The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-09-15
TRACK OF THE STORM
The First Reports Sent Out Were
Greatly Exaggerated.
MANY TERROR STRICKEN
People Are Leaving Port Arthur A. Fast
a. Possible The Damage to Crops
and Buildings Il Severe Crops
Are Completely Ruined.

Galveston. Texas. sept lt-Latsr and
more accurate reports recelved to-day
from points In the storm belt show
that the reports that reached Calves
ton were greatly exaggerated. Al Sa-
bine Pass the following are reported as
drowned. captain Green v. Moore
Captain l.. l.. Rettls. Captain se"rge
WolfCrd. Engineer William II. Rat
ellie. These men were all on vessels
which were sunk. and up % a late hour
to-day have mo- been accounted for.
and are believed to hsVe been drowned,
Along the Gulf a Interstate railway
several wrecks occurred hut none were
killed. A, Winnie. George Barber was
badly cut about the knees and wrist.
Maude Williams had her feet and hands
injured. Mrs. Barbers limbs were se-
yercly injured and people In the vicini-
~ of Winnie were generally injured
but none killed.
Port Arthur suffered IN. brunt % the
blast. and half the town Is estimated go
have been destroyed or badly injured.
The wind came up about 4 o'clock aud
rapidly increased In force. blowing
from the south and gradually working
sought shelter from the storm In the
found house of the railroad and several
were severely injured and two killed
when the structure collapsed. Under
"A restaurant, small fran. structure
three more bodies were found.
The wind blew with hurricane force
Tor about two hours. There Mere many
miraculous escapes Al Sabine Pass the
greatest damage WAS done to shipping
and the only loss of life was among the
shipping. Ther. was no loss of lie In
either the new ar old sahin. proper.
The tugs Fanny Guillotte and John
j., Smith Mere sunk and the Norwegian n
steamship Ceres. soo tons. Was torn
from her m"orings at the wharf and
blown Ave miles north. where she
grounded In q few feet of water.
When she parted her lines the cap
tain and crew escaped ashore and the
vessel was left to the caprice of the
wind. The ship was light and was
chartered to take u cargo of lumber to
a French port. only slight damage was
done al the old town of Sabine Pass
Two men who took refuge In a freight
car hsGwoR7rs Ngs broken by II beine
blown over. Others In the ears were
slightly injured. These were the only
| two accidents.
Al the new town several buildings
were blown from their foundations and
several partly constructed buildings
were demolished. No one In the town
was seriously injured. the casualties
being confined to the shipping. Eight
miles of the Texas a. Sabine railway
north of Sabine Pass. Is washed away
Twenty Ave hundred feet ~ the export
pier AT Port Arthur Is destroyed. and
the people OF that town are So terror
stricken that they are leaving Il as fast
as they can get away.
No estimate OF the damage To prop.
erty at Port Arthur and Sabine Pas,
has been obtained. The damage In IN,
country Ia buildings and crops In So
we're. The loss to the farmers In JcfYer
son county alone viii approximate
si5o. on. which they would have had II
hand within 10 days had the storm beer
delayed that long. hut now the crop,
are completely ruined.