The Portland daily press., 1886-10-16
ONE HUNDRED LIVES
Lost i'm the Terrible Flood at
Sabine Pass.
Anguishing Tales of Suffer-
ing Told by the Destitute
People.
Kind Hearted Friends Extend
Aid to the Helpless.
Intense Excitement Over the
Fearful Catastrophe.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. ia special despatch
says relief boat has returned to Beaumont from
Sabine Pass. Only two houses are left in the
latter place. One hundred and one persons are
missing. The relief train could not get INTO tne
There is considerable backwater yet at Sabine,
hemnied in and held there by railroad embank-
vailed here since the first news OF the fearful
catastrophe. People have neither eaten nor slept,
and crowds have surrounded the wharVes anu
boats from the dev stated town.
The steamboat Lamar left Orange "Wednesday
night at 10 O'Clock with relief comnlttee on
board When she would return no one knew,
and constant watch was kept at Orange and
here At midnight last night the whistle OF the
Lamar was heard The people hurried ne neiteI nies
and destitute. The relief committee aboard tne
Lamar consisted of twenty citizens from Beau
mont and about forty from Orange. They
trundled up the Neches river between p. m. and
midnight, which was an extraordinary trip traught
with fearful danger.
Sabine Pass to make attempts to recover some OF
the bodies many of which are reported to nave
been washed dozens Of miles over nto L2utsiana; 4
yet unknown. From the reports brought ey the
committee it is certain that the Hooded district
iarger ri than at first supposed. The gulf seems to
have moved over the land for miles in one high
unbrOken wall of water
missing. 80 of whom are known to have been
drowned. Thirty-fve of the victims were white
wretches, victims of the storm, were brought
upon the Lamar. The refugees are sick and
Frustrated from exhaustion and hunger. They
are being tenderly cared for. by the citizens OF
Beaumont. Many persons 10 the vicinity OF
Sabine Pass are utterly destitute, being without
clothing to cover their nakedneSS.
DR.. Calhoun requests all correspondents to ask
aid for the destitute He says it makes no differ
ence what is sent whether food eothng M hap meal,
is Mayor of Beaumont, and he Will distribute
through committees whatever Is sent to him:
From all accounts gathered, language could not
exaggerate the state of affairs at Sabine Pass.
Out of more than 100 houses in the village, less
than six remain standing and they are ruined; @
drowned in presence of their husbands and
fathers, who were poweress to save them. Waves
broke against the lighthouse in solid walls nifty
feet high, tearing out the windows at the very
top of the structure.
Corpses have been picked up at distance OF
thirty miles from the scene of the disaster.
Friends and relatives of the drowned residents
are coming in to Orange and Beaumont by every
The steamboat Lamar took on board cargo of
food blankets and clothing and also fresh relief
committee, and at daylight this morning started
d6wn the Neches river to Succor the unfortunates
She will probably reach here on her return trip
about midnight tonight.
| to the government works, will aggregate nearly
100000.
ORANGE, Tex, Oct. 15.-Distressing reports
| come from Johnson's Bayou. Hundreds of per
| sons are said to have been drowned, while there
was fearful and complete destruction OF property
| numbering thousands of head of live stock. Cam
| eron Beach Hoiel was seriously threatened, bnt
was saved by cattle crowding into the lower story
thereby preventing the building from floating of
with the upper stories filled with terror stricken
humanity.
The Emily has just arrived with 62 survivors
Thirty-seyen bodies persons drowned at John
sons Bayou, have been recovered and 81 are still
1 missing, but their names cannot yet be given
/ Previous accounts have not been exaggerated.
! NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 15.-Capt. Bailey, a ba
i pilot at Port Eads, reports 26 lives lost during
/ the recent storm on Bayous leading from the gul
4 in the direction of and back OF the quarantine.