Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-16
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
A HUNDRED LIVES LOST
BY The Overflow At Sabine
Pass.
A TERRIBLE TALE OF WOE.
Hundreds Of Families Lose
Their Homes,
BLAINE TALKS ON POLITICS.
The Republican Ticket In
New York.
A TERRIBLE TALE OF WOE.
BLAINE TALKS ON POLITICS.
THE DISASTER AT SABINE PASS.

THE DISASTER AT SABINE PASS.
Over A Hundred Now Numbered
Among the Drowned - Pathetic
Scenes During the FIood-A Com.
pIete Wreck Made OF the Town.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 15.-The latest re-
ports from Sabine Pass place the loss of life
at over one hundred, including fifty-six
negroes. There is not house left. Even
the lighthouse is in a wrecked condition.
Many vessels are ashore many miles from
water. Relief parties are at work in all di-
rections. The steamer Lamar went to Beau
mont. She rescued thirteen persons and
picked up yawl containing eleven Mexicsns
from some unknown vessel. Mrs. o. H.
Brown was picked up twenty miles from
Sabine Pass on feather bed. It is impos-
sible at this hour to get a report from John
sons bayou, but the loss is great. Parties
are leaving Orange, Texas, hourly for the
scene of the disaster. Six bodies were found
in an old cave twenty-five miles from the
Pass The schooner Hercules from Mazatlan
is ashore. The people are burying the dead
wherever found.
The reports last night regarding the ter
rible storm at Sabine Pass have been fully
confirmed to-day. Several relief parties
have been sent from Beaumont and Orange
and returned with tho rescued. It is now
known positively that ninety persons were
drowned and of over one hundred houses
which comprised the little town not more
than five or six remain, and they have been
washed from their foundations. Some of
the scenes are heartreDding in the extreme.
Major Sanford's wife and infant were at
Sabine Pass and the MAJOR was in Beaumont.
A oh mir
izing that her house must soon be torn
to pieces by the surging waves, took
her babe and by a desperate struggle and
great presence of mind succeeded in reaching
a tree, up which she climbed and with her
little infant under her arms chung to the
tree throughout the frightful hours of the
night. Hundreds of other instances
showing great presence of mind are
reported The relief boat Lamar has
rendered great service toward saving
survivors and rescuing bodies, having made
several trips from Beaumont to the scene of
the disaster The boat also saved the crew
of the Mexican schooner Hercules, consisting
thirteen. The nearest approximate to the
loss is 81 800, 900. The following is COM
plste list of the whites drowned. The
names of the fifty-fve colored persons cannot
be obtained: Mrs. Junker, Carlisle Junker,
Mrs B. F. McDonough, Miss McDonough,
children, Mrs. Pomeroy and three children,
Mrs. George Pomeroy and child, Mrs Multi
gan and four children, Mr.. Won Quay and
three children, three children of Mr.. Brown,
Mrs. Arthur McReynolds, Miss Chambers,
two Shaw children, Hoover King, wife and
children, Mrs Whiting, John Wilson and
child of Captain Stewart.
This appeal for aid was ieyued tonight by
Mayor Calhoun of Beaumont:
In view of urgent and dire necessity of the help
less people of Sabine Pass l request Immediate
help. Aid of any kind is invited. provisions, cloth
ing or money. They are without means of any
kind. B. F. CALHOUN,
Mayor
Later reports may swell the number
drowned to over one hundred. No reports
of vessels lost have been received excepting
that of the Mexican schooner Hercules.