Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-21

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to all the regulations Of this act so far as
applicable under Its form Of government
Sec. IS. The power to alter, amend, or
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PORT SABINE SWEPT AWAY
From Fifty to One Hundred Livss Lostl--
Fifty Persons Reported 70 Have y
Perished in a Hotel In Which
They Sought Safety-Wide-
spread Destruction All
Along the Coast. Saf
GALVESTON, Oct. 14.-The town OF
Sabine Pass, at the mouth OF the Sabine
River, the dividing line between Louisi-
ana and Texas, is reported entirely WISHED.
away by the terrific storm Of Tuesday
night More than fifty lives were lost
out Of total population of 200 persons.
Sabine Pass is sixty miles up tile coast
from Galveston. and twenty. eight miles
southeast of Beaumont. the county seat
of Jefferson county. 1t is thought that
the bar in front of the town will prevent
any tugs from landing, and owners here
regard it as useless to attempt to enter
the treacherous channel since the storm.
BEAUMONT, Texas, Oct 13-News has
just been received from Sabine Pass of
terrible loss of life and destruction of
property In that place from the high wa.
ter. We have no telegraphic communi
cation with Sabine Pass, as the wires are
all down, but an engine arrived here to.
night over the East Texas Railway that
left there about o'clock. Two citizens
who rowed in small boat across an ex.
panse of tossing waters, distance of
several miles from the town of Sabine to
the railroad track, came in on an engine,
and gave heartrending account of the
disaster. They say the waters began to
invade the town from the Gulf and the
lake at about p. M. on Tuesday, and
rose with unprecedented rapidty. The
citizens of the doomed place did not real.
ize the imminent danger until it was too
late to escape. When safety by flight
was recognized rs being out Of the ques-
tion, the people who were so situated
that they could do it betook themselves
to houses and resorts and ad1udgeds them
to be safe. The water kept rising, and
between and o'clock the smaller
houses began to yield to the resistless
force of the waves, which not only NOV.
ed them from their foundations, but
turned them over on their sides and tops.
A little later the larger houses began to
give way and death by drowning seemed
in store for every person In the place.
With the yielding Of the smaller houses
several persons who had remained in
then were drowned, and when the resi-
dences and business places began tc
crumble the fatality began to double.
The list comprises over fifty human
victims of the storm, among them some
of the leading families Of the place
There are others and many Of them doubt
less drowned, without any one now liv.
ing knowing anything of it, 1t is feared
that whole families in different places
have been swept away. It's said that
the situation during the latter part OF the
afternoon beggared description. The
manifestation of terror and agony by the
people looking face to face at death and
realizing that there was no escape; the
dying cries of women, audible, but rem
dered almost noiseless by the roar of til,
mad sea: the hoarse voices Of pallid mel
trying TO save those dear to them all com
bined, made scene too horrible to b,
described.
On receipt of this news thcsdizens O
Beaumont immediatly began preparation,
for the relief Of the sufferers. The Eas
Texas Railway has placed an engine q
their disposal and party of men hav,
gone to procure boat and start for tn,
} scene of the disaster. The damage I,
property Is very great. The wharf prop
erty of the town was owned by New
York capitalists, who also own the ad
joinig lands, and were aiming to max
: Sabine Pass an important port on tn
Gulf coast.
Two brothers named Pomeroy wer
picked up by the schooner Andrew Ba
den in Sabine Lake. NThey had been Il
5 the water thirty.six hours clinging I
, their capsized yaw1. The Pomeroys re
port that fifty lives were lost at the POI
ter House, where the people had collecte'
as the best place Of safety. 1t went t
/ pieces at 0 o'clock. Many persons or
? missing. Still greater loss is reporte
from Johnson's Bayou. Whole FAM
lies were swept away. Not house wa
{ left standing within five miles of tn
!. lake. t
LAKE CHARLES, Oct. IA The loss Q
property along the Cameron Parish GU
coast and for some distance west OF 81
: bine Pass by the storm of Tuesday nigh
: was fearful. The mail boat from Can
eron Parish reports that the water {
Calcasieu Pass was eight feet deep at tn
: lighthouse, and that the entire countr
: east and west was submerged, Tuesda
!, night, drowning thousands Of cattle an
!. running crops.
n HEAVY DAMAGE AT Pong EADs.
q PoRT EADs, Oct. 14.--The damal
caused by the great storm has been wild
= spread from the jetties to Point q
2 Hache. The wind which was BLOWN
/, hard all day Sunday, increased to hu
a ricane on Monday, There were 2i fe
y of water in Port Eads, and the sea W,
!. running:heavily over the jetties Mar
Of the immense blocks of concret
T. weighing many tons apiece, OF which Il
N sea wall Is built, were lifted out Of p
" sition and swallowed up by the SC
u Others were stood upon end and othe
10 twisted out of place. The bulkhead tn
0 is being built between this wall and Il
!. jetties proper was entirely submerg,
:, and the waters rolled over Il from end
III end. The building in which cement W
10 stored for concrete blocks was swc
ID away, and the plank road that serv
Il Por,E as public street was float
Z off. The water continued. to rise Mo
II day and reached the first floor Of sever
10 houses. Many persons left their HON