The Galveston Hurricane.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 3

The Galveston Hurricane.

New York, September 11 .Eight steamers were wrecked in Galveston harbour. The -wind reached a velocity of 84 miles. The loss of life in Texas is estimated at 5000. The people of Galvesfcon are roofless. Mr Eiihu Root, Secretary for War, has sent 10,000 ~ army teats, imd 80,000 rations -to" 1 aid the sufferers. The damage,' including that to the cotton crops, whiob^were spoilt by ram, is estimated at 15,000,000 dollars.

September 12. Steam launches and schooners were carried ten miles inland at

Galveston by the tidal wave, wh le the dead in cemeteries were washed out to sea, i The tempest came from opposite directions, the waters of the bay and gulf meeting and covering the highest parts of Galveston to a. height of five feet. Many of the> inhabitants died of "hunger and: thirst An epidemic of disease is 1 now threatened, all bodies being conveyed to the sea for burial. Criminals are looting valuables." The cotton crop is damaged to the ! extent of a quarter of a million bales, which intensifies the prospects of a crisis in Lancashire cotton manufactures. The Mayor of Galveston reports 8000 killed and 5000 homeless. Robbers stripped women's corpses lor clothes, and hacked their fingers -off for rings. Twenty-five robbers were shot, <o»e Beiatry killing five.