The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-15
HEARTRENDING.
The Less OF Life at Sabine
Pass, Texas.
oyE,FOURTH OF IT'S PEOPLE
The Entire Town in RGins-Result of
the err ifc Storm on Taes-
day Night.
The rowr of Sabine Pass.

GALVESTON, Tex, October lathe
town of Sabine Pass at the mouth of
the Sabine River, dividing the line be-
tween Louisiana and Texas, is reported
entirely washed away by the terrific
storm of Tuesday hight. Over fifty
lives are reported lost out of the total
population Of 200. Telegraphic COM
municatiop with all the points outside
Texas was nearly suspended last night,
owing to the storms in Louisiana,
Arkansas aud the Indian nation.
The following account OF The great
disaster al Sabine Pass was telegrapheo
last nighl 10 Houston: "Our town Is
IN a state Of intense excitement at the
news just received from Sabine Pass
1t is the news Of 8 terrible loss Of life
place from high water. We have now
no telegraphic communication with the
Pass. the wires all being down, but the
engine arrived here tonight over
the East Texas Railway that left
there about 6 O'Clock. Two
citizens who roWed in small
boats across an expanse of tossing
waters Z distance of several miles from
the town of Sabine to the railroad track,
came in on an engine and gave an
heartrending account of affairs there.
They say the waters began to invade
the town from the Gulf and lake
together about O'Clock Tuesday after
noon, and rose with unprecedented
rapidity. The citizens of the doomed
place did not realize the imminent
danger until il was too late to escape,
when safety by fight was recognized as
being out of the question. The people
who were situated so they could do so,
betook themselves to houses and resorts
adiudged to be safest. The water kept
rising, and between 3 and clock the
smaller houses began to yield TO the re-
sistless force of the waves, and not only
moved from their foundations, but
turned on their sides and tops.
A little later large houses began to give
way and death by drowning seemed
for every citizen of the place.
With the yielding of smaller houses
several persons, who had remained in
them, were drowned, and when
and business places began TO
The following incomplete list of the
drowned was obtained from two gentle
men who came over on an engine:
Miss Mahata, Jim Yoady and family
Of six, the wife of Otto Brown and two
children, Homer King, wife and child,
Mrs. Junker and son, Mrs. Pomeroy
and family of FIVE, Mrs. Stewart,
daughter and son, q man by the
name of Wilson, Mrs. Arthur
NJ. Reynolds, Mrs. Mcdonald
and daughter and Frank Mulligan and
family, Colonel Msrtie and family and
about twenty-five colored people, whose
names could not be given, The above
list comprises over fifty human beings,
victims of tbs storm; among them,
some leading families of the place.
There are others and many of them
are doubtless drowned without anyone
now living knowing anything of it.
1t is feared whole families in
different parts Of the place have
been swept away without leaving a
personal YestIge TO indicate their ter
rble fate. On receipt of this news, the
cilizens of Beaumont Immediately be-
gan preparations for relief The East
Texas Railway placed an engine at their
disposal and party of men have gone
to arrange to carry news there and
procure the boats and start for
the scene. The damage to pro-
perty at Sabine has been very
great. The wharf property of the town
was owned by New York capitalists,
who also own the adjoining lands, and
were aiming to make Sabine Pass an
port on the gulf coast.
New ORLEANS, October IA special
from Orange, Tex, to the Picdyune
says: Details of the destruction by 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 propertV. |
Two brothers named Pomeroy, were |
picked up by the schooner ANDREW |
Bddon IN Sabine Lake. They had been |
in the water thirty-six hours ,clinging to |
their capsized yaWl. Their mother and |
sister and Mrs Captain 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 8 O'Clock.
Many persons are missing. Still greater
losses reported from Johnson's Bayou.
Whole families were swept away. Not
3 house was left standing within i've
miles of the lake. Parties were organ
Eed last night and left on the steamers
Lamar and Enselid p. with provisions
and bedding. They are expected back
'o-night, when further particulars viii
be obtained.
NEE ORLEANS, October IA Times
Democrat Lake Charles, La, special
ays: The loss of property along the
Cameron Parish gulf coast. and for
ONE distance west of Sabine Pass, by
he storm Of Tuesday night was fearful.
The mail boat from Cameron Perish
eportS that the water st Cslcasin Pass
Eas eight feet deep at the lighthouse,
nd that the entire country east and
rest was submerged Tuesday night,
rowning thousands of cattle and ruin
az the crops. No lives were lost
{ Leesburg or Cslcasin Pass, but {
be following ere reported lost 1
t Johnson's Bayou, La. The entire
antilles of Alfred Lambert, Marion
.ukes. George Strieyer, L. Charles. =
'lanheit, Radford and Gray, and two !
amiles by the name of FranesEare i.
esides many others whose names have
ot been ascertained.
New ORLEANS, October IA special
D the Picdyune from Beaumont, says:
abine Pass has been nearly destroyed,
bout twenty-seven whites and thirty
egroes we're drowned. The wires are
own. Searching parties have gone out
nd win return tomorrow, until which !
me nothing further can be learned.