Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-21

lumDer lauen, was urlven on the levee,
thirty five miles below New Orleans, and
left high and dry. Two unknown lug.
gers shared the same fate. What few
oranges there were on the trees were
blown off. The damage between Point
a Ia Hache and Port Eads in rice gardens
cattle, horses, poultry, houses, &C., is
estimated 100000. No loss of life is
reported.
GALVESTON, Oct 16.-Further particu-
lars Of the great disaster at Sabine Pass
and Johnson's Bayou are constantly
being received. The situation has not
been exaggerated in the least.
The deaths at Sabine Pass and the vi
cinity will aggregate more than ninety
and at Johnson's Bayou about eighty.
five, Only three houses are left fit for
human habitation, though perhaps a
dozen are standing in a precarious con.
dition. The people who escaped with
their lives are completely ruined finan-
cially, q majority Of them not being able
to provide themselves with the bare ne.
eassities of life. A telegram from mer-
chants of Galveston to the Relief Com
mittee here says: Galveston subscribes
81 900.
The town Is out of existence. What
was prosperous village when last Tues.
day dawned, is now the center of wreck
and desolation. There are 1877 persons
missing and supposed to be dead Only
s,about twenty-five bodies have thus far
been recovered. ~
lnnumerable touching, heart-rending
incidents of the storm are related by the
survivors. One house, containing four.
teen colored persons, was seen to 90 down
with crash and every one of them was
lost. Incidents are related of husbands
lashing wives and children to floating
wrecks, and then seeing them killed by
heavy logs being driven against them
The damage to property can only be esti
mated by the value of the town, for al
is lost.
The Sabine and East Texas Railroad
track is washed out for distance of tel
miles. The ties have floated off and tn
rails are twisted like wires, the effect o
the great hurricane. Millions of deaf
fish were cast up by the waves and thou
sands Of birds also strew the ground.
Ayoung woman, in a perfectly mud
state, was found roaming around on tn
prarie yesterday, five miles from Sabine
She was demented' and could not tel
her name.
A circular will be addressed by the Fl
nance Committee to the principal bust
ness houses in the leading trade center
OF the country While subscription
from local and neighboring points hav
been free and liberal, they are sufllcien
only to supply the requirements of fe'
days. is desired to urgently imprei
upon the people of Texas and elsewhel
the Immediate necessity of responding
once to the demands iof this calamit
Conservative estimates place the loss
such figures that II will require from $7I
900 to $1,000 to meet the emergenci,
of the case.
No tongue can tell how the peopl
have suffered during the past few day
In many cases the dead ones are consit
cred the lucky ones.
| Late reports from Johnson's Bayo
bring the terrible intelligence that eigl
ty.five persons are now known to be lo
in that settlement, and 1t is greatly feal
ed that the list will be swelled to q hui
dred or more, thus making the total nun
Der Of victims by the hurricane fully tw
hundred. Reliable information frol
Johnson's Bayou arrives slowly, all I'll
roads being impossible and only tw
boats are running 20 that section. Th
destitutiop of the survivors, of whol
there are over thousand around JohI
sons and Radford village, is describe
as something awful. They lost ever!
thing and are without food, drink an
clothes.