The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-23
THE TEXAS STORM.
FURTHER PARTICULARS Oh
THE DAMAGE.
Several More Towns Swept
III 3 Away.
The Damage mt Galveston Exa 9.
gerated.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Further details have
been received concerning the storm in Texas.
Charles Gordan, agent of the steamers at In.
danola, writes that the number of lives lost
there and at Saluria will approximate two
hundred. Of the four pilots at Saluria three
are drowned.
Morgan's wharf at Indanola is entirely de-
stroyed.
Sc tyson g. Co., write to their Galveston
house: We estimate the number of lives lost at
a hundred and fifty. Our bank building is Sc
cure. We were out burying the dead yester-
day, and have to so down the bay this morning
to bury more bodies
Another despatch says:
We buried eight bodies yesterday, and will
continue until the church yards are filed The
Masonic lodge was swept away.
Another letter says the town of Saluria, with
nearly everybody and everything is washed
away, but no particulars are given.
Corpus Christi is safe, the wind being COM
paratively light there.
Crpt. Christian, of the steamer Diana, went
up the bay on Sunday. He reports matters
pretty serious at Red Fish bar. Nine boats and
tugs of Morgan's fleet are sunk there. No lives
were lost among Morgan's crews.
Not solitary house is left standing on the
bank between Morgan's Point and Lynchburg.
At Lynchburg Capt. Christians family real
lzed the desolation and ruin wrought by the
storm. Not house remains of the village.
He was met by about thirty houseless men,
some of whom took refugee on board the steam
er. They were literally destitute of every
thing. Capt. Christian gave them barrel of
flour, four sacks of meal and provisions, and
subs ,rption for their benefit was literally start
by the citizens of Houston.
A Galveston special, dated the 21st, says the
Central railroad is not damaged and trains
are ru oning regularly. TIE Galveston and
Houston bridge will be ready for trains tomor.
row.
No trains have run on the Northern road
since Thursday night, and travel is entirely
stopped. The bridges at Spring and Cypress
at Hathorne since Thursday The road IS
said to be washed out between Hathorne and
Willis
No trains run on the Columbia railroad A
construction train has been sent down to clear
the wreck of a train at Pierce Junction, which
was blown off Thursday night. The road is
badly washed.
A gentleman who passed over the Central
railroad from Moulin, states that he saw no eff
feels OF the storm until he reached Hemstead.
Several houses were blown down at Burton.
Large trees were uprooted and great damage
was done to cotton in the fields
A report from Shelby Long Point states that
the stor N was equally as severe there.
The storm at Hemstead lasted sixty hours
The new Baptist church and Catholic chapel
arr completely demolished. Half of the front
gable OF the Planters Hotel was blown Is feet
out of place and the brick walls of Felker's
and McDade & Crowford's new stores were
blown down.
A private despatch from Galveston Of the
10th says:
The damage to Galveston by the storm is
Insignificant. In thirty days it will be almost
fergo ten. One big fire would be far more dis
asfrous. VIM MENDLEY & Co
Houston people say that the damages were
exaggerated, and the losses amount to only
about $4,000
GALVESTON, Sept. 22.-Capt. Peters, who
has just returned from the steamship Austria
Vtnf. 81 bat fk< II H.. Fl
of water. and that it will require much time
aud great expense to get her atioat. The body
OF Will Blouns, who was ,st with DR.. Peet,
was found yesterday near the lightship ia the
harbor. SIX bodies were found at different
points in the bay, yesterday Nearly all the
are being picked up With have foated up the
bay at shoal points.
The bark May Queen and ships Minerva and
Amos Houston are hieh and dry at Wilcox
Point. Schooner Adelaide is ashore on high
ground at Edwards Point. The three masted
schooner christian will prove a total loss.
The storm or cyclone seems to have taken its
course IN belt of country some 40 miles wide
from the north of Galveston Island, extending
to north OF Houston. The hurricane swept
over this entire section of the coast to the west
of lHdianola Iuto the gulf. Galveston was to
the south OF the more severe part of the gale
The steamship Harlan, before leaving Indian
ola, gave all the provisions she could spare to
the sufferers
Four persons were lost at Indianola in addi-
ton to those already reported. Brayona is
under water. The town of Velasco was entire.
~ swept away and not house left to indicate
where it stood. Not a life was lost. The lower
Brazos county is reported almost totally de-
stroyed: Sugar houses were blown down and
plantations wrecked.
~ The foregoing is special to the New York
Times]
New ORLEANS, Sept. pa letter from the
steamship and railroad agents at Indianola re-
ports 2oO houses swept away and the steamship
and railroad wharf, which cost $500, 600, is all
most total wreck, and from $50 to 200 lives
are lost.
The steamer State of Texas. bound to New
York, arrived at Key West Yesterday, She
was exposed to recent hurricane and received
serious damage. All the cabin and state