Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-16
OH! EEIL DAY.



Capt. O'Brlen moved that Mayor Cal
houn and Judge fipkins be added to the
general committees Carried.
vote Of thanks was extended 10
Judge Il. p. Hin OF Houston. for dona-
ton OF 500 for sufferers at Sabine Pass.
The committee on finance were In
structed to solicit supplies and make
collections from whatever source, and to
disburse the same under instructions
OF the other committees.
AID IN ANY KIND
viii be most gratefully received for the
sufferers. II makes no matter what II Is,
provisions, clothing, money, In fact, the
sufferers are so destitute that anything
Will be acceptable. Those willing TO take
care Of the sufferers from the storm Will
please hand their names 10 NELL they have
not already done so, and designate the
number they eau care for. Any person
knowing OF sufferers not at present pro-
vided for will please report 10 me at once.
will have room for all. Signed by Hal
w. Greer, chairman OF committee on
lodging.
The special train sent down as far as
possible towards Sabine Pass returned at
8 O'Clock TO night.
FIFTEEN BODIES
were recovered on the high land called
Buck ridge, west Of Sabine, and buried
to-day.
SIX BODIES
were recovered on the west shore OF the
lake, two black and four white, one Of
the bodies being Mrs. w. A. Junker. Car
Isle Junker Is stlll missing.
The steamer Emily L. returned from
johnson bayou, La, to Orange, aud re.
ports those drowned at that place were
chiefly negroes.
The deaths at Sabine pass aud vicinity
will aggregate
MORE THAN NINETY
and those AZ Johnson bayou twenty or
twenty-five.
Only three houses at for human hahita-
tioD are left standing at Sabine, though
perhaps a dozen are standing In dllapi-
dated condition. The people there who
escaped with their lives are completely
ruined financially, the majority of them
not being able to provide themselves with
the bare necessaries of life.
A telegram from the merchants Of Gal
weston TO the relief committee here says
galveston subscribes $1,000; draw on
Ball, llu,chings & Co, for that amount"
The Mexican schooner Hercules, is
high and dry at point called the
oil ponds. Her captain, Jose
Guibelondo, reports that he was
bound for New Orleans with cargo OF
100 mahogany logs, all OF which are now
supposed to be lost. The captain and
pany with passes to New Orleans and left
tonight at9 O'Clock for that city. The
following
CIRCULAR LETTER
will be addressed by the finance commit
tee to the principal business men In the
leading trade centers of the country;
FINANCE DEPARTMENT or RELIEF
COMMITTEE FOR SABINE PASS sUFFERERs.
BEAUMONT, TEN, Oct. l6, 1886
DEAR SIR On the night OF the l2th
inst. the town OF Sabine Pass was visited
by one OF the seyerest cyclones ever
known on this coast, causing the
waters of the Gulf Of Mexico aud
Sabine lake to completely suDmerge the
town and surrounding country, destroy.
Ing every habitable house excepting two,
and sweeping away all household effects,
provisions, clothing, etc, causing the
loss OF no less than flfty lives, and leav-
ing the remainder OF the citizens of that
section
HOMELESS AND ENTIRELY DESTITUTE
OF all the necessarieso Of life. The citizens
OF this city are doing all In their power
to relieve the suffering, but after three
days OF incessant efforts, find it impossi-
BILE to cope with the disaster. The un-
dersigncd, appointed as committee
to secure funds for the imme-
date relief OF the storm-stricken
people, call upon you as "a friend
of this section to come promptly TO our
aid. II you feel disposed to assist us In
this emergency, kindly advise either OF
the undersigned promptly by wire, and
the contributions will be care fully end
properly disposed OF. Very respectfully,
b. +, Edwards Of Beaumont Lumber COM
pany and Mona Mills company; William
Weiss, manager Reliance Lumber com
pany; w. S. II. Carter, secretary Texas
Tram and Lumber company and Village
Mills company; Leon X. Levy, general
merchant.
While subscriptions Of local and neigh
boring points have been free and liberal,
they are sufficient only to supply the
requirements OF few days. II is de-.
sired to urgently impress upon the people
OF Texas the Immediate necessity of re-
spending AT once to the demands of this
calamity. Conservative estimates ap.
proXlmate the losses at such figure that
1t will require from $4,000 to 500, 900
to meet the exigences Of the case Again
let 1t be urged that contributions com
mer Go at once and continue until coun-
fernandez by the finance comittee.
FROM GALVESTON.
special to tho ,aEetle.
GALVESTON, TEX, OGt. l5.--Capt. Johu
Anderson OF the schooner Silas arrived
here to-day from Beaumont by rail, The
Silas, with the captain and crew OF three
men, was lying at the wharf at Sabine Pass
when the terrible hurricane Of Tuesday
broke over the III fated place, carrying
the bosom of destruction In its wake
Capt. Anderson says fresh wind from
the north was blowing Tuesday morning
The day opened
CHAR AND BEAUTIFUL,
but as the wind shifted 10 the northeast
II Increased in violence, and by O'Clock
q strong gale was blowing and the waters
were rising rapidly. The captain says
he began to realize that great storm was
coming, and calling the assist
anoe Of several whaTf-hands, he at.
tempted to cast loose from the
wharf and make for deep water.
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