Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-16
WRATH OF THE ELEM ENTS
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE TERRIBLE
FLOOD IN TEXAS. !
The Latest Report Places the Mum
Der Of People Missing at One
Hundred and One.

List Of People Known TO Have Been
Drowned-Immense Property Loss
Terrific Gale at BuffaIo-Another Dis
after on the Lakes Destructive Con-
Migration at EastpoI., HIe.-Char,cston
Again shaken.
GALVESTON, Tex, Get. 16--Very little
additional information is obtained from Sa-
bine Pass. Telegraphic communication has
been re-established with Beaumont and Or
ange, but the people of those places seem to
be awaiting the return of the relief parties
which have gone to Sabine Pass According
to all information the hurricane itself did
not reach the coast around Sabine at all, and
when the tidal wave struck the town there
was hardly breath of wind stirring A
fierce northeastern gale soon sprang up, how
ever, forcing the waters out of Lake Sabine
against the high tide from the gulf and driv-
ing them over the town The government
tug Penrose started for Sabine Thursday aft
erncm Reports from Beaumont confirm the
loss of life. The latest reports place the loss
of life at sixty,
ORANGE, Tex, Oct l4-Details Of the de-
| struction by the storm at Sabine Pass and
Jomsons Bayou come in slowly and are yet
indefinite, though they all agree that there
has been a great loss of life and property
Two brothers named Ponerov were picked
up by the schooner Andrew Baden in Sabine
| LAKE" They had been in the water thirty-siX
| hours, clinging to their oapsized yawl Their
mother and sister and Mrs. Capt Junker,
her son, and little girl of the party were
lost. The Poueroys report that fifty lives
| were lost at the Porter house, where the peo-
| pie hld collected as the best place of safety.
| 1t went to pieces at 9 O'Clock MANY per
| SONS are missing. Still greater loss is re-
ported from Johnsons Bayou. Whole fam
ilie5 We're swept away Not a house was
| left standing within five miles of the lake.
| Parties were organized and left on the
steamer Lamar and Emily p. with provisions
and bedding
An incomplete list of the drowned is as
follows: Miss Mahata; Jim Vondy and fam
lily Of six, the wife of Otto Brown and two
children; Homer King, wife and child: Mrs.
Junler and son; Mrs. Pomeroy and family
of five; Mrs Stewart, daughter and son; a
man named Wilson; Mrs. Arthur Ne Rey-
| noIds; Mrs. Mcdonald and daughter; Frank
MulhGan and family; Columa Martee and
tanily, about twenty-five colored people,
whose names could not be given,
LAKE CHARLES, La, Oct. 15.-The loss of
property along the Cameron parish gull
| coast and for some distance west of Sabine
| Pass by the storm of Tuesday night was fear
| full. The mail boat from Game ron parish re
ports that the water at Calcasieu Pass was
| eight feet deep at the light house and that the
entire country east and west was submerged
Tuesday night, drowning thousands of cattle
| and running crops. No lives were lost at
Leeshurg or Calcasieu Pass hut the following
are reported lost at Johnson's Bayou, La
The entire families of Alfred Lambert,
| Marion Lukcs, George Striever, L. Charles
Blauchet, Radford Berey, and twa families
BY the names of FraneSware. besides many
others whose names have not been ascer-
| tanned
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