Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-08-26

Tho citizens of Ennis will do
nate car load of grain, bacon and
flour for the drouth sufferers in
Taylor and adjoining counties.
Philip Weaver, 4 Bavarian
baker. was sunStruck and died IN Il
few hours, at Dallas on the 9th.
He was preparing to 20 in search
of cooler climate when stricken
down.
Charles Johnson, negro who
lived in Palestine, was shot while
hunting last week and died Mon
day night. 1t has not been def
nitcly asccrtaGncd whether he was
shot accrdcntly or on purpose.
Tho lIillsboro Reflector in ono
paragraph urges ITS citizens to keep
up the railroad enterprise, and in
another paragraph eliminates that
Waxahuchic monkcyod with rail
roads and got ITS fingers burned.
AT 3:i5 q. m, Saturday Goliad
was struck by the cyclone and
many houses were blown down and
others more or less injured. Fan
nin's monument was destroyed ;
the churches were blown down,
etc. The total damage IN the town
and county is not less than $780,
900.
On Tuesday afternoon another
cyclone, accompanied by rain and
hail visited San Antonio dong con-
siderable damage TO fine plate
glass windows and tin roofs.
Many buildings which had not
been repaired since Fridays blow
wcro moro or less damaged by
rain. The cotton crop in that
vicinity is nearly ruined.
"A Caldwell special to the
News reports five persons badly
hurt by the wreck on the Santa Fe
above Lyons, Monday. Fritz
Schumacher and wife, aged Germans
were badly hurt. the wife is not
cxpectc' to live. Mrs. Lockctt,
of Clcburne is not expected to live.
The cause of tho accident was the
spreading of the rails; tho rear
coach was thrown from the track
and ran about 100 yards, when it
turned over and was dragged 200
yards.
The town of Victoria was COM
plctcly wrecked by the great
storm on Thursday and Friday.
Two Catholic churches are com
pleteIy wrecked. The Prcsbytc-
rian church bolfry was blown
down. The Methodist church was
badly wrecked. Every coIored
church in the town but ono was
completely destroyed. The water
works stand pipe was badly dam
aged the roundhouso, depots and
windmiIls of tho railroad company
were destroyed. All the fences
are down tho ungathcred corn Is
all on the ground and will be lost.
In all the loss by the storm in Vic
toria is estimated at Sl50,000.
-IndIanola was tho greatest suE-
fercr from the late storm. The
signal Office was blown down and
Capt. Reed, signal officer, and DR..
Rosencranz, both of whom were in
it wero lost. The ruins caught fire
and extending for a block on both
sides of the street destroyed thir-
teen houses. The following lives
were lost in addition to Messrs.
Reed and Lewis: The VITO and
two children of DR.. Hodges, of
Cucro, Mrs. Crookcr, of Austin,
Mrs. Henry Sheppard, two chill
dron of Mrs. Max Luther and an
aged German, namc unknown; be-
sides the above the bodies OF ten
colored persons have been found.
Four miles of track arc washed
away and trains cannot approach
any nearer than that distance of
Indianola. There is great dcstitu-
ton among the poorer classes who
have lost everything. The depth
of water is repaired as great as it
was in 1875. when Indlanola had
nearly 200 of her citizens swept
away.