The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-15
TOWN ENGULFED.
Sabine Pass, Texas, Washed
Away by q Big Flood.
FIFTY People DROWNED.
Looking Death in the Face with
no Hope Of Escape,
THE SCENES OF TERROR.
A Hotel Topples Over into the
Water with Its Inmates.
THE RANGE OF THE STORM,

THE RANGE OF THE STORM,
GALVESTON, TEXAS, Oct, 1.-THE town
Of Sabine Pass at the mouth OF the Sabine
river the dividing line between Louisiana
and Texas ia reported entirely washed
away by the terrific storm Of Tuesday
night, Over 50 lives are reported lost out
ia total population CT 200. All tels.
graphic communication with the town ia
cut of. Sabine Pass Is sixty miles up the
Coast from Galveston and twenty-slght
miles southwest Of Beaumont, the county
seat oi Jefferson county. It Ia thought
that the bar In front OF the town will pre-.
vent any tugs from landing and the own.
ers Of tugs here regard 1t as useless to at
tempt to enter the treacherous channel
since the storm.
Telegraphic communication with points
outside Of Texas was nearly suspended
last Aight owing TO storms In Louisiana,
Arkansas and Indian Territory, The fol-
lowing account OF the great disaster ut Sa-
Hauston from Beaumont: Our town ia in
a state Of intense excitement Tonight at
the news iust received from Sabine PAS.
TERRIBLE LOSS or LIPR.
It Is news Of a terrible loss Of lie and
and destruction Of property in that place
from HIGH water, We have now no tele.
graphic communication with the Pass,
wires all being down, but an engine ar
rived here tonight over the East Texas
Railway that lsft there abort o,c,ock
Nv r"""y ~, s'"' ~ 'e 80, ~ ~ N'SSN %
TWO cIihens Wuo LGWeu ~ ~ s'nast poat
sGIoss M ~ panse VI Sie toSsIuH WaIeEs'
s"h;ns To II tbe raiIroad tract came IN IN on W
an engine aud gave hesrlrondlng accounts
OF the affairs there.
.ha dney s1y Inc wa.SEs rIi Osg1h 70 lnVaue
vathsr abont 3 o'clock Tuesday aftsTnoon
and they rose with nnprecedented randi,
tv. CItizens of tbe doomed nlace did mt
rsaliZa ths Imminent danger until IL was
too late IN escane, When safety hv fIivht
wss vUU rec TscoSnissd a. bsing ont NJ tSs n,sss.
tion neonle who were situated 40 thNv
conld do K, betook themselyes 10 honsea
and yesnrfa adjacent and indved to ha
ssfsst Tie wafer kent riSinv and bn.
tWcem q and i o'clock the smallDr honsss
bevan To Weld TO Inc resistIesg iorcs Of
tLs waves and not only moyed irom THAR
fnnndations hnt turned on their aides and
ton.
T Iittle later tho larvsr honssa HOGAN IN
o;ve ava a wsv and deStb Nv drowninv SsameG
n Stoys IN evsyv citizsn of ia nIace
WIZ ,bo az v;sISing ~ tho sma,lsr h6"ssS sS'
savsrsl war iN nsrsons who had remaineS 'i n
them were drowned, and when residences
and bnsinees places began to crumble the
fatality beVan TO bo double.
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Ia - 4"A D"V""AD.
The iolloWlngcomp llst otthe drown
ed was obtained from tho two gentlemen
wbo cama ovor nm an enigma.
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sneu some iesIlns iau,.i'eS aI 49, y. s"S paSe hs..
itLs,, ineLe a,o sosead 1'Hd "iIbont % agv one @ nou
iIvIns s'S,s EnoWiSr % anything Of Il. II Ia fear.
ed tie familiea Of different parts OF the
place have been swept away without lesy!.
ing person Or Ssi tbo. % tSs stp stion se
Snri"1 ts,rIDDe '"'tt Tho " latter part Of the
afternoon be0paru description. The man.
Hesitation OF terror and agony by people
looking face to face with death and realiz-
inp that there was no escape, the dying
cries Of women audible, but rendered a.
mogt IloIselOss BY the roar otthe mad sea,
the hoarse voices Of pal)id men trying to
sSyo1 those dear to them, combined to
make scene too horrible to be described.
On recent Of this news citizens OF Beau
mont Immediately began preparations for
roIIei. relief
The East Texas railway hiss placed an
encine NJ their disposal, and q party Of
man have gone 10 Orange 10 carry news
there and procure boats aud start for the
ucCne. Tho dBmage to property OF Sabine
has been vcry general. The wharf pro.
perty OF the town was Owned by New
York capitalists, who also own the adjniA-
iur lands, and SerC aimingto make Sabine
Pass an important port on the Gulf coast.
y,jRr,lER LorS or LIFE,
NEw "HHhASs' La, w" ,t ~. .Us' 800,
from Orange, lexas"eo Ene I'p"g"" ssss'