New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-01
BY TELEG APH


IEAAS.
Additional Particulars of the Damage by
the Late Storm.
GALVESTON, September 3O.-It is stated
only few of the citizens of Indianola will
rem ain on the peninsula longer than to dl y
their bedding, clothing and collect their
scattered property. The storm has done
little damage at Victoria or Lavaca. At
Texana it blew down the Methodist church
and unroOfed two other buildings. On the
opposite side of Powder Horn bayou ont of
forty houses only one remains. Sixty-three
persons took refuge in this house; ten of
this number were lost.
The schooner Belle Mason, Captain
Smith. of Calcasieu, was carried into the
railroad office.
Schooner Bibb, of the United States coast
survey, is ashore on Panther island.
Schooner Henrietta, Captain Steinport,
Corpus Christi and Indian0la mailboat. dis
masted and ashore at Saluria, on Matagorda
island.
Schooner Agnes, mailboat. wrecked and
driven two miles on tho mainland above In
dianola.
Schooner Emily lost her rudder aud
dragged her anchors for eight hours.
Schooner Rebecca, Captain Jones, from
Galveston. ashore on shell bank near
AraAsas Pass; schooner Comet, from Pas
csgoula. ashore above Indianola, elk miles
from the water; schooner Crinoline, of Gal
weston, ashore on the shell banks; schooner
Rescue, Captain Smythe, wrecked at Salu-
ria: the captain was lost, but the crew were
saved. The schooner Peedee, Captain Ga.
rom, OF Calcasieu, is another total wreck at
Saluria; schooner Comet, Captain Viola, of
Brashear ashore at Aransas; schooner An
drew Borden, dismasted and driven 600
yards on land on Matagorda island.
One hundred outlaws, mostly from the
fno sr, Hall Iou~
term of the court
The schooner Phoenix was dismasted and
| carried several miles above Indianoa; the
| s!oop Star of the South was also carried
| two miles inland.
On the twenty-seventh Stanley Welch,
deputy collector of custome, and Alderman n
| j. Downing, of Corpus Christi, reached In
dianola with the remnant of boat load of
| provisions which had been sent by the citi.
zens of Corpus Christi for distribution
among the sufferers here and along Mata-
| gorda island.
They found much distress as they came
| along, which, after they had relieved it for
the time being, left but little on hand.
| They report the stencil arising from the
carcasses of cattle, horses and sheen alor 70
the bay and bayou banks so great that they
think great deal of sickness will prevail.
They counted Isl carcasses in the space of
one mile on Matagorda bay and the main
| land.
The following are the disasters, beginning
nine miles above the town and toward the
mouth of Caney: A family named Forester
took refuge in the tops of trees. Everything
they possessed was swept away. They re-
msined in the tree tops three days, but
were rescued by a boat and carried to Mat.
gorda, where their comfort was provided
for, They had tasted the entire three DAYS.
:. Apother family of the same name, but
1 Iii ~ cnV lnx 4 a.
consisting of q man, his wife and six cbl-
dren, we're all lost.
A family named Hutchins, half mile
further on, were all lost but the man, who
refused assistance and was left on log,
supposed crazed by the loss of his family,
which consisted of his wife, his mother-in,
law and six or seven children.
A short distance further on was where a
whole family named Mitchell, which CON.
sisted Of Mitchell, his wife, children, bis
6rothes ln-law, and young lady named
Miss Raymond. who were ali drowned, and
everything they possessed destroyed.
man uamed Maddox, while floating on
some drift, met the schooner Lydia, from
J MatagOrda, adrift. He caught her, saved
days on the drift.
A family named Idlebaugh was saved by
climbing into the tops of some large cedars
and remaining there until a boat re escued
Them and also reseNed the family of Mr.
Show, at whose hse he was stopping a
while. Gains house was badly damaged
but remains standing. The family of Mrs.
Raymond. whose lives were saved, had
their property all lost.
| The Caney plantations are stated by Cap
tain Cain to have been nearly all ruined.
| especially those on the bank of the river
end coast The following casualties oc-
Cured: Mr.. McNeal's family, with every
thing movable, was lost, except himself.
Their place was seven miles from the Gulf.
| JOHN Sargent's house, which was eight
feet above high tide, on a bluff, was swept
away and his wife and father drowned,
| while he was absent trying to get bo It t.
to ke them off. Rev. Mr.. Arnold, his sons
and sons-n-law's, four families, lost al
their property, but saved their lives.
Over on Buckner's prairie, fourteen miles
from the Gulf, large number of persons
are reported drO ned, and large number
OF cattle were drowned. Many caros4 ses
have been found on the Gulf shore with the
bran ands of persons living that distance bac
William Barbour lost all his property, but
saved himself by cliuging to a log that he
picked up.
1t is reported that Colonel Hawkins
Prairie Home was thrown from the blocks,
and bis Immense crop greatly damaged
The plantations along the Caney are gem
orally believed to be much injured.