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Show A TOWN RUINED. FORTY LIVES LOST. Galveston, Aug. 25.-Fort Concho dispatches to the News to-day, in relation to the inundation of ?? are heart-rending. Forty deaths are reported from drowning. The only names so far ascertained are Mrs. Metcalf and daughter, George Robertson Scott and Dr. Owens and one child. One Mexican is also among the victims. Among the other victims were twenty-one Mexicans at Kelly's rancho, and ten Mexicans at Beasley's rancho; also Joseph Mathews wife and four sons and one woman and a baby. ?? is all washed away, except the lighthouses. The court house and jail are a total loss, and were uninsured from loss by water. The people of San Angeles tried to render assistance out the raging water prevented. The country ?? a spectacle which beggars description. Houses horses, cattle and clothing are piled up in heaps at every step. The bodies of Mrs. Metcalf and daughter are the only ones found. Telegraph wires are still down. |
