The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-07
from Kingston to Holland bay, the de-
struction was awful and the loss beyond COM

Papers state that the thieves are every
where availing themselves of the defenseess
state OF the people, and are stealing I'D libi-
tum. Ii Is estimated the island Is put back
In development about two years, and II is
feared the poorer classes will have an era Of
suffering before them. Planters are loft
with shattered and destroyed crops, and fish,
ermen have had their houses blown away and
their smacks sunk. At the markets In wn
the people come with empty hands, plighted
TO an Interchange Of stories, which are sob.
bingly told. There Is literally no business
going on anywhere, except the work Of rostor.
ing TO some sort Of shape the DESTROYED and
shattered dwellings and wrecked edihces In
many towns the government offices and
buildings suffered much, and the clerks are
unable to transact business.
Savannah, Sept. GA special to tho
Morning News from Jacksonville states that
six seamen and passengers from the wrecked
steamer Vera Cruz reached that place from
ST. Augustine this afternoon. They, with
four others, two seamen and two passengers,
are supposed to be the only survivors. They
report that cyclone struck the steamer Sat-
urday, four miles this side Of cape Canaveral
and thirty miles of shore, at 4 p. m. The
load was thrown overheard and the sea
swept the decks clean. AT 2
o'clock a. m. ON Sunday the water
reached the engine room and extnguished the
fires; at q. m. the captain was
washed overheard and the fret and second
mates killed while lowering the boats. Bye
o'clock the vessel foundered. The passen-
gers and crew were provided with life pre-
servers but many were killed and crushed in
the wreck. Survivors were washed ashore at
Dayton and Port Orange, and several bodies
have been buried. Twelve wrecks are re-
ported two steamers and ten sail, among
them the schooner Ada II. Simonton, from
Pensacola to Boston, lumber laden, but all
on board we're saved Twelve Of the crew OF
a Norwegian bark got ashore Saturday
near st. Johns bar. The coast
tor one hundred miles 10 strewn with the
wrecks and goods Of all descriptions. The
survivors of the Vera Cruz left for Savannah
en- route TO New York. Three ladies and two
seamen were buried at Mantanzas inlet Sat-
urday. A large schooner, copper bottomedt
was seen floating off Mantanzss inlet. The
survivors Of the Vera Cruz are expected OF
Savannah on the steamer City Point to-day.
4 Savannah, Ga, Sept. 6,-The parties saved
from the Vera Cruz, whose names are un-
known, are at Smyerst, Florida.
| A special to the Morning News from
Jacksonville, says nothing further has been
heard from the other survivors of the Vera
Cruz, said to have been landed ut Smyrna,
Florida. The Norwegian bark, Watson,
from Pensacola, for Leeds, has been towed
into Jacksonville dismsste1 and abandoned.
Charleston, $. o., Sept, six of the
crew OF the steamer Vera Cruz, Charles
Smith, second assistant engineer Charles
Brandenburg, quartermaster; James Kelly,
Mason Talbot, John Greenfield and I.
Drumgoold, seamen, together With Mr..
Owens, tee surviving passenger, ar.
rived here on the steamer City Point
from Jacksonville, Fla, this morning. They
will remain here to-day and will leave for
New York on the steamship George w.
Clyde tomorrow. Fred p, Benson, one Of
the crew of the schooner Ada B. Simonton
arrived here and will leave fer New York on
tue same steamer.
New York, Sept. 6. "A Montreal special
gives the following: The Steamer Hawoth,
with two thousand steel rails, from Barrow
came in collision with huge ice.
berg in the straits of Bell Isle, on Sunday the
Goth, washing u hole in her bow some two
feet in width, breaking her stern to ms,
and giving her an involuntary deck.lopl Of
ice, which tcapled over upon her from an
iceberg and threatened to sink her by sheer
weight. She careened so much that her
stern was lifted high up out Of
the water ard threatened to pitch
her bow fore most into the depths
All was confusion in q moment, as the col.
lision was unlocked for, owing to the night
being clear and starlit. The watch hal been
mistaken as to the iceberg; they believed II
to be part cf an oveyhanging cloud, and
| when the crash camotwo were thrown into the
! water. Boats were lowered and manne1
In readiness to leave the vessel unless exsmi'
atoms showed abe would float. The crew
! at once set 10 work TO repair the damages
9 John Randell, who had gone overheard, wa
! never seen again, and his companion In mis-
fortune, after trying with the help OF . wate
I barrel, for half. an hour to gain the snip
$ was rescued. II took two days to repair I'M
r damages and enable the vessel 70 proceed
0 She arrived here late last night. where sn'
# will at once discharge and repair damages
:. She was Of the Clyde build, and was classec
q number one at kloyds,
: STILL ANOTHER bIsAsrER.
d Paris, sept.6.--Ths Sair announces tina,
the Boat belonging to Prince Galstzin, foun
dered on the Ord inst, of the coast Of Fines
tene, had aboard viscount Fleury, Mrs. hen
e messy, an American lady, and two natives O
; England. All were drowned.
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