Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson [118]
4 “Our little group”: Cline, Joseph, 56.
5 “Sometimes the blows”: Cline, Storms, 97.
6 “At one point”: Cline, Joseph, 57.
7 They drifted: Cline, Storms, 96–97; Cline, Joseph, 56–57.
8 A rocket of timber: Cline, Joseph, 58.
9 Joseph saw a small girl: Cline, Joseph, 58; Cline, Storms, 97.
10 “Papa! Papa!”: Cline, Joseph, 59.
11 And there was this: Ibid., 57.
PART V: STRANGE NEWS
Telegram
1 First news from: National Archives: General Correspondence.
Gulf of Mexico: First Glimpse
1 About dawn: Galveston News, Sept. 13, 1900.
2 “We found”: Ibid.
Galveston: Silence
1 Saturday evening someone: New Orleans Daily Picayune, Sept. 9, 1900.
2 On Sunday a small party: Weems, 39.
3 As one of the region’s: Personal Accounts: Sterett, 1–3. See also Acheson, 205–17.
4 The swollen bodies: Personal Accounts: Sterett, 2.
5 For Sterett: Ibid.
6 “And so help me”: Ibid.
7 “Everything, it seemed”: Ibid.
8 “It must have taken”: Personal Accounts: Monagan.
9 “I am an old soldier”: “Galveston Horror,” 33.
10 At one point Sterett: McComb, 127.
11 It was a night: Personal Accounts: Monagan.
12 They stopped a man: Ibid.
13 “Surely the man”: Ibid.
28th and P: Searching
1 It was, he said: Cline, “Century,” 31.
2 In the wreckage: Isaac Cline never says exactly what he saw that morning, but, as hundreds of photographs in the Rosenberg Library storm collection show, there can be no doubt that Isaac saw hats, clothing, corpses, and far more.
3 One hundred corpses: Ousley, 120.
4 Some had double-puncture wounds: See note for this page, Venomous snakes.
5 Forty-three bodies: Ousley, 120.
6 “There were so many”: Personal Accounts: Tipp, 9
7 Isaac checked: What Isaac Cline did in the days immediately after the storm is a mystery. I have based this paragraph and others that follow on my sense of Isaac’s character, and on my understanding, derived from scores of personal accounts, of how people throughout Galveston behaved after the storm. That he visited the hospitals and morgues seems beyond question.
8 J. H. Hawley: Personal Accounts: Hawley, J. H., 1–2.
9 A photograph survives.: Photograph of morgue. Rosenberg Library. Storm of 1900 Collection. G-1771. Folder 1.2. “Bodies.” No. 2.
10 Isaac, moving systematically: See note for this page, Isaac checked.
11 Sunday he gave: Galveston News, Sept. 9, 1900.
12 That morning Father James Kirwin: Ousley, 116.
13 Anthony Credo learned: Tapp, 12.
14 Soon after Ruby Credo: Ibid., 10.
15 Judson Palmer lay: First Baptist Church, 3.
16 Later a colleague: Personal Accounts: Lewis.
17 John W. Harris was seven: Personal Accounts: Harris, 7–8.
18 People moved as if dazed: Coulter, 224.
19 “You will hear”: Ousley, 120.
20 “Oh God”: Personal Accounts: Hopkins, Interview, 10.
21 The storm, Halsey told: The New York Times, Sept. 11, 1900.
22 A photograph exists: Photograph. 27th St. and Ave. N Looking S.E. Rosenberg Library. Storm of 1900 Collection. G-1771. File 7.5. No. 13.
23 The Muats had expected: Muat, Thomas. Untitled news clipping. Rosenberg Library. Storm of 1900 Collection. Subject File. News Clippings.
Daily Journal: Tuesday, Sept. 11
1 I. M. Cline: Daily Journal.
Galveston: “Not Dead”
1 The Tribune ran: Galveston Tribune-Post, Sept. 12, 1900.
2 Soldiers rounded up: Ousley, 117.
3 The barge was moored: Photograph of barge. Rosenberg Library. Storm of 1900 Collection. Photograph G-1771, File 1.2. No. 9.
4 “It was realized”: Ousley, 266.
5 Phillip Gordie Tipp’s crew: Personal Accounts: Tipp, 10.
6 The city’s lifesaving squad: Coulter, 199.
7 “The stench from”: Personal Accounts: Deer, 2.
8 Emma Beal was ten: Personal Accounts: Beal, Part I, 9; Part II, 9–10.
9 One survivor: Personal Accounts: Stuart, 53.
10 There was talk: Galveston News, Sept. 12, 1900.
11 On Sunday night: Galveston News, Sept. 17, 1900.
12 And for William Marsh Rice: Morris, 84–112.
13 “Diligent inquiry”: Personal Accounts: Stuart, 53.
14 “I do not know”: Personal Accounts: Blagden, 5.
15 “Fearful hot”: Personal Accounts: “Charlie,” 5.
16 “Every day the stench