Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-07
THE TEXAS cYcLoWE.

HHE tEAAS C1CLOWEs .-.tt 3I: eg4 e55T "I; 4-.tt --l.7s.s-, Mail advices from Galveston to Thurs. day last have been received and contain many interesting details of the storm. -i tssl5 o3s AT GALVESTON. .F 19oJ l At Galveston the water never was su high as it was between 2 and 1 q. u. on Friday, the 17th, when it reached the cor. ner of N and Nineteenth streets. 30 inches higher than during the food of 1887. though the wind was not so violent as on one or two occasions in. time past, As during the storms which visited the city in 1887. 1S42, 1854, 1867, in June and Oc- tober, 1871 and 1874. the gale blew from the East, winding up with severe blow from the Northwest, and all, with the ex- ception of the June gale of 1871, have occurred about the same time of the year. Its greatest force was exerted at 4:5O pm. on, Friday, when for a short while it blew at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The storm proper lasted from APO a. m. on the 18th until F m. on the 1Sth~-eiRhty hours. The total rainfall during the storm was 10.53 inches, an extraordinary fall for the time.
 No two men will agree upon an estimate of the damage done by the storm, but the actual losses are very small in amount. perhaps not in excess of $25O, 900.
 AT INDIANoLA.
 The advices received at Galveston are yet far from complete, the fullest having been brought by the steamer Harlan, that steamed into Galveston with her flags at half-mast. Before leaving all her spare stores were given to the sufferers.
 The storm began on the afternoon of the 18th, the wind blowing strong from the east, increasing steadily until 9 D. m. of the 18th hauling then to northwest, from which quarter it came perfect hur- ricane until 9 a. m. of the 18th. Three of the four pilots are drowned, no lighters or warehouses are left, and it will be i'm possible for some time to transport freight by rail. There were but one weeks pro- visions in the place. The damage to the houses, all but five of which are swept away. is indescribabIe. Nr. Piaget lost one flock of 2, 5000 sheep.
 Sixty bodies were recovered and buried that could not be recognized, the features being destroyed by coming in contact with floating lumber, etc. One body was found with belt about the waist contain ing g, 900. The money was deposited in the bank and the body decent1y inferred.
 William Taylor, on tr1aI for murder, was let out of jail to prevent his being drown ed, and made his escape. The estimate of the loss made by Mir. John F. BarlowGs S2, ,OOO, 900.
 I've snHs. sns Isn9EdsdS nss3sd dS,gSsneer ,gS Moore and of the bayou cut8Dg of the fingers and ears of the dead and appropriating their yeWelry. A squad of hOrsemen were sent n r1TFP rSF %ho
 AT LYNCHBURG.
 There is not house left standing on the bayou bank between Morgan's Point and Lynchburg. At Lynchburg not a house remains of the village, and Captarn Christian, of the Lizzie, was met by about thirty hOuseless, homeless inhabitants literally destitute of everyth1ng-food. clothing, or shelter. He gave them . barrel of flour, a sack of meal and other provisions. Sixteen lives were lost in all The water rose fourteen feet above mean tide level, and on the Fist was still ten feet above the village. Captain Bell, on the Matamoras, picked up twenty-One people on Friday-sOme swimming. some afioat on their houses. Three of them were lassoed and dragged on board.
 MISCELLANEOUS.
 A every point from the mouth of the Brazos the people are in great destitutiOn, some living on the potatoes which must soon rot from the effects of salt water.
 Velasco IS swept away, though no lives were lost. The entire population gather cd ID the upper apartments of the largest building Tn the town. and when 1t was seen that the sea and storm were about to sweep 1t away, the men, wko were up to their Decks Tn water. with the aid of . small boat got of the women into the schooner Verbena, and got aboard them selves. Miss Ida Cook, the Judges daughter, the heroine of the terrible scene. was the last to abandon the house; and being assisted on board the schooner by a young sailor of the craft, the vessel being lowed up to the yard fence and the water shoulder deep, Judge Cook Iashed tbe vessel hrst to one tree, then another, as they were pulled up by the roots, and thus rode out the storm. The house from which they escaped was swept oH shortly after they left it. Eight miles on the land side 0f yeiasco the sea was five feet deep during the storm.
 At Saluria, out of forty-fve persons, Captain Sim Brown and two of his fam5sy WSA0 SAvcu~ A0ey bOO8 Bc1UGe m Enc lighthouse, and were thereby saved.
 The large steamship Australia vas stranded st East Bernard and rescued all the inhabitants but thirteen. Every bouse Tn the settlement was washed away. The crew of the steamship found the inhab- itants. including the local CustOm-House Inspector and family, sitting on the beach in a depIorabie condition, not having tasted food for two days.
 Matag0rda, with the exception of two houses, has been destroyed, and the two light houses at East and West Shoals, at the entrance to Matagorda Bay, have been swept away, and the keepers, with their families, lost '2e - ss
 Cedar Lake is reported to have been completely washed away and the lives of all its inhabitants have been lost.
 At East Bay twenty-three of twenty eight residents are lost. The five survi- vOrs escaped with difficulty on a raft. If MT. Jewell knows anything at all about his department, he knows that there IS report on it's files prepared few months ago by one of his own subordi- mates which showed bevoud any posaibil-