The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-23
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THE EQulNOCTlAL STORM.
Additional Particulars OF the Coast
Disasters.
|elaseO Raced - It's Site 4 Naked
Beach.
Miraculous Escape of lis Inhabitants.


Peter returned from the steamship
Australian to-day, and reports that the
vessel lies in five and n half feet OF
water. 1t will require much time aud
great expense to get her ailoat.
The body Of Willie Blount, who was
lost with Dr. Peete, was found yester-
day near the light ship in the hnrbor.
! Six bodies were found at different
| points in the bay yesterday, nearly all
were seamen. Bodies are being picked
up which have tloated miles up the
bay.
At Shoal Point the sloop Nelly
Sweeney, schooner Minerva and
schooner Amos Houston are high aud
dry. At Wilcox Point, the schooner
Adelaide is ashore on high ground. At
Edwards Point, the three-masted
schooner Christina will prove n total
loss.
From all the information we can
gather, the storm or cyclone, appears to
have taken in its course Il belt VI cOln-
try some forty miles in width from the
north of Galveston island and extend
ing to the north of the Houston.
The hurricane swept over the entire
section of the coast TO the west of In
dianola into the Gulf. Galveston was
TO the south Of the most severe portion
Of the gale.
The steamship Harlan, before leav-
ing lndianola, gave oil her provisions
which could be spared to the sufferers,
Four persons lost at lndlan0la in I'D.
dition to those already reported, are
Mr.. Sondow, the two Barrows, father
and son, and "a teamster, name UNI
known.
The entire list lost at Iynchburg,
Morgan's Point and Brazora is as fol-
lows: Mr.. West, Mrs Pierce, and four
children, Clara Grafton, Mr.. Mcltea,
Mr. August, grandson of DIR. Alex
ander. and II negro man-sixteen in
all.
Two dead bodies OF negroes We're
picked up by the steamer Fowler near
Lynchburg. Information received
from East Bend county state that the
entire section is under water.
From Brazoria county we learn that
the town of Velasco is entirely swept
away, not house being left to indi-
cate where 1t stood or to mark the
spot. Not life, however, was lost !;
and one hundred aud seventy-live
persons, among them Judge Gustave
Cooke, of the crmilal court, and
his family, were miraculously saved in
the following manner:
When the storm had ragged for some
time, the surging sea had entirely sur
rounded the place, and the pillows be-
gan to invade the houses, tho enH
tire population huddled In the upper
apartments of the largest building in
town, but when 1t was seen that the
sea and storm were about to sweep
it away, the men, who were up to their
necks in water, with the hid OF small
boat, got the women off into sch0On-
er aud got aboard themselves. Among
then was Colonel Cooke, who dashed
| the vessel first to one tree, then an
other, us they were pulled up 10y the
roots, and thus rode ont Of the storm.
The house from which they escaped
was swept Off shortly after they left IT,.
Eight miles on the land side OF
Velasco the sea was five sect deep dur
ing the storm. :,
The large steamship, Australia,
stranded in the mouth of the East
Bernard, where she now lies in five
and half feet Of water, rescued all
the inhabitants Of the town of Bernard,
except thirteen. Among them known
to be lost are Mrs. Herndon, wife OF
Major Herndon, Mrs. Dance, Mrs. Gull
pepper, and Mrs. Winsted and daugh-
ter, of Columbus.
Through like sources comes what APP
peart to be authentic information from
the town of Matagorda, which is rep
resented to bealmost totally destroyed,
only four houses being left.
The lower BrazOs country Is report
ed as being almost totally destroyed,
the cane being destroyed, sugar houses
blown down and plantations wrecked
From letter received by the agents
of the Morgan Line, from the agent al
Indanoln, we get the following au
dltional particulars
at is my painful duty to advise YOU
of the almost entire destruction OF In
dianola, by the storm which ragged
from the 18th to the 18th inst. On
the afternoon of the 10Th, the vino
blew strong from the east, increasing
in force steadily until 8 o'clock of The
evening OF the 10th, hauling ther
from the north, from which quarter Il
came a perfect hurricane ana cohtih
ued until nine o'clock on the morning
of the 18th. A.,
The destruction of property In th'
town has been immense, over TWO
hundred houses having been Gwep
entirely away, and those that remail
have been torn all to pieces. The loss
of life here and at Salurea will ap
proximate from $50 to 200.
At Lalurea, understand, all four o
the pilots, with the exception OF Gap
tain Sam Brown, were drowned o.
killed.
The wharf property is injured yer,
much, the entire planking IL torn oil
the warehouses and one blown down
The Office, with the office records wer'
washed away.
, The balance of the letter Is taken vi
with details of the damages done to IN
warf. the bridge and the railroad. III
: closes ns follows. III do not think
would he advisable to take any freiglh
for this Bay, except what may U
shipped for consumption IN the towD
: as il is impossible to transport any
thing by the railroad for some time''
Masonic.
INDIANAPOLIS, September 2sd.--Ln :,