The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-09-15
IN OUTLYING LOCALITIES.
what the Searching Parties Are
Finding In Their Rounds.


Houston, Tex, Sept. 11.-There are
no houses left standing at Patton or
Bolivar. The relief party has not
reached Bolivar, opposite Galveston.
1t is reported that the village was
swept off the earth, and has few in
habitants left. The railroad tracks
are under water, and the relief party
is on foot.
At Quintana.
At Quintana, the port at the mouth
of the Brazos river, there are not
more than a dozen houses left. A
number of persons were injured, and
everybody is in need. Two big tug
boats were driven inland about half
o mile.
Surfside and BellevilIe.
At Surfside, a summer resort oppo-
site Quintana, there were rs persons
in the hotel. Women went into the
water to their waists and assisted in
keeping the logs away from the no.
tel, and nc one was lost.
At Belleville every house in the
place was damaged. One girl was
hlllCus ANot u DOusC 10 ltlL at IdtttI-
son in a habitable condition. One per-
son was killed there.
COnvicts Released on Parole.
On Steele plantation, near Hemp
stead, all the convict buildings, ten
ant houses and shops were destroyed.
The convicts were released on parole,
and all but four have returned. Two
of these were recaptured, and the
others may be dead. The stone and
Buchanan plantations we're swept
clear of buildings, but everyone es-
capped.
Waller, Prairie and wharton.
At Waller the destruction is COM
plete, but no one was killed.
At Prairie View, the normal school
has been badly damaged, but no was
killed.
At Wharton an immense mount OF
damage was done. In the country
about the town all crops were laid
waste. Thirteen negroes are report
ed killed OF various plantations in
Wharton and Matagorda counties. In
Mdtagorda county only two houses
were lett standing.
Missouri City Wiped Out.
The little town of Missouri City
was practically wiped out. No one
was killed outright, but there is q
large list of injured:
At Sartatita, the Ellis sugar plan.
tation is a ruin. The thousands OF
acres of cane and cotton are said to be
nearly without value. The damage
outside of the crops is estimated al
$1,000.
Richmond Nearly Wrecked.
Richmond is reported to have beer
very nearly wrecked. Eighteen per
sons are reported killed, most O.
them negroes, in the country imme
diately about the town and for 2!
miles from the town there is not ,
, house standing on the prairie. Mos
of the dead SO far located are in tw,
small villages of Heedville and Beas
ly. One man was killed on the Boot
plantation, and the plantation
! wrecked.
Every House Damaged.
! At Elcampo every house has beel
damaged.
: At Ariola two were killed and sew
eral injured seriously.
. At the Howse plantation, two mile
west of the railroad station, the dan
age inflicted by the elements wa
great. There are 60 .convicts quar-
n tered an the plantation and the
I worked ~heroically for the protectio
d of life and property.
= Boarding Cars Wrecked.
l. Two boarding ears were blown OF
n on the main line and whirled alon
the road 16 miles to Sandy Poin
Ie where they collided with a number {
other boarding cars, killing two an
injuring 10 occupants.
d From Many other towns
ID A dead child, the destruction {
'e all houses except one and the de
d. ~titution of some fifty families is IL
record of the work of the hurricar
at Arcadia. From fifty other tow
IN come reports that buildings we
Il wrecked or demolished. Most
them have injured people in thel
buf no dead are raUurfed TIL ara q