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41. frrErflsyndAikT titthrTaREI -ki)TE3rBER 1 09 JETTY PROTECTING AT GALVESTON. GALVESTON A BUSY CITY. TEXAS CITIES LAID LOW BY FIERCE STORM LARGEST TRADE FOR ITS SIZE OF ANY PLACE IN COUNTRY. the depot and washing over the railroad track.

He said people were leaving in crowds for the back ridge. The wind's velocity was increasing. and the water. rising. The operator at Sabine Pass, the old town, reported substantially as the other operator.

Ile said that the track northward had been washed away, that residents were leaving for the ridge in water waist deep, and that the storm was growing fiercer. Since that time he hAs not been heard from. No Lives Lost at Sabine Pass. A passenger train returned this afternoon, having reached a point a quarter of a mile from the town, when the track was washed away from there on. The depot agent at Sabine Pass waded and swam out to the train.

but could give no details of the damage. 1 le had not left his office. but thought that no lives had been lost. From the train people could be seen wading about in the water, which seemed to be from two to four feet deep. Corporate Limit Same am the Original Ones of 1S3S, When Land Bought by Colonel Menard fro na Mexican Gos, ernment Waa'Plottedilarbor Built by United Staten.

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pieces of timber, parts of houses, logs, cisterns, and other things which were floating around in the gulf and bay. Many and many a knock I get on my head and body, until I am black and blue all over. The wind was blowing at a terrific rate of speed and the waves were away up. I drifted and swam all night, not knowing where I was going or in what About 3 o'clock in the morning I began to feel the hard ground and knew that I was on the mainland. I wandered around until I came to a house, and there a person gave me some clothes.

I lost most of mine after I started and only wore a coat. IN THE WATER SEVEN HOURS. I was in the water about seven hours, and this sensation, together with the feeling of all these bruises I have on my head and body, is not a pleasant one. I managed to save my own life through the hardest kind of a struggle, and I thought more than once that I was done for; but I lost all I had In this worldrelatives who were dear to me, home and all. The Miller residence, where I resided, was about three blocks from the gulf, and there was fully eight or ten feet of water in this district when I left; of other parts of the city I know nothing.

I tell you I was thinking of nothing but my family and my own life, and after I saw that I could not save them I did not do much else but try to get away. After I had lost all, I did not care to see any more of Galveston for a time at least. The wind was blowing on Saturday afternoon and night at about seventy-five miles an hour, blowing the water in from the gulf and completely covering the city. The people of Galveston did not think it was much at first and kept within their houses; Six Dead at Port Eads. tNinety Bead Found in Other Towns, While from Many Points Lack of News Causas Alarm.

The City of Galveston is situated on the extreme east cud of the Island of Galveston. It is six square miles In area, Its present limits being the limits of the original corporation and the boundaries of the land purchased from the Republic of Texas by Colonel llenard In 1838 for the sum of 50.0011 Colonel llenard associated with himself several others. who formed a town site company with a capital of $1.000000. The City of Galveston was platted on April 20. and seven days later the Iota were put on the market.

The streets of Galveston are numbered from one to fifty-seven across the Island from north to south. and the avenues are known by the letters of the alphabet, extending east and west lengthwise of the island. The founders of the city donated to the public every tenth block through the center of the city from east to west for publics parks. They also gave three sites for publio markets and set aside one entire block for a college. three blocks for a girls' and gave to every Christian denomination valuable site for a church.

The growth of the city in population was slow until after the war of the rebellion. It is a remarkable fact that for the population Galveston does double the amount of business of any city in America. The population in 1890 was 30.000. showing an increase of over CIO per cent in thirty years. At present the population is estimated at 35.000.

''''VESSELS DRIVEN ON SHORE. Dallas. Sept. special from Port Bads. in South Paqs.

says that the storm there was most violent and that six lives were lost off Southwest Pass. The tug Monarch, towing six barges from Sabine Pass to Fernandina. broke its tiller Thursday. anchored the barges. and proceeded to South Pass for repairs.

It was caught by the storm and when it went out today to look for the barges no trace of them could be found or of the six keepers. The water was waist deep over the shores of South Pass and most of the population took shelter in the lighthouse. Port Arthur Still Stan-ding. A special from Beaumont, says: Reports from Port Arthur give that point as safe. Nothing definite can be learned from Sabine Pass.

