The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-15

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 14.-Later and
more accurate reports received here to-
day from points in the storm belt show
that the reports that reached Galveston
were greatly exaggerated At Sabine
Pass those reported as drowned are:
Captain Green 3. Moore, Captain L. l..
Belts, Captain George Wolford and
Engineer William B. Radcliffe. These
men were all on vessels which We're
sunk and up to a late hour today have
not been accounted for and are be-
lieved to have been drowned. Along
the Gulf 6 Interstate railway several
wrecks occurred, but none were killed.
At Winnie George Barber was badly
cut about the knees and wrist. Maude
Williams had her feet and hands in
iured. Mrs. BARRIERS limbs were Sc
verely injured and people in the vicin-
ity of Winnie were generally injured,
but none killed
BRUNT OF THE BLAST.
Port Arthur suffered the brunt of the
blast and half the town is estimated 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
round house of the railroad and sev-
eral were severely injured and two
killed when the structure collapsed.
Under a restaurant, small frame
found The wind blew With hurricane
force about two hours. There were
many miraculous 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 new or old
Sabine proper. The tugs Fanny Gull
Iotte and John P. Smith were sunk and
the Norwegian steamship Ceres, 500
tons, was torn from her moorings 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.
BOX CARS BLOWN ABOUT.
Two men who took refuge in a 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 sew
eral buildings were blown from their
foundations and several partly con-
structed buildings were demolished.
No one in the town was seriously in
jured, the casualties being confined to
the shipping. Eight miles of the Texas
{; Sabine railway, north of Sabine
Pass, is 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
PLANTERS LOSE HEAVILY.
No estimate of the damage to prop
erty at Port Arthur and Sabine Pass
has been obtained. The damage in the
country to buildings and crops is Sc
we're. The losses to the farmers in JEFF
ferson county alone Will approximate
S150,000, 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 Railway company is at
work building their line to Sabine Pass
and rebuilding and repairing is in
progress at the town of Sabine and as
soon as the people at Port Arthur re-
cover from their fright, rebuilding will
be resumed there. The Kansas City,
PittSburg & Gulf railway will at once
repair the damage inflicted TO their
property at Port Arthur and push their
ship canal to an early completion. The
chief officials of the road are now en-
route to Port Arthur