New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-21
NEW ORLEANS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

from $40 to $500; the Ocean House, &22 600;
forty buildings, varying from $4,000 to
$4,000; the Orphan Asylum, $4,000; the
wharves torn to pieces in many places, a
number of schooners high and dry on land,
many sunk or injured and the railroad
bridges broken.
| The loss of life has been slight, but one
probable death causes the loss of brave,
noble man, who was an honor to Galveston
and benefactor to his race. At the Quar-
antine Station, on the breakwa water, were Dr.
George W. Peete and bis family, including
| his little grandson, Willie Blount. When
the danger became apparent on Wednesday
he wished to send them to Fort Point, and
they were safely taken there in boat. He
refused to enter it, fearing it was already
too heavily weighted, and kept Willie with
him. Soon after he signaled 1T to return
| for him, and men did all that men could
do to reach him and failed. Up to
twelve o'clock Wednesday night a light
burned steadily in DR.. Peete's house,
| and cheered the watchers and hopers
across the wild waters. Soon after that
it was gone, and in the morning there was
nothing but few foundation poles to mark
| where the house had stood. A few vour-
teers On the tug loaned by Lieu tenant
| tions during the time, went in search OF the
| doctor and the little one. Mr. Rooney, tho
| engineer, had coal enough for only an hour
and they were forced to return. The voluh
| teers were Captain Guthrie, William Scrim.
| gaour jpotn plotsI, Uaptaln Sawyer OF the
schooner Tock twho also furnished a
staunch yawl for the occasion), w. F. Brit
tingham, Major c. M. Mason, Mr.. X. Alex
! ander, John S. Terriberry, Jim Johns on
Jim Burns, David Gordon, Policeman
Mickey, IKE Naa'ickle, John Cotter, a re-
porter of the News and one or two others,
Thursday morning the tug Van Vliet was
sent to find him. That went with the fol.
lowing officers and crew:
| Il. Is. Tailor, United States navy. en-
| gineer; Captain William Miller; CAPTAIN z.
| A.. Spickernagle; Engineer S. H. Perkins.
| Liteboat Crew-H. Harderes-, William
Parry, John Bennett, Charles Johnson. II
III. IL
| Clarke, ID. Gordon. X. Il lies, j. OL Leary j.
K. Davenport and G. l.. Doane.
| The trip was productive of much good for
other sufferers, but nothing was heard of
DR.. Peete. Another boat manned by volun-
teers tried once more, with like result. Per.
haps he may have been saved like Patrick
| Landragan, veteran of seventy nine years
| who draw "a W kifa hoap Ero .:
Mexican massacre, and was saved OH the
timber he clung to when his house fell, after
| twenty four hours exposure.
In addition to the Van Vliet, boat be.
longing to the government vessel Rio
Bravo started out in search of DR.. Peete
and the other missing ones. She was
manned by the following men, all citizens
James johnson, Ton. Hirsh, Joe Williams.
James Coffee, James EvaIs, Mick Martin
and Gus Wyland.
One woman, Mrs. Meakin. was found
drowned and covered with debris, but al
| though some names are given of people
who are missed, no positive intelligence of
another death is at hand. But the ac-
counts of destitution of homeless women.
half dressed and baretooted, seeking in the
ruins in hope of finding something left; of
| hungry and frightened children; men with
| mangled limbs, without shelter, would be
| heartrending if close beside were not ac.
| counts of the noble work the unin.
iured are doing to aid them. All
| alike seem to be animated by the
same purpose-to save and to succor
| The rich pour out with an open hand, and
| the mite of the poor is as freely given; and
besides all this, there is the same spirit that
| made the city. No one seems to cry for
| help, no one seems to complain. 1t is work.
| They don't intend to leave the old sand
| bank yet; they will wait to see if it really
| means to desert them. There is, of course,
| the growl at the city fathers for not having
| tho grade higher; the 81 told you 80" to
those who didn't raise their alleys and lots;
but they would say that anyway. AS an
| example of the spirit of the people, the
closing paragraph of an editorial in the
| 4Nesrs is given:
Galveston still lives. Though sorrow is
| in her midst for personal losses and suffer
| iDgs, as city she was never more animated
with the elements Of energy, hopefulness
| and resolution than she is at this moment.
| Many of her citizens have sustained dam
| ages to their various properties. But one
| large fire in the central portion of the city
| would have been vastly more destructive Of
| pecuniary value thal the storm aud fl rod
| have been in this instance. We hope that
| the etorm has not inflicted far heavier in
| jury on other places with in its circuit. But,
| from present indications, this does not
seem probable.
The Baton Rouge Regatta.