The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-10

country through which they passed. Con-
ductor Ferguson states that houses. barns,
crops and orchards have been destroyed
and great damage has been done. A l..
Forbes. postal clerk. reported that at
Oyster Creek the train crew and passen-
gers heard cries coming out of mass of
debris. Several persons answered the cries
and found a negro woman fastened under
a roof. They pulled her out and she in
formed her rescuers that there were others
under the roof. A further search resulted
in the finding of nine dead bodies, all col
ored persons. When the train arrived at
Angieton the jail. all the churches and
number Of houses had been blown down.
Three fatalities are known to have oc-
Cured at Angleton, but the train stopped
there only few minutes and the number
killed or their names could not be learned.
At Angleton the conductor decided to re-
turn to Houston. and the extent of the
damage beyond Angleton was not learned.
On the return trip the crew saw the debris
of dozens Of demolished houses.
At Sandy Point several persons were bad
ly injured. but no fatalities were reported.
AT Arcola family named Wofford had
gathered in the second story of their house.
away and Mr.. Wofford's mother was in
stantly killed.
The hurricane was particularly severe
at Brookshire. twenty-seven miles west
of Houston, on the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas railroad Four dead bodies have
been taken from the debris of the wrecked
houses and it Is believed that others have
been killed. 1t Is reported that only four
houses are left standing in Brookshire,
which had a population of 600 people.
The names of the dead at Brookshire can
not be learned tonight.
Later reports received from Alvin state
that many persons were killed there.
Eleven bodies have been recovered.
AT Seabrooke. Mrs. Jane Woodstock was
killed by falling house; Mrs. Nicholson
and Louis Broquet were drowned; S. *.
McIlhenny, wife and daughter and Mrs.
Leroy and two children are missing. They
are known to have been in their cottages
which were destroyed. The dead body Of
a sailor found under a cottage.
At Brazoria six people were killed by
falling houses or were drowned last night,
including George Duff, son of the Hon.
]. F. Duff Judge Duff was himself severe
ly injured. Reports state that only the
courthouse and two other buildings are
standing there.
A report from Chenango says that eight
people were killed.
Among the passengers who arrived here
on the relief train from Galveston is Ben
| w. Dew, an attache of the Southern Pa
| cific. Dew had been at Virginia Point for
| some hours, and said that he saw 100 or
| $50 dead bodies floating out on the beach AT
| that place. Conductor Powers reported
| that twenty-five corpses had been recov-
| cred by the life saving crew. many of them
| women; that the crew had reported that
many other bodies were floating and they
were using every endeavor to get them
ali out of the water. The water swept
across the island, and it is presumed that
most of these were Galveston people,
| though none of them have been identified.
relief train and who had a sad experience
was S. w. Clinton, an engineer at the fer
tilizing plant at the Galveston stockyards.
Mr.. Clinton's family consisted of his wife
md six children. When his house was
washed away he managed to get two of his
| little boys safely to raft and with them
| ne urIteu nelDleSSly ABOUT. his rdIt col
| lided with wreckage of every description
and was split in two. and he was forced to
1 witness the drowning of his sons, being
unable to help them in any way. Mr.. Clin-
| ton says parts OF the city are seething
| passes of water.
| Mr.. Jennings, a slater by trade who re-
| sided at Thirty-eighth street and Avenue
| NJ, Galveston, got to the main land in
| about the same manner Clinton. After
! losing his wife he set out, and by swim
| ming and drifting around reached the main
| land.
| William Smith, a boy about eighteen
| years OF age, whose home is in west Texas
had narrow escape. Young Smith was
| blown off the docks and came ashore in
| the driftwood. Despite the difficulty he
| experienced in keeping ahoat, he held out
| TO the end and reached the shore safe anu
| sound
A. Z. England and his wife, of Texas
City, who were on the relief train, report
| that the whole of that town is blown away
and that number of lives were lost.
| There were six women known to Mr. Eng
land who were drowned, and he is salts
| fed that many others lost their lives