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The Gulf Catastrophe,

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| The Gulf Catastrophe.
| GALVESTON, October 17th-The follow
| ing special to the Associated Press from
Orange, Tex, gives the latest particulars
| regarding the great disaster at Johnson's
Bayou and Sabine Pass: The steamer EN-
lily P. returned at o'clock this afternoon,
bringing 160 additional sufferers from
Johnson's Bayou, who are entirely
destitute of everything that is nee
essary to sustain life. They were re-
ceived at the wharf by our Relief
Committee, who are doing all in their
power to make them comfortable. Most of
them are women and children. The
| Emily p. will return to the Bayou imme-
| diately to bring back $50 more persons who
| are waiting there and who are now home
less, penniess, and without clothing. We
now have to take care of 2I0 persons from
| that section.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY LIVES LOST.
BEAUMONT (Tex) October 17th.-Re-
| fugees from the flooded district about Sa-
| bine Pass continue to arrive on every small
| craft that comes up the river 1t is esti-
| mated by persons here who have been over
| the scenes of devastation at Sabine Pass,
Johnson's Bayou and Taylor's Bayou,
| that the death list will exceed go souls.
| Eighty-five corpses have been recovered
and buried around Johnsons Bayou,
and 54 bodies thus far have been buried at
Sabine, while 66 persons are still missing
at Sabine, and those are of course dead, as
| it would be impossible for any human
| being to survive this long in the swamp
and lagoons without flood OF shelter An
| examination of the country back of
Sabine and in the immediate vicin-
| ity of Beaumont shows that the
salt water came back from the coast
fully forty miles through the swamps, and
| hundreds of thousands of acres are still
submerged by the water that was forced
| back and has no outlet. This fact makes
| the search for bodies very difficult. The
carcasses of thousands of drowned cattle
| hogs, horses and fowls are strewn every
where, and clouds of sea-gulls and buz-
yards hover over the desolate country for an
area of thirty square miles. 1t is known
| that the number of sufferers around
| Johnson's Bayou who have lost everything
will reach l 200, while the Sabine sufferers
| number 300, one-half of whom are now in
Beaumont. Parties who returned to-day
from the Johnson Bayou district say that
| go persons are still missing there, and the
searching parties have almost reached the
conclusion that many of these missing
| to sea by the receding waters.
/ Salisbury Destroyed by Fire.
SALISBURY Md, October 17th.-A fire
which started in a small frame stable about
I o'clock to.night swept over the entire
| business portion of this village. A brisk
wind from the southeast spread the flames
| rapidly, while the inhabitants stood by
| powerless to prevent the destruction, as the
| dry frame buildings burned too fiercely to
| be checked by the small fire apparatus
| Assistance has been asked from Sheffield
and Wilmington, Del, but at a late hour
| it looks as though the entire village would
| be destroyed. 1t is impossible to enumer-
ate the property losses at this late hour,
but rough guess places it over million
| dollars. Stores with their contents were
licked up by the flames, and the streets to-
night are full of people whose houses have
been destroyed.
| THE PLACE DOOMED.
| MIDNIGHT The fire is still burning
| fiercely, and there seems TO be no hope OF
staying its progress. No lives have been
| lost
Loss of Vessel and Crew.
| ERIE (Pa). October 17th-During the
storm on Lake Erie last night a schooner,
with distress signals hoisted, was sighted
several miles out. The men We're in the
rigging, and the vessel appeared TO be
going to pieces. The sea was running
high, and no attempt was made at rescue
until this morning, when no trace of the
vessel could be seen. All day pieces of the
wreck have been coming in, but no bodies
have been washed ashore. The name of
| the schooner is not known.
| Loss of Steamer.
KEY WEST, October 17th-Advices from
| Nashua report the total loss of the British
steamer Juliet on Gingerbread Ground, in
the Bahamas. She was bound from Car
! diff for New Orleans with cargo of rails,
| which are now being salvered and taken to
Nashua.
They Were All "Solid" Men.
CHICAGO. October 17th-A select party OF
| Board of Trade men last night on the
quiet witnessed a prize-fght in room
near the Board of Trade building. The
| principals were Charley Reed, of Buffalo,
and John Brindy, of Omaha. Thirty-three
| rounds, lasting two hours and ten minutes,
were fought with skin gloves. Reei won,
| but both men were terribly punished and
| had to be taken away in carriages.
Uncle sam had Better Settle.
BosroN, October 17th-The South Bos-
| ton Iron Works, a well-known gun factory,
last night suspended operations on account
of its inability to pay the workmen. The
| shut down may last two weeks or as many
months. Nearly go expert iron-workers
are thrown out of employment. For the
past six weeks the men had received no
| pay, and the suspension is explained by
| the fact that the Government owed the
! works S250,000 for riAed cannon, carriages
and other work performed of late, and the
appropriations not being forthcoming the
| resources of the company became almost
| exhausted.
The New Hop Country.
New YORK, October 17th.-Goyernor
| Squire, of Washington Territory, in talk
ing with a reporter, said: Washington
| Territory is the finest hop-growing country
in the world. We will raise this year about
10000 tons. The growth per acre is SIM
! ply enormous. We have buyers out there
from every part of the country. and men
from Utica Richfield Springs, Oswego and
other hop-growing counties in New York
State are buying their hops from us this
year"
Death of Mike McCoole.
New ORLEANS. October 17th-Mike
McCoole, well-known in pugilistic circles,
| died this morning at the Charity Hospital
here, of kidney disease and complications
| resulting therefrom. He was 40 years OLD.
Attempt at Wife Murder.
INDIANAPOLIS, October 18th. = Henry
Zieler to-day shot his wife, Mamie, three
| times and then cut his own throat with
pocket-knife and fired bullet through his
head, expiring almost instantly. The wo-
man may recover.
An Ocean Mystery.
NEW YORK, October 17th.-T The ship
Macedon, from Antwerp, which arrived to-
day, reports that on September 9th she
passed vessel of about l 300 tons, appar-
emily oil laden, on fire from stem to stern
The Prince on Fis Travels.
DENVER, October 17th.-Prince Louis
Napoleon arrived here tonight from Salt
Lake and remained in the city an hour
At IL o'clock be took special car on the
Burlington road for Chicago.
Haggin the Greatest Turfman.
NEW YORK, October 1Sth-A. MI The
Tribune says of racing matters; J. B.
Haggin has gathered together wonderful
stud, and some people think it looks as if
he would have monopoly of the big
stakes in the near future. He has los
yearlings. having paid in many instances