Show BOREAS S L b f His Mad Workrn Texas and Neighborhood A GREAT o1s OF PROPERTY Fearful Force of the Gale Tree Uprooted JJulldinc llloiro Down and Shipping TVrecked The Calf Flood and Texas Storms GALYZSTOX August 22 The wind freshened Friday evening and there were apprehensions that the night would be repetition of the night before but these wore away as the night advanced By Itt oclock the rain bad ceased and clouds had broken away Families who had beendriven from their homes by the rapid inroads of the Gulfs waters the night before be-fore returned to their waterlogged water-logged houses and began the work of reparation while hundreds of others whose homes with all their possessions had been swept away sought much needed rest after the terrors through which they had passed The morning broke clear and beautiful The waters which had inundated onehalf the eastern and stuthern portions of the city to a depth of from one to seven feet had subsided except in low places The beach and adjacent portions of the city for several blocks back from the shore presented a deplorable scene or havoc and desolation as far as the eye could zee The ruin of hundreds of houses large and small had been hurled nd twisted into every shape while brick p Hows and wooden piling in every direction contiguous to the beach and exposed to the full force of the gale indicated where happ hones had stood the night before b t which were swallowed up and destroyed in the awful maelstrom that then prevailed pre-vailed All pleasure resorts along theO the-O If are either swept away or ruined The plaza in front of the Beach Hotel is furrowed by the force of the waves and piled with debris while all the under work protecting the foundation of the hotel with the freshwater fresh-water tints and outbuildings were swept away and deep furrows were cut under the building itself The menagerie consisting of a long row of cages on the beach lawn containing birds and animals was washed over and broken and many birds and animals were drowned killed while others mad their escape Among the animals that escaped were two Mexican lion which were on the point of making things lively when they were shot by a nfghtwatchman who received a dangerous wound by an accidental shot of his assistant passing throughhis arm The heaviest damaKe Qproperty was in the vicinity 61 the Beacti Hotel The wide area devasted by the water makes an approximate estimate of the amount ol damage done somewhat difficult but It is now estimated by dote calculators that It will not fall below be-low 500000 and may exceed that The work of righting buildings has commenced street railways are being be-ing repaired and travel has been resumed over some of the lines but many months will elapse before al traces of the storm are effaced The majority of the sufferers from the flood are of the poorer classes of people Many of them lost all they had and are destitute and discouraged being dependent upon friends for temporary tem-porary shelter and relief Private charity nas been active m providing for the relief of the sufferers Much apprehension existed all day Friday as to the safety of the Sisters Orphanage Or-phanage five miles down the Island on the Gulf side but was reached yesterday yes-terday and found to be intact the only damage being the washing away of the steps of the building hews reached this city yesterday afternoon that the schooner J WPery from Brashear City with a cargo of cyprns paving blocks foundered during the gale fifteen miles off the Island Captain wijitmore and a colored cook were drowned Two sailors clung to somp floating timber and were driven ashore eighteen jnlles dawn the land They were neatly dead from exhaustion when foundThe body of Willie Brown 11 years ot age residing In tbo western portion of the city who was drowned on Friday at the foot of Thirtythird Street was recov red at the foot of Fortyninth Street yesterday morning This mates the tenth victim of the storm Railroad communication via the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific was established last night the first train arriving Ht10oclock The Gulf of Colorado and Santa Fe Company expect to resume traffic on their road this evening The bark Jlerbtrt Which left here last week c with A cargo of cotton for BremeDjWas iriven back by theforce of the gale and is not at her old anchorage anchor-age at toe outer roads Her rigging was friously damaged by the storm but otherwise she Is intact Messages by the hundreds have been pouring into the city all day from relatives rela-tives and Jnends of the inhabitants ten dering aid and sympathy special to the Jfeia rom Corpus Chris frays On Friday moraine one of the heaviest rainstorms for years struck iiis city The wind had commenced blowing very hard from the southeast the evening before and changed to the northwest between 5 and 0 oclock lathe morning it blew with terrific force for two hoars its velocity being estimated at seventyfive miles an hour A largo number of houses were moved from their foundations The colored church and office ot the Arkansas Pass Railroad were tompletelt1 destroyed Large trees were uprooted fences and outbuildings wereswept away It blew very hard yesterday from the southeast The steamer J C Ilarrit Arrived yesterday yester-day at noon twoudays overdue She reports a terrible storm at Rockport and Harbor bland All the I proem = proe-m nfS and grading at Harbor Island were wa hed away Several boats were capsized and one large vessel was beached At Korkport sixteen houses were blown off their foundations About one hundred employees of the Arkansas Pass Rail way Company were bligea to leave Harbor Island and seek refuge at Rockport as the wau was six feet deep on the island Seven men were missing and it Is supposed they were drowned during the storm The adsount of damage has not been l CMimaled but the loss is heavy SrQCT2T Tex August 22fhe dam age by the storm here Is Tery heavy The H < cord office was totally destroyed the new tower of the Episcopal chnrth sbtywn down and a large pumper of Pu1Jc and pnvate buildings were either 1 destroyed or badly damaged JO Robert Jefferson son of clond L Jefferson was killed in Sutherland Spanks and Yailand Smith and ilica ned Burgess son of Honorable W H Burgess were badly wounded They were camping at the Springs and were injured by falling trees A pauper living with John England across the river diedof fright ttnring the storm Cotton plant has been whipped Into shreds but manv persons believe that it will take an new growth and develop the top crop The damage age has not been estimated but will be I very heavy |