The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-10
A Terrible Tornado Deyastates a POr.
ton of the Indian Territory.
4 Numberof Persons Killed
and Wounded.
A Fire at Waxahachie...Hail Storm
at Fort Worth and Some of
Its Consequences.
Heavy Weather on the Gulf...A Steam.
er's Expericnce..A Schooner in
Distress.
The Water Works Question in the City
of C0rsicana.
Interesting Facts and Figures From the
Capital.
Other Entertaining State News.
Other Entertaining State News
Galveston. .

Galveston.
Special 10 the Herald.
GALVESTON, May 9.-Captain Brown of
the steamship st. Mary, OF the Morgan
line, which arrived this morning, makes
the following statement; We left New Or
leans Saturday evening, crossing the bar
at the jetties at 3:20 Sunday morning.
When off Timbeier island we ran into the
sea, breaking in four iathoms of water. The
wind at the time was southeast, blowing
hard, We headed the vessel for southwest
Atchaielya bay, which point we reached
and anchored. The steamship Hutchison,
Captain Mc}aker, from Galveston tor
New Orleans, came oil the southeast reef
and anchored near us. Captain McBaker
reported Speaking the schooner Lucy, be-
longing the American Salt company,
anchored inside the Trinity shoals with her
rudder gone and wished to be
reported at Galveston. On Monday
at a. m. we hove anchor after laying
to for seventeen hours, and headed for Gal
weston. We experienced very heavy sea
all the way to the bar, and reached our
dock at q o'clock in the morning. The
blow was the severest experienced on the
gulf for some time.
The steam tug Estelle is rcported'to have
started out early this morning to assistance
of the Lucy, and to have been driven back
by the heavy seas. The Estclle started
again this afternoon on her mission of
mercy.
The German brig Ceres was seized yes
terday by the marshal upon q suit for sal
wage filed by Edward Murphy and other
| 'longshoremen for assistance rendered the
| vessel while on fire Sunday night The
owners of, the Buckthorn, which went to
her assistance and succeeded in extinguish-
| ing the flames by sinking the vessel, it is
| thought, will be able to amicably adjust
| their claim.
William Fuber has filed suit in the dis
| trct court against the city railway com
pany for $4,000 for the killing OF his
daughter by street car on the evening OF
the lst. Judge John 7. Harcourt will act
as counsel.
| The track of the Mexican National road
was, on the 9th of May, completed 1856 kilo
metres out from Laredo, or 400 kilometres
from Corpus Christi. Terraplan, stu
ated "a kilometres from Monterey, is being
rapidly approached. 1t is expected that
| Naladama will be reached by the first o.
June, and Monterey early in September
BY October the company expect to have
$50 kilometres of track completed, 612 kilo
metres of which will be in Mexico.
Cotton receipts to- day S3S bales. Spot
cotton unchanged. Sales 80 bales. Flu
lures opened steady and closed lower
Sales 100 bales.
The bark Stanto cleared to-day with (
cargo Of ,l60 bales of cotton.
| The United States signal office was re
moved to-day from the office in the custom
house to new quarters in the recently com
pleted building of the Gull, Colorado
Santa Fe railway company, corner Batl
avenue and the Strand.