The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-09

Aye, some OF them BSil4 0flFcI#
ashore and broken up. Not a sonns
vessel or wharf is 10 be seen. Tho
damages ON land are roughly esii@
mated at 100000. The roof of tlit|
custom house is entirely bare, all
the tiles having been blown on
The villages of Allmantown|
Brownston. Passalmore Town. Ham
ahtown, Smithville and FIatcher
Landing have sustained considered
BILE damage. The lunatic asylun[
suffered severely. as also the general
penitentiary. All the churches and
chapels have suffered more or less
from the destructive visitor Thc'
earthquake is said TO have been felt.
during the storm. The barracks all
Up Park Camp. being ON an eleya-
ton, have been ndemolished. A larqc'
number of eocoanut trees have been.
ruined. and the crop is entirely del
Stroyed.
Communication with the couniry'
ports has been cut of. and no tele-|
grams can be sent from kingston|
station. rs the wires are all snapped.
DENVER. Cob. September S.-A
special TO the Tribune from Santa
Fe states that the latest report from
chihuahua Is that Col. Vole has gone
south with all the available Federal
and Mexican troops to Intercept the
revolutionists and suppress the rev.
olution. In the state of Durango.a
Col. Joaquin Terresaz, with zoo
mounted volunteers. has taken the
field against Nict0ria's Indians. and
the different towns of the boarder
have been called upon TO furnish
volunteers fpr the company.
NEW YORK, September 4.-Spe-
cials from st. Augustine furnish the
following additional disaters to the
steamer City of Vera Cruz: On SAT-
urday afternoon the steamer en-
counfered strong gale which soon
increased in fury. twas then about
= bells.
AT 3 r. NJ. the steamer was rum
ming on her course being In about
so degrees west longitude. and SO
degrees, 40 minutes north latitude.
The sea was running high and the
City of Vera Cruz labored very
heavily but sturdily for some
hours, every effort was made to keep
her before the wind, but i was found
necessary at one O'clock Sunday
morning, TO throw out the drag 10
keep her head about. This secured
the desired effect for the time being.
but the gale had grown TO hurri-
cane and immense waves began to
break over the doomed steamer,
Each of the succeeding waves tore
away pieces of her upper works un-
til her deck was finally swept clear.
Even the rigging being torn and
shattered. The drag ceased to full
fill its functions and as the waves
rose over her bows and deluged the
decks. they soon reached the furna-
ces and extinguished the fires, the
matches having been torn from their.
fastenings by the billows. The fires
being out soon put stop TO the en-
gines and the City of Vera Cruz lax
at the mercy of the waves and the
storm. Not even the donkey pumps
could be worked TO relieve the yes
sci of the water she was rapidly
making in her hold. In this extre-
nifty Capt. .VanSyce ordered his men
10 throw overheard the deck load.
a task that had been begun about
midnight. The sea was to heavy to
permit the crew carrying out the
captains orders for while thus en-
gagged, several of the men were car
ried off their feet by the incoming
seas and many washed overheard.
Capt. Van Syce and his officers acted
courageously in the performances of
their several duties, but were ono by
one washed oyerboarb from their
stations. The steamer laborcd ON
the trough of the sea. AS near ~
can be ascertained the captain
perished fully an hour before slle
vessel finally succumbed. The few
remaining alive OH board now SAW
that there was no hope, so they took
to the life preservcrs. the life boats
having already disappeared. in fact
every boat and life raft was stove in
when the top hammer went by the
board. The sailors and passengers
then seized the fragments and spars,
stateroom doors or any other NOV
able article that would float, and
awaiting the end. which all knew to
be at hand. The surviving sailors
state the. vessel was about thirty
miles of the shore at this time, the
hurricane being one OF terrible
fury. BY the time the ship
wrecked men and women had
equipped themselves with their
mpronptu buoys the final catas-
trophe occurred, at about ha]f-past .
IN. a
and tremendous lurch the steamer
suddenly sank into the ocean swirl
CARRYING down many OF the survi-
yors of the seventy souls who were
ON board before the storm begun.
Only thirteen have reached the
land alive, these thirteen were all
men, three passengers, eight deck
hands, one engineer and one 0iler
There is no doubt but for this ordeal
many more would have been saved
for there can be but little doubt that
several perished after the founder
ing of the steamer through exhans-
tion. The names Of two survivors
only have been furnished. they arc
Mason Talbot and Jas. Keller, both
seaInen, one of the passengers saved
was young man, but strange
enough he states he does not wish
his name sent for publication. II
is said he was companion Of Gen.
Afford A. Torbet. The bodies Of
the victims came on shore thirty
miles south of this place and
among them was the body Of
Gen. Torbet and his body was
placed in cask and buried on We'd
nesday, in the grounds of j. II.
Batefield near Dayton settlement.
opposite Mosquito Inlet. The bodies
of two steerage passengers have been
found, at least that is their .claesill-
cation by the survivors. The bodie.
of three females were recovered
from the waves along shore and four
other men probably sailors. These
like others have been duly buried.
One of bodies is that of gray
haired man. Near the body Of oIle
of woman was fOnnd that Of
young girl. or course IL has been
impossible 10 identity amy Of these
bodies, except that Of ten. Torbet
who was weli-kn0wn 10 ali on board.
The masts and portions Of the gun
wales Of the steamer lie scattered
on the beach where the bodies were
and with them Is large
of handsome cabin fulni-
tnre all badly smashed and ruined
by the waves.
The schooner Ada >. Sononion Of
Isocklad, Maine. commanded by
Capt. Parker and bound from Petl-