Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-10-15
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
GALVESTON, Tex.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
GALVESTON, Tex, Oct IA.
The town of Sabine Pass at the mouth OF
Sabine river is reported to be entirely washed
awav by the terrific storm OF Tuesday night.
Over 80 lives are reported lost out OF a total
population of 200. All the telegraphic com
municatlon with the town are cut off. 1t ts
thought that the bar in front of the town will
prevent any tugs from andiGg and the own
ers of tugs here regard it useless to attempt
TO enter the treacherous channel since the
storm.
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct IA.
Two men who ro*ed several miles from
Sabin Pass to the East Texas railway and
brought here on an engine give this account
of the disaster The waters began to invade
the town from the gulf and lake together
about two o'clock Tuesday afternoon and
rose with great rapidity. The citizens of
the doomed place did not realize the immi-
nent danger until too late to escape. When
safety by flight was out of question they be-
took themselve to houses and other places
of supposed safety. The water kept rising
and between 3 and o'clock the smaller
houses began to yield to the resistless force
of the waves which not only moved them
from their foundations but turned them over
on their sides and tops. A little later the
larger houses began to give way and death
by drowning seemed in store for every per-
son in the place. With the yielding of the
smaller houses several persons were drowned
and when the residences and business places
began to crumble the fatality grew greater.
The follow ng list of drowned is given by
the men who came on the engine: Miss
Mahala Chambers, Jim Vondy and family of
,fO nd
Homer King, wife and child. Mrs. Junker
and son, Mrs. Pomeroy and family of five,
Mrs. Stewart and daughter and son, man
named Wilson, Mrs. Arthur McReynolds,
Mrs. Mcdonald, daughter and grandson,
Frank Mulligan and family, Columbus Mar
tin and family and about 25 colored persons
whose names could not be learned.
The above list comprises 80 human victims
of the storm, among them many leading fam
lies Of the place. The situation during the
latter part of the afternoon beggared descrip-
ton. The manifestation of terror and the
agony of the people facing death and realiz-
ing there was no escape, the cries of the dy-
ing women, the roard of the sea, the hoarse
voices of the men trying to save those dear
to them, all combined made the scence too
horrible to be described
On the receipt of this news the citizens of
Beaumont Immediately began preparations
for the relief of the sufferers. The East
Texas Railway has placed an engine at their
disposal and party of men have gone to
procure boats and start for the scene of the
disaster.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct IA.
Lake Charles special says "The loss
of property along Cameron Parish, Gulf
Coast. and some distance west of Sabine
Past by Tuesday nights storm was fearful.
The mail boat from Cameron Parish reports
the water at Calcasa Pass eight feet deep at
the light house and that the entire country
east and west was submerged Tuesday night,
drowning thousands of cattle and running
crops. No lives were lost at Los Burger,
but large number are reported lost at john
son Bayon, La.