The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-09-29
THE TEXAS CYCLONE.
General Devastation - Ap-
peal for Aid in the
Name Of Suffering
Humanity.

NEW ORLEANS, September 2o.-Gal-
weston advices from Brazorla, dated 70,
confirm the reports first received from
Matagorda The town WAS washed away
excepting only four houses. No lives
were lost The people were saved by
clingIng to cedar tees in the vlcInlty'
One man WAS killed at Chenango by the
falling OF tree. The plantations have
been greatly damaged. sugar houses
gin houses, fences, and everything has
been partly or wholly blown down.
Contributions for tue Sufferers.
Later information from Matagorda
SAYS, the citizens of Matagorda county
have appointed the following committee
to receive and distribute contributions To
the suffering people: Galein Hodges, W.
S. Stewart, K. q. Checsman.
The committee reported: We, the com
mittee, report to the country at large that
the greater part of the town OF Mata .
gorda is laid in ruins. Not SIN
gle citizen OF the town has escaped
serious injury to his property
MANY of them are without the neccSSaries
of life or means to build u shelter over
their heads. The Odd Fellows Hall IS II
total loss, and the Episcopal church near
ly so. All the shipping at this point mas
been either entirely lost or seriously
damaged. No lives lost III town. In
Kinney's prairie, as far rs we are able to
learn, twenty lone persons were lost ana
their property all destroyed. On the
upper peninsula, twenty-one persons were
swept into the Gulf and drowned. All
their property is All entire loss; we
have rs vet heard of no deaths on
the lower peninsula, but almost entire
destruction to property. We hear OF
yreat destruction on the east side OF the
Colorado river, but no lives lost. we
request the Galveston, Houston, and
other Texas papers, also those OF New
York, Boston, Chicago, and St'
Louis, to publish these proceed
lngs, and such other paper
as see an interest in the cause OF suffer-
ing humanity. Such as may feel able and
disposed to help our suffering people, Will
send forward their contributions, money
or provisions, to the committee above
named, consisting Of Cheesman, Stewart
and Hodges.
Latest from the Indianoia Disaster.
GALVESTON, September 2S.-The fol-
lowing additional particulars have been
received from the mouth OF the BraZoo
river: Thcnumbcr ofpe-sons known to
have lost their lives, between the penIn-
sula and Bernard. Is tilty-seven.
From one-halt to two thirds OF the
cattle and horses are drowned. The
bridge at Cedar Lake is gone, and the
fences and trees have been swept away.
There is II man here who drltted two
days and nights on log.
Later information from Trinity river
SAWS that three schoonerS are high and
dry In the fields near the fork OF the
DJube and White bayous in the Trim
Ity. The water had swept over the cape
twelve feet above the bank Of the river,
from the mouth to WellsviIlci the land
is low and swampy The first house
above the mouth was formerly owned by
DR.. Phislin and occupied by negroes.
The house was entirely carried away, and
not "A vestage of it Is ~ be seen. There
were nine Of the negroes and ciSht ol the
number were drowned. After remain
ing in the trees from ten to fifteen hours,
one of them, becoming perfectly crazy
from fright, tore the clothes from his
mother In his effort to climb tree. The
mother of the family, woman some fifty
or sixty years Of age, was rescued on sun
day, by party passing down the river
and taken 10 " MclisyIlle.