Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-16
THE GREAT overflow.
Further Particulars Concerning the
Overflow at Sabine Pass City
The Packers Strike.
THE RUSH OF WATERS.
,,s, Of the Drowned at Sabine Pass City,
Texas.

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Texas.
c,,vrsvoS, Texas, October 14.-The
nn Of Sabine Pass, at the mouth OF Sa-
,;ne river, the dividing line between Louisi-
and Texas, is reported entirely washed
,av bv terrific storm. Over fifty lives
10 reported lost out OF total population
Of 300. Telegraphic communication with
III noints outside of Texas was nearly sus-
,ended last night, owing to storms in Lou
;siana, Arkansas and Indian Nation. The
following account OF the great disaster at
Sabine Pass was telegraphed last night to
Houston:
Beaumont Our town, is in a state of in
tense excitement at the news just received
from Sabine Pass. 1t is the news of the
terrible loss OF life and destruction of prop
erty in that place from high water. We
have now no telegraphic communication
west OF the Pass, the wires all being down,
but an engine arrived here tonight over
the East Texas Railway that left there
about o'clock. Two citizens who rowed
in a small boat across an eXpanse of toss
ing waters, a distance of several miles from
Sabine to the railroad track, came in on
an engine and gave
HEARTREND DING ACCOUNT
of affairs there. They say the waters
began to invade the town from the gulf and
lake together about 2 O'Clock Tuesday al
ternoon and rose with unprecedented
raniditv. The citizens OF the doomed place
aid not realize their imminent danger until
# was too late to escape, when safety by
dipht was recognized as being out of the
Question. People who were situated so
do hof0Dl> oo1x -
houses and resorts adjudged to be the SAT-
cat. The water kept rising and between 3
and 4 o'clock, the smaller
HOUSES BEGAN TO YIELD
70 the resstless force OF the waves and not
only moved from their foundations but
turued on their sides and tops. A little
later the large houses began to give way
anddeath by drowning seemed inevitable
for every citizen OF the place. With the
Welding OF the smaller houses, several per-
sons who had remained in them were
drowned and when the residences and bust
ness places began to crumble
THE FATALITY BEGAN TO DOUBLE.
The following is a complete list of the drown
cd az was obtained from the two gentle
men who came over on the engine:
Jim Vondy and family OF six; the wife OF
Otto Brown and two children; Homer
Kings wife and child, Mrs. Junker and son,
Mrs Pomeroy and family OF five; Mrs.
Stewart, daughter and son; man by the |
name of Wilson, Mrs. Arthur McReynold,
Frank Muligan and family, and about
twenty-five colored people whose names |
could not be given. The above list COM |
prises over fifty human beings, victims OF
the storm. Among them are some OF the
leading families. There are Others and |
many of them
DOUBTLESS DROWNED
without any one living knowing it. 1t is |
feared that whole families in different |
parts of the place have been swept away |
without leaving q person or vestlge to IN. |
dicate their horrible fate. On receipt OF |
this horrible news the citizens of Beaumont |
began preparations for relief. The East |
Texas Railroad placed an engine at their |
disposal and IL party Of men have gone to ]
Orange to carry news there and procure !
boats and start for the scene. The damage |
to property at Sabine has been very great. |
The wharf property OF the town was owned |
by New York capitalists who also own the |
adjoining lands, and were aiming to make |
Sabine Pass an important port on the
gulf coast,
PICKED UP.
New ORLEANS, October IA special |
from Orange. Texas, to the Picayune says: |
The details OF the destruction by the storm |
at Sabine Pass and johnson Bayou come |
in slowly and are yet indefinite, though |
they all agree that there has been great loss
of life and property. Two brothers named
Pomeroy were picked up by the
schooner Andrew Baden in Sabine Lake.
They had been in the water thirty six
hours clinging to their capcized yawl. Her
mother and sister and Mrs. Capt. Junker,
her son and little girl of the party were
lost The Pomeroys report that fifty
lives we're lost at the Porter House where
people had collected as the best place OF
safety. 1t went to pieces at 8 O'Clock.
Many persons are missing. Still greater
loss is reported from Johnson's Bayou.
WHOLE FAMILIES WE'RE SWEPT AWAY.
Not a house was left standing within five
miles. Parties were organized last nlgnt
and left on the steamers Lamar ana Emily
P. with provisions and bedding. Ihey are
expec' ed back tonight, when turther par
ticulars will be obtained.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
A Lake Charles, Louisiana, special says
the loss OF property along Cameron Farlsn,
the gull coast and for some distance wesC
OF Sabine Pass by the storm OF tuesday
was fearful. The mail boat from Cameron
reports that the water at Calcasien Pass
was right at tine light house and that the
entire country cast and west was SUD
merged. To-day thousands OF cattie
were drowned and crops ruined. No lives
were lost at Leesburg nor Calcaslen fass
but the following are reported lost at Jonn,
sons Bayou. The entire families OF Alfred
Lambert, Marion Lukes, George Strlever,
L. Charles. Chas. Blanhei,, Radford Gray
and two families by the name Of Frames
ware, besides many others whose names
have not been ascertained.