The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22
DEATHS HARVEST.
Over One Hundred Lives Lost at
Sabine Pass.
MANY DROWNED AT JoHNsoN's BAYOU.
Great Suffering Among the Survivors
Scenes of Desolation in the Path of
the Storm-Havoc in Buffalo
At Other Points,


boat Lamar has returned to Beaumont
from Sabine Pass. Only two houses
are left IN the latter place. One
hundred and one persons are missing. The
boat could not get within twelve miles of
the town, but over dozen tow-boats have
been sent there, and are at work saving life
and property.
The Relief Committee aboard the Lamar
consisted of twenty citizens from Beau
mont and about forty from Orange. They
Travelled up the Neches river between four
p m. and midnight, which was an extraor-
binary trip, fraught with fearful danger.
Twenty-Five of the committee were left at
Sabine Pass to recover some of the bodies,
many of which are reported to have been
washed dozens of miles over into Louisiana.
The exact extent of the storm-sWept dis
trictis yet unknown. From reports brought
by the committee it is certain that the
flooded district embraced an expanse of
country many times larger than at first
supposed. The gulf seems to have moved
over the land for miles in one high, I'M
broken wall of water.
Ninety-one half-clad, shivering wretched
victims of the storm were brought up on
the Lamar. Blankets and bedding were
Immediately gathered from house to house
for the comfort of the heart-brolzen suffer
ers, every one of whom has some dear
friend or relative among the dead. Nearly
all the refugees are sick and FRUSTRATED
from exhaustion and hunger.
Dr. B. F. Calhoun, one of the relief COM
mlttee, says there are many persons in the
vicinity OF Sabine Pass who are utterly des-
titute, being without clothing to cover their
nakedness DR.. Calhoun requests aid for
the destitute. He says it makes no differ
ence what is sent--Whether food, clothing,
medicine or money; they need them ALL
DR.. Calhoun is mayor of Beaumont, and he
will distribute through committees what
ever is sent to him.
From all the accounts gathered, language
could not eXaggerate the state of affairs at
Sabine Pass. Out Of more than $50 houses
in the village less than six remain stand
ing, and they are ruined. Wives and chill
dren were swept away and drowned in the
presence Of their husbands and fathers,
who were powerless to save them. The
waves broke against the lighthouse in
solid walls fifty feet high, tearing
out the windows at the very top Of the
structure. Corpses have been picked up at
distance of thirty miles from the scene of
the disaster. The peouniary damage at Sa
bine, including that to the Government
works, will aggregate nearly 100000, as
many Of the neighboring plantations sus-
tanned serious injury.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 16-Captain Bailey.
bar pilot at Port Eads, reports that there
We're tWenty-six lives lost during the re-
cent storm on the bayous leading from the
gulf in the direction of and back of the
quarantine station.
NysS1y Our, ~ u ST ~
ocr0t Johnson's Bayou special says that of
the 200 inhabitants of Johnson's Bayou and
Radfords, eighty-fve were drowned and
that forty bodies have been recovered.
1t is safe to say that no such destruction
OF life and property was ever known be-
fore on the Gulf Of Mexico, and help will
be needed and is asked from all quarters of
the country. The people are without food,
lothlng or shelter, and the surrounding
country is too poor to supply their very ur-
gent needs. At The latest, six bodies had
been picked up at the mouth of the Sabine
river, having hoated across the lake, dis
tance of thirty miles.
The Emily 7. has just arrived from John
sons Bayou with sixty-two survivors,
Thlrty-seven bodies Of persons drowned at
that place have been recovered and sixty
five are still missing, but their names can
not yet be given. Previous accounts have
not been exaggerated. The relief party re-
ports fearful devastation.
AT BUFFALO.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct. 16.-1he gale which
visited Buffalo Thursday night did vast
amount of damage. For a time the wind
reached velocity of seventy miles an hour.
On the lake front, in the vicinity of what is
known as sea wall, forty small houses
were totally destroyed by wind and water,
and their occupants had to flee for
their lives. Several persons are known to
have persisted, among them sailor named
Charles Mitchell and an old man named
John Edmunds. The bodies of two chill
dren were recovered yesterday morning and
also two bodies, which are unknown at
present. On the Hamburg turnpike, near
this city, twenty Or thirty families have
been rendered destitute and an appeal for
aid has been issued.
IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, Mich, Oct 16.-Reports are
coming in slowly Of the effects of Thurs
days storm. From all parts of the State
comes the same story Of damaged build
ings, ruined fences, broken telegraph and
telephone poles, uprooted trees, and
general state Of decentralization,
but as yet no lives have been
reported lost. Several yachts and
other vessels along the river were
badly damaged by beating against the docks
at the lower end of the Detroit river. The
schooner Mary is on Fighting Island, and a
number of other vessels have been severely
handled by the gale. Cheboygan and
Sand Beach both report terrific blow.
Many vessels are safe in harbor at those
points. At Hudson the wind reached
velocity of sixty miles an hour. The fair
buildings at Schoolcraft have been so badly
damaged that the fair will be postponed.
The roof of the Adrian College Chapel was
blown off and the wall blown down At
Carnes' furniture factory, in that town. the
roof was blown off and $4,000 worth of
furniture damaged. It is impossible to give
any idea Of the aggregate damage, but it
has been heavy.
HURRICANE IN GREAT BRITAIN.
LoNDoN, Oct. 16.-The wind which began
blow ag gale Thursday night has been in
creasing all day, and is now blowing hur-
ricane, the storm extending over the entire
southwest coast Of England and Ireland
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