The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-23
THE GULF TEMPEST.
All the West Gulf Cities and Country
Under Water.

All the West Gulf Cities and Country
Under Water.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST AT GALVESTON
THE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
IMMENSE.
Cons1cANA, Texas, Sept. 18.-A
| wind and rain storm from the north
set in here at ten o'clock Thursday
night, lasting until dark yesterday.
The rain extended from the south of
Dallas to the coast. Some little cot
ton was blown out, but no great dam
age done the crop in this section.
Telegraphic communication with
Houston by both the Central and
Great Northern roads is broken, but
Houston Friday evening papers re-
| ceived here this morning report the
storm still raging there, and at Gal
weston Thursday evening last. The
Galveston Neeus reported at 10 o'clock
Wednesday night, when the last
| wire broke on the bridge, that the We
locity Of the wind there was fifty
miles per hour and increasing. The
Galveston and Santa Fe bridge had
washed away. The Galveston end
Houston bridge is broken, but part
Of it is still seen extending from the
main land. The water extends three
miles inland, being higher than in
1868 and the latest from the high
land station p. NJ, report the hur-
ricane doing a great deal of damage
at Houston, and at Harrisburgh the
water was within 20 inches of the top
of the Navigation Company's wharf
Thursday forenoon, and rising an
inch an hour. Grave apprehensions
exist in Houston of serious disaster
in Galveston.
| A night train broke through a
bridge 80 miles above Corsicana last
night, destroying 10 loaded cars and
stopping traffic. The brid &c and
track will be repaired and communi.
cation opened tomorrow.
| By WAY OF NEW ORLEANS.
! ST. LOUIS, Sept. 18.-A New Or
leans special to the Republican says
nothing has yet been heard from GAL
weston, and telegraph lines are down
to Corsicana, indicating that the
storm has reached that city. The
gale at Brasher continued all night,
and prevails now, the wind having
changed to the northwest. The water
in the streets Of that city rose foot
during the night, and is now four feet
deep. The rise continues, the water
being higher than known for years.
: At Lyons, eighteen miles west, the
country is flooded to the depth OF
three feet, which is five higher than
the food Of 1867. A boat sent
from Brasher to the relief of the
people on Shell Island returned last
night during a lull in the storm, and
brought all off: When she left the
water covered the island to a depth
of three feet, and was rising. SINH
lar reports come from other point!
along the western coast, which par
= TALLY confirm the rumor that Calves
ton is under water.
NEWS AT LAST.
The following dispatch in regart
to the condition of affairs at Calves
: ton, was forwarded this evening t
T. Gen. Arson Stager, Superintendent G
the Western Union telegraph compa
ny at Chicago: "Got to Housto
about 5 p. NJ, over the Internationa
road. The wires are down in all d
rections from there. At 7:30 got on
wire working to Galveston. Fror
all l can learn the Two-Mile railwa
bridge over the bay is badly broke
in several places. One break is est
mated at 100 feet wide, where tw
schooners had broken through.
terrific storm prevailed yesterday, an
for several days past. Fifteen or six
teen men who were at work On tn
, break-water are reported lost. Ais
the health officer of the city is miss
y ing. Noparticulars, but the DAMAGE
l immense in property. We have en-
gines and men out in all direction
: repairing wires.
[signed.] R. G. C1owRY,
Superintendent
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. disappointment
ent Clowny of the Western Unio1
Telegraph Company, has communi
: Gated to the General superintendent
Arson Stager, as follows
The Morgan steamship, just arriv
ed at Galveston, reports the town o
, Indianola, Texas, almost entirely de
stroyed. The lighthouses, whar& ant
nearly every house was swept away
and one hundred to one4fundred anc
fifty lives lost. The steamer coult
p find no place to land her cargo.
[Indianola was a Aourishing villae,
l. on the west shore of Matagorda Ba,
; in Calhoun county, Texas, which
: had grown greatly within The last ter
) years. 1t is westward from Calves
ton about one days sail and employ
ed two or three coast steamers in it.
trade with Ga weston.
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