1900 STORM - BUSINESSES

The hurricane damaged or destroyed businesses of every kind in Galveston. Winds and water ravaged their buildings, machinery, and stocks. Businesses that survived included the Merchants’ and Planters’ Compress and Warehouse Company, which sustained approximately $25,000 in damage. The Texas Star Flour Mills received light damage to its elevator. However, the Galveston Shoe and Hat Company’s building was nearly completely destroyed, with losses of more than $50,000. The machinery inside the Galveston Cotton and Woolen Mills, which was for sale at the time of the Storm, sustained damage.

20th Street: BU1-4, BU1-5, BU1-6, BU1-14, BU1-16
21st Street: BU1-14, BU4-2, BU4-7
22nd Street: BU4-2
23rd Street: BU2-2
24th Street: BU2-9
31st Street: BU4-11
33rd Street: BU3-5
39th Street: BU4-6
40th Street: BU4-4
Avenue A: BU4-7
Avenue B: BU2-10, BU2-11
Avenue C: BU2-7, BU2-9
Avenue D: BU1-11, BU2-2, BU3-5
Avenue E: BU1-1, BU1-10, BU1-14, BU1-16, BU1-17, BU2-8, BU2-13, BU2-14, BU3-6, BU4-2
Avenue G: BU4-3, BU4-6
Avenue H: BU4-11
Barrels: BU1-13
Bodies: BU1-11
Cotton Bales: BU4-10
Cotton Compresses: BU4-8, BU4-9, BU4-10, BU4-11, BU4-12
Downtown Views: BU1-10, BU1-11, BU2-2, BU2-3, BU2-8, BU2-10, BU2-11, BU2-13, BU2-14, BU3-6
Dulitz, Ernest (furniture store): BU2-5
Factories: BU4-3, BU4-4, BU4-6
Fire Hydrants: BU2-2
Galveston Baggage and Cordage Co.: BU4-6
Galveston Cotton and Woolen Mills: BU4-3, BU4-4
Galveston Gas Co.: BU3-5
Galveston Harbor: BU4-7
Galveston Shoe and Hat Co.: BU2-7
Gasworks: BU3-5
Government Buildings: BU4-8
Grain Elevators: BU4-5
Grand Opera House: BU1-1, BU1-2, BU1-4, BU1-5, BU1-6, BU1-8, BU1-9, BU1-12, BU1-13, BU1-14, BU1-15, BU1-16
Gulf City Cotton Press and Mfg. Co.: BU4-11
Harbor Views: BU4-7
Horse and Buggies: BU1-16, BU2-1, BU2-13, BU2-14, BU3-6
Horses: BU1-11, BU2-3
Hotel Grand: BU1-4, BU1-5, BU1-10, BU1-12, BU1-14, BU1-16, BU1-17
Hotels: BU1-4, BU1-5, BU1-10, BU1-12, BU1-14, BU1-16, BU1-17
Levy (E. S.) & Co.: BU1-11
Marx & Blum: BU2-9
Merchants and Planters Compress and Warehouse Co.: BU4-10
Pavement – Brick: BU2-8
People: BU1-1, BU1-5, BU1-8, BU1-9, BU1-11, BU1-16, BU2-3, BU2-4, BU2-7, BU2-10, BU2-11, BU2-15, BU4-1
Ritter’s Saloon & Restaurant: BU2-10, BU2-11
Saloons: BU2-10, BU2-11
Signs: BU1-4, BU1-6
Smokestacks: BU4-9, BU4-11
Storage Tanks: BU4-13
Street Railways: BU1-10, BU2-9, BU2-13, BU4-4
Street Scenes: BU1-1, BU1-4, BU1-5, BU1-6, BU1-10, BU1-16, BU1-17, BU2-1, BU2-2, BS2-3, BU2-6, BU2-7, BU2-9, BU2-10, BU2-11, BU2-13, BU2-14, BU2-15, BU3-2, BU3-3, BU3-4, BU3-5, BU3-6, BU4-2, BU4-3, BU4-4
Taylor Compress Co.: BU4-8, BU4-9
Texas Star Flour Mills: BU4-7
U.S. Customs House and Post Office: BU4-8
Utilities: BU3-5
Utility Poles: BU2-5, BU3-4, BU4-1
Wagons: BU1-1, BU1-4, BU1-11, BU2-11
Water: BU1-11, BU2-2, BU2-13, BU3-6, BU4-1, BU4-4
Wegner (John C.) Groceries: BU1-4
Workmen: BU1-11, BU2-3, BU2-7, BU2-10, BU2-11, BU2-15

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