Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-09-18
TOWNS WIPED OUT.
The Terrible Results of a Tidal
Wave in Texas.
Port Arthur nnd Sabine Pass Lose
Lives and Property-Dend VIII
Number n Score-Destruction
Mt other Points.

Port Arthur, Tex, Sept. 14.--A tidal
wave struck Port Arthur and Sabine
Pass Tuesday morning and left n trail
of dead and injured and destroyed prop
erty to mark its path. In this city seven
are dead and half n dozen wounded.
In Sabine Pass the fatalities are more
numerous. Some estimate the list as
high as 80, but there is no reliable in
formation as to the actual number. The
most definite information is that eight
were killed and drowned there.
1t is impossible to establish COM
munication with Sabine Pass. 1t is
known that the loss of life and the de-
structiop to property there is more
severe than here, and it is possible that
the entire town is wiped out. A relief
train that was sent from Beaumont
could not get nearer than eight miles
to the stricken city Couriers and riders
who came from the town could give lit
tie information concerning the destruc-
tiveness of the hurricane. They could
not even estimate the dead, saying that
from what they could see the entire
town was destroyed.
In Port Arthur many buildings were
blown down, including the railroad
roundhouse, where May Ainsworth was
killed; the natatorium, the bank build
| ing, Town Site company's barns, Hotel
| Hayden, Strong & Leagues building
| shifted off foundations, Brennan build
ing, Colonade hotel, Spence & Lyons
| building, C. j. Miller's grocery store,
several barns, Kennedy's saloon, the
| Herald office, Alfred VOLTS saloon, the
| Hayes building and NJ. M. Zollinsli's
| grocery. Several residences suffered
severely, that of Dan A. Barraclaugh
being carried across the street. Many
outbuildings were completely blown
away.
| Riders and runners who come out to
| the relief train from the town reported
25 to 80 as being killed and many miss
ing. That the new town of Sabine Pass,
| four miles below the old town and fac
ing Immediately upon the gulf, was
totally destroyed and most of the old
town, located on the pass, was also de-
stroyed, and the whole country was un-
der water which was eight feet deep
in Sabine Pass.
In the wreck of the Sabine hotel it
is reported that several persons were
killed and 20 women seriously injured
A Norwegian bark is reported wrecked
in the harbor and the crew of eight
lost. w. C. Wylie and several compan-
ions were rescued from an oyster boat
by the life-saving crew. Messrs. Belts
& Moore, contractors, are said to have
been drowned.
From early morning the sky was
threatening and a stiff gale blew. Nc
rain of consequence fell until four p
m., and then it was accompanied by {;
heavy wind that increased in intensity
until it reached the enormous velocity
of so miles an hour. Every building il
the town is of frame construction, ex
cept one brick, the Port Arthur Bank
ing company building, the far end anc
roof of which was blown away.
; The bodies of the victims have beer
sent to Beaumont for interment, NJ
cemetery having as yet been started
here.
Advices from Winnie, Tex, say tina
nearly all the houses there have beer
blown down and torn away.
At Webb all of the barns and on
house were demolished and scattere
over the country.
All along the line of the Southern
Pacific railroad the devastating effect
of the terrific storm are visible. A
Sour Lake on the Southern Pacific tn
roof of passenger coach was blown OF
. and James Singers, who left st. Loui
on the Gulf & Interstate, which ra
I into the cyclone, says they eXpecte
, every minute to be hurled into tn
ditch, such was the velocity of tn
, wind.
] In Webb station former governor c
8 Iowa Wheeler's immense dairy barn
a were demolished, but no one was il
y jured. These barns were valued at $40
coo.