The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-09-29

damaged, and some literally torn TO
pieces sugar houses, gin houses, ten
ees and everything partly or wholly
blown down. The great losses cannot
be correctly reported
Later information received from
Matagorda says, at meeting Of the
citizens II Matagorda county, held in
the town of Matagorda the following
gentlemen We're appointed a committee
to receive and distribute contributions
to the sufferers: Goen Hodges, w. 5.
Stewart aud Il. q. Cheesman.
The Commissioners reported AS fol-
lows: Therefore, We the Committee
report TO the country at-large, that the
greater part of the town of Matagorda
Is laid In ruins and that not single
citizen of the town has escaped serious
injury to his property. Many of them
are entirely homeless, without neces-
saries OF life, or the means to build "a
shelter over their heads. Our Court
house IL somewhat damaged, but can
be repaired without great expense,
The Odd Fellows Hall Is total loss
and the Episcopal church nearly SO.
All the shipping at this port has been
either entirely lost or seriously dam
aged. No lives lost in town.
In Kenner's prairie, rs far as We
We're able to learn, twenty-one persons
were lost and their property all de-
stroyed. On the upper Peninsula,
twenty-one persons were swept into
the gulf and drowned and all their
property an entire loss. We heard of
no deaths on the lower Peninsula, but
Of the almost entire destruction of
houses and other property.
Decrows' Point has not yet been
heard from, nor the town OF Dalaclos.
We have not heard anything definite
from Tres Palacios yet.
We heard OF great destruction of
property on the east side Of the Colo
RADIO river, but of no lives lost. We
have not heard from Caney, above
Captain Duncan's plantation, but are
satisfied that from there to the mouth
there has been an entire loss Of crops,
houses. cabins, gins, sugar houses, etc.,
and five lives lost ~ far as heard frnpl,
We request the Galveston News,
Houston, Austin, San Antonio and
other Texas papers, also those OF New
York, Boston. Chicago and st. Louis,
to publish these proceedings, aud such
other papers IA feel an interest in the
cause VI suffering humanity. Such rs
may feel able aud disposed to help our
suffering people will send forward con-
tributiOns, money or provisions, to the
Committee above named, consisting of
Cheesman, Stewart 4 Hodges, G. Baer,
John Duncan, Jr,, John L. Groom,
John Matthews, Galen Hodges, j. h.
Pierce, u. +. +. Braman, II. &.
Cheesman, G. II, Williams, Fred G.
McCamily, w. d. Barbone, John
Moore.
w. II. Burkhardt, Chairman, q.
Baer, Secretary.
An interior paper, remarking on the
exaggerated reports of the effect Of the
late storm sent from the city Of Hous-
ton, says: 1--WE would caution our
readers about believing anything con-
cerning Galveston which originated in
Houston. The journals of Northern
and Eastern cities, which are now
reaching us, have their columns filled
with false and sensational Geographic
dispatches, reports Of the storm AT
Galveston"
This mornings News publishes the
following, which is applicable to many
other localities:
The New York Herald of September
Goth reproduces the Houston account
of the storm, and in an editorial sets
down the losses at Galveston at the
round sum of $ 5,O0O,0O0; says that the
prsiries along the coast became sea
of water, and that the tide at this city
and along the neighboring coast rose
twenty feet. The ignorance of the
Herald in this instance may be eXcus-
ed perhaps by the limited extent and
unreliable nature of Its information,
but it hardly reflects lustre on the
enterprise of u journal that claims to
lead the world as reliable and
energetic newspaper, to give publicity
and unqualified endorsement to a
canard of the kind telegraphed from
Houston during the gale OF
week before last, when
telegraphic advices from Galveston
were temporarily interrupted. IL the
Herald expects to be quoted AS author
ity hereafter, 1t will have to explain as
best it can the grievous errors commit
ted in its report. A newspaper of the
great circulation and influence of the
Herald should have correspondents of
its own upon whose statements re-
garding events OF so much Importance
as the storm along the coast Of Texas,
II could rely with perfect confidence,
instead of accepting dispatches from
unknown and irresponsible sources,
and publishing and expressly endors-
ing lumors that are without the slight
est foundation.