Passenger trains leaving here yesterday could not get closer than four miles of the town. A rescue train.left here this morning for Sabine Pass. but had not been heard from up to this hour. The heavy rains struck this town yesterday evening and continued with terrific fury (Continued from Brat page.) ve corpses had been recovered by the life Paving crew, many of them women; that the crew had reported that many bodies were floating, and they were using every tadeavor to get them all out of the water. tl Ni -ti Two long jetties, one running out into the gulf from Galveston and the other extending from Bolivar Point towards Galveston and the mainland, protect the channel into the bay from sand encroachments, but are said to be rather a danger than a protection to the city.

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1 4 i I '-T at': 1 ys 7S itI: ::::::1: 4 1- -i 1 1.1'''',.T:1 4-'4 '1' 1.k ...4 ,4 rl' 1' 7, ii DOCKS AND WAREHOUSES AT PORT ARTHUR, TEX. HARBOR AT SABINE PASS, TEL throughout the night and all of today. At daybreak this morning a negro was found dead in the coils of an electric light wire in the business center of the town. A number of houses have been unroofed and removed from the foundations. The loss on buildings and household effects is known to be considerable, while the loss on the Jefferson County crops is estimated at from V200.000 to WRECKING TRAINS ARE BLOCKED Fierce Storm Mikes ImpossibleMany Towns Suffer Serious Damage from the Wind.

all gone and also other late fruit. The vineyards present a scene of desolation. Taylor Also Suffers. Taylor, Sept. 9.A heavy wind and rain storm visited this place.

this morning, causing considerable damage in the business part of the town and continuing with a wteady gale from the north until a. m. The blow was accompanied by a continuous and drenching rain. Great damage has been done to crops. Electric light and telephone wires were blown down all over town.

The roof was blown off the First National Bank and considerable loss sustained. The Western Union telegraph office was damaged by water. A number of small btfildings were wrecked. Great Wind at Bryan. Bryan, Sept.

9.A terrible hurricane visited this section today. Trees, fences, signs. awnings, windows, and outhouses were blown down, tin roofs torn from brick buildings, show windows smashed. and merchandise damaged. The greatest damage in this section is to the cotton crop, which is blown out and twisted up in bad shape, involving a loss which cannot be estimated.

but which will be great. Wind and Flood at El Paso. El Paso, Sept. P.The heaviest floods known In several years have occurred north. south, and west of El Paso during the last few days.

The Mexican Central tracks are washed away in several places this side of Chihuahua, and trains are running irregularly. The Southern Pacific tracks are gone In several places in New Mexico, and no through trains )1ave arrived here from the West since Friday night. The Santa Fe is experiencing the same trouble north of El Paso. a a 11 1 11 1 a li i :1 i 4 1 11 El 1 I.4 1 Houston, Sept. SpecialjThe news from the country between this city and Galveston along the Santa Fe is appalling, towns wiped out, lives lost, crops destroyed.

Alvin Is reported nearly wiped off the earth. Hitchcock in much the same condition. Alta without a house standing and Pearl as bad. These reports are from reliable persons, and are to be depended on. Santa Fe Road Stripped.

All the depots of the Santa Fe have been blown away and freight cars which were standing on the sidings were blown off and the right of way almost wrecked. The big water tank was blown across the track, which It has blocked. There is pressing and immediate need of relief, as there are many persons in Alvin and the other towns who are In dire distress. A train came in on the Columbia tap railroad this afternoon and members of its crew tell a story of death and desolation through the country which they passed. Conductor Ferguson states that houses, barns, crops, and orchards have been destroyed and great damage has been done.

Find People in Debris. A. L. Forbes. postal clerk, reported that at Oyster Creek the train crew and passengers heard cries coming out of a mass of debris.

Several persons answered the cries and found a negro woman fastened under a roof. They pulled her out and she Informed her rescuers there were others under the roof. A further search resulted in the finding of nine dead bodies, all colored persons. When the train arrived at Angleton the Jail. all the churches, and a number of houses had been blown down.

Three fatalities are known to have occurred at Angleton, but the train stopped there only a few minutes and the number killed or their names could not be learned. At Angleton the conductor decided to return 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 badly injured, but no fatalities were reported. Family at Arcola Killed.

At Arcola a family of the name of 'Wofford had gathered in the second story of a house. The upper portion of the house was blown away and Mr. Woffords mother was instantly killed. Found Dead at Brookshire. The hurricane was particularly severe at Brookshire, twenty-seven miles west of Houston, on the Missouri, Kansas City and Texas railroad.

