Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-14
A TERRIBLE TORNADO.
Port Arthur on the Texan Coast Severely
Damaged.
THE VISITATION SWEEPS THE COAST


| nado terrible IN It's Intensity struck
this city nt an early hour last even
ing. Six people are known to have
been killed, while many others were
injured. Buildings were blown down
and great damage was wrought by the
storm.
The dead are;
Frank Albright. Kansas city. en-
ployed by Electric Light company,
George Martin, brcklayer. residence
unknown.
Fritz Mlchacle, labcres residence iii
known
| Unknown man. aged 81.
May Ainsworth. 10 years Of age.
daughter Of VIM Alnsworth
| Infant son Of w. II. Johnson, blown
from It's mothers arms and drowned.
| The injured are:
Mrs. Roy Stafford. right les; broken
near hip; Roy Stafford legs badly
bruised; little daughter Of Stafford
seriously injured.
! Many buildings were blown down, in
| Guiding the railroad rouudhougo. where
May Ainswurth was killed; the nuta-
torium, the bank building, Townsite
| companys barns. Hotel Huydcn
! Strong * Leagues building shifted oil
foundation; Brennan building. Colon
made hotel; Spence X Lyons building
| G. j. Miller's grocery store. several
| barns, kanadHs saloon the Herald Of
flee, Alfred VOLTS saloon the Hayes
building and NJ $ Solinsld's grocery.
! Several residences suffered severely.
| that OF DR.. ". \. Barraclough being
carried across the street Many out
buildings were completely blown away.
! From early morning the sky was
threatening and a stih gale blew. No
| rain of consequence fell until 1 pm.
ana then IT was accompanied by
heavy wind that increased In intensity
until 1t reached the enormous velocity
Of eighty miles an hour. Every build
ing IN the town Is of frame cOnstruc-
tlon, except one brick, the Port Arthur
Banking company building. the far end
| and roof Of which We're blown away.
The bodies Of the victims have been
sent to Beaumont for interment, no
| cemetery as yet having been started
here. There We're many acts of bravery
and the suspense during the severity
of the storm was terrible.
Advices from Whine. Tex, say that
I nearly all the houses there have been
blown down and torn away.
At Webb all Of the barns and one
house We're demolished and scattered
over the country.
Nothing can be heard from Sabine
Pass, as all Geographic communication
has been interrupted. A relief train
left Beaumont tonight for this place
and Sabine Pass.
ED kirscherner, n prominent citizen,
was on Gulf & Interstate railway
train on his way to Beaumont when
the storm struck this section. EVERY
one on the train thought we would be
blown from the track" he said to-
night. ut was pitch dark and raining
and the wind was blowing like it never
blew before"
1t is known that much destruction
was wrought at Sabine Pass, with
probable loss of life.
The following telegram has just been
received from Mr.. Kirscherner at
Beaumont.
The relief train has Just returned
from Sabine Pass. 1t could not get
nearer than eight miles from Sabine
Pass, 1t is reported that the new town
Is completely gone. Nothing heard
from the old town. From reports
things look bad there"
Kansas city. Mo, Sept. 11.-Port
Arthur is town of about 900 to 2 OOC
people and has probably 800 houses
many Of which are substantial struc-
lures. The Gulf railroad owns a mag
niiicent $4,000 depot and the principal
hotel is costly structure of seventy
five rooms Port Arthur is the south.
ern terminus of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg * Gulf railroad, and is situated
sixteen miles inland from Sabine City
In 1856 wave swept over Sabine
city, covering the place with six feet
of water, destroying many houses and
causing several deaths. Great distress
was caused and there were many mar
row and thrilling escapes. When the
Gulf road was first projected land on
Sabine Pass, owned by Kountzc
brothers of New York City, was offer.
cd the railroad company for ter.
minaL Both because of a fear of q
tidal wave and owing to failure tC
reach satisfactory price for the land
the proposition was rejected. Port Ar.
thur then became the southern ter.
ininal of the road and was built up OF
the strength of that enterprise.
AT GALVESTON.
Galveston. Tex. Sept. ls.--At an earl,
hour this morning the wind at Gal,
weston gained velocity Of thirty.
seven miles an hour. Ships had beer
forewarned OF the expected storm. ant
those along the dock We're In goot
shape. a few small sliiffs were SUM
ana two bnrges We're driven ashore OF
the Hats west OF the wharves TIL,
only building to suffer was the Olym.
pia, the big pavilion at the Gulf Side
Two sections of the circular roof Nyer,
carried away.
WORD FROM SABINE PASS.
New Orleans. Sept. ia dispatch
from Beaumont tonight said the South.
crn Pacific at that place received a dis.
patch from the agent at Sabine Pass
who walked from Sabine Pass 20 Port
Arthur, stating that the track for eight
miles Is washed away and that about
thirty eight people are missing He
reports the sinking OF two tugs and tn,
drowning of Green Moore and Levi,
Beetles, prominent steamboat men nj
orange,
u later message says that the loss OF
life ut the pass win not he so great as
reported, proboby not more than sis
on seven.
A later dispatch from Sabine Pas,
says that the loss of property 1.
slight.
Asphyxiated.
city OF Mexico, Sept 1s.-The peopIf
killed at the Panuelas quarry explo.
sion, numbering twenty-four. Ter,
asphyNlated by the dense gases gen.
Grated by the explosion. Among tn,
number were several horses. and the
bodies OF men and horses lay together
In a horrible muss. II seemed an agf
before the heavy atmosphere allowed
the gas TO arise from over the grave,
In which they had been entnmbed
| outside men, women and children
wept and wrunG their hands, Will,
those in charge of the works stood
hclplessly by. waiting for an opportun,
ity 20 reclaim the bodies. one hundred
people We're injured by inhaling tn,
gas.
Close Cali for Sarah.