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Show GENERAL. WIND AND WAVES. Throe Texan Towns Completely Destroyed- Indianola and Cedar Lake are No More, and Two Houses Mark the Site of Matagorda. Cue Hundred and fc'jrty Men, Womeii mid Children Killed. Harrowing; Details of a Night's Suifering. New Orleans, 21. The Galveston qteamship Harlan has just arrived. The purser states that the town of Indianolc is almost entirely demolished. demol-ished. Lighthouses, wharves, business busi-ness houses and dwelling houses are broKen in pieces or swept away. There are only three houses remaining remain-ing which are not deluged. The telegraph office is gone, tbo signal oflice ia damaged, telegraph lines are down for miles, railroads washed away, houses, fences and trees piled up in broken masses in the streets. Ueports of the loss of life are conflicting. con-flicting. All agree that there are from 100 to 150 lives lost. The purser states that on account of the excitement excite-ment it was impossible to obtain the correct number. The steamship returned re-turned with ber cargo of goods as there was no place where she could land. St. Louia, 21. Colonel Clowry, assistant general superintendent of the telegraph line, has received the following from Galveston: Additional accounts of the Indianola disaster say that the loss ol life and euflering is terrible. Dead bodies are Btrewn for twenty miles along the beach. Citizens here are organizing for relief, re-lief, and will send them food and clothing. Over one hundred bodies were found and buried up to the time the steamer left. The telegraph manager, Sanborn, is Reported safe, but the office and lines are gone for miles. New Orleans, 21. The Galveston News has received the following from Indianola: "Wo are destitute. The town is gone, and ono quarter of the people; dead bodies aro strewn for twenty miles along the bay. Nine-tenths Nine-tenths of tne houses are destroyed. Send us help for God's sake. (Signed) D. W. Crain, district attorney." The following was received by business firms from correspondents onthel5th: "The wind from the cast is veering to the north. On Friday morning it became more steady, increasing in-creasing to a gale. The water was waist deep. Every man, woman and child was seeking a place of safety. The Bcreams of women and children could be heard in every direction. The water was six feet deep in the streets. About 2 o'clock on Friday morning the wind veered to the northwest, north-west, the waves became chopped, houses were washed away or trampled to pieces. The wind towards morning morn-ing oame to a lull and the waves were getting lower till the wind veered north and then came up hope until daylight began to break, and then did we behold be-hold the awful destruction around, and thanked our God that we had been saved. Our perilous condition was nothing compared with the su fibrin fibr-in gs of our neighb rs and citizens along the bay. Daylight revealed a scene that was terrible to behold. The town could not be recognized as the Indianola of the day previous. There wua total ruin everywhere. People were seen walking and jumping jump-ing over one gulley and another; j neighbor met neighbor aud told their troubles and tribulations ol the pre-j pre-j vious night. There was death and I destruction all around us, houses crushed to the eround. others swayed around leaning over, the wind slowly dying down and the water disappearing disappear-ing from places in tho streets. - Tho bodies of men, women and children were found in all directions. Police and guards were Organized aud the search was made for miss-ng miss-ng relatives and friends. How many have lost their lives in this fearful Btorm it is impossible to learn. Up to this hour sixty or seventy bodies have been found and buried. Women were found, and men also, who had floated ofl on doors or anything they could get, miles away, some beneath their roofs were carried away long distances. dis-tances. The escape of so many is almost miraculous. Search for the bodies is still going on, and the number num-ber of human beings drowned will never be known as there were a large number of strangers in town. We estimate the number of lives lost at 150. St. Ix)uis, 21. Information comes from Corpus Christ! that the town is safe. They escaped the heavy galo. The town of Saluria iB entirely washed away and the telegraph lines prostrated for miles. The citizens of Galveston are organizing for the re-liof re-liof of the survivors at Indianola . TWO MORE TOWNS WASHED AWAY. New Orleans, 21. Later information informa-tion from the west says the town of Matagorda iB swept away; only two hoiiBes are left standing. The town of Cedar Lake is washed away, and all the people lost. Information received re-ceived from East Bay states that the suffering among the people is terrible. Out of twenty-eight human beings fiv are known to be alive. |