The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-23

glasses frln Virginia Point, it seems all
right, a o-cat deal OF shipping being safe
in the L DOR. The damage at and about
Virginia Point is considerable, houses blown
down and washed away and some stock
lost.
They who went on this train reached Gal
weston in a schooner for Virginia Point and
say of the condition of the city that il
shows but little sign of the storm in tbs
business part. The wharves are safe and
secure, aud the streets show but little sign
that they for near forty-eight hours were
under water from two to four feet deep.
The greatest depth of water in the city was
four feet, aud at the highest Joint, twenty
two-inches.
AS soon as the people saw the storm com
ing they began to prepare for 1t. All, OF
nearly all, the goods on the lower noorS
were hoisted to the second and third floors
and thereby saved. The damage TO goods
is Try light. On the east end of the island
the storm was severest and did the most
damage. All the houses down that way,
ana in what is known as East End proper,
are destroyed, or nearly SO, with their con-
tents.
The Ocean House is no more. The Texas
and Gulf City cotton presses are destroyed,
new brick three-story store house was badly
damaged by the winds. The street car
tracks in the east end are torn up, and sew
eral cars demolished together with the cal
buildings. Some of the sewers of the city
are badly damaged, and some of the outer
streets washed, and in bad condition.
A great many houses were unroofed, and
scarcely O street missed having its shade
trees blown down, and the shrubbery is
stripped. Not more than dozen lives were
lost.
One woman was crushed by the falling
of her house. DR.. Peete, the city physi-
cIan, was lost at the quarantine station with
his grandson, Willie Blunt. He moved his
family into the city, and then went back to
the station and took refuge in his residence,
which was destroyed with the quarantine
house. There were soBe sixty men, at work
on the breakwater, cut off from the city.
OF these all were saved except four, al
most by miracle. One of them, Patrick
Landagan, eighty years old, drifted to Vir-
ginia Point on a plank, nine miles, and
struck the Santa Fe bridge, hanging to it.
He afterwards crawle out. Only three YES
sells in port dragged their anchors, and one
of them is known to be safe, and the Others
are believed to be. The vessel safe is the
Memory, an English brigantine, aground in
the bay. The Diana weathered the storm
nobly. One of the dredge boats from Red
Fish is on the prairie, near Virginia Point.
The people are mourning for DIR. Peete, and
yet hoping that he may be saved. Three
schooners drove through the Galveston rail
road bridge, and the crews were lost. Seven
houses were destroyed at Virginia Point.
THE TERRoRs OF THE TEMPEST.
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Its full fury was during Thursday and
Thursday night. 1t wore around to the
north, else the damage would have been
even greater. A number of wrecks are re-
ported on the island coast, but nothing
definite Is known of them. 1t is supposed
that five million dollars will cover the los
ses sustained in the city. The people whose
property was destroyed are cared for by
the city. Nothing heard yet from Red
Fish bar.
THE COUNTRY AND INTERIOR TOWNS.
A heavy gale swept over Huntsville, Bry-
an, Tyler and other towns, and when at
last the facts are gathered In it will be
found that these losses in the interior make
all others insignificant. At Huntsville trees,
fences and chimneys were blown down.
Corn and Gotten in the fields are badly dam
aged. The loss IN cotton in Walker county
is estimated at one thousand bales.
At Tyler strong wind accompanied with
heavy rain prevailed from Thursday eve
ming till Friday night, damaging cotton in
the fields and leaving corn to rot in the fur
rows.
LYNCHBURG SWEPT AWAY.
At Morgan's Point, Thursday night, two
dredges and two barges were driven ashore.
Commodore Morgan's dispatch boat Laura,
after striking a pile, drifted into the bay
and sunk. During Friday the boarding
house boat and the sleeping boat were
driven ashore. A dump scow and fiat
with an engine on board, and another fiat
with pile driver aboard, also went ashore,
all more or less injured. Three houses
were swept away from Morgan's Point.
Capt. CASTOR thinks the water was eight
feet higher than high tide mark, and four
feet over the highest point of land. Three
houses and store were swept away at Hog
Island and two from Spellman's Island.
Vests store and home and family were all
swept out to sea. Davis's store is destroyed,
and Rev. Mr.. Alexander and family of
Adams's Island ale lost, and Barron's fami-
ly and Fisherman George are supposed to
have been drowned.
LYNCHBURG
presented scene of devastation such as is
seldom witnessed. The whole place ap-,
peared to have been washed away. Every
house in the business portion of the town
is gone-J. B. Snydor's store, A P. Thomp-
kin's store and warehouse, S. Sanders store,
and two dwellings; Mans & Co.'s
and the old Ferry House, are
all gone. DIR. Chamberlain's house was
washed away and his wife drowned. Lem
miel's dwelling is gone, but his mill Is left.
Across the river, Thompson's store, Moore's
dwelling and Hendley's store are gone. All
the houses left standing are damaged more
Or less. Capt. PASSWORDS schooner was
driven ashore. Hughey GTbbs's new tug is
also ashore, and some of the Direct Naviga-l
ton Company's barges were damaged.
Capt. CASTOR says the gale was the sever
est experienced in thirty years of sea-faring
life.
IN THE COUNTRY.
At Spring, station about thirty or forty
miles from Houston on the International
road, the tempest was fearful. The mill
houses of Sands 6 Paschals, Conroe, Har-
MS S. Co. and Alien 81 Bell were ybfUwnI
down. Judge Bell had three mules killed:
Timber is Frustrated, and trees brown over
On a number of houses. "a 4arge-washr was
made in the railroad near Grand Lake.
The San Jacinto-is up to the-brid ge.r Eight
hundred feet.ef the trestle work at SprIng
Creek is-sabmergeds and two hundred feet
Of it carried away. AT Cypress the track
is under water for six hundred feet. At
Halls bayou the track is also oveT1owed.
These damages are already repaired and
trains are running.-EDs.
HOUSTON.
Trees, flower gardens, awnings, fat fef,
lows of editorial magnitude in outlines and
such as are stall-fed In Hous=
ton, signboards, tin roofs and wigs, for
three days went fitting about over Hous
ton until people lived in the shade as Greeks
fought beneath shsdows of Persisn arrows.
The Telegraph is thus solemnly moved to
cay: "But IN all these terrible hours many
a HEARTFELT earnest prayer assembled TO
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