The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-10-28
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THE STRICKEN TEXAN6,S
An Asgresate q 900 Lives Sacrificed During the,
|ss Late Storm ct Sabine Pass, JohnsoA's Bayou,
and Radford Pathetic Incidents Of The Calam..

ss Late Storm 1t Sabine Pas, JohnsoH,a Bayou..
8 and n Radford Pathetic Incidents Of The Cal.m.
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village 10 on . high ridge, on the sea Gcoaat,
and the bayou from which it takes its
name Y runs through the inhabitable
part oi that section Of the u settle
ment In which Ia also situated the
postohcs station known as Radford.
They are IN Cameron parish, on the Lou.
isiana shore, six miles east Of Sabine Pass.
The bayou Is nineteen miles In length and
varies from one to four miles In width,
sea level, and In the rear is a dense: and Inns
penetrable marsh The population, on last
Tuesday numbered i, 200. To-day IS OF
that number are counted with the dead,
Forty OF their bodies have been recovered
and consigned to graves in the Shell reels
while the decompo bodies OF the remain
ing 45; lie in the marshes. Radford was very
thickly settled and populous. These ridg:
/ esi composed aome OF the richest and most
fertile grasing land in the country, s, 900
head OF cattle and horses being OWNED by.
the community, Communication with the
outer world Yves had through two steam
vessels, both owned IN Johnson's Bayou
and Rad ford, while q feet Of sailing
vessels piled, the water OF the
bayou. w hen the storm descended upon
Them every body took to his home, and,
waited with abated breath the fate which
I he foresaw The waters began rising, tho
the buildings, driving the affrighted people
into attics and upon roofs. By 10 o'clock
the first ridge, which was twelve feet
above the sea leYel, was ten feet
under water. House after II house fell
IN. Or # was! swept away, either bury
ing the doomed people IN the debris or
hurting them into the kissing waters. Cot
ton gins and stores next succumbed, and
Radford and Johnson 8 Bayou were de-
army had done the work " II was a night
OF terror, described by survivors as appal-
ling. J or twelve hours the torn ragged
over the devastated elements, and then;
there came o iull.. Hope soon revived as
the waters receded and the Il storm
passed away The suryi voraS gathered on
the most asleva rated points, viewing the
scenes around them. The houses that had
stood the action OF the storm were cons.
drink, salt water having invaded every
thing. Then the search for the dead began.
1 Those VIII oses bodies lay pinioned by the
ruins OF houses were speedily recovered.
From out Of $the marshes noreScorpses
were taken, and likewise buried.
SOME OF THE VICTIMS.
The death roll was then mad cup as fol.
lows: Mrs. Frank Turner and two chill
Siren, Locke, vile and seven chill dren;
old Mrs. Locke, Mrs. W. 1 Ferguson and
three children, Bradford Berry and daugh.
ter Mrs. Albert! Lambert and two children,
sam Bnrwick's eight children, Mrs. Shell
Valley and four children, George Stwsnor
and four children, Mr.. Granshall, vile and
grandson; Mrs. s. Caller and four children,
Ionic SMITH and child, Mrs. Tooch ake's
four children, j ack Yoochake and seven
children, Mrs. Hawkins and three chill dren,
DR.. George Smith, wife and four children.
All the above were white people. The
following is . list Of thu colored people
whuse bodies have been recovered and
Elmer johnson and wife, Jack Lewis,
wife and brother; Richard Hambrick, wife
and Ave children. S , &fsfi:.
Yesterday morning the regular packet
stern wheel steamer called the Emily F. .ar-
rived at y hnson,s Bay Ou and brought to:
Orange as many az she could carry-about
sixty people. Not one 81 them had any
thing but what they stood Ia: And the
people, save a iews=who have large stock
interests, say they 9 have d aband Toned.
ants Of q race Of people who in
the past made sJohnson,s Bayou a,
vast orange grove. Frost came and ruined
them, and then they turned to cotton; end
sugar and stock raising, only fo meet,
the fates5of their foreint hers! OF, 5000
head Of stock OF which once the bayou
boosted, 9, 600 are drowned, while the res
mainder will die Of thirst. as all the water
is salt. There are 1877 persons missing at
Sabine Pass and supposed to b dead.
The total loss Of lives at tho three places
approximate 900. Only about twenty
1--WE bodies have thus lar been recovered.