The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22
WORSE AND WORSE.
E 1rther Details of the Recent Dis.
aster on the Gulf Coast.
The List of Victims Now Known to Reach
Fully Three Hundred-TerribIe Scenes
Witnessed by Relief Parties -
Help For the Sufferers.

ST. Louis, Oct. 1.-THE Missouri
Republican of this morning publishes the
following special from the scene of the
late dreadful calamity along the Gulf
coast:
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct. IG.-The First
tangible developments of the full extent
of the great guif-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 and the
country districts surrounding them win
reach, if not exceed, 800. The bodies
that have been recovered are in such hor-
Fible condition that IN nearly all the cases
the humblest sort of civilized burial has
to be denied. The coTpses are collected,
| graves dug at spots near by that win be
safe from future washing out, and with
/ ont 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 sighs and the tears
that humane promptings and friendly
| sympathy or sorroWing and bleeding
( hearts send forth.
The localities are so remote from any
GOWNS Of Importance that burial goods
sufficient for the occasion are not TO be
had, and the system of sepulture related
becomes necessity.
! Beaumont. and Orange, the two nearest
! points of any size, arc converted into
! veritable charity hospitals and havens of
refuge, and their people are doing all
| that human power can possibly do in
| such dire circumstances. The steamer
| Lamar to~day brought 10 Orange seven
| ty-fve survivors of the Sabine Pass dis
aster. They are being brought here to-
! night. Eightv-ive 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 s., coo
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. T. Calhoun, the mayor of Beaumont, is
energetic In the relief movement, and
wishes the Republican to state that if the
! charilably inclined of st. Louis, by q
movement of the Merchants Exchange,
| or in any other manner they may desire,
see At to lend a helping hand, the aid
! will find needy and as thankful a band
1 sweet charity. Nearly every one escaped
| 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 in
| session until1 O'Clock in the morning the
/ past three nights, receiving and distTibut-
! ing provisions, clothing, cash and other
/ contributions and sending out circulars
| appealing for aid. Subscriptions so far
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 were
| made.
Kountze Bros, bankers OF New York
! .ity, wired tonight to draw on them for
! $4,000 cash.
This evening Roadmaster Kallaher and
| Train-Boss Donahue, of the Sabine
| East Texas railroad, found five more
| bodles-three blacks and two whites
| about five miles north of Sabine Pass.
| They were all wedged up in heap
! against the road-bod..
Late last night party of body-hunters
| returned from Sabine Pass. They found
! I'm one. place the bodies of fifteen colOred
! victims of the storm, all grappled to-
| geiher. This makes the dead list at
| Sabine and JohnsOn's reach $50.
| Many of the bodies found were lodged
| in the tops OF tai trees. A number of
persons saved their lives by lashing
! themselves and their families to trees by
ropes.
FEARFUL EXPERIENCES.
A gentleman who went through the ter
| rorS of Sabine Pass says he and about forty
| others took refuge in the second story of
! building and with axes cut holes through
| the roof as a means of exit if the build
! ing should begin to go to pieces. The
| house foated of, but only threeot his COM
| panions were drowned He speaks of
| the scenes and experiences of the night
/ as too horrible TO attempt to describe.
/ Very little rain fell, but a spray and
| water from the dashing, roaring noun
/ famous waves made the situation so
! binding that one could not see twenty
feet. t -4-e
| gentleman who took refuge in the
| Baptist Church SAYS had the people Of
| Sabine Pass cOngregated in that building
when the storm first struck the town no
! one would have been lost, as 1t withstood
! the furies of the elements and Is unin-
! iured. Outside of this church and a
| couple of small isolated houses scarcely
an object is left ON the town site, SO vio-
| lent were the waters and so high the
| waves. clean sweep was made, wash
ing away almost every evidence that a
| town had ever been there. Many things
have been found that were blown or car
| ried inland by the wind twenty miles,
DEVASTATED REGION.
! A trip by rail- east and west Of Bean.
| mont to-day to see how the storm had
/ served this section,~ nearly forty miles
! back from the coast line was productive
! OF some interesting sights. The broad
prairies and the lowlands in the dense
forest jungles and heavy lumber regions
| are almost completely submerged. The
| bodies of drowned cattle, HOeS and
! horses are seen on every hand and the
/ buzzards are lowering By hundreds over
the region. The air is filed with gulis
| and other sea fowls; thousands OF dead
/ fish and turtles are streWn on bf2her ana
/ dry spots of land, and iBnumerable dead
! birds, killed by the raging elements, can
| everywhere be seen. AIigatOFs and other
reptiles navigate around in the deeper
holes and the big bitches, Ranking either
side of the Southern Pacific road
| Hundreds Of trees with bodies as
] large as -four barrels are lying
/ PROSTATE, their limbs torn
and twisted, aud telegraph poles,
/ fences houses and movable farm proper
! ty generally IS total wreck. Railroad
] aracEs srEEarnd IN Iittla nxcent ON the