Four dead bodies have been taken from the debris of wrecked houses, and It is believed that others have been killed. It is reported that only four houses are left standing in Brookshire, which had a population of Goo. The names of the dead cannot be learned tonight. Bodies Found at Alvin. Later reports received from Alvin state that many persons were killed there.

Eleven bodies have been recovered. At Seabrook Mrs. Jane Woodstock was killed by a falling house, Mrs. Nickelson and Louis Broquet were drowned. S.

K. MeIlhenny, 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 was found under a cottage.

Known Dead at Brazoria. At Brazoria six people were killed by falling houses or were drowned last night. including George Duff, son of Judge J. F. Duff.

Judge Duff was himself severely Injured. Reports state that only the courthouse and two other buildings are standing there. Eight Dead at Chenango. A report from Chenango says eight persons were killed. A.

England and his Ire of Texas City. who were on the relief train. report that tlie whose of that town is blow away and a number of lives were lost. There were bill wonea known to Mr. England who were drowned and he is satisfied that many others lost their Dallas.

Sept. cyclone has demolished a part of the Town of Smithville. on the Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad. A number of persons are reported killed.

The railroad and telegraph companies have gangs and wrecking trains out attempting to work their way south. but the fierceness of the storm makes it impossible for them to gain any headway. having to seek shelter In order to save their lives. The storm at Temple Wit-S severe and fears are entertained that the city was badly wrecked. A private message from San Antonio states that serious disasters happened at Corpus Christi.

Rockport. and other coast towns. the nature of which cannot be determined. A bulletin from Smithville at noon stated that grain elevators and other large buildings at Galveston had been washed into the hay. All the railroads southward from Dallas issued bulletins instructing their agents to discontinue the sale of tickets or accepting freight for the South until further orders.

All efforts to reach Sabine Pass and Port Arthur failed. MESSAGES TO CHICAGO OWNERS IGalveston has over two miles of completed wharves along the bay front and others under construction all of whtch are equipped with modern appliances. The Galveston AN-hart company. which owns practically all the wharfage has expended lions during the last five years for improvements In the way of elevators and factlitlee for handling grain and cotton. During the cotton Season.

Sept. 1 to March 31 ITICIUMVON large ocean-going craft line the wharves. often thirty or more steamers and as many large sailing vessels being accommodated at one time besides the numerous smaller vessels and sailing craft doing a coastwise trade. Manufacturing Is one of the chief supports of the city. In this branott of Industry Galveston leads any city in the State of Texas by 50 per cent in number and more than 100 per cent in capltal employed and product turned out.

Of factories the city has mod. employieg a capital aggregating eiontast. with an output of a year. The Jetty construction forms one of the chief features of Its commercial advantagete The construetion began In laell. progressing slowly for five years.

when the desire of the citizens for a first-class harbor led to the formation of a permanent committee. which succeeded In getting a bill through Congress authorizing an expenditure of on the harbnr. The bill provided that there should be two parallel 10n0 jetties extending nearly six miles out Into the gulf. one from the east point of Galveston Island. the other from the west point Of Bolivar Peninsula.

The jetties are lift feet wide at the bottom and slepe gradually to five feet above mean low tide, and are thirty-live feet wide at the top, with a railroad track running their entire lengths which railroad is the property of the federal government The immediate effect of early construction of the Jetties was to remove the Irmo- bar. which formerly had thirteen feet of water over in and which new has over twenty-one feet of water. Houses in Chief Business Street. The principal business etreet of Galveston Is the Strand, which ts of made land 150feet from the water of the bay. In the extreme northero end of the city.

Besides being th principal pert of Texas Galveston is the financial center of the State. and some of the largest isuelnetos houses in Texas have their offiros in the Strand. Among the business hnuses ott this street are the following: Sealy. Hutchins bankers; rnoet modern banking building in Texas; four-story in which is also located the office of the Mallory eteamship line. and talso the 41111f-ea of Congressman R.

B. Ilae ley, one of the Republiean leaders in the Stata II. Nompner. cotton broker; four-story briek beilditg. Firet National flank.

Runge. President. Mr. Runge is also President of the Cotton Exchange, President of the Galvosten Cotten mills, and President of the City railway cern pa y. NV.

