The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-10-21

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the scene of desolation around them.
Houses that stood the action of the storm
were completely gutted. There was no
food or drink, salt water having invaded
everything. Then there began the search
for the dead, and those whose bodies lay
prisoned in the ruins of houses were
speedily recovered.
The people, save few who have large
stock interests, say they have abandoned
the place forever. They are descendants
of race of people who in the past made
Johnston's Bayou vast orange grove.
The frost came and ruined them, and
then they turned to cotton and sugar and
stock, only to meet the fate of their fore
fathers. Of 5000 head of stock which
once the bayou boasted, 5000 are
drowned, while the remainder will die of
thirst, as all the water is salt There is
no estimating the loss, as there is no way
of ascertaining valuations, hence it is
sufficient to say that the towns are de-
stroyed and abandoned.
New ORLEANS, October 16.-An ar
rival from Sabine Pass brings the follow.
ing; 49,
place; not even the sign of store or
building could be found, and not dol.
lars worth of goods, so far as We could
learn, was saved by all the merchants
combined. Every vestige of property is
gone. The schooner Silas lies out on the
land about four hundred yards from the
water. and is total wreck. The iron tug
Fo,oler is beached near Muskete Point,
but will be saved. The Railway for six
or eight miles is twisted mass of iron.
Our steamer found the remaining inhabi.
tants suffering for food and water, and
from the mig hts terrible exposure, and
the work of relieving them was at once
begun. Having supplied all who were
hungry and thirsty we set out for Beau.
mont with ninety.tbree residents of
Sabine Pass aboard, mostly women and
children, and on the way across the bay
Mrs. Otto Brown and number of others
were picked up. A boat was sent out to
Johnston's Bayou, and returned to the
steamer in the afternoon with the most
distressing reports from that community,
hundreds of persons being drowned as
we'll as the fearful and complete, destruc.
ton of property, including thousands of
head Of live stock. Cameron Beach
Hotel was seriously threatened, but saved
by the cattle crowding into the lower
story, thereby preventing the building.
from floating off with its upper stories
filled with terror stricken humanity.
Capt. Bailey, bar pilot at Port Eads,
reports that there were twenty six lives
lost during the recent storm on the ba,
ynus leading from the Gulf 10 the direc-
ton of aud back of quarantine station.
The Emily p hes just arrived at Beau
mont with sixty two survivors. thirty
seven bodies of persons who were drown
ed at Johnson's Bayou have been recover
ed and sixty-fye are still missing. y
To give some idea of the velocity of
the wind, silver spoon was blown from
the residence of William Harris a dis
tance of twelve miles.
Mr.. Loise Broussard lost $4,000 worth
of cattle. 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.
Mrs. Otto Byownfoated twenty five miles
on feather bed. She had her child
with her, but it got benumbed and died
in commissions. During its struggles it
Knocked the mother into the water. The
waves pitched Mrs. Brown back on the
bed, and she was saved.
Capt. F. A.. Hyatt and William Guy
report.that they had singular experiences
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 town. Water was all
around this neck of land, on which was
placed the track, and was fully eight feet
deep. The hands of Messrs. Hyatt and
Guy were blistered from fighting snakes,
which literally covered the dump for a
distance of FIVE miles. There were
thousands of water moccasons from the
overAowed district taking refuge on the
narrow stretch of land, and every step
across they,had o6ght their way through
twisting serpents many of them deadly
and dlarger than q mans arms. Wild cats,
also, frenzied at the waters fury, rushed
pelfmell upon the pedestrians, while
coons and every variety of animals
snapped at the passers-by with hydropho.
bic rage. Many times the pedestrians
left the land and swan around among
reptiles rather than try to pass them.
Capt. Hyatt alone killed over one hun.
dred and fifty snakes during his walk of
FIVE miles, which consumed about ten
hours. Guy says no money could tempt
him to make the trip over again. In
stepping about in the dark he was tripped
up and thrown by snakes two inches in
diameter and fully five feet long.