The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-14
Six Known Casualties at
One Place and Ten Re-
ported at Another.
DEATH LIST
Is DOUBTFUL.
Wind With Velocity of Eighty Miles Hour Scat
tered Structures Like Straw-Late Reports
From Sabine Pass May Tell Much More
Serious Story-Damage at Other Points.

| PORT ARTHUR, Tex, Sept. 13.-A
| tornado terrible in its velocity, struck
this little city at an early hour last
evening. Six people are known to have
been killed, while many others were in
! jured Buildings were blown down and
great damage was wrought by the cy-
clone The dead:
| FRANK ALBRIGHT, Kansas City, en-
| ployed by electric light company.
GEORGE MARTIN, bicklayer, residence
| unknown.
MAY A1NsWoRTH, thirteen-year-o
daughter of William Ainsworth.
| INFANT, son of w. H. Johnson, blown
from its mothers arms and drowned.
| FRITZ MICHAELS, laborer, residence un-
| known.
The injured Mrs Roy Stafford, right leg
| broken hip. Roy Stafford, leg badly
bruised Little daughter Of Stafford, serious
| ly injured.
| Many buildings were blown down, in
Guiding the railroad round house. where
May Ainsworth was killed; the natato-
rum, the bank building, Townsite
| Company's barns, Hotel Hayden,
Strong & Leagues building wss shift
ed off foundation; Brennan building,
| Colonnade hotel. Spence & Lyons
| building, G. J. Miler's grocery store,
| several barns, Kennedy's saloon, the
| Herald office, Alfred Wolfe's saloon,
the Hays building and M. M. collins
Ei's grocery. Several residences suf-
fered severely, that of Dan A. Barr
| laugh being carried across the street.
Many outbuildings were completely
! blown away.
From early morning the sky was
threatening and a stiff gale blew. No
rain of any consequence fell until p.
M, and then it was accompanied by
| heavy wind that increased in intensity
until it reached the enormous velocity
| of eighty miles an hour. Every build
| ing in the town is Of frame construc-
| tion except one brick, the Port Ar
thur Banking companv's building, the
far end and roof of which WAS blown
away.
| The bodies of the victims have been
| sent to Beaumont for interment no
cemetery having as yet started mere.
There were many acts of bravery,
and the suspense during the severity
of the storm was terrible.
| Advices from Whine, Tex, say that
nearly all the houses there have been
blown down and torn away. At Webb
| all of the barns and one house were
| demolished.
Nothing can be heard from Sabine
Pass, as all telegraphic communication
has been interrupted. A relief train
left Beaumont tonight for Port Arthur
and Sabine Pass. Ed Kirscherner,
prominent citizen, was on a Gulf &
| h; ta
| Beaumont when the storm struck this
section. Every one on the train
thought he would be blown from the
| track" he said tonight. "It was pitch
dark and raining and the wind was
blowing like it never blew before"
1t is known that much destruction
was wrought at Sabine Pass, with prob
able loss of life.
The following telegram has just been
| received from Mr.. Kirscherner at Beau
mont: 1.-The relief train has just re-
turned from Sabine Pass. 1t could not
get nearer than eight miles from Sa-
bine Pass. 1t is reported that the new
town is completely gone Nothing
heard from the old town. From re-
ports things look bad there"
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. ia
| wire Just received from Port Arthur
reports seven killed, fifteen wounded.
| Three lost at Sabine.
| A dispatch from Beaumont tonight
saws that the Southern Pacific at that
place received a message from the
agent of that company at Sabine pass
who walked from Sabine pass to Port
Arthur, stating that the track for eight
| miles is washed away and that about
thirty people are missing. He reports
| the sinking of two tugs and the drown
ing of Green Moore and Lewis Bettes,
! prominent steamboatmen of Orange. A
| later message says that the loss of
life at the pass will not be so great
as reported, probably not more than
| six or seven A later dispatch from
| Sabine pass says that the loss of prop
erty in shore is light. The tug Guillote
went down in the storm.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 13.-At
the headquarters of the Kansas City,
| Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad company,
| which owns the townsite of Port
Arthur. a statement containing brief
particulars of a disaster at the Gulf
was given out tonight. According to
the railroad reports, a heavy wind
came on Sunday night, attaining the