of the Storm’s Fury Through Galveston—Massive Heaps of Rubbish—Huge Buildings Swept into the Gulf.

       THROWN TOGETHER IN UTTER CONFUSION.

       A ST. LOUIS MAN STORMBOUND.

       DRUNKEN REVELRY IN THE STREETS.

       CURSED FOR INTERFERENCE.

       STORM OF INDESCRIBABLE FURY.

       WINDOWS BROKEN AND ROOMS FLOODED.

       HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE STREWN FOR MILES.

       ARRESTED FOR ROBBING THE DEAD.

       CHILDREN CRYING AND WOMEN PRAYING.

       STRONG MAN FAINTS.

       CAST UP BY THE HEAVY WAVES.

       WIND A HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

       NO VESTIGE LEFT OF BUILDINGS.

       TO HASTEN ONE BRIDGE.

       DAMAGE TO THE WHARVES.

       LOSSES REPORTED EVERYWHERE.

       STEAMERS TORN FROM THEIR MOORINGS.

       CALL FOR MILITARY GUARDS.

       HOW TO MEET THE EMERGENCY.

       MACHINERY A COMPLETE LOSS.

       TOO AWFUL FOR WORDS.

       TEXAS HAS IMMENSE TERRITORY.

       CHAPTER XIII. Refugees Continue the Terrible Story—Rigid Military Patrol—The City in Darkness at Night—Hungry and Ragged Throngs.

       BURYING THE DEAD.

       CITY WILL RECOVER FROM THE BLOW.

       GREAT GUSTS OF WIND.

       OLD GENTLEMAN WITH BAROMETER.