L. Moody hatikers and cotten faetore; feur-otery brick. Mr Moody is an intimat friend et' W. J. Bryan and periodiChlly entertains him at Lake Surprise.

a duck hunting ground fifteen inland from Gaivestnn; a famous hunting grouud. Generai offices Gulf. Colorado and FA nta r6 rails ay and the Galveston. liendersen and I leuston railway. a hich Is the gulf terminus of the Internatienal and Great North railway.

Adoue Lohlt. bankers; four-story Island City Savings Bank and Gulf City Trust cempany. M. Lasker. President; four-story briek.

Texas Lean end Trust company and Flint it.eg.o-i cotton factors; four-etory brick building. Meneirc Brea wholesale grocers; four-story brick. NVestern Union Telegraph company-and Mexican Cable company; four-story brick building. Dry Goods company; four-story lulinsan. Owen Jr wholesale grocers; four-story brick building.

Wallace. bandis wholesale greeters; Eve-story brick. L. W. Levy wholesale liquor dealers; four-story beck.

Schneider Bros. wholesale liquor dealers; Ifour-story brick. Beers. Kertniscon general inauranc agents in Texas for sovaral large conapantsa; lour-story brick. tically demolished.

IIitchcock has suffered severely from the storm, while the little Town of Ahaloma is reported without a house standing. The Town of Pearl has lost one-half of its buildings. The Santa 16 train which left here at 7:35 Saturday night was wrecked at a point about two miles north of Alvin. Mrs. Prather of Rosenberg.

was killed, and several were injured. The train was running slowly when it encountered the heavy storm. It is reported that the train was literally lifted from the track. Mrs. Prather was thrown across the car and half way through a window.

When the car was reached it was found that her head had been under water, and she was drowned. HEAVY LOSS IN HOUSTON. In Houston one person was killedHenry Black, a hack driver. The property damage is $250,000. The Merchants and Planters' oil mill was wrecked, entailing a loss of $40,000.

The Dickson car wheel works suffered to the extent of $16,000. The big Masonic Temple, which is the property of the Grand Lodge of the State, was partly wrecked. Nearly every church in the city was damaged. The Baptist, Southern Trinity Methodist, the Latter a negro church, will have to be rebuilt before they can be used again. Many business houses were unroofed.

RECALLS HURRICANE OF 1875. The situation at Galveston recalls the great hurricane of 1875, when 300 lives were lost in the same territory covered by the present disturbance, and Galveston was cut off from communication with the outside world for four days. It. C. Clowry, the present Vice President of the Western Union Telegraph company, at the head of a number of linemen, made his way through the wreckage and sent out the first news of the devastation.

That storm, which up to now has held the record along the Texas coast, became a hurricane fifty miles east of Galveston and began its destruction by nearly wiping out the town of Lynchburg, thirty miles north of Galveston and eighteen miles east of Houston. From Lynchburg the hurricane swept south to Galveston, inundating the city, carrying away bridges, houses, shipping, and whole trains of railroad cars, and sweeping it all into the gulf. From Galveston the hurricane swept along the coast to the south and west, strewing the shore with the wreckage of villages and with the bodies of their inhabitants until it reached Indianola, 150 miles southwest of Galveston, which it destroyed so completely that the town has not since appeared upon the maps. Two hundred of the 1,000 inhabitants of Indianola lost their lives. LOSSES IN FORtIER DISASTER.

At Galveston the waters of the gulf were thrown into the city, where hundreds ot houses were knocked down and carried off into the bay. In the Strand, the principal business street of the city, the water was two feet deep. Ten men at work on the breakwater were swept away and drowned, and fifty persons in the city were more or less injured. The property loss in the City of Galveston amounted to Between Galveston and Indiauola the storm wrecked nearly every lighthouse, and swept out into the sea every vessel in its path. Fifty fishermen and pilots were drowned.

consequently. when the wind began blowing as it did and the water dashing against the houses, completely demolishing them, many lives were lost. THOUSANDS BELIEVED DEAD. "I have no idea how many lives were lost but think that there will be several thousand deaths reported, besides many whom, people will know nothing about. I was in the storm which struck Galveston in 1875, but that one, bad as it was, was nothing in comparison with Saturday's.

