Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-17

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| The Mexican schooner Hercules is high
aud dry at point called Oil Ponds. Her
captain, Jose Guibelondo, reports that ne
was bound for New Orleans with 1906
mahogany logs, all of which are now sup
| posed to be lost. The Captain and crew
| were furnished by the railroad company
| with passes 10 New Orleans, and left to-
night.
AN APPEAL TO MERCHANTS.
A circular will be addressed by the
FINANCE Committee TO the principal buei-
ness houses in the leading trade Gen.
tres OF the country asking assistance.
W lille tbs subscriptions from local and
| nelghborlng points have been free and
| liberal, they are sufficient only to supply
| tne requirements of q few days. 1t is de-
sired TO urgently impress upon the people
| of Texas and eIsew here the immediate
necessity OF responding at once to the de-
mands OF this calamity. Conservative es-
Inmates place the loss at such figures that
1t will require from $4,000 to 100000 to
meet the emergencies of the case.
LOCATION OF JOHNsoN's BAYOU.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16.-A dispatch,
dated Johnson's Bayou last evening saws:
The village of JohnsOn's Bayou is high
ridge on the sea coast, and the bayou from
which 1t takes its name runs throu IN the
1nhabitable parts OF that section, in which
is also situated the post office station
known as RadfOrd. They are in Cameron
parish, on the Louisiana shore, six miles
east OF Sabine Pass. The bayou is nine
teen miles in length, and varies from one
to four miles in width. The ridges face
the Gulf, twelve feet above the sea level,
and In the rear is dense and impenetra.
bic marsh.
EIGHTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
The population on last Tuesday morn
ing numbered 200 souls. To-day IS Of
/ that number are counted with the dead
Forty Of their bodies have been recov-
cred, and consigned to graves in the she'll
reefs, while the decompOsing bodies of
the remaining As lie fostering In the
marshes.
RadfOrd was very thickly settled and
populous. 1t boasted its cotton gin and
! cotton and cane plantations. 1t was the
head OF navigation, and its stores were
many. The principal one was
run by }. Payeto, who also
operated gin, and turned
out annually 800 bales OF cotton, pro-
duced in that section. The other stores
were owned by A. B. Smith & Co. and j.
Griffith, general merchandise dealers, and
other small merchants constituted the
commercial community.
THE TOWNS TRADE.
Cotton and sugar are the chief products
of the ridges, which are composed of the
richest and most fertile grazing country
and the parish had 5000 head OF cattle
and horses owned by the thriving commu-
nifty. Communication with the onrside
world was through two steam vessels,
both owned IN JObuson's Bayou and Rad
ford, while fleet of trading vessels piled
the waters of the BAYOU,
REIGN OF THE STORM.
At O'Clock Friday afternoon the storm
descended upon the bayou. The waters
rising with the wind swept through the
lower stories of the buildings, driving the
atfrighted people into the attics and upon
the roofs. By 10 O'Clock the first ridge.
twelve feet above the sea level, was ten
feet under water. House after house fell
in or was swept away, either burying the
doomed people in the debris or hurliug
them into the Kissing waters. The cotton
and stores next succum6ed, and Radford
and Johnson's bayou were destroyed as
completely as if an invading army had
done the work.
NIGHT OF TERROR.
1t was night of terror, described by the
survivors as appalling. The people could
only cling to each other and pray for
despairing shrieks rang in their ears.
For twelve hours the storm ragged over
the devastated settlements, and then came
a lull. Hope revived as the waters re-
ceded and the storm passed away, and the
survivors gathered on elevated points
viewing the scene OF desolation around
them. The houses that stood the action
OF the storm were completely gutted.
There was no food or drink, the salt water
having invaded everything.
LOOKING FOR THE DEAD.
Then there began a search for the dead,
and those whose bodies lay pinioned by
the ruins of houses were speedily recoV-
cred. From out of the marshes more
corpses were taken and likewise buried.
The death roll was then made up as fol-
lows:
Mrs. Frank Turner and two children.
Mr.. Locke, wife and seven children.
Old Mrs. Locke.
Mrs. W. Ferguson and three children.
Bradford Berry and daughter.
Mrs. Albert Lambert and two children.
Eight children of Samuel BurwIck.
Mrs. ShellwalIey and four children.
George Stivener and iour children.
Mr.. Francbail, wife and grandson.
Mrs. ). Caller and four children.
A child OF AlonZo Smith.
Mrs. Toochakes and four children.
Jack Toochakes and seven children.
Mrs. Hawkins and three children.
DIR. George Smith, wife and four chill
dren.
All the above were white persons.
THE NEGRO DEAD.
The colored victims were:
Elever johnson and wife.
Jack Lewis, wife and brother.
Richard Hambrick, wife and five chill
dren.
During the morning the regular packet
stern wheel steamer, Emily p, arrived at
JohnsOn's Bayou and brought to Orange
as many persons as abe could carry, in all
about sixty. Not one OF them mad any,
thing but what they stood in. Many were
minus hats, shoes, coats and dresses.
Their wants, however, we're promptly sup.
piled by the good people of this place and
the refugees made comfortable for the
night.
Tomorrow the steamers Emily II. and
Shark will return to the bayou and will
make regular trips until all are brought
to place ofsatety.
THE TOWNS TO BE ABANDONED.
The people, save few who have large
stock interests, say they have abandoned
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