The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-14
A Cyclone of Terrific Fury Ruins a Number of Towns
 on the Gulf of Mexico.
BLEW 80 MILES AN HOUR
SIX PERSONS KILLED AT PORT 4R- TH TRANSPORTATION MEdGRE,

NAheo towns lseported as Completely Wiped Out-Dwellings and Barns De- molished and Blown Over a Wide Stretch of Country-Pittsburg and Gulf Road Will Contribute S1O,OOO as Relief Fund-Storm Was Portended by 8 Low erlng Sky Throughout the Day-Reports State the Number of Dead to be from Six to Thirty-Number of Sailing and Steam the Force of the Wind.
 Port Arthur. Sept. 13-A tornado. terrible in it's velocity, struck this little town at an early hour last evening. Six people are known to have been kill ed, while many others were injured:
 The dead:
 Frank Albright, Kansas City, employ ed by electric light company.
 George Martin, bricklayer, residence unknown.
 Unknown man, aged thirty-eight
 May Ainsworth. thirteen years of age, 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 near hip; seriously in- jured. Sarah Floyd, badly bruised. Little daughter of Mrs. Stafford, badly injured.
 From early morning the sky was threatening and a stiff gale blew. No rain of consequence until p. m., and then it was accompanied by heavy wind that increased in intensity until it reached the velocity of eighty miles an hour. The bodies of the victims have been sent to Beaumont for inter- ment, no cemetery as yet having been started here.
 Advices from Swinnie, Texas, say that nearly all of the houses have been blown down and torn away.
 At Webb, all of the barns and one house were demolished and scattered ever the county.
 Nothing can be heard from Sabine Pass, as all telegraphic communica- tion has been interrupted. It is known that much damage was wrought at Sabine Pass, with probable loss of life Everything possible Is being done to establish communication with that place.
 The following telegram has been re- ceived from Beaumont at a late hour:
 "The relief train has just returned from Sabine Pass. It is reported that the new town is completely gone. Noth- ing has been heard from the old town. From reports things look bad"
 Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. 13.--At the headquarters of the Kansas City, Pitts burg and Gulf railroad which owns the town site of Port Arthur, a statement containing brief particulars of the dis aster at the gulf was given out to- night Tn Port Arthur six lives were lost, eight houses blown down, the sec ond story Of the bank building was blown off, the Sabine hotel was dam-
 
 round house, Natatorium and the rail- road company's stables. The pier, 1t is reported, was somewhat damaged.
 President A. F. Stillwell of the Kan sas City, Plttsburg and Gulf railroad tonight wired his representatives at Port Arthur that the company would to homes ir Port Arthur and would ar fo tI1a of the money. The damage to the pier will he repaired at once.
 Kansas City, Sept. 13.--A message just received at the headquarters of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railroad states that thirteen are dead at Port Arthur. The message gives no particulars.
 An earlier dispatch received by F. A. Hornbec1, land commissioner for the railroad company and manager of the Port Arthur Town Site company, says:
 ''1'he dead are:
 Frank Albright, electric light em- ploye; Fritz Michaels. carpenter; George Martin, bricklayer; Mary Answorth, a six-months-old child, and an unknown man"
 The loss at Sabine Pass is one schooner, four tugs, many buildings and ten or more people drowned, in- cluding Moore and Bettis, contractors. There is six fact Of water in Sabine Pass.
 St. Louis, Sept. 13.-A special to the post-Dispatch from Houston, Texas says that information has just reached there that a severe hurricane visited the towns of Port Arthur and Sabine Pass last night and blew all buildings down and killed thirty people. The wires are all prostrated and no partic. ulars have yet been received.
 The storm which led to the destruc. ton of the towns blew up about six o'clock last evening from the ocean and by midnight 1t was so fierce as tc produce a tidal wave all along tho coast, completely wiping out botf places. Eight persons are known tc have been drowned and twenty wound ed.