Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-09-23
BY TELEGRAPH.


AVE-" 1ohh, oept. IA special dispatch
to the Herald from Houston says Matagorda
Is gone. Five houses only are standing No
lives are reported lost in the town. Every soul,
however, of the fifteen families which lived on
Matagorda peninsula are supposed to have
persisted. Not shred is to be seen there.
The loss of the planters is estimated at two
thirds, with picking backward. The sugar cane
Is levelled with the earth. The accounts of
the cycloue on that part OF the coast embracing
Pelasco and Qulntana say the wind commenced
blowing 90 tuesday night from the northeast,
changing east and then southeast. BY Thurs
day morning 1t was blowing q hurricane. Du-
ring FRIDAY the wind blew with the greatest
force. The water from the Gulf was driven
with great rapldity and was manitesty tidal
wave, and from low tide ii could be seen COM
Ing forward IN u plateau, aud soou the whole
country ovelfowed The tide rose from twelve
to tourteep feet above low mean tide-six or
seven feet higher than ever knowu-and six
feet deep on the lands that had never been
touched by salt water. The towns of Veasco
aud Qulntana wcie swept away. Only two or
three houses are left banulng, and they are in
dllapldated condition The loss at low
valuation OF property there is fully $50, 900.
ln live stock the loss is not ascertalnablt. The
people are III need OF provisions aud clothing,
none having saved anything but what they
wore. There were about l25 people at GUN
tana aud 5O at Veasco, mostly women aud
children. The steamship Australian, after
ufaggltg hcr anchor, rau on the shore at ST.
Baruard5, and now lies IN eight feet water; her
oraught being seventeen. Ii is estimated that
1t will cost not less than 800, 900 to get her
Oft, even if she Can be saved.
The account latest from Lung reports con-
siderable damage to houses and plantations be-
TWEEN Brazos and Guadalupe. Beyond the
Colorado the storm was lighter. All the open
cotton was blown out lu Freestoue County the
losses OF cotton are heavy. Navarro, Lime
stone Falls and Brozos counte. lose ten per
cent of the Cotton. The news from Fort Bend
county, east Of the BRACES river. Is that Kinks
ton aud Varueys l.k,s are ovc,h wcd, flooding
the whole bottom and greatly damaging the
plantations. The c;!tlon is all Ui0wa out. A
humber OF houses We're blown dcwu aud three
negroes killed. Otherwise the losses between
Hou>LoD and Columbia are comparatively
light Later ace unts continue 10 come
IN OF the destruction IN rhr i.W.r Coast couuries
1t Is estimated that title or 10 cotton will be
picked on most OF the plaDtaions -one fourth
VI oai'' pEl ttCtc ilau nrHu NCkeu. he lCX2S
Central Road Is making regular Connect ous.
The International and Great Northern has 40
trains below the San JacpIo. The river bridge
is under water. Two huudred meu are work
log gu the Galveston bridge and it is expected,
it will be repaired in TWO weeks The steamer
Laura, of the Morgan Steamship Channel
Fleet, is afoat The following dispatch was
received yesterday by Mayor Wickham:
GALVESTON, Sept. 81.
To the Moyor Of Ncto York. City,:
lndlauola and other towns On the coast below
here, are almost entirely destroyed. Those
who survive have lost everything, and appeal
tor assistance. am conscious of the sympathy
felt by the citizens OF your city, with the dis
tress of the sufferers, and confidently appeal to
you for aid. Provisions, clothing and every
necessary of life are needed
(Signed) j. p. DAVIS.
Acting Mayor.
A subscription list, for the relief the Indian
ola sufferers. was opened here yesterday, and
several contributions received.