It will be hard to tell how much damage was done in the city, but it will be something terrible. The gulf and bay are full of wreckage of every description and it seems as if every frame house in the town must have been blown down and knocked to pieces, judging from the amount of driftwood there was floating about. I am going back to Galveston just us soon as I can to find my sister's body and those of her children, and shall find them if I have to walk all over the island to do it." Joyce is a man of medium height and looks to be about 40 years old. Ills head was considerably bruised and his body showed more than a few scratches which gave evidence of the horrible experience he had undergone. FAIL To REACH COAST.

Every effort to reach Galveston from this city has met with failure. It is known that the railroad bridges across the bay at Galveston are either wrecked or are likely to be destroyed with the weight of a train on them. The approaches to the wagon bridge are gone, and it is rendered useless. The bridge of the Galveston, Houston and Northern railroad is standing, but the drawbridges over Clear Creek and at Edgewater are gone, and the road cannot get trains through to utilize the bridge across the bay. SABINE PASS IS ISOLATED.

Sabine Pass has not been heard from to day. Yesterday morning the last news was received from there and at that time the water was surrounding the old town at the pass and the wind was rising and the waves coming high. From the new town, which is some distance back, the water had reached the depot and was running through the streets. The people were leaving for the high country, known as the back ridge, and it is believed that all escaped. FIVE TOWNS' FATE UNKNOWN.

A train went down the Columbia tap road this morning as far as Chenango Junction. The town was greatly damaged and the bodies of nine negroes were taken from the ruins of one house. The train could proceed no further, and came back to Houston, leaving the fate of the people at Angleton, Columbia, Brazoria, Velasco, and Quintana uncertain. BROOKSHIRE WIPED OUT. The small town of Brookshire, on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, was almost wiped out by the storm.

The crew of a work train brought this information. When the train left there bodies of four persons had been recovered, and the search for others was proceeding. Hempstead, across the country from Brookshire, was also greatly damaged, but so far as known no lives were lost. The Town of Airin is reported to be prae The water swept across the island, and it is presumed that most of these were Galveston people, though none of them has been Identified. SEES FAIIILY SWEPT AW tit.

One of the refugees who came in on the tellef train and who had a sad experience Nvas S. V. CZintoti an engineer at the fertilizing plant at the Galveston stock-yards. Jr. Clintous family consisted of his wife and six children.

When his house was away he managed to get two of his tittle boys safely to a raft, and with them he drifted helplessly about. His raft collided with wreckage of every description and was split in two and he was forced to witness the drowning of his sons, being unable to help them in any way. Mr. Clinton says Tarts of the city are seething masses of 5vater. ESCAPES, LOSING HIS WIFE.

Mr. Jennings, a slater, who resides at tr hirty-eighth street and Avenue 1:2. GalTeston, got to the mainland in about the Fa me manner as Clinton. After losing his he set out. and by swimming and drifting around reached the mainland.

Williatu Smith, a boy about 18 years old, home is in West Texas, had a narrow escape, Young Smith was blown off the docks and came ashore in the driftwood. Despite the difficulty he experienced in keeping afloat he held out to the end and reached the shore safe and sound. REFUGEE TELL. OF DISASTER. Among the refugees picked up at Lama-Moe, which is about four miles south of Virginia Point, was Pat Joyce, who re-Sides in the west end of Galveston, on the Lorner of Forty-fourth street and Ave-lane S.

Joyce is in the employ of the construction department of the Southern Pacific and Nvas the sole support of a widowed sister and her five childrentwo girls and three Loys. Joyce has a harrowing tale of many 11 ard6hips he suffered to reach the mainland and his experiences after he left "It began raining in Galveston," said "on Saturday morning early. About i) o'clock work was discontinued by the Company and I left for home. I got there about 11 Mock and found about three feet of water in the yard. It began to get Nvorse and worse and the wind stronger Until it was almost as bad as the gulf Itself.

The rain fell in torrents, and finally the house was taken off its foundation and totally demolished. People all round me were scurrying to and fro, endeavoring to find places of safety and making the air hideous with their cries. There were nine families in the louse, which was a large two-story frame, and of the fifty persons residing there my-Pelf and niece were the only ones able to out. I found a raft of driftwood oil' and got on it, going with the fide, I knew not where. GIRL LOST FROM RAFT.

