El Paso Daily Herald. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 20TH YEAR, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 9, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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Where all the eating delicacies
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The Finest Cop -or Coffee in the City.
Office at at Cafe
307 N. Oregon St. down stairs
Telephone Its. P. O. Box a.
J. A. SMITH Manager.
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First-class cooking. Short orders day
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Dinner Daily at 3 p. m.
23 El Paso St. Next to Cooper's.
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ehsrges must be prepaid.
A XoTel Llttl Fwllta' FmrtT.
One of the prettiest of the entertain-
ments that I hare been to here was a
small folks' party and there was an
innovation on the rather wornout Jack
Horner pie that I must remember. Over
the middle of the supper table bus
pended from the celling by pretty
ribbons was a large elaborately braid
ed white straw basket of fancy shape
apparently fill with flowers and
CTCellS.
The flowers were bunches and
Doiitunnicreft of sweet tieas one for
each child and asparagus vines hid the
stems. KaKtened to each bunch was
package. At the end of the supper the
basket was lowered and every one
drew his or her posies and when the
treasures rame to light with the
flowers screams of joy arose. The bot
tom of the basket was filled with bon
bons and mottoes which were emptied
over the heads of the children. A
scramble ensued for them. Into which
every child entered and this ended the
party. Anna Wentworth in Woman's
Home Companion.
Am Eaallr Made Kit.
To construct a bow kite you must
first make a spiral roll of heavy wrap-
ping paper 30 inches in length and one
inch In diameter. Then cut out a strip
of stiff cardboard 30 inches In length
and one inch in width. To the center
of this cardboard paste another piece
of the same material 12 Inches In
length. When dry fasten this with a
strong paper band to the top of the
spiral roil. Attach strong thread to
each end of the cardboard draw Into
a bow position and then fasten the
ends of the thread to the base of the
spiral roll. Over this framework paste
light manila paper. After attaching
the bridle and tall the kite is complete
and as soon as dry is ready for flying.
Meredith Nugent in Woman's Home
Companion.
New Mifilno Company.
The Rebate Mlnlrg com pan filed
incorporation at Santa Fa Friday
This company is composed of citizens
of Cbloaro and their headquarters will
be Lake Valley sierra oounty. N M
with a branch offioe In Chicago.
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Rate 34 90.
For sleeping car reservation and
Information relative to these or other
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Texas state Fair. Dallas.
The Texas & Pad Be will make a
round trip ra'e of $21.30 for those
desiring to attend the -fifteenth arnual
carnival held In Dallas September
SKHh to Ootober 14th. The manage-
ment promises this entertainment will
surpass everything In the history of
the organization. Tickets on sale
September 2811 to October 14th final
limit October 16th.
For further particulars call or ad
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Shorthand taught to a limited number
of pupils. Oaly 12 lessons to be learn-
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line. Give us a chance to figure on
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Kansas City Mo Oct. 1-V26 1900.
For this meeting the -Santa Fe Route"
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and Depot
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this meating the "Santa Fe Riu'e"
will sell tickets El Paso to Kansas City
and return for $34. 90 selling dates
Oct 9 & 10. final limit Oct 20th.
Tiokets on sale at City Ticket Office
or Depot Office.
It i well to know that De Witt's
Wltob Bezel Salve will heal a burn
and stop the pain at once. It will cure
eczema and skin diseases aod ugly
wouods and sores. It Is a certain cure
for piles. Counterfeits may be offerde
you. See that you eet the original De-
Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Fred
Scbaefer. druggUt.
S sett's Family Paste will positively
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It will surprise you to experience
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Scbaefer drupfflst.
No other pills can equal De Witt's
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re-tstnty effiileccy. Fred Scbaefer
druggist.
THE WARNINGS OF GALVESTON
Story Of the Previous Horrors That Had Overwhelmed the Gulf Islands With In-
calculable Destruction Of Life and Property. Two Centuries Of Dis-
aster. Col. Baylor Suggests That Galveston Build Places
Of Refuge Through the Is'and.
(Every reader of The Herald is glad
to hear from Col. Geo. W. Baylor.
Col. Baylor is at Uvalde now where
he has been staying for some time. In
a letter just received Col. Baylor
says: "1 have received many letters
from old friends who have heard of me
through The Herald and all ask me
to publish my stories in book form
but I will have to wait. However my
Galveston oyster beds won't be hurt
and people will eat oysters just as
though no storm had occurred.
