New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-23
BY TELEG R A P H.
TEXAS.
Recovering the Bodies Of the Drowned
The Wrecked VesAels-Tbe Course OF
the Gale-The Names of the Lost

Recovering the bOdtes OF tne bro""eu-
The Wrecked vesAeIs-The Course Of
the Gale-The Names of the Lost
Other Towns Swept Away.
GALVESTON, September 22.-Captain Pc
ters, who returned from the steamship
Australian, reports that the vessel lies III
five and half feet of water. 1t will re-
quire much time and great expense to get
her afloa.. Tue body Of Will BloOnt, who
was lost with DR.. Pc. ts, was found yester-
day near the lighrship in the harbor. Six
bodies were found q. different places 10 the
bay yesterday. Nearly all the bodies are
being picked up which have tioated up the
bay. At Sboal Point the bark Mary
Queen aud schooners Minerva aud Amos
Houston are high and dry. At Wilcox
Point thes schooner Adelaide is ashore On
high ground. AT Edwards Point the thr, e.
masted schooner Christiana will prove a
total loss.
From all the information we gather the
storm OF cyclone appears to have taken in
its course belt OF country come forty miles
in width, from the north OF Galveston
island extending to the north of Houston.
The hurricane swept over this entire section
OF coast to the west of Indianola into the
Gulf. Galveston was to the south of the
more severe part of the gale.
The steamship Harlan, before leaving
Indianola; gave all her provisions which
could be spared to the sufferers. Four per-
sons were lost at lndianola in addition to
those already reported-Mr. SoudOw, the
two BarrOns, father and son, and q teamster
whose name is unknown. The entire list "f
lost at Lynchburg, Murgan's Point and Bay
Town is as follows: Mr.. West, Mrs. Pierce
and four children, Clara Grafton, Mrs. Me-
Kee, Mrs. Huguet, and grandson OF DR..
Alexander ten in oil TINS dead hndias of
two negroes were picked up near the
steamer Fowler.
Information received from East Bernard
county states that entire section is under
water.
From Brazoris we learn the town of Ve-
lasco was entirely swept away, and not a
house left to indicate where the town stood.
Not life was lost, and l73 persons, among
them Judge Cool, of the Criminal Court,
and his family, were mil q ,hlously saved in
the following manner; When the storm
had entirely surrounded the place, and the
pillows began to invade the houses. The
entire population was huddled in the
uppe: apartments of the largest build
ing in town, but when it was seen
that the sea and storm were about
to sweep it away the men, who were
up 10 their necks in water, with the aid of a
small boat got the women into a schooner
and then got aboard themselves. Among
them was Colonel Cook. He lasbed
the schooner to frat one tree and then an
other, as they were pnlled up by the roots,
and thus weathered the storm. The house
from which they escaped was washed away
shortly after they left it,
For eight miles on the land side Of Nelas-
60 the sea was five feet deep during the
storm. The large steamer Australian
stranded in the mouth Of the East Bernard
She rescued all the inhabitants of the town
OF Bernard except thirteen, Among those
known 10 be lost are Mrs. Herndon, wife of
Major Herndon, Mrs Dance, Mrs. Culpep-
Fer, Mrs. Winstead and daughter, of Co.
lumbus.
Through like sources como what appears
to be authentic information that the town
OF Matagorda is almost totally destroyed.
only seven houses being left. The lower
Brazos country is reported as almost totally
destroyed. Sugar houses were blown down
and p an .ations wrecked.
From letter received by the agent of
the Morgan line from the agent 1T IndianOla
We get the following additional particulars:
Ills my painful duty to advise you of the
almost entire destruction of Indianola by
the storm from the fifteenth to the TWEEN.
tieth instant. On the evening of the fifteenth
the wind blew strong from the east, iucreas.
ing until p. Nj. OF the sixteenth; hauling
then to the northwest, from which quarter
it came perfect hurricane until 9 A. M. of
the eighteenth. The destruction OF prop
erty in town has been immense, over 200
houses having been swept entirely away,
and those that remain have been torn all
to pieces.
The loss of life here and at Saluria will
approxima $50 to 200. At Saluria un.
derstand the whole four OF the pilots, with
the exception of Captain Samuel Brown,
are drowned. The wharf property is in
jured very much. The entire planking is
tom of, tue warehouses torn down,
the office with the official records
stringers remain, and large part of the
planking is piled up on il, but from the I
head to the shore none of the stringers are
left, with the exception of about 800 feet on
the shore end. The piles seem to be good,
but of the first there are very few left.
The bridge is still in tolerabls order, only
about 200 feet of the shore end having been
washed away. The cattle pen at the foot
OF the wharf is gone, and the Office at the
foot, occupied by the railroad officers, was
broken down, and all the railway books
lost. There was a great doal of danger be.
tween this place and Cherry lake. l am
unable to give an exact estimate of the
dan age to the property in my charge until
l find what lumber can be recovered, and
what new material will be required for re-
pairs.
Having no way to land the freight of the
Harlan, or any place to take care of it
when landed, l have instructed Captain
Lewis to take it to Galveston until arrange
lnents can be made TO get it ashore here.
don't think it would be advisable to take
freight for this bay, except wha. may he
shipped for consumption in town, as it will
be impossible to transport any thing by rail.
road tor some time.
A steamer leaves Galveston for Indlanola
70. day.