Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-09-28
FURTHER REPORTS OF THE
DEVASTATION IN TEXAS.
The Work OF tho Cyclone.

New YoRK, September pa
A special dispatch to the Herald from
Houston says: Matgorda is gone.
Five houses only are standing, NJ
lives are reported lost in the town
Every soul, however, OF the iftceu
families vino lived on MatagordA
peninsula are supposed to have per
ished, Not shed is seen there. The
loss of the planters is estimated al
two thirds, with picking backward
Sugar-cane is !evelIed with the earth
Tue accounts of tue cyclone on that
part OF the coast embracing EelascO
and QuIEIara say the wind cOmmenc
Ell blowing on Tuesday night from
the northwest, changing east, then
northeast. by Thursday morning it
was blowing a hurricane During
Friday the wind blew with the greatest
force. The water from the Gulf was
driven with great rapid!ty, and was
maniIeStly tidal waVe,' and fiom
low tide it could be seen coming fo.-
ward in a plateau. and soon the hole
country was overfiowed, The de
rose from twelve TO fourteen feet
above low meau>tide, six or seven
feet higher than was ever known, and
SIX feet deep on the lands that had
never been touched by salt water.
The towns of ValasCo and Quinlars
were swept away, Only two or three
houses arc left standing, and i ey are
in a diIapidated condition. The loss,
at a low valuation Of property there,
is fully $50, coo. In live stock the
loss is not aseertainable The peo-
PIE are in need of provisions and
clothing, none having saved anything
but what they wore. There were
about one hundred and twenty five
people atQuintara aud liftyat VelaSco,
mostly women and children. tn e
steamsh p Australian, after draggin 9
anchor, ran Oh the shore at St. Bar
nard's, and now lies in eight feet
her draught being seventeen. 1t is
tStHllA'Cu @Ildl ~ VIII COSI DOG X 81
than 500, 600 to get her off, even il
She can be saved. The latest &C
counts irosl Luling report consideTa =
bic damage 10 houses aSd plantations
between Brazos and Guadalupe.
BEYOND THE COLORADO
the storm was lighter. All the open
cotton was blown oIt. The Freestoue
county losses Of cotton are heavy,
Navarro, Limestone Falls, and BRACES
counties loss ten per cent. of tho
cotton. The news from Fort Bend
county, east o; the BRACES river, is
that kirkstOn and Yarneys lakes are
overlooked, flooding the whole bot
tom and greatly damaging the planta-
tionS. The cotton is all blown out.
4 number of houses were blown down
aud three negroes killed. Otherwise
the losses between Houston aud Co.
umbia are comparatively light.
PREVIOUS REPORTS CONFIRMED.
CINCINNATI. September pa
special southern dispatch to the Tim, s
says: Parties who arrived from In.
dlano!a last night, and who were
there during the terrible cyclone, ful y
coafirm even the most sensational
report IF the destruction of life aud
property there. Out Of $40 houses
OILY five are left standing During
Thursday night, while the storm was
at height, the water in the city
rO>e over SIX feet in two lou 5, the
wit d biowinging Lightweight miles
an h ,ur, driving the waterand break
ers through the city at the rate OF
fifteen miles an hour, sweeping every
thing In IFS way. and covering the
ain n the rear of the city, for ten
mics, TO depth of several feet.
Several small settlements, numbering
total population of one hundred
and fifty. we're aSe swept oHtof exis~
ueBce, making, With the two hundred
aud 6ity lost at Indi0uoia, total OF
four hundred lives lost. The gentle
man conveying this information gave
most narrowing account OF the