Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-09-21
DEATH AND RUIN.
A Terrible Calamity Visits TWO
Sister Cities in Texas.
Port Arthur and Sabine Pass Wreckcd
by a Acknowledgement Lives Arc
Lost and the Property Loss -
Is Enormous.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. ia spec1a1
to the Star from Port Arthur Tuesday
saws: Here six bodies have been recov-
cred, the result of Sunday nights
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 at 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: will recover.
Ten Drowned at Sabine City.
The following was received over
the Pittsburgh & Gulf wires at 1880
Tuesday from Shreveport, La, from
George M. Craig, general townsite
agent of the road, who had just re-
turned from Sabine City:
AT Sabine City about ten people, 1nclud-
ing Belts and Moore, tug and lighter own
ers, were drowned. Three tugs, one
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.
1T is difficult to get detailed losses. Three
| fourths Of the export pier, a temporary
| structure, was washed out, the railway
pier was damaged to the extent of $500, and
! $500 damage was wrought to the principal
! ated three miles from town, was demol-
! ished. Among the steamers which went
down was Lindsleys 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 $150,000, 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-
| c1,mod thara