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FROGHESS OK THE STORM.RAPIIJI.Y LOSING ITS DESTRTTT1VE lt;fTAR-ACTER.Washington. Sept. 10.— Professor Willis Moore, chief of the Weather Itureau. said to-day that the West Indian storm which developed into a hurricane after reaching the Knited States and did such appalling damage In '-exas. was central in Oklahoma to-day and was rapidly losing Its destructive character, the wind at Oklahoma Olty being reported as Mowing thirty miles an hour. It probably will pass Into history as one nf the most disastrous ns well as peculiar storms on record.Chief Moore received the following telegram to-day from G. L. Vaughan, manager of the Western Knlon telegraph office at Houston. T-x.:First news from Galveston Just received by train, which could got no closer to the bay shore than six miles, where prairie was strewn with d«M»rls and dead bodies About two hundred corpses counted fr**m train. Large steamship stranded two miles inland Nothing could Galveston. Loss «f Ilf.* and propertv undoumeajy *r».an...Bl wither Hearand bright here, with gentle southeast windI fear.” said Chief Moore, that we have not yet begun to get any idea of the loss of life, not only at Galveston, but along the Gulf Coast generally The telegram from Mr. Vaughan indicates that the waters from the Gulf t-n-croached six miles inward. The sudden passage of the storm permitted. I ant afraid, this water to recede rapidly, and in such case no one can eatimats the dumage to life and property done. I heartily trust my fears are groundless.
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New York Tribune
New York, New York, US
Tue, Sep 11, 1900
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