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ATTEMPT TO SUM UP THE LOSSES.

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News has gradually been reaching here of the immense losses along the coast beyond Galveston. Damage difficult to estimate in dollars and cents has been done in a wide stretch of territory, and many human lives have been lost besides those which were wiped out in Galveston and its immediate vicinity. Based on reports believed to be accurate, the following statement is probably as near correct as can be arrived at at this time:

Place. Lives lost. Property loss.
Galveston 8000 $10,000,000
Houston 2 300,000
Alvin 9 100,000
Hitchcock 2 75,000
Richmond 3 75,000
Fort Bend county 19 300,000
Wharton 40,000
Wharton county 8 100,000
Colorado county 250,000
Angleton 3 75,000
Velasco 50,000
Other points in Brazoria county 4 30,000
Sabine 40,000
Patton 10,000
Rollover 10,000
Wennie 10,000
Belleville 1 50,000
Hempstead 1 15,000
Brookshire 2 35,000
Waller county 3 100,000
Arcola 2 5,000
Saratatia 5,000
Other points 100,000
Dickinson 7 30,000
Texas City 5 150,000
Columbia 8 15,000
Sandy Point 8 10,000
Near Brazoria (convicts) 15 1,000
Damage to railroads outside of Galveston 200,000
Damage to telegraph and telephone wires outside of Galveston 30,000

Damage to cotton crop, estimated on average crop of counties affected, 50,000 bales at $60 per bale; total, $3,000,000. Losses to live stock cannot be estimated, but thousands of horses and cattle have been killed all over the storm district.

The Great Galveston Disaster

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