Galveston: The Horrors of a Stricken CityAmerican Publishers' Association, 1900 - Всего страниц: 336 |
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1817 LIBRARIES Alamo Avenue awful barge Bayou beach blew blown boat bodies brick bridge Buffalo Bayou buildings destroyed buried calamity Caribbean Sea Chicago city of Galveston coast County cyclone dead death debris destruction disaster drowned Eddystone lighthouse escaped feet fell fire flood force gale Galveston Bay Galveston Island Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream Harriet Lane Houston hundred hurricane inches injured island lives lost loss Mayor MICHIGAN miles an hour morning negroes night o'clock passed persons killed piled port Port Eads railroad rain relief roof ruins sand Santa Anna Santa Fe saved Sept September September 11 ships shore Stillman Valley stood storm streets suffered swept telegraph tempest terrible Texas City thousands tide tion town track trees Tremont UNIV vessels veston walls waves weather wharf wife wind wires women wounded wreckage wrecked
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Стр. 284 - Our cavalry had charged and routed that of the enemy upon the right, and given pursuit to the fugitives, which...
Стр. 326 - I could think of taking measures to insure my safety, the hurricane was passing opposite the place where I stood. Never can I forget the scene which at that moment presented itself. The tops of the trees were seen moving in the strangest manner, in the central current of the tempest, which carried along with it a mingled mass of twigs and foliage that completely obscured the view. Some of the largest trees were seen bending and writhing beneath the gale; others suddenly snapped across, and many,...
Стр. 66 - Then the wind grew weird. It ceased being a breath; it became a voice moaning across the world, hooting, uttering nightmare sounds, — Whoo! — whoo! — whoo! — and with each stupendous owl-cry the mooing of the waters seemed to deepen, more and more abysmally, through all the hours of darkness. From the northwest the breakers of the bay began to roll high over the sandy slope, into the salines; the village bayou broadened to a bellowing flood.
Стр. 283 - Our cavalry was first dispatched to the front of the enemy's left, for the purpose of attracting their notice, whilst an extensive island of timber afforded us an opportunity of concentrating our forces and deploying from that point, agreeably to the previous design of the troops. Every evolution was performed with alacrity, the whole advancing rapidly in line and through an open prairie, without any protection whatever for our men. The artillery advanced and took station within two hundred yards...
Стр. 326 - First the branches were broken off with a crackling noise, then went the upper parts of the massy trunks, and, in many places, whole trees of gigantic size were falling entire to the ground. So rapid was the progress of the storm, that, before I could think of taking measures to insure my safety, the hurricane was passing opposite the place where I stood. Never can I forget the scene which at that moment presented itself. The tops of the trees were seen moving in the strangest manner, in the central...
Стр. 216 - If we regard his sufferings, one plain reflection presents itself: " greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.
Стр. 321 - ... men. No other tempest was ever in this country the occasion of a parliamentary address or of a public fast. Whole fleets had been cast away. Large mansions had been blown down. One prelate had been buried beneath the ruins of his palace. London and Bristol had presented the appearance of cities just sacked.
Стр. 327 - The principal force of the hurricane was now over, although millions of twigs and small branches, that had been brought from a great distance, were seen following the blast, as if drawn onwards by some mysterious power. They even floated in the air for some hours after, as if supported by the thick mass of dust that rose high above the ground.
Стр. 66 - A week later sea-bathing had become perilous: colossal breakers were herding in, like moving leviathan-backs, twice the height of a man. Still the gale grew, and the billowing waxed mightier, and faster and faster overhead flew the tatters of torn cloud. The gray morning of the...
Стр. 335 - There was now no retreating from point to point, and each group of defenders had to fight and die in the den where it was brought to bay. From the doors, windows, and loopholes of the several rooms around the area the crack of the rifle and the hiss of the bullet came fierce and fast; as fast the enemy fell and recoiled in his first efforts to charge. The gun beside which Travis...