"I have long dreaded this terrible
tragedy since Last Island was destroy-
ed. An old Mexican who was in San
Antonio and once belonged to the no-
torious Lafitte pirates said he saw
such a storm about 1811 that covered
the entire island. So the people must
rebuild keeping this fact in view and
have places of refuge scattered through
ine city. Galveston is too important
a place to the west and in fact to
the commercial world to be abandon-
ed and will be rebuilt better than it
ever would have been but for this dis-
aster. "There are in the stricken city
many brave old veterans both of the
blue and the gray who faced death on
a many bloody battle field and never
faltered but as the bravest are the
tenderest the cry of a woman's voice
in distress or the wail of a drowning
child wouid unman them. But after
the battle and after the friends are
laid to rest they will be ready to
answer the call of duty as of yore and
rebuild their beautiful city.
"With kindest regards to all my
old friends I am
"Yours truly
"Geo. Wythe Baylor."
Col. Baylor's reference to the Last
Island disaster and to the Lafitte pir-
ates makes all the more interesting
the following account of the history of
the Gulf islands which appears in a
recent issue of the New York Sun. The
history is well worth preserving as it
represents a large amount of research
and reminiscence that is often hard to
secure a second time.
The destruction of Galveston by the
storm of September 8 and 9 supplies
further evidence that the low-lying
sand islands fringing the shores of
Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas for a
distance of nearly one thousand miles
were never intended for human habi-
tation. The evidence has been secured
at a frightful sacrifice of life and prop-
erty for it is estimated that more than
20.0(10 lives have been lost and nearly
$100000000 of property has been de
stroyed on these islands by hurricanes.
Island atter island has been the scene
of destruction its population either
wiped out or the island itself washed
away. Galveston was frequently threat
ened before and warned of the fate.
but the people believed that their
breakwater and substantial buildings
would be. able to defy the storm. The
Galveston horror is the twelfth of Its
kind in the sand islands of the Gulf.
It is the worst in loss of life and prop
erty because a city had been built on
Galveston Island: but. the other dis
asters were equally bad or at least
proportionately bad and in most cases
the percentage of saved was even small
er than at Galveston.
Two Centuries Ago.
The record of the loss of life goes
back to a time before the white man
landed on these shores. When Bien-
ville and Iberville two centuries ago.
occupied this country they found upon
the island where they landed opposite
where Mobile now stands the bones of
hundreds of the aborigines. The
French thought that the unburied
bodies indicated a massacre and so
called the island Massacre Island; it Is
Dauphine Island today. It was a mas
sacre not by Human nanas Dut uy
Kome mighty storm which overwhelm
ed the Indian population and wiped
it out of existence. It left a memory
behind which the natives never forgot
and the Gulf islands were to them a
haunted place never to be visited in
spite of the fact that they teemed with
game. When the Krenc-h settled there
they found the islands wholly uninhab-
ited: the Indians had learned what
the white man has learned since how
unsafe they are for human settlement.
Nor were the French long in learning
this lesson for within two years of
their settlement on the Gulf coast in
the very beginning of the eighteenth
century their fleet went down in a
hurricane in the magnificent harbor of
Isle des Varsseaux. now translated in-
to Ship Island. Ship Island is almost
identical in most particulars with Gal-
veston Island and it has been the aim
of the people of Mississippi to build
a great port there like the Texas city
which would handle the commerce and
free them from the control of New Or-
leans. The project has been popular
for half a century and a great deal of
money has been expended on it.
There is a splendid harbor on Ship
Island and by connecting it with the
mainland as Galveston was connected
In Texas a deep-water port could be
obtained. A railroad has been built
from the mainland into the interior
of Mississippi ' and all that is now
needed is to connect the island with
tne shore by means of a pier or bridge.
This has been repeatedly proposed but
never done mainly for financial rea-
sons. The destruction of Galveston
will have at endency to delay if not
to kill the project particularly as the
Galveston storm washed away a por-
tion of Ship Island.
Stretching from Mobile to the Rio
The Gulf Islands.
Grande is a long fringe of islands dif-
fering very little from one another.
Indeed any of them might pass for
Galveston Island so alike are they
tne only difference being that some
of the eastern ones have trees where-
as west of the Atchafalaya they are
generally hare and open and there-
fore more dangerous being exposed to
the wazes and wind. They range from
ten to twenty miles long and from one
to two miles wide. They are compos-
ed almost exclusively of sand under-
laid by clay or quicksands covered in
part with a coarse scraggy sea grass.
