Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-09-12

Tnelr number by drowning. The fol-
lowing were killed by falling timbers;
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Johns.
William Robinson and child by the
name of Eominico.
Three bodies were hanging on tree.
a number of bodies hoated in from
across the bay, but could not be iden-
titled.
Destitute Refugees.
Many destitute refugees have been
picked up here and taken to the
jacquard hotel, where they are given
every possible attention.
Many of these refugees were suffering
from injuries of various kinds and had
been in the water for some time. The
following are the names of some of
them:
Joe Meyer, badly injured; wife
drowned. Theodore Dossem and family
of eight, injured.
The following injured were taken to
the Houston Infrmary:
j. L. Jackson, -. Markwich, l.. E.
| Clary, Tony Reading, P. V. Nevens, Vir-
ginia Point; Henry Deceit, o. Collins,
William Lingren, John Lingren, J. A.
Hayman, Tom Blaze, Mic Junomia,. Alre
Kalyarvah, Mic Van Oysterman, Tony
/ II
bert Lockstendt.
OF the above most of them floated in
| the drifts and on RATS and most of the
party came ashore on a piano.
One hundred ammunition boxes from
| Camp Hawley were found near Hitch
cock and pile driver from the Hunt
| ington wharf was driven inland to
within few hundred yards of the town.
The prairie is covered with drift of all
kind, dead cattle, water craft of all sizes,
buggies, wagons and such like. Search
ing parties had up to noon found a
dozen bodies in Halls bayou and buried
them and the work was not half COM
pleted. The track from Hitchcock to
| Virginia Point has been washed away
and the road beyond this is impossible.
Disaster Along the Coast.
News from the coast along the rail
road between Sabine and Bolivian indi-
Gates that no one has been killed. There
are no houses left standing at Patton or
Bolivian. The party has not reached
Bolivian, opposite Galveston. 1t is re-
| ported that village was swept off the
earth and has few inhabitants left.
| Thousands of head Of cattle are reported
drowned.
At Quintana, the port at the mouth of
the Brazos river, there are not more
than 10 houses left standing. No one
was killed, but a number of persons
were injured, some of them seriously,
and everybody is in need of food, cloth
ing and many require medical attention.
Two big tugboats were driven inland
about half a mile.
! At Surfside, which is a summer resort
opposite Quintana, there were rs per-
sons in the hotel. The water was about
it and the danger was from the heavy
logs floating from above. Only "a few
men worked in the village, so a number
of ladies went into the water up to their
waists and assisted in keeping the logs
away from the hotel and not one was
lost.
At Beeville every house in the place
was damaged and several of them de-
molished, including two churches. One
girl was killed near there.
Not a house was left at Patterson in a
habitable condition. One person was
killed there.
Destruction Is Complete.
On SteelGs plantation near Hemp
stead all the convict buildings, tenant
houses and shops were destroyed. The
convicts were released on parole as 1t
was every man for himself and all of
them have returned with four excep-
tons Two of these were recaptured
and the others may be dead. Stone and
Buchanan plantations were swept clear
Of buildings, but all escaped, though
there are number Of injured. On the
Aniax plantation every one is gone.
Three negroes were killed by falling
timbers and another had his back broken.
Other plantations have suffered nearly
as much but no loss of LIE is reported.
At Wallert the destruction is COM
p1ete, but no one is killed.
At Prairie View the negro normal
school has been badly damaged, but no
one was killed. There were 100 stu
dents and nearly as many attendants in
the buildings.
At Wharton an immense amount of
damage was done to business houses,
small mining plants and residences. In
the country round about the town crops
have been laid Waste. Thirteen negroes
are reported killed on various planUa-
tions in Wharton and Matagorda coup
ties.
Reports have been received from Mata-
gorda county where there are only two
houses standing.
The little town of Missouri City was
practically wiped out. While no one
was killed outright, there is a large list
of injured and it is stated that several
of these are fatally hurt.
Eighteen Lives Lost.
At Sartartia the Ellisgaad plantation
is a ruin. The thousands of acres of
cane and cotton are said to be nearly
without value. The big sugar house is
damaged to the amount Of several thous-
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