| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| November 2, 1861 |
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| Terrible storm in Texas -- Railroad Washed up, &c |
| The Houston Telegraph, of the 18th ult.
has a dispatch giving further accounts of the storm at
Galveston
. It says the storm was the severest that has occurred there for the
last five years, and adds: |
| ***** |
| About three P. M., when the gale had
reached its height, a hand car from
Virginia Point brought us word the track was sure to be washed away on
the island {on the Galveston, Houston &
Henderson RR}, as it rocked from side to side as they passed
over it with the hand car, and it turned
out to be true, as the train from Houston last evening could only get
to this end of the bridge, over the bay. |
| We went over to the track last night,
after the storm, and found it in very bad condition, the grade in
several places being entirely washed out, leaving but the iron with
the ties hanging to it, and making the road impassable for trains |
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