| Show casualties indianola and other toillie ton us swept away by tile sea bodies strew we the bench beach for twenty mile in ail utter waste ft a cl city ty stood tf I 1 sf r f rt life 0 the inhabitants left lit in litter alte destitution ahey cry in gods cods naino for help booso pt 21 private idill du patches received from galveston GolT eslon states a morgan steamship ha just amt arrived there and alia reports the town or indianola India nolo tazi tex almost entirely destro yoa tho the lighthouses light houawa wharves and nearly every house is swept wy away and a ad from to ISO elivea liv e lost loat the iho steamer could find ool no jhc to laud land her cargo ST louis sept bupt micol 21 col dowry assistant general cupo i ri of tho the telegraph co bat received rocc ived the following tollow inc from Gah aal tUon vellon being ad a accounts of 0 tho the indianola d disaster als ibo loss ol 01 lifland lifo aad cufre suffering ring is I 1 terrible dead bodies are ra ft strown town tor for miles along the beach citizens hero here aro are organizing for or th the 0 relief relict of ct tho the and will so acad n d them food ando lothing over ODO 0 no hundred bodies have bavo b lien en found and buried up to the iho time tima tho i fik left the tha telegraph manager aan born is ia reported safe eats but bat tho the offices and lines are ara gone lor for miles of the iho alfon diw On LEAS sept 21 the steamship arrived rived ai and the tha purser parser states katea that the town of indianola is ia 11 laima en eliut houses house wharves business basin cBS houses bouses and dwellings iro are broken in ia pieces or swept a way away there arc only three tarco ho homos use lemat A ing which aro are not deluged tho the telegraph office is gone the tha tig big not office damaged telegraph lines downs dowds for mile railroads washed away ho houkal ulal flooes slid and trees roes pled up in broken ma discs ia tho the streets tto reports of losses ot of life arocan are conflicting but all agree that bat there were from one hundred to ono one and fifty lives lost the tha parser batea chaton oa account of abo excite to moot mont it was impossible to obtain the cr correct number dumber tho the ste steamship returned with her corgi of goods as thorn was no whore where she ah could aall tho the galveston news jim ino the following IrOM rora indianola Indi anoa wo are destitute our oar town is 13 gone quarter ortho of tho teodlo are dead bod ios are ard strewn for twenty miles along the bo bay nino nine toncha of the houses homes have beon been destroyed soud ad 03 help for cods sake signed D W cuts district I 1 attorney tho tollo winf was received ro b by athil the business firms from correspondents on tho the icah h the ho wind from tho east cast veering to the north on friday icorn log it became moro more steady to a galo gale until the LLO water was caiet deep every mm man woman and child was 1 a place blaco ol of safety the screams of women and eb children ildren could lio be belled in every direction the water was waa six feet dorp deep in tho thil tt recta about 2 oi clock priday friday morning tho the wind T irad to tho the northwest and tho waves became chop chopped pod the houses were nil fill away or tumbled to lleces ta tho the wind towards morning morn log I 1 came to a lull and tho waves were getting lower till lilt the wind veered north then came up he hope pe until unta daylight began becan to brook nad anil then did we behold tho the awful destruction around and chinked our god that we lod lad been saved fayed and our perilous condition was wai lothine compared with the iho Buffe rings ot of our neighbors and aitt along the bay daylight revealed a that waa vai torri terrible blo to behold the town could not bo be as the he indianola lodi anola of the day provi om total ram rain everywhere I 1 people were seen been walking and over ator ono one gulley galley and another ne neighbor gabor met neigh br and told their heiz troubles still and tribulations ol of tho the previous night death and dodt ruction are arc all around us houses crushed to the bo ground around and others swayed round and leaning over tho wind is blowey dying down and the water is irom from places acca in tho the bizeel tl bi zees the bolies of mod men women nod and children were found in all directions ioliya and guards wore organized arld and tho ilia search we wai made for minting and friends Irio frion oda ds POW how miny midy lave have lost their lives in ia this fearful storm was to learn but up to this thia hour sixty or seventy bodien bodied havo have been lourla conod and luried men imen and women were found who had ad off on doors or anything they could got for miles away some beneath their I 1 roofs bools were carried away long tho of so eo many is almost miraculous search tor for bodies is still going on and the number of buratin beings drowned will never be knowd ga as there were a larlo larco number ol of strangers in town we Citi mate thi the number of lives lost at away anny ST louis sept 21 ia information comes irom from corpus christ that that I 1 town is u safe they escaped the heavy gale tho town towa of dilaria is entirely co washed as away aw a 7 the telegraph lines are ara washed away fur milea the citizens of are organizing orga lor for the relief of the survivors or of indianola later information NEW NENY s sept 21 liter information from the west bays y the tha town gorda is i owe edit pt n way only affo houses are loft tt iDding the town of cedar lake is wished washed away anor bed arld all 11 abo people lost lefor mation received I 1 irom rom IQ it bay that the among lie people is id ler oat ot human being bei oi five fiva aro known to 0 la be alive |
