Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-10-23
There is not one house left in tho


place; not even the sign OF a store
building could he found, and not
dollars worth of goods, SO far as We
could learn, was saved bysall the
merchants combined. The schoon
er Sills lies out on land about 400
yards from the water, ;lndi is Il total
wreck.
The railway forsix or eight miles
is II twisted mass of iron. Our
steamer found the remaining in
habitants suffering for food, and
from the nights terrible exposure,
and The work Of relieving tlicm waS
ut OllcO begun. The water in the
streets Of the town WAS from one to-
two feet deep. All the sufferers
were gotten aboard of the steamer
as speedily as possible, and their
wants supplied as best we could.
When all were aboard the steam:
er put off for the light house tower,
out of Which d number ol sufferers
were taken. Here a small craft
was sighted out in the gull. The
steamer went out and picked up
eight men, the crew of a Mexican
schooner which was swampctlabOut
ten miles ofthe Pass. Having sup:
Piled all who were hungry and
thirsty, we SCI out for Beaumont
with 95 residents of Sabine Pass
aboard, mostly women and chill
,lren, and On the way across the
bay Mrs. Otto Br,wn and q num-
Der Of others were picked up.
A boat Seut out to JOhnsol's
Bayou returned 10 the steamer in
The afternoon with the most dis
treSsing reports of that community,
hundreds of persons being drown
cd, as well as fearful and complete
destruction of property, including
thousands of head of live stock
The Cameron Beach Hotel was
seriously threatened, but saved BY
cattle crowding into the lower sto-.
~, thereby preventing the build
ing from floating off with it's upper
stories filed with terror stricken
humanity.
Captain Bailey, a bar pilot ut
Port EadS, reports that there were
2G lives lost during he recent storm
on the bayouS leading from the gulf
in the direction of and back OF the
quarantine station.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, October 10
Further detailsof the great delnge
III Sabine Pass add additional hur-
ror to the disaster. The loss Of
life, it is thought, will reach two
hundred persons.
The deaths at Sabine Pass and
the vicinity Will aggregate more
than ninety, and at JollnSun's Bay
on about eighty five. Only three
houses are left for human ll;lbta.
ton, though, perhaps, Il dozen are
standing in Il precari0uS conditions.
The people who escaped with their
lives are completely ruined, tinan
cially, a majority of them not being
able to provide themselves with
bare necessities of life.
A correspondent who has just
returned from Sabine Pass Jcle
graphs from Orange that the slr.
key o,lzz;,rds are soaring over Sa
bIle for miles around OIL the land
and water. IL is one vast charncl
house. Tue town is swept out of
existence. What was pIosp r
Gus village when last Tuesday
dawned Is now the cent er Of wreck
aud desolation. There are. III
persons missing and they ale sup
posed to be dead. Only about rs
bodies have thus far been recover
ed. There is not one sound house
in The town of Sabine.
Late reports from Johnson's
Bayou bring the terrible intclli
gence that eighty-iive persons are
now known to be lost in that settle
ment, and it is greatly feared that
the list will be swelled to Il hundred
or more, thus making the total
number Of victims by TIC hurI icanc
fully two hundred.