The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1871-06-24


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8es- We regret exceedingly that our
limited spaceprecludas Us from giving
full details Of the 5doings Of the Storm
King Of Galveston. The following il a
brief synopsis ofthe disastrous effects Of
the storm. The steamer Nora broke
her spiling. but swung round all right
The Customhouse boat is in liquidation
at about four feet water! Thelsehoon-
Haze was sunk. Numerous other small
craft shared the same fate me sehoon-
err Emma Townsend is ashore hard and
fast, The tugboat Superior, belonging
to the Houston Direct Navigation Com
pany, has sunk. @JIa ulE gh
Three sloops and one schooner were
driven by the storm to nineteenth street,
The Henrietta, the Peep of Day, are
lying about random-Hke, while the
schooner Lilly, lies squarely across the
bed of the same street, leaving pedes-
TRANS scarcely chance Of passage. I
The Galveston News also states that
the Clinton had q rough time, part of
erpaddle-box has been carried away
The sight above was rough; that below
horrible-one hundred cattle! The
sight Of these poor creatures would turn
the heart Of one more strong than Mr.,
Bergh. The dead and the dying were
mingled together in hideous confusion,
The deck of a cattle steamer after a
storm is not an edying sight, but is one
that we gladly pass by as soon as posi-
BILE. | In this vicinity thdre lay several
Of the schooners more or less high and
dry. Among them one in which the
owner lAments four hundred bushels of
potatoes. And this completes the dis
aster to the shipping east of fremont
street. '." " .'''' ..E '..1 =. 2- +.
West of that point We find the light
er Emily, which sunk between beams
at Labadie's wharyes She was load
cd with cotton, part Of which 1oateds a.
shore and is lying at the upper part .of
Strandt street. As before reported, the
schooner Sun Carlos and Oliver were
blown ON She fats. Tie. Echo, loaded
for Calcasieu, was oapsized near Lar
kim wharf. Tho Nilhelnina sunk,
and several others We're blown ashore,
besides u number Of small craft forced
aground, and are now left high and dry
all along the Strand Several of the
steamers came TO grief The Mollie
Hambleton is total wreck. After she
sunk the cabin and chimneys were
blown off, and aFo a mass of fragments
The Col Cage had her pilot-house I'M
rooted, and one Of her chimncys blown
down, The Belle 81 Texas lost both
chiinneys. aab 81 .aaaIllaaa na
The steam drodge parted from her
noorings, was blown ashore, and now
lies at the head Of strand street, close to
the new wharf. 8a ~ atgr
The large sailing vessels that were
inoored 1T the wharvos have not suffer-
cd further injury than being severely
cllafed. e
The scene on Strand street, above
Twenty sixth, Is remarkable, US the wa
ter's edge is strewn with tho debris Of
wharyes and vessels, piling and lumber,
bales oscotton and a number Of small
craft, al mixed up together in most adj
mired disorder. III ono little sloop, the
White squat, the waves had packed four
bales Of cotton as closely and neatly al
il had been done by hand. Ia the
city GENERALLY the greatest loss that We
have heard % occurred at ST. Patrick \
church, which has fallon on every side
and is p total loss
BSs The Steamer StonewaIl ar
rived at OUT bort last yVa9nes,9 ! !,