The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-10-23
WORSE AND WORSE.
Further Details of the Recent Dis
aster on the Gulf Coast.
The List of Victims Now Known to Reach
Fully Three Hundred-Terrible Scenes
Witnessed by Relief Parties
Help For the Sufferers.

republican oil InlS morning puOHSneS Ine
following special from the scene of the
late dreadful calamity along the Gulf
coast:
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct. lG.-The First
tangible developments Of the full extent
of the great gulf-coast horror at Sabine
Pass, Johnson's bayou, Taylor's bayou
and other points on the Texas and
Louisiana coast were made to-day, and
they present picture fully as horrible If
not far worse than heretofore reported.
The results of the efforts of the explor-
Ing parties to gather up the dead and
rescue the living makes tale such as
is seldom read in the annals of calami-
ties. The full number of lives lost in the
track of the tidal wave and hurri-
cane at the points mentioned aud the
country districts surrounding them will
reach, if not exceed, 300. The bodies
that have been recovered are in such hor-
rible condition that In nearly all the cases
the humblest sort of civilized burial has
to be denied. The corpses are collected,
graves dug at spots near by that will be
safe from future washing out, and with
out collins, or even the rudest box, the
remains of the victims are thrown into
the holes and the last sad rites per-
formed, with only the signs and the tears
that humane promptings and friendly
sympathy or Borrowing and bleeding
hearts send forth.
The localities are so remote from any
towns of importance that burial goods
sufficient for the occasion are not to be
had, and the system of seputure related
becomes necessity.
Beaumont and Orange, the two nearest
! points of any size, are converted into
veritable charity hospitals and Ravens OF
refuge, and their people are doing all
that human power can possibly do In
such dire circumstances. The steamer
Lamar to-day brought to Orange seven
ty-hve survivors of the Sabine Pass dis
aster. They are being brought here to.
night. Eightv.fve corpses have been
busted at Johnson's bayou, on the Louis
lana side, and many are yet missing.
Forty eight bodies from Sabine Pass
have been buried on the lake shore and
the back ridge. Others are missing,
which will swell the number of deaths at
these two points to about one hundred
and fifteen.
Galveston parties to-day reported that
the subscription there has reached 81, 00C
and will be largely increased. Waco re-
ports that she will subscribe literally
and all the other leading cities of the
State will doubtless put in their share.
B, F. Calhoun, the mayor of Beaumont, is
energetic in the relief movement, and
wishes the Republican to state that if the
charitably inclined of st. Louis, by q
movement of the Merchants Exchange,
or in any other manner they may desire
see fit to lend a helping hand, the aiC
will find a needy and as thankful banC
of sufferers as ever received the gifts o.
sweet charity. Nearly every one.escapeC
has little else to show for their good for
tune but their lives, as they were either
extremely poor, or at best only in mod
crate circumstances.
Knoxville, Tenn, wires that she is ready
to assist the sufferers. Many citizens Of
local prominence throughout the country
have wired contributions. The Beau
mont relief committee have been il
session until O'Clock in the morning thu
past three nights, receiving and distribut
ing provisions, clothing, cash and othe
contributions and sending out circular,
appealing for aid. Subscriptions so fal
amount to $4,000.
The town of Beaumont was thoroughly
canvassed by the relief committee this
afternoon to see who would house and
feed suffering survivors to be brought
here, and ample arrangements wer
made.
Kountze Bros, bankers OF New YorR
city, wired tonight to draw on them fol
$1,000 cash.
This evening ROadmaster Kallaher and
TTain-Boss Donahue, OF the Sabine
East Texas railroad, found five NOR,
bodies-three blacks and two whites
about five miles north of Sabine Pass
They were all wedged up in a heaI
against the road.bod.
Late last night party of body hunters
returned from Sabine Pass. They fount
in one place the bodies of fifteen coloreC
victims of the storm, all grappled to-
gether. This makes the dead list a
Sabine and Johnson's reach $50.
Many of the bodies found were LODGED
in the tops of tail trees. A number o
persons saved their lives by lashin!
! themselves and their families to trees BY
? ropes.
FEARFUL EXPERIENCES,
3 A gentleman who went through the ter
, rors Of Sabine Pass says he and about fort
others took refuge in the second story o
abuildng and with axes cut holes throug
the roof as a means of exit if the build
ing should begin to 20 TO pieces. Tn
house floated off, but only threeot his com
panions were drowned He speaks o
the scenes and experiences of the nigh
as too horrible to attempt to describe
Very little rain fell, but a spray an,
water from the dashing, roaring, noun
famous waves made the situation S
binding that one could not see twent
feet,
A gentleman who took refuge in tn
Baptist Church SAYS had the people Q
Sabine Pass congregated in that buldin
/ when the storm first struck the town n
one would have been lost, as it withstoo
the iuries of the elements and is unin
iured. Outside OF this church and
couple of small isolated houses scarcel
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