The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
PANIC STRICKEN.
Inhabitants of Port Arthur are
Fleeing in Terror
As a Result of the Recent Hur-
ricane.
LOSS OF LIFE SMALL
But Damage to Property in
That Region Great.
Il. G. p. & g. Railroad Was the
Greatest Sufferer.


more accurate reports received from
points in the storm belt show that the
reports that reached Galveston were
greatly exaggerated. At Sabine Pass
the following are reported as drown
ed:
CAPT. GREEN B. MOORE.
CAPT. L. I. Belts.
CAPT. GEO. WOLFORD.
ENGINEER WIN. RATCLIFF.
These men were all on vessels which
We're sunk and have not been accounted
for and are believed to have been
drowned.
Along the Gulf and Interstate railway
several We're injured, but none killed.
AT Winnie, George Barber was badly
cut about the knees and wrist.
Maud Williams had her hands and
feet injured.
Mrs. BARRIERS limbs were severely in
jured and people in the vicinity of Win
ME were generally injured but none
killed.
Port Arthur suffered the brunt or
the blast and half of the town is esti-
mated to have been destroyed or badly
injured. The wind came up about 4
o'clock and rapidly increased in force.
blowing from the south and gradually
working into the east. A number OF
people sought shelter from the storm in
the rOundhouse of the railroad and sew
era1 were severely injured and two kill
ed when the structure collapsed.
Under a restaurant, small frame
structure, three more bodies were
found
The wind blew with hurricane force
about two hours. There were many mi
raculous escapes.
At Sabine Pass the greatest damage
was done to shipping, and the only loss
of life was among the shipping. There
was no loss of life in either Old or New
Sabine proper.
The tugs Fanny GufIote and John P.
SINK NOTwGOla
steamship Ceres, 800 tons was torn
from her mornings at the wharf and
blown five miles north, where she
grounded in a few feet of water. When
she parted her lines the captain and
crew escaped ashore and the vessel was
left to the caprice of the wind. The
ship was light and was chartered to
take a cargo of lumber for French
port. Only slight damage was done at
the old town of Sabine Pass.
Two men who took refuge in
freight car had their legs broken by its
being blown over. Others in the car
We're Slightly injured. These were the
only two accidents.
At the new town several buildings
were blown from their foundations and
several hastily constructed buildings
were demolished. No one in town was
seriously injured, the casualty being
confined to the shipping.
Eight miles of the Texas and Sabine
railway north of the Sabine Pass was
washed away. Twenty-Five hundred
feet of the export pier at Port Arthur
is destroyed and the people of that
town are so terror stricken that they
are leaving it as fast as they can get
away No estimate of the damage done
to property at Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass has been obtained. The damage
in the country to buildings and crops is
severe.
The losses to the farmers in Jefferson
county alone will approximate 10000,
which they would have had in hand
within 80 days had the storm been de-
Iayed that long, but now the crops are
completely ruined.
The Texas and Sabine Pass Railway
company is at work building their line
to Sabine Pass, and rebuilding and re
pairing is in progress at the new town
of Sabine, and as soon as the people at
Port Arthur recover from their fright,
1,ehuiIding will be resumed there.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railway viii at once repair the damage
thur and push their ship canal to an
early completion.