Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-17
THE TEXAS STORM.
Latest News from Cities Stricken
by Wind and Wave.
TEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
Wrecked buildings and Other Debris
Fiji the Streets-List of the Dead
at Port Arthur-Property
Loss Is Heavy.

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storm, while at Sabine Pass the recov-
cred death list numbers ten and many
are missing. Many were injured, but
not seriously. Telegraph and train
communication was cut off until Tues
! day.
! In all of the streets Tuesday wrecked
buildings, fences, household goods and
debris filled the sidewalks and road
ways and on every side were other evil
dences of the havoc of the storm, while
the houses left standing all showed
signs of the action of the wind. Many
of the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf
railroad buildings were either totally
wrecked or twisted from their founda-
tions, and business houses suffered con-
siderable damage. The loss of property
will reach $4,000.
Dead MT Port Arthur.
The dead at Port Arthur:
Frank Albright, Kansas City, employed
by electric light company.
Fritz Micheler, carpenter.
George Martin. brick layer.
Mr.. Weeks.
Mary Unsworth.
Infant son of w. H. johnson.
Injured: Roy Stafford. wife and daugh-
ter; VIII recover.
Account of the Storm.
According to the report of Engineer
Robertson the storm came up at about
six o'clock in the evening, and was at
its height from $3.50 until 1880, the
wind at its highest blowing at We
locity of rs miles an hour. The Sabine
hotel, u 75-room structure, was dam
aged about $500 by flying debris, the
roof was blown off the natatorium and
the trusses tumbled down, one end
was blown out of the railroad COM
pany's stable, the doors of the Pitts
burgh & Gulf roundhouse, in which the
section boss and his family had taken
refuge, We're blown In and the struc-
ture finally collapsed. Those inside
escaped uninjured, or were only slight
ly injured. The roof was torn off the
grand stand, the 2,Ooo-foot pleasure
pier was slightly damaged and the
steamer Robb was washed up the
bayou and sunk. Nobody was aboard
the Robb. The passenger depot, re-
Gently constructed at cost of $4,000,
was uninjured. Many other build
ings were tumbled down, largely the
fault Of poor foundation and construc-
ton.
Ten Drowned at Sabine City.
The following was received over
the Pittsburgh & Gulf wires at 1880
Tuesday from Shreveport, La, from
George NJ. Craig, general townsite
agent of the road, who had just re-
turned from Sabine City:
Eat Sabine City about ten people, includ-
ing Belts and Moore tug and lighter own
schooner and nearly all the small boats
anchored at the town were either sunk or
stranded All Of the substantial buildings
in the old and new town escaped. The wa
ter In new town rose to six feet and that
in old town TO four. No names obtain
able.
ut is difficult to get detailed losses. Three
dourths of the export pier, q temporary
structure, was washed out, the railway
pier was damaged to the extent Of 500. and
$500 damage was wrought to the principal
hotel and the Taylor bayou bridge, stu
ated three miles from town, was demol-
ished. Among the steamers which went
down was Lindsley's steam pile driver"
The Victims Buried.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 15.-The funeral
train bearing the bodies of the victims
of the Port Arthur hurricane were
taken to Beaumont, where they were In
tered. Every business house in that
city was closed, and nearly the entire
population turned out and Joined the
cavalcade to the cemetery. None of the
injured have died, nor are likely to.
The damage to shipping at Sabine Pass
is greater than was at first thought.
Two schooners laden with lumber are
practically wrecks, and it will be nearly
impossible to save the ship Ceres. Moth
ing has as yet been heard of the pile
driver with six men aboard, which ev-
identity careened out at sea.
Damage in the Country.
The damage in the country to build
ings and crops is severe. The losses to
the farmers in Jefferson county alone
will approximate $4,000, which they
would have had in hand within 80 days
had the storm been delayed that long,
but now the crops are completely
ruined. The Texas & Sabine Pass Rail
way company is at work building their
line to Sabine Pass and rebuilding and
repairing is in progress at the new
town Of Sabine, and as soon as the
people of Port Arthur recover from
their fright rebuilding will be re-
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