The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-29
Thc GinIr DisnsIer.

mum .hhNuBbldh' Ut t"NH was NhaHNN
away, excepting only four houses. No
lives were lost. The people were saved
by clinging To the cedar trees in the
vicinity. One man was killed at Che
mango by falling tree. Many planta.
lions have been greatly damaged. Sugar
houses, gin houses, fences and everything
were partly or wholly blown down.
Reconsideration from MataGorda
says that the citizens Of Matagorda county
appointed the following committee to re-.
crive and distribute contributions to the
suffering people: Galen Hodges, W. $.
Stewart and K. q. Cheesman. The COM
mittee have reported rs follows:
We, the committee, report to the
country at large that the greater
portion Of the town OF Matagorda
Is laid in ruins. Not single citizen OF
the town has escaped serious injury to his
property. Many Of them are houseless
without the neccssarics OF life or means
to build a shelter over their heads. The
Odd Fellows Hall is u total loss, and the
Episcopal Church nearly SO. All Of the
shipping at this point has been either en-.
tircly lost or seriously damaged. No lives
were lost in the town.
In Kinueys Prairie, as far as wc are
able 10 learn, 81 persons were lost and
their property all destroyed. On the Up
per Peninsula, 81 persons were swept into
the Gull and drowned. All Of their pro.
perty is an entire loss. We have as yet
heard OF no deaths on the Lower Penin-
sula, but there is almost M entire de.
struction Of ofproperty.
Wehear Of great destruction Of proper
ty ON the east side Of Colorado river 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 proceedings, and
such other papers rs feel an interest in
the cause Of suffering humanity. Such
as may feel able and disposedto help pour
suffering people will send forward their
contributions, money or provisions, to the
committee above named, consisting Of
ChcGsman, Stewart and Hodges.
The following additional particulars
have been received from the mouth Of
Brazos river. The number Of persons
known to have lost their lives between
the peninsula and BERNARD are liity-seven.
Among them are Mrs. Sargent, old man
Sargent. all of Forester's family, all of
Billy McNeil's wife and three
children, Mrs. Egart and two children,
~. 1 4 l.. a
and himself missing, Susie, Annie and
Johnnie being saved; Sam Useless, wife
and two children: all of old man Davis
family, and one Of the children Of Vim.
Austin. Judge Cox and his family spent
the night of Thursday in the trees. Mrs.
Davis and one OF Winsted's children were
lost. Others at the month managed to
save themselves, pcopIc from the other
side of the river got ON Can't. Lewis De.
votes boat Werric, Winstcd's body was
found in Hawkins Prairie, and old Mrs.
Dnniels' at Joel Bngan's, Some Of Da.
yis family were found in Gulf Prairie,
and others in mouth Of the river. One
half TO two.thir,l4 of the cattle aud
horses nrc drowned, The bridge at Cc.
Ior Lake is gone, and fences and trees
swcnt away. There il A man here who
dri(tcd two dnys and nights on log.
Later information from Trinity river
.oys three srlooncrs are higIl and drv
in'thc fields near the fork OF DonbIc and
Whites bayons. In the Trinity the
water had swept over the Cape twelve
feet above the bank Of the river
from the mouth to Wacsvilc.
The land is low and swampv. The first
house above the mouth Of the river, for.
mcrIv owned by DR.. phcalin, was occu.
pcd hy negroes, and was entirely carried
away, there was not n yrstngc Of il to he
seen: there were nine of the ncgrOs and
eight Of the number were drowned. A.
ter remaining in the trees from ten to if.
teen hours, one Of them becoming per.
fectly crazy from fright, tore the clothes
from his mother in his efforts to climb II
tree. The mother Of the family, n woman
some fifty or sixty years Of age, was res.
cucd On Sunday by party passing down
the river and taken to Wnlesvilc.
At Walcsville the following losses
were reported: Mr.. Jos Herring lost his
Mr.. Van IrcdclIis his store,
and n new stock ofgrorcrics Just
received before the storm, the post
office was in his store, and all Of the mail
matter on hand went with the store. lila
loss il about $1,000. Mr.. WoOlcn's dwell.
ling, store and groceries nrc total loss,
ns was also the residence Of Frank Wal.
liz. Jacob Sherman loses his dwelling,
furniture and onthonsea, hut his cotton
gin was but slightly damaged. The resi-.
iience and furniture Of John White were
badly injured, and his onthouscs destroy.
ed. The LAHORE Hotel withstOOd Il terri
bic rush Of waters and wind, but sustain.
ed considerable damage the bedding and
chests Of clothing being injured by water.
A storchOuse with full stock Of grocer.