They begin at Dauphine Island and
stretch westward as follows: Petti
Bois. Horn Dear Ship Cat the Chan-
deleurs Breton Bird Grand Timba-
lier. Calllon Last Island (originally
one island but cut into two by the
great storm of 1S57). Marsh Galveston
Matagorda St Joseph Mustang and
Sadie. Cheniere Caminada and In-
dianola are in reality islands although
technically not known as such being
separated from the mainland by
swamps always under water.
Every One Has Suffered.
At one time or another every one of
these islands has been struck by a hur-
ricane and depopulated and changed
or modified in shape. They will change
their appearance entirely tn a night.
As a consequence most of them are
without stable population today as in
the Indian days when notwithstanding
the game on them. A few charcoal
burners and cattlemen live on Cat Is-
land. The others are mainly frequent-
ed by fishermen for they are fine fish-
ing stations. Of the entire lot per-
haps Chandeleur island as it is called
is the worst. It may nave been an is-
land once; it is an archipelago today.
Facing southeast and acting as a break
water to the country around New Or-
leans it catches all the storms and has
been the scene of more wrecks than
perhaps any other place in the coun
try. Originally forty or fltty miles long
the storms and the ocean have cut it
up into a score of Islands and its form
changes with every hurricane. It has
completely changed its character with-
in historical times and is apparently
being washed away and likely to be-
come in time a mere reef. The wa-
ter now pours over it with every storm
and the island disappears completely
from view burled under the Gulf.
Originally covered with wax myrtles
from which the Creoles made their
candles hence its name (Chandeleur)
it now boasts of nothing but marsh
grass and a single palm tree which by
some strange freak of chance has sur-
vived all the hurricanes.
Ominous Warning.
Some years ago the United States
government on the persistent demands
of the people of Louisiana and Missis-
sippi established its Gulf quarantine
station on Chandeleur Island in what
was supposed to be a very safe spot.
In the storm of 1SSS which may be
called the Sabine Pass storm since
It was the Sabine rass country that
was overwhelmed that year the quar-
antine officers had just time to get
away from the station. When the
physicians went back to look for their
station they could not find a trace of
it. The very site had disappeared and
a few battered pieces of wood picked
up on the coast and supposed to be the
wreckage of the quarantine station
were the only remains ever found. The
station was never rebuilt but moved
to Ship Island. Chandeleur Island is
wholly uninhabited today and its sole
occupants except birds are a species
of wild boars wnich seem to have
some way of defying the elements. The
other islands. Errel Bird. etc.. stretch-
ing to the mouth of the Mississippi
are but pieces of Chandeleur that have
been separated from the main island
by violent storms which have torn it to
pieces.
Lifitte's Stronghold.
West of the Mississippi the islands
which have suffered most in the Gulf
hurricanes for many attempts have
been made to settle them. Grande Ter-
re. the first of these was of old the
haunt of that famous Louisiana pirate
Latltte. and it is a curious coincidince
that Lafitte. after being driven from
the island by the United States feder-
al authorities should have sought ref-
uge in Galveston Island where he
flourished for several years the island
then belonging to Spain and being
wholly uninhabited and without the
pale of the law.
Fearful Destruction.
West of Grande Terre Is Grande Isle
and immediately adjacent thereto
Cheniere Caminada. Grande Isle has
been visited by a dozen storms and
severely ravaged by them but while
nearly all the property on the island
was wrecked in 1893 and many lives
lost it escaped wholesale destruction
thanks to a grove of oaks planted
many years ago whose roots act as a
sort of levee or protection to the land.
Not so fortunate is Cheniere Caminada '
lying just across the chunnei and only
two miles distant. It was the worst
victim of the hurricane of October 2.
1893. At that point alone in a fishing
village known as Caminadville. no less
than 1150 lives were lost and 1678 were
lost In all. every one of the neighbor-
ing islands having suffered. The bod-
ies of only a few of the dead were re-
covered. The great mapority were
swept out to sea and many were found
by vessels fifty miles distant from the
shore.
The Last Island Storm.
West of these islands come the group
of Tunballer. Caillou and Last or Der-
niere Island. They were the victims
of the Last Island storm of 1857 so
named from the island which was the
worst sufferer. Just as the storm of
1857 was the Indianola storm that of
I8SC the Sabine Pass storm that of 18-
93 the Cheniere Caminada storm and
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that of 1900 the Galveston storm.
