Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-15
THE SABINE HORROR.
THE WORST FEARS ARE PARTI-
ALLY CONFIRMED.
Other Sections Swept by the Waves
Relief Parties Now at the
Scene of Disaster.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REcoRD-uNIos.I

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REcoRD-UsIoS.I
New ORLEANS, October I4th.-A dispatch
to the Times Democrat, received early this
morning from Orange, Texas, says the
storm did great damage at Sabine Pass.
The Porter Hotel, which contained large
number of guests, was swept away, and a
boat containing number of people was
overturned in the bay, and all on board
were drowned. Eight lives are known to
be lost, and it is feared that the worst has
not been learned. A schooner picked up
three men in the bay in an exhausted con-
dition. relief boat las gone from
Orange with provisions and clothing for the
destitute.
THE HORRORS or TUESDAY NIGHT.
GALVESTON TEX, October I4th.-The
town of Sabine Pass at the mouth of Sa-
bine river, is reported as entirely washed
away by the terrific storm of Tuesday
night. Over fifty lives are reported lost
out of a total population of 200. Tele-
graphic communication with all points
outside of Texas was nearly suspended last
night, owing to the storms, in Louisiana,
Arkansas and the Indian Nation. The
following account of the great disaster at
Sabine Pass was telegraphed last night TO
Houston
BEAUMONT. October 13th-Our town is
in state of intense excitement at the news
lust received from Sabine Pass 1t is
news of terrible loss of life and destruc-
ton of properly in that place from the
high water. We have now no telegraphic
communication with the Pass. The wires
are all down, but an engine arrived here
tonight, over the East Texas Railway, that
left there about 6 o'clock. Two citizens,
who rowed in q small boat across an ex-
panse of tossing waters n distance several
miles from the town of Sabine to the rail-
road track, came in on an engine and gave
HEART-RENDING
Account of affairs there. They say the
waters began to invade the town. from the
Gulf and lake together, about , o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, and rose with unprece-
dented rapidity. The citizens OF the
doomed place did not realize their immi-
nent danger until it was too late to escape,
when safety by flight was recognized as
being out of the question.
| People who were situated so they could
| do so betook themselves 10 houses ami re-
sorts adiudged to be the safest. The water
kept rising, and between 3 and 4 o'clock
| the smaller houses began 10 yield to the
resistless force of the waves, and not only
| moved from their foundation but turned
on their sides and tops. A little later the
larger houses began 10 give way, and death
| by drowning seemed inevitable for every
citizen OF the place. With the yielding of
the smaller houses several persons who
| had remained in them were drowned, and
when the residences and business places
began to crumble, the fatality began to
double.
THE LOST.
| The following incomplete list of drowned
was obtained from the two gentleman who
came over on an engine; Miss Maha, Jim
Vondy and family of SIX, the wife of Otto
| Brown and two children, Homer King,
wife and child; Mrs. Junker and son, Mrs.
Pomeroy and family of five, Mrs. Stewart,
daughter and son a man by the name OF
| Wilson, Mrs. Arthur McReynolds, Mrs.
Mcdonald and daughter, Frank Mulligan
| and family, Colonel Carter and family, and
about twenty-five colored people, whose
names could not be given. The above list
comprises over fifty human beings, victims
| of the storm. Among them were some of
the leading families of the place. There
are others-and many of them, doubtless
drowned without any one now knowing
anything of it.
IT IS FEARED THAT WHOLE FAMILIES
In different parts of the place have been
swept away without leaving a person or
vestige to indicate their terrible fate. On
| the receipt of this news the people of Beau
mont Immediately began preparations for
| the relief of the sufferers yet alive. The
East Texas Railroad placed an engine at
their disposal. and a party of men have
| gone to Orange to carry the news
| there and procure boats and start for the
| scene. The damage to property at Sabine
has been very great. The wharf property
of the town was owned by New York cap
| italists who also owned the adjoining
| lands. and were aiming 10 make Sabine
Pass an important port on the Gulf coast.
FURTHER CONFIRMATION.
New ORLEANS. October 14th-P. M.-A
special from Orange TO the PicGgttne says:
| "Details of the destruction by the storm at
Sabine Pass and johnson Bayou come in
slowly and are yet indefinite, though they
all agree that there has been great loss of
life and property. Two brothers, named
| Pomeroy. who were picked UP by the
schooner Andrew Baden in Sabine lake,
| hal been in the water thirty-six hours,
clinging to their capsized yawl. Their
mother and sister and Mrs Captain Junker,
her son and little girl, who had been of the
party. were lost The Pomeroys report that
! fifty lives were lost at the Porter House,
where people ! cd collected as the best place
of safety il went to pieces at Q o'clock.
Many persons are missing"
WORSE THAN At SABINE.
Still greater loss is reported from John
sons Bayou, where whole families were
| swept away The following are reported
| lost :: The entire families OF Alfred Lam
bert, Marion Lukes, George Strieyer, L..
| Charles Blanheit, Redford Gray, and two
families by the name of Franesware, be-
sides many others whose names have not
been ascertained. Not a house was left
standing within five miles of the lake.
Parties were organized last night, and left
on the steamers Lamar and Emily T., with
provisions and bedding They are expected
back tonight, when further particulars will
be obtained.
GREAT LOSS or PROPERTY.
New ORLEANS, October 14th--LATEB.-
The Times Democrat s Lake Charles special
SAYS The loss OF property along Cameron
Parish, on the Gulf coast, and for some
distance west of Sabine Pass, by the storm
of Tuesday night, was fearful. The mail
boat from Cameron Parish reports that the
water at Calcasieu Pass was eight feet deep
at tee lighthouse, and that the entire
country cast and west was submerged on
Tuesday night, drowning thousands of cat
tie and running the crops. No lives were
lost at Leesburg or Calcasieu Pass.
ONLY coNFIRMAroRY.
New ORLEANS. October 14th--P MA
special to the Picapnle from Beaumont says;
Sabine Pass has been nearly destroyed.
About 27 whites and 30 negroes were
drowned. The wires are down. Search
ing parties have gone out and will return
tomorrow, until which time nothing fur
ther can be learned.
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