The Monte Vista journal., 1897-09-18
TERRIBLE TORNADO.
rHE ovLF coAsr SUFFERS.
The New Tewn Of Port Arthur Nearly
Wiped Out Of Existence s-sablns Pass
Also Suffers.

Port Arthur, Tex, Sept. IA tor
nad0A terrible In its intensity, struck
this cfss ut an early hour last even
Ing. Six people are known to have
been killed. while many others were
Injured. Buildings We're blown down
and great damage was wrought by the
| cyclone.
The dead:
Frank Albright, Kansas City, en-
ployed by electric light company.
| Fritz Michael, laborcr, residence un-
known.
George Martins. bricklayer, resi-
dence unknown.
Unknown man, aged 3S.
May Ainsworth. 13-year-old daugh-
ter OF William AinswOrth.
Infant son OF w ii. johnson, blown
from Its mothers arms and drowned.
The injured:
Mrs. Roy Stafford, right leg broken
near hip.
Roy Stafford. legs badly bruised.
Little daughter OF Mrs. Stafford, Sc
riously injured.
Many buildings were blown down,
Including the railroad roundhouse.
where May Ainsworth was killed: the
hatatoriiim. the bank building. town
site company's barns. Hotel HAYDEN,
strong X Leagues building. shifted
OH foundations; Brennan building. Col
onnade hotel, C. j. Millcr's grocery
store. Spence 4 Lyons buildings, sew
eral barns, Kanadis saloon. the Her.
aid office. Alfred VOLTS saloon. the
Hayes building and NJ. NJ. Solinski's
grocery.
From early morning the sky was
threatening and n stiff gale blew. No
rain OF consequence fell until 4 u. m.
and then 1t was accompanied by a
heavy wind that increased In intensity
until 1t reached the enormous velocity
OF eighty miles an hour. Every build.
ing In the town is OF frame construc.
lon except one brick. the Port Arthur
Banking Company 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 been started
here.
Adviccs from Winnie. Texas, say
mat nearly all the houses there have
been blown down and torn away.
At Webb all Of the barns and one
house We're demolished and scattered
over the country.
Ed kirschcrner. prominent citizen.
was on Gulf X Interstate railroad
train on his way To Beaumont when
the storm struck this section. Every.
one on the train thought we would be
blown from the track said he to-
night 1T was pitch dark and rain.
Ing and the wind was blowing like (,
never blew before"
IL Is known that much destruction
was wrought N Sabine Pass. with
probable loss Of life. Everything pos.
siblc Is being done to establish com.
munication with that place.
later-Thc following telegram has
Just been received from Mr.. Kirscher.
ncr. at Beaumont:
THE relief train has just returned
from Sabine Pass II could not GET
nearer than eight miles from Sabine
Pass. II Is reported that the new
town Is completely gone. Nothing
heard from the old town. From re.
ports things look bad there"
New Orleans, Sept. 13.-A dispa ,cl
from Beaumont tonight said the
Southern Pacific at that place received
4 dispatch from the agent at Sabine
Pass, who walked from Sabine Pass to
Port Arthur. stating that the track for
eight miles Is washed away and tina,
about thirty people are missing. He
reports the sinking of two tugs and
the drowning Of Green Moore and
! Lewis Bcttcs, prominent steamboat
men at Orange.
A later message says that the loss
OF life at the Pass viii no, be so yrca,
rs reported. probably not more than
| elk or seven.
A later dispatch from Sabln. Pass
says that the loss of property inshorc
Is slight. The tug Gulllotc went down
In the storm.