CABLE NEWS.
THE HURRICANE AND TIDAL WAVE AT GALVESTON.
Bx Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
3000 KILLED -5000 HOMELESS. INHUMAN PILLAGE. MANY ROBBERS SHOT (Received 13, 4.30 p.m.) New York, September 12,
The Mayor of Galveston reports that there are 3,000 killed and 5,0000 homeless.
Bobbers stripped the womens corpses for clothes and hacked fingers off for rings. Twenty-five robbers were shot, one sentry killing five.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 14 September 1900, Page 3
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63CABLE NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 14 September 1900, Page 3
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