Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-15

DR.. b. +. Calhoun reports many people
without clothes at Sabine Pass for whom
the relief boat will return, tskirg cloth
ing at O'Clock tomorrow morning. He
asks the Texas papers to publish re-
quest that those who can do so win send
aid for the sufferers to his address. It
makes no difference what the nature of
the aid is, money, provisions, clothing,
anything
The condition OF the people left alive
beggars description. Everything is swept
away. Language could not exaggerate
the state OF affairs. Only six houses re-
main standing in the town, and they are
on their foundations, Wives and
children were swept away and drowned
in the presence OF husbands and fathers
Who were powerless TO render them
assistance.
| The lighthouse il over half mile from
the gulf The windows are forty-nye
feet from the ground, Capt. Plummer and
his family were In this structure. The
wsves from the gulf, half mile distant,
broke against this building in solid walls
fifty feet high, and nearly tore out the
window glass, Corpses were picked up
thirty miles from the scene OF this wreck.
A. T. McDonough, one OF the Houston
Light Guard, had relative at the Pass
He passed through to Orange tonight
wild with grief.
4 His sister, MISS JACK MCDoNouGH,
was swept away and drowned In sight OF
Capt. b. Il. McDonough, her father, and
Frank McDonough, her brother, who
I tried IN vain to save her,
BERRY FoLEY, Capt. McDonough's
grand child, and his wife were picked up
dead on the railroad track tonight, Ave
miles from the Pass, where her body had
washed.
| Capt. II. A, Hyatt OF Louisiana Jetty
aud Tightening company had everything
swept away, but escaped unhurt The
nearest spproachment to the loss at the
Pass is $3.50, 900.
THE TALE OF TWO BROTHERS.
special to the Gazette.
ORANGE, TEX, Oct, "details of the
destruction by the storm at Sabine Pass
and Johnson's bayou come in slowly, and
are yet indefinite, though all agree
that there has been great loss
OF life and property. Two
brothers named Pomeroy were picked
up by the schooner Andrew Baden, In
Sabine lake. They had been In the wa
ter thirty-six hours clinging to their
capsized yawl. Their mother and sister
aud Mrs. Capt. Iunfer, her son and little
girl Of the party were lost
The Pomeroy's report that hfty
lives were lost at the Porter house,
where the people had collected as the
best place OF safety. II went to pieces
at . O'Clock. Many persons are missing,
and still greater loss Is reported from
Johnson's bayou. Whole families were
swept away. Not house was left
standing within Eve miles OF
the lake Parties were organized last
night and LETT on the steamers Lamar and
Emily with provisions and bedding They
ere expected back tonight, when further
particulars will be obtained.
now sABISE rs SITUATED.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tx, Oct. 1.-THE city
has been in state OF ieyerish excitement
all day over the receipt OF the dreadful
intelligence from Sabine Pass. Many
anxious people have eagerly visited
the telegraph ofllce seeking further
particulars from the stricken town. The
details OF the catastrophe are very di1l-
cult To obtain because of the impaired
facilities Of communication In the vicini-
ty Of Sabine Te'egraphic communication
aitn Beaumont and Orange, the nearest
points TO the unfortunate town, has been
resumed, but the inhabitants Of those
cities appear TO be waiting the return OF
relief parties who have gone 70 Sabine.
The village Of Sabine Pass Is an old
settled place. II is located at the mouth
OF the Sabine river within half
n mile OF the extreme point juttina from
the Texas side. The town lies only four
feet above the mean tide mark, and II sur
rounded by great swamp on the
west side, and Lake Sabine on the
north. The entrance to the lake at Sa-
blue Is a mile and halt above the town.
The lake Is fiiteen miles long by ten miles
in width, with an average depth Of seven
feet, which Is always maintained by
the huge volumes OF water flowing into
the basin from the two naYlgable rivers,
the Neches and the Sabine. X was this
lake, according TO the most experienced
navigators on this coast,
that DESTROYED THE TOWN.
The hurricane OF last Sunday Ia the West |
Indies blew the waters with great violence |
toward the Texas coast. This hurricane |
wave was frst noticed on this |
coRst Sunday morning, attain |
ing It's maximum Tuesday afternoon |
and was maintained at a high point by
impetuous waters behind. The hurricane
itself did not reach these coasts at all, a.
scarcely breath OF wind was stirring
when the tidal wave hrst touched the |
coast. When It's maximum was reached
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