The Last Island storm was memor-
able because of the large number of
prominent persons drowned. Iast Is-
land was a. pleasure resort' at the time
and the hotel there was crowded with
prominent Louisianians. The storm
that destroyed is was like all the oth-
ers in its origin and action. A violent
wind drove up the water in the bays
back of the island piling it ten or
twelve feet high there. Then it veer-
ed from south to north driving the
waters back on the Gulf with a force
that swept everything before it and
out to sea. The wind and the
waves cut the island in half and where
the fachionable Las; Island hotel once
stood is now a part of the Gulf of
Mexico. There were only 284 victims
of the Last Island storm but they in-
cluded the lieutenant governor of
Louisiana the speaker of the state
house of representatives and many oth-
ers prominent in the political and so-
cial history of the state.
Last Island Repeated.
West of Last Island the Islands are
too low and soft for human habitation
and in consequence they have never
been settled. They have gone under
with every storm but it has fortunate-
ly been without loss of life. Near the
Texas line some twenty years ago a
large number of armers settled on
Johnson's Bayou. It is what would be
called high land on the Gulf rising
six feet above the water. The set-
tlers planted orange trees and soon
had some of the best groves in the
state but in 1886 a tornado struck
them and the settlement was annihi-
lated and some 250 persons killed in
identically the same way as at Last Is-
land. The wind drove the water into
the swamp back of the bayou then
changed from south to north and
swept the land away into the Gulf.
The Sabine Pass Disaster.
A few miles from Johnson's Bayou is
Sabine Pass which met with a similar
disaster. The water piled up in Sabine
lake and dashed down on the town
which is situated on a peninsula or
island at the mouth of the lake. It
was completely swept away with great
loss of life. There is a Sabine Pass
today the terminus of a railroad and
a great deal of anxiety prevailed in
regard to it during the Galveston
storm of the other day but it is an
entirely new town and some distance
from the town wrecked in 1886.
The Ruin of Indianola.
Next comes Galveston and beyond
that is Indianola wnich although the-
oretically on the mainland is practi-
cally an island. The hurricane which
swept over the Gulf coast in October
1875. struck Indianola just as the other
storms have struck Galveston Last Is-
land. Sabine Pass Johnson's Bayou
Cheniere Caminada and other exposed
points. Indianola at that time was a
town of about 4000 people and the ter-
minus of an important railroad sys-
tem. It was a rival of Galveston and
deemed a dangerous rival for the trade
of western Texas. It was situated at
the head oi a long bay on land like
that a t ualveston. only a few feet
above tidewater and behind it there
was such a network of bays bayous
and small lakes that it was really an
Island. The water was backed up by
a continuous wind to an extraordinary
height and for many miles back of the
town. Then the north wind drove it
seaward with a force that was irre-
sistible and only three houses were left
standing in the town. It virtually kill-
ed Indianola. which is smaller than
it was forty years ego; and its harbor
is completely ruined.
The Great City on the Sand.
Such has been the experience that
Galveston had before it; but in no
wise daunted it has gone to work to
build up a great city on the low sand
spit that juts out into Galveston bay.
It was not a bit safer than any of the
other Gulf islands; indeed it is not so
safe as many of themv Cat Island is
covered with trees whose roots bind
together the ground; enip Island rises
In places forty feet high. It is true that
these are more sana dunes liable to
be swept away in a storm but they
afforded at least a refuge from the wa-
ter when the wind drove it over the
island and the islands are broader.
Galveston Island is only five feet high
at best above the waters of the Gulf
only one or at most two miles wide
practically useless with a foundation
of salt clay and quicksand. But at this
spit some 50.000 persons settled and
invested $30000000 in building ud one
of the prettiest and most prosperous
towns in the south. Galveston has for
years boasted of being the wealthiest
city per capita in the southwest and
was proud of the fact that Strand
street alone possessed twenty-eight
millionaires.
Deceived and Over Confident.
But all this prosperity was built on
a quicksand. The people of Galveston
knew this as did everybody in the
southwest; but as year after year pass-
ed and Galveston escaped ruin in the
storms which desolated or destroyed
neighboring islands a spirit of confi-
dence was aroused that it would alto-
gether escape: that the town was too
substantially built too well protected
by breakwaters to be ruined as the
less solidly built Indianola had been.
The grade of the principal streets was
raised a few feet and the pavements
were deemed a further protection
against the waves and likely to pre-
vent the washing away of the ground.
But there were somn who doubted who
built their houses like the dwellers up-
on Lake Maracaibo. ten feet from the
ground mounted high on poles so that
the sea could sweep under them if it
rose too high and not flood the floors.
And at every Gulf hurricane there were
anxious inquiries whether Galveston
had got through it without injury.
