Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-10-23

relief party that went down as nea
 Sabine as possible on the Sabine < Ess
 Texas railroad gre still there. Train
 could not get within twelve miles O
 the ruined town.
 From the reports brought by the re-
 turned relief committee, it is certain
 that the flooded district embraced [
 country many times larger than st firs supposed. The gulf seemed to havs moved overland for miles in one higt unbroken wall of water. The committee report that 10l persons are missing, and
 ninety of whom are known 70 have been
 drowned. ThIrty-five of the victims
 were white and fifty five colored. Nine
 ty-one half clad, sbiverIng and wretched
 victims of the storm were brought up on the Lamar. Blankets and bedding were Immediately gathered from house to house for the comfort of the heart b:oken sufferers, every one of whom mad some dear friend or relative among the dead. Nearly all the refugees are sick and prOstrated from exhaustion and hunger.
 Fheyare being tenderly cared for by the citizens.
 BEAUMONT, October l5.-The steam host l., Q. C. Lamar left Orange We'd resday night with a relief committee on board. At midnight last night the whistle of the Lamar was heard and the people hurried to here the news. but the members of the relief committee who entered were So tired and worn out. and so overcome by the horrible devastation that they had witnessed that it was not possible to get a coherent story from them.
 NEw ORLEANS, October I5-A special tO the PIcHyune says: The relief boat, Lamar. has returned to Beaumont from Sabine Pass. Only two houses are left in the latter place. One hundred and one persons are missing.
 ID. F. B, Calhoun, one of the relief committee, says there are many persons 10 the vicinity of Sabine Pass who are utterly destitute, being without clothing 10 cover their nakedness. Dr. Calhoun requests sId for the destitute. He says 1t makes no difference what is sent. whether food clothing. medicine or money. they need them all. Dr. Cal houn Is mayor of Beaumont and be vii distribute through the committee what. ever IS sent to him. From all accounts gathered, language could not exagger- ate the state of affairs at Sabine Pass. Wives and children were swept away and drowned in the presence of their hus- bands and fathers who were powerless 10 save them.
 The waves broke against the light house in solid walls fifty feet high. tear ing out the windows at the very top of the structure.
 Corpses have been picked up ai dis tance of thirty miles from the scene of the disaster. Friends and relatives of the drowned residents are csmiug into | Orange and Beaumont by every train. | The steamboat Lamar took on board cargo of food, blankets and clothing and l also a fresh relief committee and at daylight this morning started down to l succOr the unfortunate,
 The pecuniary damage at Sabine, in l cluding that to government works. will | aggregate nearly S6.OO0.OOO, as many plantations sustained serious injury.
 JoHSsIowS, N. J.. October l5-At | the Rancerss breeding farm to-day | Pierre Lorillsrd sold sll of his stsllions and brood mares. The prices received | were fair and the total realized was Sl42,S95 for eighty-three lots.
 SAN FRANCISCO, October l5.-The rate | cutting on overland fares. which has | been prsctised in a quiet way heretofore, is now done openly. The schedule rate | to New York IS $Sl, but it IS stated that | tickets are being sold as low as S67. An other rate war similar to that of live months ago IS believed to De imminent. l This state of affairs is due to the failure | of the attempts of the local passenger | agents to form an association for mutual l protection against rate cutting.
 BosToS, October 15.-A special to the | Herald from Digby, N. S., says: The | steamer New Brunswick of the lnterns- | tional Line, when about seventeen miles l out from Digby las. night, wss seeu to send out rockets, and flames were seen iu the place of where she stood. It IS supposed her boiler bursted. There | were one hundred passengers on board. | Sbe was bound for Boston from Digby. |
 PASSPORT, Maine, October 15-The fire which broke out at 2 o'clock yester- | lay afternoon ragged furiOusly for ten 1 a0urs. deiying all efforts to scoptrol or arrest It. IL started ID Capen & Mesr- ley's sardine factory and swept in a northerly direction along the water front and through Water stret. burning ten ssrdine factories, two hotels, about thirty dwelling houses, the custom house and pos:office, and every plsceaOf business except two sulall grocery stores which were out of the path of the fire IL IS impossible st this tune to make detailed report of the losses sustained, or to ascertain the amount of insurance, but the total loss will probably amount tc at least s500,OOO, fairly covered by insurance. The factories gave employ ment to Rt least 2,OOO persons. Much suffering must ensue unless immediate aId Is reudered. Contributors can be forwarded to Hon. S. B. Mutt. collector ot customs. Telegrsphlc communities ton was out of at i p. m. yesterday. snd has just been re-opened.
 SAS FRANCISCO, Cal, October 15.-A short but sharp shock of earthquake was felt here at 10 o'clock tonight.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 16-The usual crowds of Idle men remained in the vicinity of the packing house to-day and besought all men who could be reached not to go to work. Many applicants, however. for work went on the regular and specIsl passenger trains and were landed st the doors of the packing houses, which were guarded by armed patrols.
 LONDON, October l6-1he British ship TeveOtdale, which sailed from Cardiff, Wales, Thursday last, was wrecked dur ing a storm on COrmsthan bar. There were on board at the time twenty eight persons, but eleven of which succeeded in reaching the shore alive. The hur- ricane which has just passed over Eng land and Ireland was accompanied by the heaviest rains within memory. Dur ing last night there were many colll- sions and wrecks. A number of chan nel fishing boats were stranded and the beach a: Brighten presented spectacle | ef destruction.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 16-Msssrs. Hewitt and Roosevelt have written formal let- ters accepting respectively. the demo cratic and republican nomInstions for mayor of New York.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16-The sigma service reports show that the rain to-day extended as far south ss Modesto. ln the northern part of the state and ID ! Oregon and Washington Territory there were occasional showers thls morning. | The rain extended along the whole coast line from Washington Territory to Mon ! terey.
 NKw ORLEANS, October 16.-It is now | Al Hva Of the