The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-10-07
THE GULF STORM.
..-SiaIyestOn vt the Mercy OF the son--.
Miles Of Streets Laid Waste In tho path Of
the Fatal FIsod---0ne uundred and FIT
" Buiidings Carried frsns Thsir Fsus
LationA- nuryinu ferty HUMAN Reings
im the General Ruin.
New Orleans Special to Chicago Times,

New Orleans Special 10 Chicago Times
From passengers who arrived from Gal
weston tonight the most narrowing &C
counts of the effects Of the cyclone wcr
gathered, as it is estimated that some fol
ty lives were lost and near 200 house
were swept away by the flood, which coy
cred the city for fully two days, beside
Others made untenantable by the losin
of their foundations by the water. Th
scene between the hours Of ~, mid
night, on Thursday, and 4 o'clock o
Friday morning, witnessed
THE MOST FEARFUL SCENES
in the island city, the events 0ccurrin
then being of the most thrilling am
hcart-rending character, houses being IN
dcrmined and sent with their inmate
whirling through the streets, some lodg
ing and others being turned over in thei
progress to bury alive the inmates in tn
debris or drown them AS they attempted
to escape. Not until 7 o'clock Frida,
morning, did the wind change to th
south and drive the water from the city
the fall being almost ms rapid AS had beel
the rise, and at 8 o'clock scarcely an,
water was left in the streets, boats in tn,
meantime being used, and busily plying
between the suburbs and the heart Of Tn,
city
REMOVING WOMEN AND CHILDREN
to places of safety, the greatest alarm ex
isting, as the waves during the nigh
swept with immense force from the gul
to the bay. Scarcely had quiet been re
stored, with the disappearance of the wa
ter, when the wind shifted, and increasing
in force gradually wore around to the
southwest, again sending the watcl
through the city from the west end, and
by 3 o'clock in the afternoon the strand
and bay front, which but few hours be,
fore were nearly dry, became covered
with water to the second floor, covering
the wharves, the wind blowing at forty
Tilcs an hour, and sending the water up
with immense force, and
AGAIN FLOODING EVERYTHING.
The storm continued until nighttall,
when the wind went down, and the
water fell as suddenly as it rose, leaving
innumerable wrecks of churches, houses,
barns, and leaving many ships and sloops
high and dry in the streets Of the city,
or upon the beach, and damaging the
stock of goods in some Of the stores to a
large extent, but to what exact amount
could not be asccrtaincd up to Saturday
morning, when the steamship Mary left
the harbor. At that time the stores
we're closed, the merchants and citizens
generally assembling to devise ways for
the immediate
RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE
in the way of food, shelter, etc, hun
dreds of them being without homes or
to eat. The Howard associa-
ton was also being organized, but even
with its full force they would hardly be
able to meet the wants Of the distressed,
who numbered at least five hundred.
Every house in the city, east Of South
street, from A street to the Gulf was
wrecked or damaged to such an extent
that they were untenantable.
THE RAILROAD BRIDGES,
it seems, were badly damaged, some
stating that it would require week in
them, while Others were equally
rs confident that it would require two
weeks to repair the new Santa Fe
bridge, and a much longer time to re-
place the Houston bridge. The city
bridges were entirely swept away, some
of them being carried several miles from
their original location. Not tree, not
a shrub, is left standing upon the island,
the scene presenting, as the Mary left
the harbor
A BARREN WASTE,
not unlike a desert, excepting that the
houses gave n token OF life.
The steamship Mary started from her
wharf at Galveston on Wednesday morn
ing while the wind was blowing gale,
and evidently it was the intention OF
the Galveston agent to send her to Bra
shear, but knowing it perilous to put to
sea during such a storm, Capt. Benson
concluded to 90 no further than the
bay, and, after getting safe distance
from the dwarf let 20 both anchors, his
Judgment forbidding him from proceed
ing further, Notwithstanding the, as
your reporter learned, imperative
order" TO 90 to sea. Had he done so,
the boat with all on board would doubt
less have been lost, rs she could not have
withstood
TIE TERRIBLE GULF SEAS
that prevailed all that night. About
one o'clock on Friday morning, when
the gale ragged the liercest and the seas
lashing over the boat, and when moth
inr could be seen boats length dis
tant, the English bark Mary Mcdowell,
A three mast vessel and the largest in
the harbor, was driven against the
steamship Mary, even while the former
had her anchor out.
Houston special to New York Herald.
The following dispatch was sent by a
special reporter, who pushed through to
the city on Il schooner. 1t is the first re-
liable news from Galveston since the
storm began: II reached here about
five o'clock this evening (lsth), coming
over in a schooner from Virginia Point.
The city shows but little signs of the
storm. In the business part of the town
the wharvcs are safe and sound, and the
streets show but little sign of the forty
eight hours inundation.
TUE LOSS OF LIFE.
A great many houses were unrooicd,
and great number of shade trees were
blown down. The water has subsided at
this time, except what may be standing
in the low places. The destruction of
life in the city was small. 1t cannot he
,ruly estimated yet, but not more than a
dozen lives have been lost. A woman
was crushed by the falling of her house
DR.. Pcct, the city physician, was lost at
the quarantine station, together with hi
grandson, Willie Blunt. He moved his
family into the city and then went back
to the station, which was destroyed
Sixty men at work on the breakwatel
were cut off from the city.
NINE MILE DRIFT.
All were saved but four. One OF these
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