Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-10-17
THE GREAT DISASTER.
Death and Damage by
Fleed. Gale and Fire.


Crest Rassport Fire.
The auin ns sablne Paas.
REAuMosr Tex ]. Ocs. l6.-The train
whioh vent toward Sabine Pass yestsr-
/ day a. far a. the track allowed. return-
ed here ai 8 .. a. FIfleen bodies were
recovered On the hiRh land Wesl of Sa-
bina Pass. and theg we're barred. Six
hodies OF women we're recovered on The
west shore Of the laks--two eolosed ard
four white.
RnEIheR Particulars.
GALxnsroN, Oct. 16.--FuEahsF pariicu-
lars of tue great disaster a Sabine Pass
a1d Johnson Bayoa are constantly BE-
ing received. Toe situation has n0t
besn exazEernted il the least. A o0Fro-
spondent Who has iast returned from
Sabine Pass telegraphB from Orange
thal tnfksy b1zzards are soaring ever
Sabine for miles around % land and
uafar. seeking The bodies Of persons
and animals. Tbs town is swept oni Of
existenca What vas prosperous VII
laQe whea last Tuesday dawned, d nov
the oentse Of desolation. There are
now l27 paraoue missing and thay are
supposed 20 BE- dead. Only abant Is
bodies havs thaa far besn recovered.
lnnumsrabls heart reading inridenta Of
the storm are related BY the 8urviVors.
| One house containing fouEteen enlored
persons was seen 30 20 down With .
crash and every enc Of them YES lost
Inoidenss ars related Of husbands LASH
ing their wiVea and children 70 the doas
ina wreckaQe and then seeing them
killed bg heavy logs being driven
against them. TIE damage 30 property
can Only be estimated by the value Of
the town. for all is lost Tue Sabine h
Texas Railroad Is washed eut for q dis
tancs Of ten miles. The ties have host-
ed of and the rails are twisted like
wires fran the effsot Of the great hurri-
cane. Millions Of dead fsh we're cast
40 By the waves aud thousands Of dead
birds also streW the ground.
A young woman in perfectly nude
state vas found roaming around on the
prairie Eve miles from 6Abine. Size
uas demsuted and could not tell her
name.
When ths Government tug PenFose
reached Sabine yesterday, Columbus
MaKtes vas f0und rowing around the
delta, looking for the bodies % nis fam
lily. he said: Myself, wife and three
children we're elinginR te q hoatinR
wreck, which was gradually breaking 20 !
pieces. First one went and then anoth- /
or. vas holding the youngest child, /
and soon ny wife said, Good bye, hus. |
bandi am going oould net reaeh |
her. The pieoe Of roof supporting her |
broke, and she sank before my eyes. ]
held on 10 the youngest ohild, named
Pearl. sona time longer. The child ad- /
dressing me said, Papa, Pm tired 4
won't you walk With mef The piece Of
roof / was on vas noE orumblinR 30 /
pieces. / told the little one 20 kiss me.
She pat both her little arms around my
neck and gave me . big squeeze, and
iasi then 9 wave dashed us od and | eaW
her no more. Great God. why didn't | /
90 down toof' He vas pressed 10 20 on
board the PeuFose bat refused. saying
Here, among these Iagoons. are the
bodies Of my wife and children, and
here will stop until can ind them
No tongue can tell how the peopie have
snaered during the past fsw days.
The Work Of the storm.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. l6.-It Ia nov
learned that over IS inhabitants Of
johnson Bayou ioat their lives ia the
storm. Forty OF theiF bodies have been
recovered and consigned 20 graves 10
the she'll reefs, while she ds0omOsaInR
oorpses Of the remaining f0Fty-ave lie
fostering IN the marshes.
kadford vas Verg thiokly settled. aud
when the storm began on Tuesday,
all took to their homes aud waited wish
bated breath the fate which they fore-
saw. The waters began rising. and the
wind swept throaQh the loser stories of
the buildings driving the frightened
people into the attics and upon she
roofs BY 10 o'clock. the hrst ridge,
which vas tselVe feet above the sea
level, vas ten feoi under water. House
after honse fell 10 o. was swept away,
either buFyina the doomed people in the
d. bfis. or hurting them into the Kissing
waters. Tbe villages Of Radf igd and
johnson Bayou we're destroyed as CON-
pleteiy as Il an Invading army bad done
she work
Fer twelve hours the storm raeed. OF |
eight thousand head Of stock which the
Bayou once boasied, six theusand are
drowned, while the remainder will die
81 thirst, Sc the water is salt. There u
40 way Of asoeFtainina valnations,
hence it snHoss 70 say that the towns
are destroyed aHd abandoned.
Aeeoumas % the Gale.
DErnorx, Dot. l6. = Reports are slowly
soming 10 of the damage By the storm.
II the moat Of oases The damage u 70
fences, trees. roofs, eto. The gale up
The riveF raised the water in Lake Sc.
Clair 20 an unprecedented heiaht. being
! feet inches higher than ever before
known. Heavy losses are reported ell
along the shore Of Ire lake, particularly
the AmaEiean side hetwssn Faifhaven
and New Baltimore, waere tue water
extended mile nnd q half upon the
timber and small houses. TIE sloop
yacht Turk, of DstEoit, was eaFrisd
away By the water and hnally lodged IN
al orchard, $50 feet from tbs shore.
TIE fields we're generally inundated.
Less ~ the Raslpors Fire.
EkBrPoRT MAJ, Oot. l6.-The loss By
The ere is nov estimated 81 500. Zoo
There are no means as yet Of eslimatinR
the insuFance. Several safes were open
cd today. With better results than was
expeeted. The report that the insuF-
anoe books and reports we're Destroyed
vas & mistake. TIE mOsl seTions part
Of she calamity h tbat a great nnmbor
Of families ere homeless and destitute
and out Of employment. One hundred
families are without homes, many 81
whom weFe quite comfortably situated,
hat are naw living with their fFfenda Il
tbs suffering viii increase as the
weather gets colder. a relief commiiee
has been ofRsni1sd, and some aid has
bsen received, bat oniy suiA sient 70 Fss