The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-23
THIS STORM AT GALVESTON.
Bubsidence of the Gale-Ten Lives Lost and
$5O0,0OO Worth of Property Destroyed.
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GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. 22.-The gale and the
heavy rain ceased about 10 o'clock Friday night
and the danger of further disaster was averted.
People who had been driven from their homes
by the waves at once began to repair damages
and refit their abodes, except in cases where the
storm had completely demolished the frail
structures. Yesterday was clear and pleasant
and the waters rapidly receded. The beach was
found to be strewn with the wreckage of build
ings, and the houses and hotels which remained
standing were in q dilapidated condition. All
the small buildings connscted with the Beach
Hotel were washed away and the foundation
Of the hotel partly undermined. The menag-
erie belonging to the hotel grounds
was washed away, and the birds
and animals either drowned or killed
by falling timbers, except two lions, which were
shot by a watchman while escaping. 1t is esti-
mated that the total damage by thesstorm to
property is 100000 The poor are the greatest
sufferers, many of them being made destitute.
The street-car lines are rapidly being repaired.
The Sisters Orphanage was not damaged as at
first reported. The schooner j. w. Perry, from
Brashear City, foundered in the gale, fifteen
miles out, and Captain Whitmore and the col
ored cook were lost Two colored sailors drifted
on spars until they were blown ashore, nearly
dead from exposure. Willie Brown, aged eleven.
was drowned at the foot of Thirty-th third street,
on Friday. The body was recovered yesterday.
This makes ten victims of the storm Railroad
communication with the mainland has been
fully restored. The bark Herbert with cotton.
for Bremen, was obliged to put back on account
Of the storm. She was but little damaged.
The worst storm record visited San An
tonic and vicinity Friday, beginning at 6
o'clock in the morning At one time the velocity
of the wind was seventy-two miles an hour.
Several buildings were wrecked and easements
were flooded, the total loss being estimated at
100000 AT other towns in the vicinity great
damage was also done at Beeville houses were
unroofed and crops damaged. At Floresville ten
houses were wrecked. Farm fences are down.
and what stock was not killed has drifted off,
and the country is stripped for miles.
The damage by the storm at Seguin is very
heavy. The Record Office was totally destroyed.
The new tower Of the Episcopal Church was
blown down, and large number OF public and
private buildings We're either destroyed or badly
damaged. Robert jefferson, son of Col. John Il.
Jefferson was killed in Sutherland Springs, and
Garland Smith and. Richard Burgess, son of
Hon. W. H. Burgess. were badly wounded.
They were camping at the springs and were in
jured by falling trees. A pauper living with
John E2land across the river, died of fright
during the storm. The cotton plant has been
whipped into shreds but many persons believe
that it will take on a new growth and develop a
top crop. The damage has not yet been estma-
ted, but viii be very heavy.
At Luling, on Friday morning. about daylight
terrific rain-storm set in, which continued until
P. NJ. causing great damage. Houses were
blown from their foundations and demolished
trees were uprooted, fences blown down, and
cotton was stripped from the stalk and blown
over the fields No casualties are reported.
At Hampstead the storm did great damage to
the cotton crop. In the uplands the loss to the
crop from the ravages of the wind and rain on
Friday will De fully 10 per cent.