Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-19
IN NEED OF AID.
The sufferers NJ Sabine Pass Need the help
OF the whole Country

The sufferers nj sabine Pass Need the help
OF the whole Country
Special 20 the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tx, Oct. lS.-The local
committee, comprising M. Lasker, ..
Blum, James Moore, G. b, Miller, Samuel
X. Penland and others, who left here
Saturday night with schooner laden
with provisions for the snf.
ferers at Sabine Pass and John
sons Bayou, returned near midnight
last night The committee report their
schooner, drawing several feet OF water.
could not navigate Johnson's bayou, 80
they sent oue.half OF their supplies 10 the
Johnson's bayou sufferers by the barge
Topsy and distributed the balance To
about hundred survivors whom
they found at Sabine, mostly en-
gagged In searching for missing
dead. Mr. Lasker, In an interview with
your correspondent, gives many graphic
details of the fearful storm, aud declares
that the devastation and suffering is
greater than any one can imagine. In his
opinion the survivors Of Johnson's BAYOU
and Sabine Pass are In far more ahject
condition of distress than were the couple
Of Thousand sufferers by the great fire In
Galveston last November, and are even
greater sufferers than the people OF
Charleston by their unprecedented earth
quakes. Mr.. Lasker argues that
whereas the Galveston and Charleston
sufferers managed 10 save more or less
property. The thousand or more surylv-
ors at Johnson's Bayou and Sabine Pass
have lost everything In the world they
possessed, even many numbers OF
their families. The committee are
unanimous in declaring that the
people of Texas and elsewhere
cannot do too much for these poor suffer-
ers. Among other interesting data
brought back by the committee, is list
of names of the sixty-twO colored
people who were lost at Sabine
This list presented some remarkable
features from the fact that fourteen of
the colored victims bore the name OF
Joonigan. Ten were named Hannot and
seven johnson, while of Boyer, Clark and
Jones, there were six each. Out of
sixty-two colored victims some
thirty are still missing, and the members
OF the committee say it Is the opinion OF
those searching for bodies, that many of
them are stuck IN the mud bottom Of the
bay and may not be recovered
for week or two. Several
corpse, have been found lately partially
deyoured by the buzzards Thousands
of these scayeugers have been drawn
hither by the dreadful stencil OF decom.
posing bodies, and the countless carcasses
Of cattle, horses and hogs. The com.
mittee were so seriously Impressed
by what they saw on their trip that to-day
they issued second appeal to the clt.
zens to come forward and subscribe to
further relief 1t Is thought thst $1,000
a
Mayor Fulton received letter this |
morning from Mayor Saunders, of Orange |
asking aid TO care for the sufferers com
ing to Grange by every boat At the reg
ular meeting Mayor Fulton presented
the letter of Mayor Saunders
and informed the council that he would
heartily second any steps the aldermen
might take on the premises. Five hun
d ed dollars was Immediately appropriate
ed by the council and the mayor was
authorized 10 remit the same at once.
In accordance with these instructions
Capt. Fulton tonight telegraphed Mayor
as follows "Your favor sole
itlug aid for Sabine Pass and John
cons and Taylor's bayou sufferers was
duly received IL affords me
great pleasure to be able 10 say In reply, /
that the city council OF Galveston, at a
held this morning, gave elo-
quent expression Of their sympathy for
the tuff arcrs, and authorized ;ne as
mayor 10 pay TO your order $500 for the
benefit Of those rendered destitute by
this most distressing calamity.
Signed, ar l.. FULTON,
"Mayor."
The Right Reverend Bishop Gallagher
Of this diocese has telegraphad the mayors
at Beaumont and Orange Informing them
thai he will take care Of all the orphans
under twelve years who lost
their parents by the storm. He instrncts
the mayor to send the orphans to Calves
ton where he will place them IN an asylum
under the care OF the Sisters Of Charity
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