The Great Galveston Disaster. Paul Lester

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ANXIETY FOR FRIENDS.

       DISTRESS AT ALVIN.

       OLD AND YOUNG CRUSHED TOGETHER.

       GREAT EXODUS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

       BRIDGE AND TRAIN IN SIX DAYS.

       BANKS ASK MILLION DOLLAR LOAN.

       FACING THE FIERCE BLASTS OF THE STORM.

       RESTORATION OF PUBLIC WORKS.

       WHOLE FAMILIES LOST.

       VAST AMOUNT OF WORK TO BE DONE.

       CHAPTER X. Details of the Overwhelming Tragedy—The Whole City Caught in the Death-Trap—Personal Experiences of Those Who Escaped—First Reports More Than Confirmed.

       FRANTIC PEOPLE HUNTING RELATIVES.

       THE HOTEL FLOODED.

       STREET SIGHTS WERE APPALLING.

       FRIGHTFUL CONFUSION EVERYWHERE.

       LIVES SAVED BY FLIGHT.

       FOUND IT WAS THE FOOT OF HIS BABY.

       ONE LONE HOUSE STANDING.

       GATHERING UP THE DEAD.

       CLUNG TO THEIR PROPERTY.

       TREETOPS INTERRUPTED PROGRESS OF TRAINS.

       A TOWN IN RUINS.

       WHOLE FAMILY SAVED BY TRAINMEN.

       TERRIBLE TALES OF VANDALISM.

       FLOATING BODIES IN THE BAY.

       MAKING A HURRIED ESCAPE.

       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

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