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Notes and Documents 63
At this moment we hear that Hitchcock is still on the map! And
now we will probably know how Anita and family got on. Bridges
to the mainland are destroyed and the trains come within five miles
of the Bay where provisions are carried to the shore and loaded on
tugs for transport to Galveston. Tom Phillips,"' with whom I spoke
yesterday, has lost everything. Lindenbergs"9 probably died also.
Claude Fordtran lost his wife and has lost his mind.0 Mrs. Hanscome
is dead. The Heyes"1 lost a roof from one of their houses, and the
home of Louis F. Meyer"2 is half demolished. Edith Clarke"3 spent
the night alone except for the maid; Mrs. [David] Wakelee5" was
killed in her house. Young John Reymerschoffer65 was saved from drown-
ing by Joe Merrow,"6 who was himself saved, in turn by someone
else. No newspapers have been printed since Saturday."7 All loiterers
and idlers were forced to clean up the streets. Bodies of humans and
animals are still being found under the debris. Four-fifths of the city
is destroyed so you can imagine what an utter ruin it is; half of the
survivors have nothing left, and the others have lost so much that
"8Tom Phillips was manager for William Parr and Company, steamship agents. Mor,
rison and Fourmy's General Directory of Galveston, 18g99-zoo, p. 179.
"Emil Lindenberg was a teacher of violin and music. Morrison and Fourmy's General
Directory of Galveston, 1899-zgoo, p. 138. The name Lindenberg does not appear in
the list of the storm dead.
"5Claude Fordtran was a secretary for the State National Loan and Trust Company of
Fort Worth. It is uncertain that he actually lost his mind. Mrs. E. Maury Robertson
to W.M.D., interview, March so, 1960. There were other reports of temporary insanity
and loss of memory. Such stories were highly exaggerated. Ousley, Galveston in zgoo,
p. 28; Weems, A Weekend in September, 171.
61Gustave Jacob Heye was a native of Germany and a Galveston cotton factor. Darst
and Zwiener, Guide to Historic Galveston, 14.
52Louis F. Meyer was president of Galveston Garten-Verein and partner in the import
firm of Meyer and Benecke. Morrison and Fourmy's General Directory of Galveston,
8p99-g19oo, p. 156.
"3Edith Clarke was the future bride of young John Focke. Family Records.
"Harriet Wakelee, widow of David Wakelee, resided at 1502 Mechanic Street, not far
from the Focke residence. Morrison and Fourmy's General Directory of Galveston, 1899-
1900oo, p. 233.
6"John Reymerschoffer, son of John Reymerschoffer, Sr., was secretary-treasurer of the
Galveston, West Indies, and Pan American Co. Ibid., 188.
6"Josiah Merrow was treasurer for Texas Transport and Terminal Company. Ibid., 155.
6"Damage to the News Building at 21o8 Mechanic Street in downtown Galveston was
estimated at only $50. No paper was printed Sunday, September 9, but a small handpress
was used to issue a partial list of the dead. By Wednesday, September 12, 1900oo, the
newspaper was again printing at regular capacity. Sam Acheson, 35,ooo Days in Texas: A
History of the Dallas News and Its Forebears (New York, 1938), 213.
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