The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-19
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houses left standing at Patton. Boil
yer is reported to be swept from the
face of the earth with only a few of
Ats inhabitants left.
At Quintana, the port at the NOUN
OF the Brazos river, there are not
more than 10 houses left. No one was
injured and everybody IS in need of
cal attention. Two big boats were
driven inland about mile.
Women Save Hotel.
At Surfside, a summer resort oppo-
site Quintana, there were rs persons
in the hotel. The water was about it
and the danger was from the heavy
logs floating from above. Only a few
men work in the villa, so number of
women went into the water to their
waists and assisted in keeping the
,log7 away from the hotel and no one
was lost.
At BelIeyille every house in the
place was damaged and several of
them were demolished, Including two
churches. One girl was killed.
Not house is left at Patterson in
habitaDle condition. One person was
killed there
On Steeles plantation near Hemp
stead, all the convict buildings, ten
ant houses and shops were destroyed
The conyicts were released on parole,
and all but four have returned. Two
of these were re-captured and the
others may he dead.
The stone and Buchanan planta-
tions were swept clear of buildings, but
every one escaped, though number
were injured.
On the Anix plantation every one
is gone.
Other plantations have suffered
nearly as much, but no loss of life is
reported.
At Waller. the destruction is com
plete, but no one was killed.
At Prairieview the normal school
was badly damaged but no one was
killed. There were hundred students
and nearly as many Attendants in the
buildings.
At Wharton an immense amount of
damage was done. In the country
about the town all the crops were laid
waste. Thirteen negroes reported kill
ed on various plantations in Wharton
and Matagorda counties. In Mata-
gorda county only two houses were
left 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 1t is said that some
OF these are fatally hurt.
Crops Destroyed.
At Sartatita the Ellis sugar planta-
tion is a ruin. 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
thousand dollars. The tenant houses
are down and the damage outside of
the crops Is estimated at $4,000.
There are five houses left standing
on the Gordon plantation at Harlem.
The cotton fields are stripped clean.
Richmond is reported to have been
nearly wrecked. Eighteen persons are
reported killed, most of them negroes,
in the country Immediately about the
town and for 20 miles from the town
there is not n house standing on the
prairie. Most OF the dead so far To-
Gated are in two small villages of
Heedville and Beasley. One man was
killed on the Booth plantation and the
plantation wrecked.
At Bl Campo every house has been
damaged.
At Ariola two were killed and sew
trail injured seriously. AT the Howse
plantation, two miles west of the rail
road station, the damage inflicted was
great Two new residences were
wrecked. Sugar mills, cane sheds,
AtoaS shGfAs. convict barracks, planta-
tfoB clusters and every thing else in
the way of improvements were either
totally destroyed or rendered useless
ana uninhabitable. All crops were
ruined and many head OF stock killed.
On the plantation flying debris injured
several people. There are GO convicts
quartered on the plantation and they
worked heroically for the protection
of life and property.
Two boarding cars were blown out
on the main line and whirled along
by the wind 16 miles to Sandy Point,
where they collided with a number of
other boarding cars, killing two and
injuring 13 occupants.
A dead child, the destruction OF all
houses, except one, and the destitu-
tion of some 30 families is the record
of work of the hurricane at Arcadia.
From 80 other towns come reports
that buildings were wrecked or de-
mollshed. Most of them have injured
people in them, but no dead are re-
ported. There are evidently few
churches in the hurricane district that
are left in condition to be used with
any degree of SAFETY.
Boer War Ended.
Washington, Sept. 12.-The follow
ing dispatch has been received by the
war department from Captain Reich
mann, the United States army officer
who accompanied the Beers in their
campaigns, as military observer:
Events have required the departure
OF the attaches from the Transvaal.
Request instructions" This message
which is sent from Lorenzo Marquee,
is Interpreted at the department to
mean the complete collapse of the Boer
resistance to England. Captain Reich