Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-07-24

have been washed away, and the l wreckaee piled up on top of the sea wall The Murdock and Breakers 1 bath houses have been washed away and nothing is left of either of them except the piiing. I have not heard of loss of life yet, but am satisfied several have perished.
 ''I was wet all over when l got to the hotel and did not have any cloth ing for q change. I had to purchase q change and am now comfortable. although badly shaken up. I have an ample sufficiency of Gulf fishing, and hereafter think l will try the ponds. have often read of ship wrecked sailors, but have never ex- perienced it before, and hope I may never have to again
 Another Account.
 4 special from Galveston to the Dallas News of Thursday gives the following interesting account of the hurricane and the rescue of Major White and Mir Leyereliz, with others: The story of today storm is pot complete without honorable mention of the bravery of the crew and the pilots aboard the steamer Texas. Nerve and seamanship of the highest order were displayed by these gal i lant men in the rescue of thirty-siX on the north jetty, seven miles at sea- The rescue was effected early ill the morning at the height of the hurricane, and had a man on board the Texas faltered lives would have been sacrificed. With the sea mount ing high in it's angry turmoil and the wind cutting the tops of the mon- ster waves and flashing the spray like needles in the faces of the men on board the Texas, they braved the dangers of tn ehurricane and by the exhibition of skill and seamanship such as is possessed by only those , who have spent their lives in the deep brought every person from the wreck ed pier without a single accident. Just in the nick of time these men arrived on the scene, for the last six of the thirty six men on the pier were thrown into the sea- to be picked up by two men in a yawl or rescued by life lines in hands of the men on the deck of the Texas.
 Sight Distress Signal.
 ~The p1et boat Texas left her moor ings at I o'clock in the morning and proceed6f~toward the bar Directing its e9pe-e toward Bettison's pier, the ,rrew noted the flag of distress and approachSl within three hundred feet of the wharf. With Capt. Kelly at the wheel the Texas was kept within easy distance of the pier while the yawl was launched and deck hands Charles Hansen and Lewis Lawson bravely worked the boat through and
  over the mountainous seas to the pier and took aboard six of the men clinging to the rocked structure. Five times did these men make the trip from steamer to pier until thirty men had been safely placed aboard the Texas, when with a cracking Of f house disappeared into the boiling sea. Two of the remaining men Were rescued by life lines and the other four picked up by the men in the yaWl, the entire thirty-siX bein@ saved without single accident. The work of these men. including those who remained aboard the steamer was an exhibition of more than or dinary bravery.
 Calm in Face of Danger.
 Not only did the crew and pilots aboard the Texas show nerve and coolness ill the face of danger, but those aboard the wrecked pier must come in for much credit. Those who could not swim were sent forward first and placed aboard the Texas, while those who had some chance in the boiling seas coolly stood back until the last. In this way, and only
 because of this arrangement. the party was rescued without the loss of Q cjnC1a life