The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-09-14
A TERRIFIC TORNADO.
It Strikes Towns Along the Gulf
Coast Of Texas.
SIX ARE DEAD AT PORT ARTHUR
Sabine Pass Said to Be Engulfed in
Six Feet of Water, and Loss Of Life
There Is Probably Heavy -Tele-
graphic Communication stopped.

sabine PaSS SAID to BE EnRulfeu IN
Six Feet of Water, and Loss Of I.ifo
There Is Probably Heavy TeIe-
graphic Communication stopped.
Port Arthur, Tex, Sept. 14.-A tor
nado, terrible in its velocity, struck
this little city at an early hour Satur-
day evening. Six people are known
to have been killed. while many others
were injured. The dead are: Frank
Albright, Kansas City. employed by
electric light company: George Mar
tin, bricklayer residence unknown; un-
known man, aged 3S; May Ainsworth,
1S years DID, daughter of William Aims
worth; infant son Of w. H. Johnson
blown from it's mothers arms and
drowned; George Wilson.
The injured Mrs. Roy Stafford, right
leg broken near hip; Roy Stafford,
legs badly bruised; little daughter of
Roy Stafford. seriously injured.
The bodies of the victims have been
sent to Beaumont for interment no
cemetery having as yet been started
here.
Many buildings were blown down, In
where May Ainsworth was killed.
From early morning the sky was
threatening, and stiff gale blew. No
rain of consequence fell until 4 p. M,
and then it was accompanied by a
heavy wind that increased in inten-
sity until 1t reached the velocity of 50
miles an hour.
Advices from Winnie, Tex, show that
nearly all the houses there have been
blown down and torn away At Webb
all of the barns and one house were de-
molished and scattered over the coun-
try. Nothing can be heard from Sabine
Pass as all telegraphic communication
has been interrupted. A relief train left
Beaumont last night for Port Arthur
and Sabine Pass 1t is known that
much destruction was wrought at Sa-
bine Pass, with probable heavy loss of
life. Everything possible is being done
to establish communication with that
place.
The following telegram was received
from Beaumont at a late hour: 1.-THE
relief train has Just returned from a.
bine Pass. 1t could not get nearer than
eight miles from Sabine Pass. 1t is re-
ported that the new town Is COM
pletely gone. Nothing heard from the
old town. From reports things looks
bad there"
Of yesterdays disaster at Sabine
Pass. the Pitsburg and Gulf statements
say: At Sabine Pass the loss is one
schooner, four tugs and many build
ings, ten or more people drowned, in
Guiding Moore and Bettis contractors,
and there is six feet Of water in Sabine
City.
President A. E. stillwell, of the Pitts
burg and Gulf, last night wired his
representatives at Port Arthur that the
company would subscribe $4,000 to re-
pair tho damage to homes in Port
Arthur and would arrange today for
the expenditure of the money The
damage to the pier will be repaired at
once.
The Gulf officials have thus far been
unable to reach any point south of
West Lake, La, about II miles north
of Port Arthur. Nothing definite was
known at that point of the hurricane.
General Manager Gillham stated to
reporter that he has received a busi-
ness message from Beaumont, as near
as 70 miles from Port Arthur, but no
intimation Of severe storm was given.