Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-17
IRISH OF THE TIDAL WAVE
OVER 200 LIVES LOST IN The
DEVASTATED DISTRICT.

The Three AH-Eateu Ao"hs Ah0NNAiI
wiped Out of Existence--An EleVated
Dump swsrming for Five Miles win
snakes and Wild ADMINISTRATORS
tail of Beartrsnding Experiences.
uorsroN, TEX, Oct. 16.--A cores
ooc3ent at Beaumont telegraphs some
interesting details OF the great oeluge at
xahiDe Pass. He says that at places
ubare the water was never over eight
,ncbes deep since the town was settled
,vo wears ago. the food was nine feet
deem The new house of Bradley Garnet
was swept away with his family OF I'VE
oarsous. After floating two miles and
bsIt the house landed on ridge back Of
ns town all intact and with nobody hurt.
the boats that left Beaumont to succor
the distressed took large quantities of
drinking water, there being nothing out
salt water for ten miles around So0lne
Pass. ,
Mrs. John Stewart and her daughter
were separated at their home "nen the
Aood struck the town. The daughter seized
a feather bed and the mother window
frame. and thus supported themselves.
After being out all night they landed at
Aurora. on the lake shore, within halt
mile of each other, each suppOslng the
other had been lost. They traversed tit-
teen miles before they were found.
THE MAILS.
Postmaster Ward, of Beaumont, has
telegraphed Postmaster General Villas,
asking permission TO distribute the Sabine
Pass mail from Beaumont, as the Post
mistress and her assistant at Sabine Pass
are both reported drowned.
To give some idea OF the velocity of the
hlnmn no
residence OF Wliilam harrls ulstance
of twelve miles.
Mrs. Junker's body was found this eve-
ming and casket has been telegraphed
Tor from Orange.
Louis BrOussard lost $685. 900 worth of
cattle, and some reports say much more
than that. All the cattle not lost will
die, as nothing is left for them to subsist
upon, the salt water covering everything.
% MILES ON A FEATHER BED.
Mrs. Otto Brown foated twenty-five
miles on feather bed. she had her child
with her put it got benumbed and died in
cOnyulsions, During its struggles it
knocked the mother into the water. but
the waves pitched Mrs. Brown back on
the bed. She was finally found IN little
inlet aud was saved.
Capt. f. A. HYATT ana William Guy re-
port that they had singular experience
as members OF the relief committee on
their way to the Pass. The train on which
they were travelling stopped on dump
five miles from the town. The water all
around this neck of land, on which was
placed the track, was fully eight feet deep.
TEXAS SNAKE STORY.
The hands of Messrs. Hyatt and GUY
wers blistered from fighting snakes,
which literally covered the dump for a
dietQnCn
sands of water mOccasins from the over
flowed district taking refuge on the mar
row stretch Of land, and every step
across had to be fought through
twisting serpents, many OF them deadly,
stump-tatled moccasins, larger than
mans arm. Wild cats, about frenzied at
the waters fury, rushed pell NELL upon
the pedestrians, while coons and every
variety Of animals snapped at the passers
Oy with hydrophobic rage. Many times
the pedestrians left the dump and swan
around the angry reptiles, rather than try
10 pass them. Capt. Hyatt, alone, killed
over 100 snakes during his walk OF 80
miles, which consumed about ten hours.
duy saysno money could tempt him to
make the trip over again. In stepping
about in the dark he was tripPed up and
thrown by snake two inches in diameter
and full i've feet long.
RELIEF MEASURES.
At a meeting of citizens of Beaumont
held to-day for the purpose of organizing
reliet measures Mayor Calhoun was
chosen presiding officer, and a general re-
llei committee was organized, with Mayor
calhoun as permanent Chairman, Mr..
"less as permanent Treasurer and Alex
Hnoer wynn as Secretary. This general
committee is subdivided into committees
lor the registration of sufferers.
d. W. Smith is Chairman of the FL
nance Committee, b. i. Edwards Chair.
man OF the Committee ON Supplies, and
MRS. L. ID, Langham Chairman of the
Committee on Clothing. A large number
vi ladles and all the ministers of the CITY
are On this committee. II. w. Green is
1halrman OF the Committee on Procuring
Houses and Shelter.
HELPING THE NEGROES.
Special committees, consisting of white
sno colOred citizens, were appointed to
Ouk after the oolored sufferers. A com.
nlt'ee OF hVe was appointed to take a
stesnDoat and gather up furniture and
Sr Stner 6ousehOlds effects floating about
sabine Lake.
before the adjournment of the general
,I Tol1unlttee vote of thanks was extended
gpuuge nun, President OF the Houston
iost PuOlshlng Company, for his prnn1pt
Donation OF $100 for the Sabine sufferers.
me committee on Finance were in
s'rucled To solicit funds and supplies
lL0m al sources, and will gladly accept
b,u clothing or anything that can be used
oy the destitute people.
THE MAYORS APPEAL.
Ing: '"0 io'io"-
t, BEAUMONT, Oct. Is, 1856,
.,alcW view OF the urgent and dire necessity OF
pn9 ps n9 I'ess and desp0iled people of Sabine
Az ~ 1 foquest immediate help In their behalf.
o' any klnd Is Invited-provisiops Cl 9TH
s. egr money. They are without means of
Il. f. CALHOUN,
~, Mayor OF Beaumont.
Nuairman Greer, OF the Committee on
aayuslnEs, has already made 100 refugees
o,nHlt vuiloi taole Tor the time being. A tram
NJ. 1gA went toward Sabine,to-day, as far
ooidl NJ .ug rack allowed, returned here at 8
'oioCG Tonight.
RECOVERING THE CoRPsEs.
A. t,lHleen bodies were recovered on The
bsn, ia9d called Back Ridge, west OF sa-
n1a 1ne Sno were buried. Six bodies OF wo-
tro to" were recovered on the west shore of
sue iake, two being colored and four
.nnEN, one being that OF Mrs. w. A,
UuIiuSer, OF Carlisle. Mr.. Junker Is still
Josae ae steamer Emily +. returned from
nhson's Bayou, La, to Orange. and re-
W. tnal those drowned at that place
'y,e chiefly colored people.
IH4 UeAtnS at Sabine paaa aud vicipItx,