The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-09-14
IN OUTLYING LOCALITIES


Finding I'm Their Rounds.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 12.-There are
no houses left standing at Patton or
Bolivar. The relief party has no.
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 dozen houses left. A
number of persons were injured, and
everybody is in need. Two big tug
boats were driven inland about half
q mile. 4t&
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 ho-
tel, and no one was lost.
At Belleville every house in the
place was damaged. One. girl was
killed. Not house is left at Patter-
son in a habitable condition. One per-
son was killed there.
COnvfcts 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 were 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 amount of
damage was done. In the country
about the town all crops were laid
waste. Thirteen negroes are report
ed killed on various plantations in
Wharton and Matagorda counties. In
Matagorda county only two houses
were left standing.
Missouri City Wiped Out.
The little town of Missouri Citv
was practically wiped out. No one
was killed outright, but there is a
large list of injured.
AT Sartatita, the Ellis sugar plan
tation is ruin. The thousands Of
acres of cane and cotton are said to be
nearly without value. The damage
outside of the crops is estimated at
| $4,000.
Richmond Nearly Wrecked.
Richmond is reported to have leen
very nearly wrecked. Eighteen per-
sons are reported killed, most of
| them negroes, in the country imme-
diately about the town and for 25
miles from the town there is not a
house standing on the prairie. Most
| of the dead so far located are in two
small villages of Heedville and Beas-
ly. One man was killed on the Booth
plantation, and the plantation
| wrecked. sf
| Every House Damaged. s
| At Elcampo every house has been
| damaged.
/ ~ tNo NtiC hitiCu anu sew
eral injured seriously. 4
At the Howse plantation, two miles
west of the railroad station, the dam.
age inflicted by the elements was
/ great. There are 60 convicts quar-.
tered an the plantation and they
worked heroically for the protection
of life and property.
| Boarding Cars Wrecked.
Two boarding cars were blown out
ON the main line and whirled along
the road 16 miles to Sandy Point,
where they collided with number OF
other boarding cars, killing two and
injuring Is occupants.
From Many other Towns.
| dead child, the destruction OF
all houses except one and the des,
titution of some fifty families is the
record of the work of the hurricane
at Arcadia. From fifty other towns
come reports that buildings were
wrecked or demolished. Most OF
them have injured people in them,
but no dead are reported. There are
evidently few churches IN the hurrt