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back from the coast line was productive
of some interesting sights. The broad
prairies and the lowlauds in the dense
forest jungles and heavy lumber regions
are almost completely submerged The
bodies of drowned cattle, hogs and
horses are seen on every hand and the
| buzzards are lowering by hundreds over
the region. The air is filled with gulls
and other sea fowls; thousands of dead
! fish and turtles are strewn on higher and
dry spots OF land, and innumerable dead
birds, Killed by the raging elements, can
everywhere be seen. Aligators end other
reptiles navigate around in the deeper
| holes and the big bitches, fanbng either
side of the Southern Pacific road.
Hundreds OF trees with bodies as
large as -four barrels are lying
PROSTATE, their limbs torn
and twisted, and telegraph poles,
fences, houses and movable farm proper
ty generally is total wreck. Railroad
tracks suffered but little, except on the
Sabine & East Texas, which line from
this point to Sabine Pass is ruined, over
oneh half Of it being washed away.
At Liberty, one of the oldest and most
historic towns in this section of Texas,
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trees were blown down and shattered
The Baptist Church and several resi-
dences were wrecked, but a most re
markable and singular instance of pres
ervation is presented in the old Catholic
Church, orrather convent, which is one o
the most diapidated frame structures il
the town. 1t looks from the outside like
1t is too fral to stand an ordinary Texas
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general church service, but it passed
through this great storm unframed, al
though four of the largest trees in the
town were blown down in row, then
tips just touching the end OF the build
ing. at the time the parish priest was
in a little room in the southeast
corner of the building engaged IL
prayer for mercy to the people,
and the points of the limbs OF
the PROSTATE trees protruded through the
broken windows and almost touched the
good man. This is the same old convent
in which historic incident in Texas his
tory occurred: During the war three
prisoners chained together, and who were
charged with murder, were placed in the
same room in which the priest was pray
ing on Tuesday last, as above mentioned
The sanctity of the place, 1t was believed,
would save the prisoners from the ven
geance of the mob bowling for their
lives, but at an unexpected moment to
the officers in charge, body of masked
and armed vigilantes rushed in and in q
twinkling had shot to death the three
malefactors, retired, mounted their horses
and rode away into the Trinity bottom
jungles.
The steamer Rabb left Beaumont this
morning to pick up the dead, make res
cues and recover as much of the effects
as possible of the people. The waters
and shores of Sabine lake and the Gulf OF
Mexico are strewn with trunks, furni-
TUE, tools and miscellaneous plumber.
The Rabb is expected back tonight or in
the morning, and her return is anxiously
awaited, as the fate of many people is
still unknown, the list of missing per-
sons being still very large,
The number of sufferers from JohnsOn's
bayou, Sabine Pass and the surrounding
/, country will aggregate, If it does not ex-
coed, l,200. There are 800 of the John
| sons bayou sufferers. The calamity at that
point was even worse than at Sabine
= Pass, as it contained more people. Its
remoteness prevented the disaster being
: known until a full day after the country
was shocked at the destruction of Sabine
Pass. Johnson's bayou was a prosper
Gus little summer resort, back from the
gulf about ten miles, with orange
: orchards, small farms and Cattle-raiSng
engaging the attention of the people.
Latest reports show that the damage to
shipping and sailing craft has been com.
paratively insignificant Half a dozen OF
so of little sloops and schoOners were
wrecked or washed up and stranded on
the main land Some people were on
board that may have been lost, however
News reached here tonight that the
storm struck the country forty or fifty
miles north Of here with great severity.
Crops and farm property were badly
damaged, and in the neighborhoond o.
Jasper County was blown from the fields
and almost totally ruined. The resi-
dence of Matt Collins, near Jasper, was
blown to pieces, but his family escaped.
Details received are meagre, and it is fear
ed that further loss of life in this new di'
reCtion will be reported
. SAD SCENE.
At 1880 p. m. a special train from
Orange arrived over the Southern Pacific
with nearly one hundred refugees from
,, Sabine Pass. 1t looked like the entire
population of Beaumont had turned out
, to see the sufferers. The opera house
had been lit up, and committees were in
, waiting to assign the sufferers to various
: places to be taken care Of It was pit
! liable procession that marched from the
Southern Pacific depot To the opera
house Old men and women, middle
aged people and babies in arms were in
the party. They were Sowowiul and de-
: iected, many Of them sick, others injured,
y and all heart.broken. Little children
f were crying, some of them hoarse from
h exposure, and many a grown PERSONS
j. cheeks were wet with sympathetic tears
e which flowed responsive TO the sad
T. scene presented. Quietly the refugees
( were distributed about and the meeting
t adjourned
;. Reports from Orange state that relief
d movements are being perfected there. Nc
e. additional news was received from the
o exploring parties in the steamers sent
Y out uD to ten o'clock tonight The ietty