AMERICAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 324, 13 November 1875, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

A terbible cyclone swept over Texas destroying life and property. In Indianola, out of three hundred houses, only five: were left standing. During Thursday night, when the storm was at its height, the water in the river rose six feet in two hours, the wind blowing a gale, driving the water and breakers through the City at the rate of 15 miles per hour, sweeping everything in its way, scouring the plain in the rear of the city for ten miles to a depth of seven feet. Several small settlements, numbering a total population of 150, were also swept out of existence, making with 250 lost at Indianola, a total of 400 lives lost. The stench iu the city from the putrefaction of the dead, with the stench of dead animals, was most intolerable. A party of Mexicans on Sunday began to rob the dead bodies washed on to the plain, from four to six miles at the back of the city. The scoundrels, chopped fingers, hands, and ears off men and women io obtain jewellery. As soon as this .was heard of, a party of citizens went out and killed five Mexicans whom they caught at the devilish work.

The lowest barometer occwri-d on the afternoon of September 18, when it stood at 23'99, with a maximum velocity of wind 86 miles per hour. Thousands of drowned cattle are strewn over the prairie'south of the town, and several light coasting steamers are lying from 6 to 10 miles inland. Galveston andiother places were submerged, but the most serious loss was at Indianslo, a town of 1500 inhabitants, at Matagorda Bay. Subscriptions for the relief of the sufferers are being raised. A passsenger train on the Richmond, Drummond, and Arthabasca railroad, in Canada, ran off the track. Ten persons were killed and thirteen wounded. It is said that a rail was placed across the track by »ome malicious person. A railway accident occurred at Erie, lowa, Filfty perw/is were oulyoMc iiilw.. Tiwi JJb-.WiiwtW forces jD ■ tacked MWoilvttiioft&s&s at. Sanora ufd routed an incipient rtvoMrtW. Tlic A at New York attempted to shoot Father Gaitely, ou account of the prieat Laving put the captain's daughter in a convent. The captain was arrested.