The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-16

and dropping the skiffs and other boats with
men and provisions at every point where it was
thought people might likely be found Shortly
after daylight, We reached Sabine Pass, having
picked up a number OF men on the
way. and the sight here presented
to view was truly deplorable. The little town is
total wreck the few buildings left being twisted
and fattened into all manner of shapes some
completely upset and removed from their founda-
tions one to distance of four hundred yards.
There is not enc inhabitable home in the place.
Not even the sign of a store building
could be found, and not dollars worth of
goods SO far as we could learn, was saved by all
the merchants combined. The jetty companys
ship ways, the wharyes of the port and every
vestige of property is gone All the houses look
ing from the pass toward the lighthouse are
completely gone,. save the htesaving
lighthouse break is swept away, and the light
house is seriously damaged. The schooner Silas
lies out on tho land, about four hundred yards
from the water, and is total loss. The railway
for six or eight miles is twisted mass of iron.
Following are the names of some of the persons
drowned: Mrs. Whiting Mrs. Arthur Mickey
nolds, Mrs. Martha Chambers, two children
Of Mrs. Shaw, Homer King wife and child, Mrs.
Otto Browns three children, Mrs James Vondy
and three children, Mrs. George Pomeroy and
child, Widow Pomeroy and three children,
Mrs. Columbus Martee and child Mrs McDon-
ough and daughter, Miss Jacks. Mrs. W. A.
tanker and son, Carlisle. Mrs. Frank Mulligan
ana u6r nV0 cnllQr6n renamed IN tQe1r mouse
until it was swept into the
"Fifty-five negroes are also known to have
been drowned. The loss of life is greater than
here stated, but in the confusion a full list of
the names of the lost was unobtainable Our
steamer found the remaining people suffering
for food and water and from the nights of ter i.
rible exposure, and the work of relieving them
was at once begun. The water in tho streets of
the town was from one to two feet deep. All
the sufferers were got aboard the steamer as
speedily as possible, and their wants supplied as
best we could When all were aboard the
steamer put off for the light-tower, out of which
a number of sufferers were taken. Here
small craft were sighted out in the Gulf.
The steamer went out and picked up eight men,
the of a Mexican schooner which was
swamped about ten miles off the pass. Having
supplied all who were hungry and thirsty, we
set out for Beaumont with ninety-thr residents
OF Sabine Pass on board, mostly women and
children. On the way across the bay Mrs. Otto
Brown and number of others were picked
by the steamer in the morning. Beaumont was
reached at II o'clock, and here the people pro-
ceeded at once to provide for the further com
fort of the sufferers. The steamer will return at
once to the Pass and then proceed to Orange, aft
er doing all in her power for the distressed peo-
ple
IA small boat sent out to Johnson's bayou re-
turned to the steamer IL the afternoon with the
most distressing reports from that community,
hundreds of persons being drowned, as well as
fearful and complete destruction of property,
including thousands of head of live stock"