San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-21

Mahncke's garden several trees torn
out and thrown in the temporary lake
| in front Of the garden.
The storm among the colOred pOpula-
| ton of NewcOmbvile did great dam
age.
Bochlaner's stable was blown about
and chimney lost. The kampmann lac
| tory suffered much.
Pat Mcneil, who was burned out
| short time ago, was living in tent. 1t
and its contents were blown away, and
poor Pat is again heavy loser. He Is
| thankful that he and his family are still
| living.
r. &. Smith put his head out to see
| the storm. He has his head still but his
| hat is swaying in the breeZes:
At the Government Hill, the old bar
racks save excavators trouble by falling
| to the ground. Unfortunately Recruit
ing Sergeant Ryman was there and he
lost his all. The gallery OF the new
| school went away without leave, ana
Muth's pavilion showed the cloudy SKY.
The officers dwellings suffered IN Ich In
being unroofed and in fences being
knocked down. General Stanley's win
dow was blown in, and he was deluged
with water. The headquarters lost part
of gallery and roofing and were mum
| dated with water. The port and ratings
| of the long gallery went to the north
wall, other parts were blown two hun
bred yards away.
Three churches and number OF
houses were blown down at Luling yes
terday.
Houses were blown down all along
the Sunset road and in Houston, and at
the latter place the bayou arose consid-
erably. Also Clear creek, below Hous-
il IN a hO
Many soft rock houses were consider
ably damaged; the driving rain satur-
ated the walls on the north sides and
the violent wind blew in portions OF the
walls in some Instances and in others
blew of pieces from the walls. There
was hole blown in the north wall OF
tine soft rock house of Mrs. Laura
Mitchell on Presa street.,
The Methodist church an Travis park
was partially unrOOfed, and considerably
injured by the rain that poured in.
The Presbyterian church on Flores
street suffered considerable damage
from leakage, but was not otherwise
| damaged.
Shade trees were either wrenched off
or blown down all over the city. The
trees in the Vienna garden suffered Sc
verely.
Express Messengers who came in
from Houston last night report that
when they left Houston yesterday morn
| ing at 10 O'Clock there were no trains
running to Galveston and even the tele-
graph wires were down. The long
! trestle across the bay was entirely sub
| merged and parts OF the track were
washed away. Water has been driven
back over Virginia Point l3 miles into
| the mainland. All the spare bridge
~. L. nal
| Northern railroad as far up as Palestine
have been sent to work repairing dam
age between Galveston and the main
| land.
1t is reported on the streets this morn
ing that several people were drowned at
| Indianola, and that 100 houses were
submerged in Galveston.
The Breckenridge homestead at the
head of the river, suffered little. Sew
| eral fine forest trees are down and the
roof is off the pump-hOuse of the Water
works company.
All the timing and roofing establish
ments have 80 or 100 orders for new
roofs ahead now. Timers are scarce and
needed badly.
The amount of tin roofing On the gov
eminent buildings damaged, is estim.
ated by the officers at 100000 square
roofing.
Remnants planning mill sign was blown
away.
Smoke stacks of the planning mill and
factory on Avenue c and Third street
are knocked down.
Water was deep enough on Third and
Bonham streets yesterday to swim
horse.
All creeks west Of the city for miles
are raging torrents, says Mr.. Henry Dig
nowity, who came in this morning.
The storm was also severe in the coun-
| try, so far as heard from.
Mr.. wilkins, a drayman. had his
house partially unroofed, and his fences
blown down, many of the cedar posts
| being broken off even with the ground.
Col. Nat Mitchell's barn was unroofed,
| and his fences blown down.
Ed. Braden ls thankful that he es-
| capped as well as he did, and says he SUI
fered no damage, since slight repairs
| will "put things TO rights" The limbs
on many of his pecan trees were broken
| off by the wind, which is itself quite
| serious damage.
No person seems to have been injured
bodily.
j. Winckler's store was unroofed and
his stock damaged.
Chris Mueller lost part of his roof and
| awnings.
The new officers quarters lost part Of
| the roof and had some windows blown
out.
1t is estimated that $4,000 damages Is
sustained by the military department.
The wind swept away two Of &. NJ.
Barnes houses and deposited them sew
eral yards away, and Barnes is out about
$500 by the transaction.
Mr.. Weilbacher's stable, valued $50,
is a complete wreck.
The .'crank house" at the county
poorhouse suffered some and the high
fence surrounding 1t was blown down.
Trees about the grounds and on the
neighboring farm were also blown down
or dismantled.
Cherry Bob lost three joints of his
stove-pipe and offers reward for its
return.
The Southern Pacific train from the
west is delayed by washouts and will
not arrive until o'clock this afternoon.
The house of Martin Campbell, who
lives on Live Oak street, WAS unroofed,
and after the roof came Off the walls
crumbled in on the family, who barely
escaped with their lives. The house
and contents Is total loss.
Hart q Bonds saloon suffered, and
the cellar is yet nearly full of water.
A. q. Herndon's house on Park avenue
is unroofed and furniture and pictures
damaged.
The county and city hospital had part
of the roof torn of, plaster and chimneys
knocked of, and the cellar Is full Of
water.