The New York herald., 1875-09-29
THE TEXAS STORM.
THE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE VARIOUS coUN-
TEs-TERRIBLE SCENE IN THE TIMBER



coUNTRY-REPAIRMG RAILROAD UNDER
HoUsroN Texas Sept %, 1875
AS time rolls on and the people recovering from
the excitement caused by the storm the damage to
crops can be estimated by clearer heads The nforma
tion daily being received from the country induces me
to believe that the loss from the storm will not prove
disastrous at first anticipated though great
deal of cotton and has been destroyed The
Telegraph of this morning has the following
A cANARD
! The following is extract from private letter
written at Austin to a gentleman in this city
Galveston drummer has reported here here that Houston
washed away and that Houston place ship
ton to. How much truth is there in IL
We need scarcely say that the only truth in IL s the
statement that Houston the place TO ship cotton to-
All the rest s manufactured out of whole CLOTH and Is
OF piece with the effort assiduously being made all
over the country to create the impression that the peo
pie OF Houston have endeavored TO inure the Island
| City by the circulation Of false reports Our people
have been and are being basey sandered. They seek
business in all fair and legitimate ways, but they would
scorn to resort TO such have Of late been
adopted by some OF their rivals
STORM.
On Saturday evening last train left Palestine
time for Houston and the first passenger train
that through without transfer of rassen-
gers and mails. 1t about halfpast eight night
when left Palestine and but little could be until
daylight which upon 1t after the train had passed
| Wavery. The road here runs through densely tim
bered counry-a corner of the noted Big Thicketand
there must have been fearful presented in the
| locality while the storm lasted. The lying
about in all directions uprooed and others broken
| of from ten fifteen feet above the ground This is
the everywhere the road where 1t through
timbered country. After passing Willis and Grand
Lake it reached San Jacinto bottom, which all
denwaer and the running in all directions.
Tha train and tha
ant passengers a good chance to all that
had been done by the flood. 1t seems almost impos-
sble that should be ablo TO work such torrent
| of water as running all the bottom, and yet
long testes have been built TO replace the work carried
away by the flood and what was mass of rubbish and
ruin but few days ago is now again 1rm first class
railroad
SPRING CREEK,
usually well-behaved, quiet stream, out of its
banks and flooding the bottom. Here the damage was
great San Jacinto and Cypress Creek which
still very high, and had, in its mad career
washed goodly number OF channels through the en-
bankment
REPAIRING THE RAILROAD
Captain P. Hayes in Houston during the storm,
and soon as It was over went on the line himself
He did not leave until the damages repaired and
the road bed ready Mr. Hoxe, the General Su-
perintendent Palestine, and commenced sending
down and supplies before the wires up to tell
him the extent of the damage which his experience told
him must necessarily be great.
CROPS.
The crops along the line of the road have suffered,
but do not think much the people expected i'm
medatey after the storm. Walker county lost proba-
bly, one-sixth of the CROP Houston county oneeighth
and Anderson county onetenth. The farmers who
up with their work lost but little, while those
| who were behlndhand great sufferers
| THE GALVESTON BRIDGES.
have to-day that three schooners were driven
through the railroad bridges at Galveston on Friday
night demolishing all the work done since the
The schooners sunk. Nothing has been heard from
the shipping outside Galveston.
SMALL TOWNS WASHED AwAY-DEsTRUCTIoN ON
THE PLANTATIoNs-A CRY FOR HELP FROM
MATAGoRDA-BRAzos, SANTIAGO, AND RocKPoRI
UNINJURED.
GALVESTON Texas, Sept. %, 1875
Advices from Brazofia dated September %, confirm
the reports first received from Matagorda That towr
was wholly washed away excepting only four houses
which remain standing No lives were lost the people
saving themselves by cngng to the cedar in thu
vicinity.
At the town OF Columbia twenty houses we're blown
down, but no lives are reported lost
One was killed at Chenango by falling tree.
DAMAGE PLANTATIONS.
Many plantations have been greatly damaged anc
some literally pieces Sugar houses gin houses
fences and everything partly wholly blown down
The great losses cannot be correctly reported
SUFFERING MArAGoRDA
Later advces from Matagorda say that at meeting o
the citizens of Matagorda county held in the town o
Matagorda the following appointed committee tc
receive and distribute contributions to the suffering
people:-Galen Hodges W. 5. Stewart and r G.
Cheesman. The committee report as follows:-
REPORT COMMITTEES.
We the committee, report TO the country at large
that the greater part OF the town Of Matagorda is lad
in RUNS and that not single citizen Of that town has
escaped serious injury TO property Many OF them are
entirely houseless and without the necessares of life OF
the means to build a shelter over their heads our
Court House is somewhat damaged but can be repaired
without great expense The Odd Fellows
| nearly So All the shipping this point
has been either seriously damaged entirely lost No
lives lost in the town, but kenneys praire,
far were able to learn, twentyone persons were
lost and their property all destroyed. On the upper
peninsula twenty one persons were swept into the
Gulf and drowned and ali their property entirely lost
We have yet heard Of no deaths on the lower penin-
sula but houses and property are almost entirely de-
stroyed DeCrows Point has not yet been heard FROM
nor the town of Palacios We have heard anything
definite Tres Palacios yet we hear Of great de-
strucnon of property the east side of the Colorado
River, but Of no lives lost We have not heard
from Carey above Captain Duncan's panta-
ton, but are satisfied that from there TO
| the south there has been entire
loss Of crops houses cabins, gin and sugar houses,
&C. and i've lives lost as far as heard from. We re-
quest the Galveston Nctcs Houston Austin San An
tonic other Texas papers, also those of New York.
| Boston, Chicago and ST. Louis, to publish these pro-
ceedng and such other papers as feel an interest in
the cause OF suffering humanity
such as may feel able and disposed to help suf
ferng people will send forward their contributions,
| money or PROVISIONS TO the committee above named
consisting OF Messrs. Cheesman, Stewart and Hodges
G. Baar John Duncan, Jr3 John L Iroon, John
Matthew'S Galen Hodges, j. E. Pierce, d. L. 5. Esbra-
man. r. G. Cheesman C. II. Williams, Frederick c.
McCamly, W. ID. Barlowe, John Moore; william H.
Burchart, Chairman; g. Baar, Secretary.
FROM BRAzoS AND RoCKpoRT.
BRAsHEAR Sept 2s 1875.
The steamer Harris, from Brazos, and Mary, from
Rockport arrived this morning They report no dam
age done by the storm at either port