New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-21
The Gale on the Texas Coast.

Captain Smith, of the mail steamer
Fannie, gives the Galveston Neus an ac-
count of the disaster to the Morgan fleet at
Red Fish bar. He attempted to cross the
bar at Anahuc Wednesday, but was forced
back to Trinity river. Thursday he was
obliged to run twenty miles up the river
Saturday coming back be found the steamer
Kate high and dry 400 yards from the river,
and several small vessels, the Annie Laurie
for enc, up in the woods. Every house at
Wallinsville is more or less injured He
took Captain John Clark and crew to Gal-
weston. On the way he was signaled from
Red Fish lighthouse to go to the westward
and there found two of Morgan's dredge
boats foundered, at their anchors. Seven
persons were taken off of one and six
teen from the other. One man, Tinlthv
Riley was drowned. They haI rec
perchel on the wrecks two days and thret
nights with nothing to eat or drink. He
saw the bottoms of two other wrecks one
the tender and the other the boarding house.
The rescued people believe all who had
been on them were drowned. lie says also
Trinity river is eight feet higher than ever
before, the cotton scattered like snow, the
banks covered with dead cattle, and that
half dozen islands eight or ten acres in
extent were moved long distances from
their former resting places. Ths ID also
asserted by the whole crew The vessels of
the Morgan fleet lost are Nos. !. 4 and G.
and three out Of five scows.
ino .iuiivwing ,ne names Ul those
rescued by the Fannie troln dredgeboat
No. /:
Frederick Walker, captain: Alexander
Larkin, Matthew Magee, engineers: j. L.
O'Brien, pilot; Mike Sloan, Peter McDer.
mot, Martin Hanson, Harry Cook, Lewis
Crane, John Sculy. John Cross, Harry Full
mer, j. M. O'N-il, James Collins. Thomas
Tracy, james Whalen.
And these are the rescued from dredge-
boat No. I:
gineers; Charles Sherwood. Patrick Mullen
Peter Garland, Dennis Collins, - Fisher
1t appears the damage at Houston has
been very great. The koehler, Concrete
Morris and Gray's buildings were unroofed
and otherwise injured; both congresses de
stroyed; only the roof Of the Great North.
ern depot in sight, Houses, Cleveland's and
other warehouses unroofed. and SO was the
veranda of the market house; Brewster's
the Young Mems Christian Association
Odd Fellows Halls, the Houston TtlegrGph
office and Dissens iIo, 81 suffered the same
way. The front of Gregory s building was
torn out. The bayou was up to the stringers
OF the Galveston railroad and rising. All
communication was cut oil for three days.
At Harrisburg the river rose thirty feet,
the water extending to the hotel, the beef
packery leveled and the ground covered
with debris.
All the houses at Green's bayou and De
Massies were under water.
At Lynchburg nothing is standing but
Lemmefs mill. The steamer Lizzie and
four barges were blown out on the bank.
Some dozen persons are known to be lost,
Captain Bell, of the Matamoras, saved
twenty seven persons from tops of trees and
drifting logs.
DaiAoh @, NestS ahu AieAanuef places
were not to be seen, and the loss of life is
supposed to have been great. The body OF
Mr.. Alexander was reported to have been
picked up near Lynchburg. having doated
up stream some distance.
The house of Mr.. West tioatea two miles
from its former site, whera it a,w lies
partly under water.
At Midway landing only the storehouss
of Major G. Il, Davis was destroyed. The
one dwelling and one storehouss at Bay
town are washed away. At Hog Point the
three dwellings and one warehouse are gone.
and several lives reported lost,