Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-29

" Monday, Sept. 27rh.-Now boys burn
Rock street. it will find sombody work;
now is your time, do it at once; damn
the insurance, burn every agents house
you come to- Rock street is the street
upon which the greater portion Of the
agents and mill owners reside.
ST. Louis, Sept. 2S.-R. X. Turner,
whose arrest and conveyance to Califor-
MIA, Missouri, charged with forging deeds
to large quantity of land, was reported
in these dispatches a few days ago, pub
fishes card in which he states that his
prosecution in this case is carried on by
parties interested in suit of ej4ctment
involving half million dollars worth of
property in Chicago, and not by the peo-
Pile of the State of Missouri, and that
this prosecution is intended to influence
litigation in Chicago.
New ORLEANS. Sept. 2S.-Galveston
advices from Brazoria, dated the 23i,
confirm the reports first received from
Matagorda. The town was washed away
excepting only four houses which remain
standing. No lives were lost. The peo-
pie were saved by clinRing to cedar trees
in the vicinity. AT the town of Columbia
twenty houses were blown down, but no
lives are reported lost. One man was
killed at Cherango by q falling tree.
Many plantations have been greatly
damaged and some literally torn to
pieces. The sugar-houses, gin-houses,
fences and everything being partly or
wholly blown down. The great losses
can not be correctly reported. Later in
formation from Matagorda says that at a
meeting of citizens of Matagorda county,
held in the town of Matagorda. the fol-
lowing named citizens we're appointed
Committee to receive and distribute
contributions to the suffering people:
Galen Hodges. W. s. Stewart and r. G.
Chesemau. The Committee report to
the county at large that the greater part
OF the town of Matagorda is laid in
ruins and that not single cirizen has
escaped serious injury to his property
Many of them are entirely houseless and
without the necessaries of life or means
to build shelter over their heads, Our
Courthouse is somewhat damaged but
can be repaired without great expense;
the Odd Fellows Hall is total loss and
the Episcopal Church nearly 80. All the
shipping at this point has been entirely
lost or seriously demaged. No lives are
lost in the town. In Kenney's Prairie,
as far as We we're able to learn, twenty
one persons were lost and their property
all destroyed. On the upper peninsula
twenty-one persons were swept into the
gulf and drowned and all their property
an entire loss. We have as yet heard of
no deaths on the lower peninsula but the
almost entire destruction of houses and
other property. De Crows Point has
not yet been heard from nor the town of
Palaccre. We have not heard ANYTHING
definite from Tres Palacios yet we hear
OF great destruction of property on the
east side of the Colorado river, but no
lives lost. Have not heard from Carris,
above Captain Duncan's plantation, but
are satisfied that from there to the
mouth there has been an entire loss OF
houses, cabins, gin and sugar-houses,
ETC., and five lives lost as far as heard
from. We request the Galveston News,
Houston, Austin, San Antonio and other
Texas papers; also those of New York,
Boston, Chicago and st. Louis to pub.
fish these proceedings and such othe,
papers 40 feel an interest in the cause OF
suffering humanity. Such as may fee
able and disposed to help our suffering
people will send forward Their contribu.
tions, money or provisions, to the Com.
mittee above named.