The Texas Hurricane.

Manawatu Herald, 15 September 1900, Page 2

The Texas Hurricane.

I Mr Elihu Root, United State* Secretary for War, has sent ten thousand army tents and fifty thousand rations for the relief of the sufferers by the hurricane in Texas and Louisiana. The damage caused by the disaster, including that to the cotton crops, which have been spoilt by the rain, will amount to fifteen million dollars (about £3,000,000). Eight steamships were wrecked in Galveston Harbour. The wind reached a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour, The loss of life in Texas is estimated at 5000. Steam launches and schooners were carried ten miles inland at Galveston by the tidal wave, and the dead were washed from the cemeteries out to sea. LATEST PARTICULARS. The tempest came from opposite directions at Galveston, the waters of the bay and the Gulf of Mexico meeting and covering the highest parts of the city to a depth ot five feet. Many of the inhabitants died of hunger and thirst. An epidemic of disease is now threatened. All the bodies are being .conveyed to sea for burial. The cotton crop was damaged to the extent ot a quarter of a million bales, which intensifies the prospects of a crisis in the Lancashire factories Criminals are looting the houses and shops of Galveston of valuables.