Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-17
EASTERN NEWS.
Terrible Stories Of Loss Of Life and
Property from Sabine Pass
DEATH AND DEVASTATION ON
ALL HANDS.
The Blood 0urdling Experiences Of
a Relief Party.
cALlFoRNiA'S INDIANS DISCUSSED BY
AN EASTERN CONFERENCE.
A Very Destructive Fire in a
Maine Town.
JAMES C. RLAIRE STUMPINC
PENNSYLVANIA.
A Very Destructive Fire in a
Maine Town.
JAMES C. RLAlRE STUMPINC
PENNSYLVANIA.
SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
HeartrenGIng Reports from Sabine
Pass.

KISS
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct. 16.-From reports
brought by the committee from Sabine
Pass ii is certain that the flooded district
embraced o country that was many times
larger than was first supposed. The gulf
seems to have moved overland for many
miles in one high unbroken wall Of water.
The committee report that 100 persons are
missing, 80 of whom are known to have
been drowned. Thirty-five of the victims
were white. and ffty-fye colored.
The train which went towards Sabine
yesterday as far as the track allowed re-
turned here at 8 P. NJ. Fifteen bodies
were recovered on the highland called
"Brookridge," west of Sabine, aud were
buried. Six bodies OF women were re-
covered on the west shore of the lake
two colored and four white.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 16.-An Orange,
Texas, special from a Timeg-Democrat cor
respondent, who was with the relief COM
mittee on the steamer Lamar, dispatched
to the scene Of destruction by the flood at
Sabine Pass and johnson Bayou, says that
over 100 persons had been drowned, as
we'll as q fearful and complete destruction
to property, including thousands of head
of live stock. The Cameron Beach Hotel
was seriously threatened, but was saved
by cattle crowding into the lower story,
thereby preventing the building from
floating off with its upper story filled with
terror.stricken humanity. The Emily P's
relief party for Johnson's Bayou are yet
unheard from, and full particulars Of the
disaster in that section cannot be given
until her return. 1t is cafe to say that no
such destruction to life and property was
ever known before on the Gulf of Mexico.
and help will be needed and is asked from
all quarters of the country.
LATER-The Emily P has just arrived
with ~ survivors, and 81 bodies of per-
sons who were drowned at Johnson's
Bayou have been recovered and IS are
still missing, but their names cannot be
given. Previous accounts have not been
exaggerated. Tho relief party report
fearful devastation. The Government tug
Penrose has also arrived, bringing the
BODY of Mrs. Junker. Those on board
give gloomy account of the situation at
the Pass.
Capt. F. A. Hyatt and William Guy re-
port that they had a singular experience as
members Of the relief committee on their
way to the Pass. The train in which they
were travelling stopped on q dump five
miles from the town. The water all
around the neck of land, on which was
placed the track, was fully eight feet deep.
The hands of Messrs. Hyatt and Guy are
blistered from fighting snakes, which
literally covered the dump for a distance
of five miles. There were thousands of
water moccasins from the overiowed dis
trict, taking refuge on the narrow stretch
of land, and every step across it had to be
fought through. Twisting serpents, many
of them deadly stump.tailed moccasins
larger than a mans arm, and wild cats,
also frenzied at the waters fury, rushed
pell MEL upon pedestrians, while ooons
and every variety of animals sprang at
passers-by with h~ydrophobic rage. Many
times the pedestrians left the dump and
swan around the animals rather than to
try and pass them. Captain Hyatt alone
killed $50 snakes during his walk Of ten
miles. Guy says that no money could
tempt him to make the trip over again.
In stepping about in the darkness he was
tripped up and thrown dow by snakes
two inches in diameter and fully five feet
long.
LArER-It is now learned that over IS
of the inhabitants of %Johnson's Bayou
lost their lives in the storm. Forty OF
their bodies have been recovered and con-
sisnea " SAYS ,ho npoIns
Radford was very thickly settled, and when
the storm began on Tuesday every body
took 10 sheir MONIES ana waited win
nh wa haasn Using ana swent thromob
the lower stories Of buildings, driving
the frightened people into attics and
upon roofs. BY 10 O'Clock Fire Ridge,
which was 10 feet above sea level, was 10
feet under water. House after house fell
in, or was swept away, either burying the
doomed people in the debris, or hurting