, 1886-10-15
THE TERRIBLE STORM.
Over Fifty Lives Reported
Lost.
Details of the Disaster Not Yet
Known.
A Destructive Gale RACES at
Buffalo.
A Town Swept Away.

@"'f - t'S : o'Chh VI u1otal
night. Over fifty lives are reported lost
Jul Of II total population Of 300. Tele-
graphic communication with all points
outside Of Texas was nearly suspended
last night owing to a storm in Louisiana,
Arkansas and Indian Territory. The fol-
lowing account Of the great disaster at
Sabine Pass was telegraphed last night to
Houston from Beaumont
Our Town is in a state of intense ex-
ment 10 night at the news just received
from Sabine Pass. 1t is news OF the
terrible loss Of life and destruction Of
property i'll that place from high water.
We have now no Geographic communica-
ton with the pass, the wires all being
down. but an engine arrived here to night
over the Fast Texas railway that left
there about 6 o'clock. Two citizens who
rowed in Il small boat across an expanse
of tossing waters a distance of several
miles from the town OF Sabine to the rail
road track, came in on an engine and
give a heartrending account of affairs
there. They say the waters bryan to in
wade the town from the gulf and lake to
I gether about = O'Clock p. IN. Tuesday and
rose with unprecedented rapidity. The
citizens of the doomed place did not rea.-
ize the imminent danger until it was too
late to escape, when safety by flight was
recognized as being out of the question.
People who were S tuated SO they could
do 50 betook themselves to houses and re-
sorts ~adiudeed to be safest. The water
kept rising and between 3 and 4 o'clock
the smaller houses began to yield to the
resistless force of the waves and not only
novel from their foundations, but turned
on their sides aud tops. A little later the
! nrra- hnp.ou Ianuu To nrra r.r and
| death by drowning seemed inevitable Tor
every citizen OF the place With the
yielding of the smaller houses several per
sons who had remained in them were
drowned, and when residences and bust
ness places began to crumDle the fatality
began 10 double.
The following incomplete list of drowned
was obtained from two gentlemen who
came over on an engine: Miss Mahata.
jim Vondy and family OF six. the wife Of
Otto Brown aud two children, Homer
King, wife and child; Miss Junker aud
sou, Mrs. Pomeroy and family Of five,
Mrs. Stewart. daughter and son; a man
by the name of Wilson, Mrs. Arthur Nc
Reynolds, Mrs. Mcdonald and daughter,
Frank Mulligan and family. Col. Martee
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 some of the leading families.
of the place. There are others, and
many of them doubtless drowned, with
out any one now living knowing anything
of it. 1t is feared that whole families in
different parts of the place have been
swept away without leaving any vestige to
indicate their horrible fate"
On receipt of this news, the citizens
of Beaumont Immediately began prepar
atoms for relief. The East Texas rail
road 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 Pass has been very
great. The wharf properly of the town
was owned by New York capitalists, who
also own the adjoining lands, and were
aiming to make Sabine Pass an important
port on the Gulf coast.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. IA special
from Orange. Tex to the Picdyune, says
the 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 IpLDtTOb WIRE plChOu UP ny lhc
schooner Andrew Baden in Sabine lake.
They had been in the water thirty-six
hours, c%linging to their capsized yawl.
Their mother and sister and Mrs. Capt.
Junker. her son and little girl. of the
party. were lost. The Pomeroys report
that fifty lives were lost at Porter house.
where the people had collected AS the best
place of safety. 1t went to pieces at 9
o'.ln,l MANY perenns ara missing
Sill greater loss is reported from John
sons Bayou. Whole families we're swept
away, and not a house was left sta dinl
within five miles. Lake parties were or
ganized last night and left on the steamers
Lamar and Emily p. with provisions and
bedding. They are expected back to
night. when further particulars will be
obtained.
The Times Democrats Lake Charles.
La, special says: The loss of property
along Cameron parish and for some dis
tance west Of Sabine Pass. by the storm
on Tuesday night was fearful. A mail
boat from Cameron parish reports that
the water at Calcasieu Pass was eight
feet deep at the lighthouse and that the
entire country east and west was sub
merged Tuesday night, drowning thous-
ands of cattle and running crops. No
lives were lost at Leesbury or Calcasicu
Pass, but the following are reported lost
at johnson Bayou, La The entire
families Of Alfred Lambert, Marion Lukes,
George Hriever, i Charles, Radford
Gray and two families by the name OF
Franesware, besides many others whose
names have not been ascertalned.
A special to the Rcuy,u,c from Beau
mont says Sabine Pass has been nearly
destroyed. About twenty seven whites
and thirty negroes were drowned. The
wires are down. Searching parties have
gone out and will return tomorrow. unit
which time nothing further can be learned
Another Account.
GALVESTON, Tex, Oct. l4-This cit,
has been in a state Of feverish excitemen
all day over the dreadful news from Sabin,
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