Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-24
SWELLING THE LIST.
The Forty-Thlrd Victim Of the Great
Storm Of Friday IS Reported.
; Five Additions to the List,
ny House on the Upper Part Of
Matagorda Island Washed Away.
Nearly All the Cattle Drowned.
Hundreds OF People, Both white aud
Black, Utterly Destitnte-Much SUI.
fcring Must Certainly Ensue.
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VICTORIA, ICY, Aug. 2S.-Reports lust
received from Aluria mention the loss OF
colored woman named Betty Mead and
her two children, drowned in Fridays
storm
Every house on the upper part Of the
island, except the life-saying station,
was washed away. The survivors are
without food or clothing, barely escaping
with their lives. Nearly all the cattle and
sheep on the island were drowned, and Il
is likely the remainder will perish for the
want OF water
A gentleman from Wharton reports
very little damage there The COTTON
through that section Is uninjured and the
yield there Is expected to be equal to that
OF last season
The town OF Refugio suffered consider
ably from the storm. Mrs. Pat Shellis'
house was blown down, and a youth
named Albert Halter badly injured -Four
teen houses where destroyed, while many
others were unrooied.
A colored colony, near the Goliad
county line, was almost completely de-
stroyed, but four houses remaining.
There are hundreds OF people Ia this
section, both white and black, who are
utterly destitute and much suffering must
certainly ensue II aid be not offered them.
FURTHER STORM RAvAGEs.
Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Aug. 23.-Martin
Casanoyas, from the st. Helewig precinct,
reports several disasters in that neighbor.
hood wrought by the storm Mr.. Charles
MichaePs roof was blown away and his
rock house on the Cibolo Is total ruin.
bot 80 har ~.
blown down
The Mount Olive Methodist church in
the post-oaks was destroyed Henry Ma.
son had several head OF sheep killed on
the Martinez. The cotton crop is rulned
and the farmers are gloomy. Not only
was the staple blown from the bolls, but
the large quantities OF cotton already
gathered in the pens were blown away.
IMMENSE DAMAGE 10 SHIPPING.
Special 10 the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tx, Aug 23.--Thousands
yesterday visited the sections OF the city
devastated by the recent storm, and
realized faily the havoc of the fierce wind
! and surging waves of Thursday night and
Friday morning had wrought. On the
gulf side Of the city, the beach, the pride
and glory OF Galveston. presented . grew.
some spectacle in strange contrast with
its beauty, glory and gladsomeness % A
week ago, The band Of the Beech hotel
plaza played few tunes to
the sparse audience and then
returned. The spirit Of desoletion that
brooded over the spot had depressing
effect. All over the recently submerged
district were sufferers looking over the
sites Of their former homes for lost tIeas-
ure. The gulf was placid, but its de-
structive force was too apparent to lure
many bathers within its brlnY embraces,
To-day the work Of reparation was
actively begun. Houses are being righted
and the debris is being cleaned away.
The streetrailway traffic is about resumed
on all the lines except that portion which
skirts the beach.
Yesterday Alderman Albert Weiss took
up the work Of relief and Alderman Rosen-
burg subscribed $1,000, as did Ball, Hutch-
ms & Co. L. & Ii. Blum and z. j. Willis
gave $3.50 each, Block & Onpenheimer
| 800, Bryan s Dounaud $50 II was
hoped Yesterday that $4,000 could be
raised by subscriptions, but 1t is doubt
iul IL more than $4,000 will be raised.
This evening the city council subscribed
$40, 900. This will only afford temporary
| dered homeless and destitute, and
WILL REQUIRE ASSISTANCE.
The storm proved very destructive TO
shipping off the Texas coast, aud 1t will
doubtless be months before full list OF
the casualties are known. The losses
reported so far are as follows:
The sloop Katie j. went TO pieces In
the bay, of the head of Pelican Island,
The crew were saved,
Lying near the Katie j. is the sloop
Eliza. bottom side up. The crew Of two
men are supposed 70 be drowned.
An unknown vessel is reported bottom
up at Red Fish bar.
The schooner Livonia Perkins, wrecked
Thursday night, is now lying bottom up
wards between the city and Pelican
island. Two of her crew were drowned
I The schooner LGttie Mayo IS reported
aground near Indianola, and sll hands are
supposed TO be lost.
. The schooner Lake Austin is ashor'
near the Lottie Mayo. Her crew wer'
saved.
The schooner S. w. Perkins ioundere,
fifteen miles OF the coast Two men, M
master and cook, were drowned, lie
cargo Of lumber, valued at $4,000, j
strewn along the beach,
All the small boats from the shoals u
Edwards Point In the upper bay are re
ported lost.
The village OF Qulntom, al the mout
OF the Brazos river, was almost enurel
swept away.
The schooners Rosa Iceland Nettie ar
ashore there. No casualties are re
ported.
The schooner Ella Elcott, which wen
aground in HSans Luis pass, ladenel
with ice and valued at 100000, Is stil
IN limbo. Her crew OF eight men wer
saved
The steamship COmal, from New YORK
: due here Sunday morning, after ieaNlnl
harvest, encountered the British steam
: ship Ayrshire, laden with cotton, In
helpless condition, with eight feet Q
water 10 her hold. She took her In nos
= and carried her into Key West. TIL
DELAYED the Comel's arrival here twenty
four hours. ,.. ,