The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-17
STORIES OF THE FLOOD.
A VIVID Thar BLEW 4 TE4SPe0x
1WELTJc MILES.

Snakes and wild Cats Fishhag witk
Trsfn Passeng gers for Possesston Of n
Place Of Refuge-FIsating Fff,een
Miles on Feather Beds 10 "a Piaee OF
safety.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16.-The details Of
the great floods at johnson B lyon are har-
rowing. The latest Information is that IS
lives are known to have been lost, be-
tween Johnson Bayou and Cape Sable. Over
40 were pinioned beneath wrecked houses,
and gathered in from the marshes. Over
5000 cattle grazed on the hills Most of
them have been swept away. The rest
must die of starvation, for their pasture
grounds are under wa sr. The people who
sscapes and survived peril are threatened
with starvation. Their stores are under
water, and salt water, too.
Houston, Tex, October 16.-The Post's
staff correspondent at Beaumont says that
the Rsw house of Bradley Garnett was
swept away, with his family of five per-
sons. and after floating two and nalf
miles the house landed on a ridge back of
the town, all intact and with nobody hurt
Mrs. John Stewart and her daughter we're
separated at their home when the food
struck the town. The daughter seizad
feather bed and the mother q window
frame and thus supported themselves.
After being out all night they laaded at
Aurora, on the lake shsre, within half
mile of each other, each supposing the
other had been lost. They traversed if
teen miles before they were found. TIE
give some idea of the velocity of the wind,
silver spoon was blown from the resi-
deuce of William Harris distance of
twelve miles.
Mrs. Otto Brown foated TWENTY-FIVE
miles on feather bed. She had her child
with her. but it got benumbed and died in
a cenvulsion. During its struggles it
knocked the mother into the water. The
waves pitched Mrs. Brown back on the
bed. She was finally found in little inlet
andtwas saved.
Capt. F. A. Hyatt and William GUY re-
port that they had a singular experience ~
NJ embers of the Relief Committee. on thor
way to the Pass. The train in which they
were travelling stopped en- dump five
miles from the town. The water all around
this neck of land, on which was placed the
track, was fully eight feet deep. The
hands of Messrs. Hyatt and Guy are bll-s
tered from fighting snakes, which literally
covered the dump for distance Of i've
miles. There were thousands of water
moccasins from the overhowed district
taking refuge on the narrow stretch of
land, and every step across It had to be
fought through the twisting ssrpents. many
of them the deadly stump-tailed moccs-
sins, larger than mans arm. Wildcats
also rushed pell-mell upon pedestrians,
while csons and every variety of animal
snapped at passers-by with hydrophobic
rage. Many Zines the pedestrians left the
dump and swan around the angry reptiles
rather than to try to pass them. Capt.
Hyatt alone killed over one hundred and
fifty snakes during his walk of five miles.
which consumed about ten hours In step
ping about in the dark, he was tripped up
and thrown by snake tive inches in di-
ameter and fully five feet long. To show
the fierce Of the wind. an ordinary teaspoon
was blown twelve miles.