St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-23
TEXAS TOPSY TURVY.
auadreds of Homes in the Lone Star
State Swept Away by the Treach-
erous Gulf.
Ill the Pleasure Resorts Along the Gulf
Swallowed Up by the Awful
Maelstrom.
Schooner Wrecked and the Captain
and Cook Observation-Disclosures
1ous Escapes.
The Tenth Victim at Galveston ~
Three Persons Drowned in
Lake Pepin.
The Great Texas Storm.

The Great Texas Storm.
GALVESTON, Aug. GAS the wind
reshened Friday night there were appre-
tensions that the night would be repetition
If the night before, but these wore away as
the night advanced. By 10 o'clock the
rain had ceased and the clouds had broken
away. Families which had been driven
from their homes by the rapid inroad OF the
CUFFS water the night before, returned to
their water-logged houses and began
the work reparation, while hundreds OF
others whose homes, with all their posses
sions, had been swept away, sought much
needed rest after the terrorS through which
they had passed. The morning broke clear
and beautiful. The waters, which had mum
dated one-half of the Eastern and Southern
portions of the city to the depth of from
one to seven feet, had subsidized, except in
low places. The beach and the adjacent
portions of the city for several blocks back
from the shore presented deplorable scene
of havoc and desolation as far as the eye
could reach. The ruins of hundreds OF
houses, large and small, had been hurled
and twisted into every shape, while brick
pillars and wooden piling in every direction
contiguous to the beach and exposed to the
full force of the gale indicated where happy
homes had stood the night before, but
which were
SWALLOWED UP AND DESTROYED
In the awful maelstrom that then prevailed.
All pleasure resorts along the gulf shore
are either swept away or ruined. The
plaza in front of the Beach hotel is fur
rowed by the force of the waves and piled
with debris. while all the false work pro-
tecting the foundation of the hotel, with
the fresh water tanks and the outbuildingS
was swept away, and deep burrows were
cut under the building itself. The me-
agerie, consisting of a long row of cages on
on the beach lawn, were washed over and
broken and many Of the birds and animals
were drowned or killed, while others made
their escape. Among the animals that es-
capped were two Mexican lions, which were
on the point of making things lively when
they were shot by the night Waterman, who
received dangerous wound by an acct
dental shot OF his assistant passing through
his arm. The heaviest damage to prop
erty occurred in the vicinity of the Beach
hotel The wide area devastated by the
water makes an approximate estimate OF
the amount of damage done somewhat diff
cult, but it is now thought it will not fall
below $500, 900. The work of righting the
buildings has commenced. The street rail-
ways are being repaired and travel has
been resumed over some of the lines but
many months will elapse before all traces OF
the storm are effaced. Much apprehension
existed all day Friday as to the fate OF the
Sisters orphanage, five miles down the
Beach, but it was reached yesterday and
to no into nod citV
yesterday afternoon that the schooner j.
W. Perry, from Brashear City, with cargo
of cypress paving blocks, foundered during
the gale fifteen miles off the island. Capt.
WhitmOre and the colored cook were
drowned. Two colored sailors chung to
some
FLOATING TIMBERs,
and were driven ashore eighteen miles
down the island. They were nearly dead
from exhaustion when they reached the
shore. The body of Willie Brown, IL
years old. residing IN the western portion
of the city, who was drowned Friday at
the foot of Thirty-third street, was recov-
cred at the foot of Forty ninth street yes
terday morning and was buried. This
makes the tenth victim of the storm. Rail-
road communication via the Missouri Pacific
was established last night, and the first
the News from Corpus Christi says: Friday
morning one of the heaviest rain storms
for years struck this city. The wind had
commenced blowing very hard from the
southeast the evening before, and changed
to the northwest between and o'clock in
the morning. 1t blew with terrific force for
two hours, and its velocity was estimated
at fifty-fve miles an hour. The colored
church and the Office of the Arkansas Pass
Railway company was completely destroyed.
Large trees were uprooted and fences and
buildings were swept away. 1t blew very
hard yesterday from the southeast. The
steamer j. G. Harris arrived yesterday
noon, two days overdue. She reports a
terrible storm at Rockport and Harbor
Island. All the Improvements and grading
at Harbor Island were washed away. Sew
eral boats were capSized and one large YES
sci was beached. At Rockport sixteen
houses were blown off their foundations.
Seven men are missing, and it is supposed
they were drownd during the storm. The
amount of damage has not been estimated,
bur the loss is heavy.
THE DAMAGE VERY HEAVY.
SEGUIN, Tex. Aug. 22.-The damage
by the storm here is very heavy. The
Record Office was totally destroyed. The
new tower of the Episcopal church was
blown off and large number of public and
private buildings were either destroyed or
badly damaged. Robert Jefferson, son of
Col John l.. Jefferson, was killed in Suth-
erland Springs, and Richard Burgess, son
Hon. 81. w. Burgess, was badly wounded.
They were camping at the springs and were
injured by falling trees. The cotton plant
has been torn into shreds, but many per-
sons believe that it will take on a new
growth and develop top crop.
HOUSES BLOWN DOWN.
LULING, Tex, Aug. 22.-Friday morn
ing about daylight terrific rain storm set
In, which continued until p M. 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 were
reported.
STRIPPED FOR MILES.
SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 22.-The worst
storm on record visited this city and
vicinity on Friday, beginning at 6 O'Clock
in the morning. At one time the velocity
of the wind was Seyenty-two miles an hour.
Several buildings were wrecked and base
ments were flooded. The total loss is est.
mated 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. SeQuin has half its houses blown
down, and three unknown campers lost
their lives. Farm fences are down. and
what stock was not killed has drifted off,
and the country is stripped for miles.