Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-10
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A TOTAL WRECK.
LARGE SCOW-SCHOONER PAT
CHRISTIAN ASHORE.
Other Damages Done During the Recon
Storm on the Gulf-The Narrow Es-
cape of the Schooner Moore.
Correspondence OF the Gazette

| Correspondence OF the Gazette
| NELAsCo, BRAZoRIA COUNTY, TEX, Oct
6.-The reported wreck of the schooner
Fair Play, Cap. Sol Larsen, from Quintana
| 10 Orange, was mistake. She weathered
| out the storm of Galveston without mate
rial damage and news has been received
| mere OF her safe arrival iii port The large
| scow schooner, Pat Christian, that was
| driven ashore while trying to enter Gal
| weston harbor during the same gale, will
| prove total wreck, and | was informed
| yesterday evening that the work of dis
| mantling her had already begun. The
! schooner Moore, bound from Rockport to
Sabine Pass and LakeCharles, sprung alcal,
at sea night before last, and though the
crew worked vigorously at the pumps, the
water gained in her hold so much that she
attempted to enter the BraZoS, though none
of her officers were acquainted with the
locality, consequently she missed her course
in the darkness and ran against the east
jetty, sustaining considerable injury Her
signals of distress brought Capt. Toland
and his life-saving crew from the Surf-Side
station, across the river from Quintana. to
her rescue and she was brought here for
repairs Among her passengers were four
teen laborers who, finding they could obtain
several months employment at the Velasco
oricK-yards at hrst-class wages, concluded
to remain.
The steamer Emily p. running from this
place to Galveston, will have electric lights
in day or two similar to those on the
steamer Alice Blair, that makes daily trips
between Velasco and Columbia.
The blockade in lumber is partially re-
lieved by yesterdays arrival of the three
master Mary Isabel, with 120, 600 feet, and
several smaller vessels with full cargoes
from East Texas and Louisiana mills but
the demand, far exceeds the supply, and I'M
less the facilities for transportation are
speedily increased l cannot see how some
contractors are going to get houses built
before the time specified.
The Whitewater, Christie. Blair and
Emily Z. all brought in pretty fair lists of
passengers last night, and, as has nearly
always been the case since the first of last !
month, every hotel and boarding house is 1
crowded full, and good percentage of the
arrivals have to content themselves with
cots instead Of beds.
The pleasant weather makes fishing ex-
cellent, and those who have time to indulge
in it are having rare sport. Reddish weigh
ing from ten to thirty pounds can be caught
from the seaward sides of the ietties and
all along the beach front, nearly as fast as a
man can throw in line, and trout are
biting splendidly in the river. I saw one
disciple of Isaac Walton with seventy-odd
of the latter piled around him yesterday
that he had captured during the space of
three hours, and ! do not think there was
one in the lot that would have weighed less
than two pounds. l know he could not be-
gin to carry them home, but ,hxd to hire
negro to help him.
pAEFath.