Many Narrow Escapes. "
There were good cause for these in-
quiries; for while Galveston escaped
serious damage from these tornadoes
it was only because the storm struck
somewhere else and Galveston did not
get its full brunt and in all the cases.
It had a very narrow escape. In 1857
the entire island was flooded and the
waters of Galveston bay and Gulf
met over it so that it completely dis
appeared from view: but the town was
then a small one and tbel oss of lire
was inconsiderable. In the storm of
October 3 1867. Galveston again went
under water the Gulf pouring over
it so that Mechanic street the prin
cipal business thoroughfare was six
feet deep and it then was on the edge
of the storm and did not catch its full
force. Again in 1871; it was twice be
neath the waters first in June and
again in September one flood coming
from the wa.ters of the Gulf the other
when the water was plied up in the
bay until it swept through the princi
pal streets back to the Gulf of Mexi-
co. In October 1873 and in Septem-
ber 1875 and December 1877 the town
was again flooded.
Five Floods in Ten Years.
Thus five times in ten years Galves
ton was swept by the waves and be
came a second Venice all of its streets
being from two to five feet under wa-
ter. All of those storms were severe
and did great damage although Gal-
veston caught only their fringe. But
the storm of 1875 was by far the worst
and Galveston then escaped by only
an hour perhaps the disaster which
has visited it today. Had not the wind
changed at the very moment it threat-
ened to destroy the Island City the lat-
ter would have probably been swept
into the Gulf with great loss of life.
The storm did Galveston an immense
amount of damage and there were lives
lost all along the Texas coast but the
city escaped a great catastrophe. A
strong south wind idled the water ap
in Galveston bay until in Buffalo bayou
near Houston it reached a height of
thirty-seven feet. Forty persons were
drowned in and around Galveston.
Morgan's dredging P.eet was sunk the
government works swept away and in-
calculable harm done. Then the wind
veered around to the north and all this
immense mass of water was thrown
back on Galveston Island. In twenty-
five minutes it hail cut the island in
half making a channel 250 feet wide
and 25 feet deep at the east end near
Fort Point and just beyond the built-
up portion of the island. The land
washed away like so much sugar and
it was evident that the entire Island
would be swept into the Gulf but just
as the new-made channel reached the
city the wind receded again the water
was driven eastward and passed out
through Galveston Pass it was the
narrowest of escapes for fifteen min-
utes more of that north wind would
probably have carried a hundred hous-
es out to sea and drowned every occu-
pant. The channel cut by the storm
of 1875 still remains as a warning of
danger to every one on the island
unless it was destroyed in the storm
the other day.
Two years afterward in 1877 an-
other storm destroyed the govern-
ment works at Galveston harbor but
the town escaped any very great in-
jury. The storm of 1886 which de-
stroyed Sabine Pass and Johnson
Bayou was the last serious one to visit
Galveston and again that town was
flooded.
Trapped Like Rats.
These storms explain to a large ex
tent the present Galveston disaster. It
bred a feeling of desperate confidence
among the people that no storm could
injure Galveston. When therefore the
hurricane struck it on Saturday in-
stead of seeking places of safety they
shut themselves in their houses and
waited for the storm to blow. They
knew of course that the streets would
be under water but the streets had
been under water so often before that
this did not carry the same significance
to them as it would to the people of
other cities. But tnis time to storm
which had dodged around Galveston
so often before struck the island fair-
ly and squarely. This confidence
caused the great loss of life. At Sa-
bine Pass and other places which suf-
fered from the recent hurricane the
people sought refuge on the higher
ridges" or congregated in the stronger
buildings; but in Galveston they shut
themselves up In their houses and were
trapped like so many rats.
Islands Never Made for Settlement.
It will be some time before it is pos-
sible to determine what effect the
storm has had on the island proper
and on Galveston bay and the jetties.
Apparently the island is less hurt than
by the storm of September 17 1875. .
when the southern portion of it was
cut off; but it is not certain that it
has escaped permanent injury for it
is covered everywhere by sea ooze. As
for the bay and the jetties upon
which the United States government
expended $8000000 to which Galves-
ton owes so much of its present pros-
perity only a careful examination
disclose whether they have been injur-
ed or not. Judging by the experience
of Indianola. Sabine Pass and other
places tne cbances are that the whni
character of the bay and the sur-
rounding country has been changed by
the storm. But is has Droved one.
again that in their present condition
tne sand islands of the Gulf were nev
er made fop settlement.
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