I had not gotten far before I was struck cith some wreckage and my niece was knocked out of my arms. I could not save be and had to see her drown. I was car ed on and on with the tide, sometimes on raft and sometimes I was thrown from by coming in contact with some of the li li t( 1,1 re Nv LE Al at N- til dI Nv FL ti la, IN NI tr 3-t Nr in Nv rc II le 1E ti ri El Li ea ii el i) a IE ti a 11 I I 1 a i 1 1 .1. I 1 ti John W. Gates and His Son Advised of the Situation at Fort Arthur Rice Crop Damaged.

John W. Gates of th American Steel and Wire company and his son. Charles Gates klave large invectments in Port Arthur. independent of their railroad interests. and were naturally much concerned about them when they read in the morning papers of the storm alotJg the gulf and het fears expressed regarding l'ort Arthur.

They were ppecially anxious concerning their new rano rice mill. now receiving its first installment of machinery, and the winter home of John W. Gates. completed last year at a cost of over Charles Gates. on hearing the news.

at once wired George W. Crag. superintendent of the Port Arthur Town Site company. asking for Early in the evening the following telegram was received from-Mr. Craig: Severe storm yesterday and last night.

Great damage to rice crevp. All bulitilrgs town and rice mill O. K. No Nail Boat in Peril. Lake Charles, Sept, Parties from Grand Lakes came to Lake Charles this morning- and reported that the mail boat Romeo was grounded in Big Lake, having bten driven out of the natural channel by the storm.

Relief party goes tonight. Help cannot be given except In stnall boats and that after the winds ate quiet. It is not know how serious the damage has been to the boat nor how the passengers have fared. There are on board the boat besides 4 'a ptain Andrews the crew, the following passengers: V. L.

Fulten of Mansfield. Lizzie Hollingsworth of Shreveport, lr. arid Mrs. J. M.

Nebel-A of Mansfield. with Hair two daughters and three sons. Richmond Reports Fatalities. Richmond, Sept. ry Ransom and two colored children were killed by the collapse of the Baptist church; four are reported killed at Beasley and one at Booth, both small places near bere.

At Guston stores were unroofed and resideneen destroyed. At Rock Island the Baptist church was totally reeked and several residences were unroofed. At Eagle Lake the damage amounts 1, to the rice and cotton crops and to residences. At Altair fruit trees were Out of the ground a nd residences were leveled. At Rosenberg, in addition to damage to residences.

the opera-house and the Baptist church are wrecked. Several per injured, (lotus. an old n. probably fatally. Three persens were killed in the country near there, the Rev.

Dr. NVanten. Mrs. J. L.

Cantrell. and a man named Herman. Ail were killed by 416bris. Many houses were unroofed at Lexington and their contents spoiled by the rain. Forty-two dwellings and business houses were wrecked at Wallis.

ELEVEN ARE KILLED AT ALvirl. Many Injured In Wreck of Train on the Santa FeDisaster Due to the Hurricane. Itnuston, 'where eleven persons were is a town of about 1,210 inhabitants. The deal include: (H.ASPY. J4 tliNSt 'N.

J. M. JeoliNS(PN. NIBS. J.

M. is. S. r. PRATHER.

MRS. killed in Santa Se wreck. itictiAltist)N, boy. We)MAN, name not learned, sister of Mrs. Ainntg the injured are: Condit.

A. J. of Houston. M. of wrecked train.

Doyle. Thomas, fireman. Hend.rson. R. of Houston.

Martin. John. engineer of wrecked train. These were all injured in the wrecking of the train by the storm. Several other passengers suersd minor hurts.

Wind's Effect at Waco. Waco, Sept. 9The wind blew tempestuously here from 3 o'clock this morning until 5 this afternoon, the chief damage being to fruit trees and the cotton crop. The big cotton plantatlobs in the Brazos valley look as if armies had fought battles in them, the plants being laid fiat On the grow.d. The wind blew to seventy lflhi4 an hour fwr fourteen hours before subsiding.

The late peaches, which were plentiful and had been sold in advance. were swept clean from the trees. In central Texas Zio.b110 late peacli trees have been planted within the last three The orcp of fruit ori these trees is Fear for Sabine Pass. Beatsmont. Sept.

ikThe gravest fears are entertained here for the safety ft the residents of Sabine and Sabin. pas. Reports of the stornt's fierceness at Sabine have been circulated all day. but definite news is scarce. At the di.patchees office of the Sabine and East Texas railroad it is learned that the last dispatch from the ator at Sabine.

the new town. reported at that time that the water wee eurrounditz.