The New York herald., 1875-09-24
THE TEXAS STORM.
Additional Details Of the Destruc-
tion of Life and Property.
HORRIBLE SCENE AT INDIANOLA.
Contributions for the Relief Of the
Sufferers Pouring In.

tOllOW-
ing
AUSTIN, Texas Sept %, 1875
Immediately after the adjournment of the Convention
the members resolved themselves into public meet
ing General Donnel was called to the chair. Hon.
Henry Brown, of Dallas, offered the following pre-
arnble and resolutions, which were adopted
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas We the members and officers of the Con-
stitutiona Convention have learned with profound
sorrow of the caamtes which have befalen fellow
citizens on the coast therefore,
Resolved, That, gathered together from all
parts of the State and denied participation in the
measures Of relief that being devised at our respec
tive homes, we hereby individually contribute for tho
sufferers one days pay to be transmitted as soon as
possible.
Resolved, That Messrs Ballinger, Rugby Stockdale
and Murphy authorized to receive said contributions
and disburse the in such manner their
judgment may afford the most relief
Resolved, That heartfelt sympathies rendered
to the distressed and surviving friends relatives OF
those who perished in the late storm the coast
The roll called, each member responding. Tlie
result a contribution of SAT- so.
Pursuant to call issued by the Mayor the citizens of
Austin met at the Opera House this morning A
mittee appointed the city at once and
$500 raised in minutes. Appeals for help
from all along the coast.
CHARGE OF EXAGGERATED REPORTS
The Galveston Neos charges that exaggerated reports
have been sent from this point about the damages to
Galveston. The Necs says persons calculate the
damage alike My former estimate will be found to be
not far from the correct figures
LOSSES.
Passengers by trains report additional disasters to
cotton. The loss of stock by drowning will be i'm
mense.
AN INCIDENT
in Houston was the rescuing from drowning in White
Dark Bayou of Miss Addie Lewis by a newsboy named
Wiley Mimms. The little fellow is being worshpped
by the fair
AT SAN ANTONIO
damage done by the storm except to vegetation
IN HOUSTON.
AN traces of the storm being obliterated in
Houston, and the city cheerful business aspect
Trade is improving
COUNTRY.
Passengers who left San Antonio Saturday last
report heavy storm there Tuesday and Wednes-
day, eliminating terrible gale midnight on Thurs
day. They left San Antonio Saturday. and report
that the forests along the looked leaves had
been whipped off by switches the grass and herbs rolled
up if fire had crossed them. Near Segun they
met signs of the everywhere. 1t was worse at
Kingsbury; from Eagle Lake to West Bernard still
worse, and thence the beggars description.
Bridges and culverts gone the track up
washed away by the wind and water for seventeen
miles The repairing forces worked knee deep in the
water. From West Bernard to within fifteen miles of
the Brazos the destruction terrible.
BRAzos BOTTOM
looks if thousand wood had been Telling
trees for months. The party four days getting
from Kngsbury.
REPAIRING ROADS
The repairing corps is said to have worked with great
energy The Brazos bridge is expected to repaired
to-day, and the line opened from Houston TO
Kingsbury tomorrow. Superintendent II. NJ
Of tha Intn
road, has been following up the receding waters
with thoroughly organized repairing force Mr.
Hayes Vice President has been on the road con-
stautly since the Under ordinary circumstances
the extraordinary abilities manifested in the manage
ment of this road would have overcome the Obstacles
but this storm has detied human energy and the n
terprisng of this road have had to wait the action
of the water.
BRIDGES.
Dispatches received to- night state that the CYPRESS
and Spring Creek bridges repaired. Work is COM
menced the San Jacinto bridge and is expected to
be completed tomorrow The train is expected
to through Saturday Sunday Tho inter-
national freghts have been coming by the Central via
Hearne The Central is carrying enormous freights
The Great Northern Railway getting the track to
Buffalo Bayou repaired, to deliver immediately
The Direct Navigation Company now that its barges
all ahoat is able to handle all the freight offered
either to from the Gulf The San Antonio road will
handle all freight till the Galveston roads rebuilt
A barge load of cotton went forward from Aliens
ranch yesterday for Galveston The beef supply was
exhausted except island cows
CHANNEL FLEET
One of Morgan's dredges, at Morgan's Point, is
already aaoat. The steamer Laura and tug Picayune
will be steamed up on Sunday. Considerable
of tho working material of the feet s already recov-
cred, and work on the ship channel at Red Fish Bar
is resumed 1t is reported that the sunen dredgcs in
the bay will be raised immediately large force is to
be put for the purpose of getting drcdges and
tugs of Morgans Point.
THE AUSTRALIAN.
The latest from the Australian states that she Is lying
in only five feet Of water. from there reports
Cedar Lake washedsway and the people all lost
Adutan General Steele has telegraphed to the Secre-
of War; asking if subsistence could not be issued to
coast sufferers The reply was it could not
Mr.. Barron, Of Barrons Island, San Jacnto Bay re-
ported lost, rescued from tree by skin His
son is still missing.
STORM
born amid the gale Morgan's ship channel tug
Coates, stranded on Morgans Point, is thriving Mrs
West formerly Mrs. Grafton was light keeper for OBJ
strucons Hog Island and also kept a bay ferry
Her husband in the business and the young
widow continued it, She married West about year
since. They had just moved into house
at Baytown, where West kept store. Everything was
swept away. After encountering all the peris of the
gale this new life given them The ladies Of Hous-
ton Immediately sent clothing for the babe Tho
couple have the general sympathy
APPREHENSION
is felt for the fate of families not heard from within
eight miles of the coast on Bernard River some of
whom have relatives here.
THE STORY OF INDIANoLA coNFIRMED-ovER
FOUR HUNDRED LIVES Losr-MExIcAN ROB-
BERs KILLED BY CITIZENS.
CINCINNATI Ohio, Sept 90 1875.
special New Orleans despatch to the Times says
parties who arrived from Indanoa last night and who
there during the terrible cyclone, fully confirm
oven the most sensational report of tho of