The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-15
Port Arthur, However, Seems
to Have Suffered the Brunt
of the Blast.
FUNERALS OF THE VICTIMS
ARE HELD.
An Entire Population In Mourning
for Those Who Lost Their
Lives.


and more accurate reports were received
to-day from points in the storm belt. At
Sabine Pass the following are reported as
drowned:
CAPTAIN GREEN B. MOORE.
CAPTAIN L. L. BELTS.
CAPTAIN GEORGE WOLFORD.
ENGIN FER WILLIAM B. RAT
CLIFFE-
These men were all on vessels which
were sunk, and up to late hour to-day
have not been accounted for and are be-
lieved to have been drowned.
Along the Gulf and Interstate Railway
several wrecks occurred, but no one was
killed.
At Winnie George Barber was badly cut
about the knees and wrist; Maud Will
liams had her feet and hands injured;
Mrs. BARRIERS limbs were severely injured,
and people in the vicinity of Winnie were
generally injured, but none killed.
Port Arthur suffered the brunt of the
blast and MALI the town Is estimated to
have been destroyed or badly injured. The
wind came up about O'Clock. and rapidly
increased i'll force, blowing from the south
and gradually working into the east. A
storm in the roundhouse of the railroad,
and several were severely injured and two
killed when the structure collapsed.
Under restaurant, small frame struc-
ture, three more bodies were found.
The wind blew with hurricane force
about two hours. There were many mi
Taculous escapes.
At Sabine Pass the greatest damage was
l5one 20 shipping, and the only loss of life
ras among the shipping. There was no
ioss o. life in either New or Old Sabine
proper. The tugs Fanny Guillotte and
John 2 Smith were sunk, and the Nor
wcEian steamship Ceres, 500 tons, was torn
from her moorings at the wharf and blown
five miles north, where she grounded in
few fee of water.
When she parted her lines the captain
ana crew escaped ashore and the vessel
was left to the caprice of the wind. The
ship was light and was chartered to make
a cargo of Ium Der fer French port. Only
sight damage was done at the old town
OF Sabine Pass.
Two men who took refuge in freight
car had their legs broken by it being
blown over. Others in the car were
slightly injured. These were the only two
accidents. At the new town several puild-
ings were blown from their found atoms,
and several partially constructed build
ings were demolished. No one in the
town was seriously injured, the casualties
being confined TO the shipping.
Eight miles of the Texas and Sabine
Railroad north of Sabine Pass is washed
away. Twenty FIVE hundred feet of the
Export pier at Port Arthur is DESTROYED.
and the PEE PIE of that town are so terror
stricken that they are leaving it as fast as
they can get away.
No estimate of the damage to property
al Port Arthur and Sabine Pass has been
obtained. The damage 10 buildings and
crops are severe. The losses 10 farmers in
Jefferson County alone will Approximate
$50 900. which they could have had in
hand within thirty days had the storm
been delayed that long, but now the crops
are completely ruined. The Texas and
Sabine Pass Railway Company is at work
building its line to Sabine Pass and re-
building and repairing is in progress at
the town of Sabine and as soon as the peo-
PIE at Port Arthur recover from their
fright rebuilding will be resumed there.
The Kansas City. Pittsburg and Gulf
railway will at once repair the damage in.
f:cted to their property at Port Arthur
and push their ship canal to an early COM
pIetion. The chief officials of the road
are now en- route to Port Arthur.
HOUSTON, TEX, Sept. 1.-The funeral
train bearing the bodies OF the victims OF
the Port Arthur hurricane ran TO Beau
mont this afternoon, where they were in
TERED. Every business house in that city
was closed and nearly TIE entire popula-
ton turned out and Joined in the caval-
cade to the cemetery. None of the in
iured have died or are any likely to. The
damage to shipping az Sabine Pass is
greater than was first thought. Two
schoouers laden with Ium Der are practi-
cslly wrecked and it will be nearly impos-
sible to save the snip Ceres. Nothing has
yet been heard OF the piledrlYer with six
men aboard which evidently care"ned
out at sea. The mum Der drowned, not in.
GLIDING the six mentioned, was five. Two
bodies were recovered this morning and
the others have not vet been found.