The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-19
I'M THE INTERIOR.

IN THE INTERIOR.
Relief Train Finds Many People
Homeless and Destitute.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 1.-THE Santa
! F'e railroad ran it's first relief train to
! Hitchcock this morning. In many places
homeless inhabitants Of the section
traversed were found housed in empty
boxcars while others were sitting on
the wreck of their household eff
fects piled together in promscuous
| ly destitute Every building in Pearl
was either damaged or destroyed, but
no lives were lost there. At Alvin two
additional deaths are reported. Mrs. j.
| w. Collins, killed by falling timbers, and
W. T. Hawley: w. Z: Mebam and wife
Angleton and the surrounding country
suffered severely from the storm, and as
sistance is much needed. Algoa, Arcadia
and ALTOONA shows signs of the severe
visitation and many are i'll need of help.
The 12-year-old son of James Rodcher
was killed AZ Arcadia. Two children lost
their lives al ALTOONA.
The prairie is covered with drift of all
kinds, dead cattle, Water-craft of all
sizes buggeS and wagons. Searching
parties have found Il dozen bodies i'll
Halls bayou and buried them, and then
work is not half completed. The rail
road track from Hitchcock to Virginia
Point has been entirely washed away.
Railroads Su fer Heavily.
The railroads will suffer the loss of
millions of dollars on actual damage, to
business. At Galveston their wharves,
warehouses, dcpots and tracks are
| ruined. The costly bridges which con
meet the island are in ruins and must be
entirely rebuilt.
The International & Great Northern
and Santa Fee have considerable track
washed out, while the Galveston, H0us
ton Il Northern will suffer heavily. Supt
Mulvey yesterday received notice that all
the track between SeabrOOke and Eir
glnla Point, with all of the bridges, had
been washed away and Section Foreman
Seaman and all his crew at Nadeau had
been lost.
Mr.. McIlheny says the water came up
so rapidly that he and his family sought
safety upon the roof. He had Haven
III his arms and the other children We're
strapped together. 1t was not long be-
fore Il heavy piece of timber struk Ha-
| ven, killing him. He then took up young
Rice and while he had him in his arms
he was twice washed off the roof and
| i'll this way young Rice was drowned.
Washed OFF the Roof.
Mrs. Lucy's oldest child was next
killed by piece of timber and the young
! er one was drowned, and next Mrs. Lucy
was washed off and drowned. thus leav-
ing Mr.. and Mrs. McIlheny the only oc-
cupants on the roof Finally the roof
blew off the house and as it fell into the
water it was broken in twain,
Mrs. McInheny remaining on one
half and Mr. McIlheny on the
other. The portion of the roof to which
| NJ In
this was the last seen of her. Thus in a
very brief space of time Mr. McIlheny
witnessed the loss of his family one by
| one. He held to his side of the roof so
| distracted i'll mind as to care little where
or how it drifted. He finally landed on
terra flrma about p. m. Sunday.
! News from the coast along the Gulf
& Interstate railroad between Sabine
and Bolivar indicates that no one has
| been killed. There are no houses left
standing at Patton or Bolivar. The par
ty has MOI reached Bolivar. opposite Gal
! weston. 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.
Not House Left.
| At Belleville every house in the place
lswas DANA ged and several of them were
demolished. including two churches. One
! girl was killed near there Not house
is left at Patterson in a habitable condi-
ton. One person was killed there.
On Steele's plantation near Hampstead
! all the convict buildings, tenant houses
and shops were destroyed. The convicts
were released on parole. and all but four
have returned. Two of those were recap
! tured and the others may be dead. The
| Stone u Buchanan plantations were
swept clear of buildings. but every one
| On the AniX plantation everyone is gone
Other plantations have suffered nearly as
much but no loss of life is reported.
At Waller the destruction is complete
! but no one was killed.
| At Wharton an immense amount Of
damage was done. In the country about
| the town all crops were laid waste Yhir-
| teen negroes are reported killed on va
rious plantations in Wharton and Mata-
| gorda counties. In Matagorda county
only two houses were left standing
Missouri City Wiped Ont.
| The little town of Missouri City was
| practically wiped out. While no one was
killed outright. there is large list of in
jured and it is said that some Of these
are fatally hurt.
Five houses are left standing on the
Gordon plantation at Harlem. The cot
ton fields are stripped clean.
| Richmond is reported to have been
nearly wrecked. Eighteen persons are
/ reported killed, most of them negroes, ill
the country Immediately about the town
! an for twenty-five miles from the town
| there is not Il house standing on the prai-
rie. Most of the dead so far located are
! in two small villages of Heedville and
Beasly. One man was killed on the
! Booth plantation and the planta ton was
! wrecked.
At Ell Campo every house has been
| damaged.
! Al Ariola two were killed and several
injured seriously. At the Howe planta-
ton sugar mills, cane sheds. stock SHEDS
convict barracks, plantation quarters
and everything else i'll the way of i'm
provements were either totally destroyed
| or rendered useless and uninhabitable
Two boarding cars were blown out Oh
! the main line and whirIed along by the
wind sixteen miles to Sandy Point, where
| they collided with number Of other
| boarding cars, killing and injuring thir-
| teen occupants.
A dead child, the destruction of all
| houses except one, and the desttution of
some fifty families is the record of the
work of the hurricane at Arcadia. From