Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-10-21
WORSE AND WORSE.


lars Of the great disaster at Sabine Pass and
Johnson's Bayou are constantly being re-
ceived. Turkey buzzards are soaring oser
Sabine for miles around on land and wafer
1t 10 ono vast charnel house. The town is
swept out of existence. What was pros
porous village last Tuesday is now the con-
Ter Of wreck and desolation, 1877 persons
missing and supposed to be dead. Only
twenty-five bodies are SO Jar recovered.
There is not one sound house In the town
Of Sabine. The residences of DR.. Gilli!and
and Editor Mechanism are the only ones
that can DO repaired. Every other house
Is an absolute wreck. 1nEumerable
touching and heartrending incidents
are related by the survivors. One house
containing fourteen cOlored persons was
seen to 20 down with a crash and every
one was lost Incidents were 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 all is
lost. The Sabine & East Texas railroad
tracks are washed out for a distance of ten
miles. The ties 1oated off and the rails
are twisted like wires. Millions of dead
fish were cast up By waves and thousands
OF birds are also strewn on the ground. A
young woman in perfectly nude state was
found roaming around OH the prairie five
miles from Sabine. She was demented
and could not tell her name. When the
Government tug boat Penrose reached Sa-
bine Columbus Martee was found rowing
around the Delta looking for the bodies Of
his family; he said: "Myself, wife and
three children were ciinging to a floating
roof which was gradually breaking to pieces
One OF the little ones went and then an
other. Twas holding the youngest and soon
my Wits said: Goodbye, husband | am
going l could not reach her. The piece
OF roof supporting her broke off and size
sank before my eyes. | held on to the
youngest Child, named Pearl, some time long
er. !ne child, addressing Inc, said: Papa,
Fra tired; won't you walk with re?' The
piece OF roof l was on was row crumbling
to pieces. told the little one to kiss me.
She put both her little arms around my neck,
Eaye Inc gqueeZe and just then wave
dashed us off and l saw her no more.
Great God! why didn't | go down toov
He was pressed to 90 on board the Penros.e
but refused, saying: Here among the
isgoOns are the bodies of my wife and chill
dren and here will stop until can fNid
suffered during tie past few days IL
many cases the dead ones are considered
lucky ones. Late reports from Johnson's
bayou bring the terrible intelligence that
eighty-uve persons are now known TO be
lost And IL is greatly feared the list will
90 swelled to hundred or more, thus
making the total number OF victims by the
hurricane fully 200. Reliable information
from JOhnson's bayou arrives slow, al,
roads being impassable and only two boats
.unning TO that section. The destitution
OF the survivors, of whom there are over
1000 around JohusOn's and Radtord vii
lagos, is described as something awful.
They lost every thing and are without food,
drink and clothes.
DESTITUTION.
ORANGE, Tex, Oct. 1S.-The steamer
Emily z. returned at three O'clock yester-
day afternoon, bringing 100 additional
sufferers from JOhnSon's Bayou who are |
entirely destitute of every thing that il |
necessary to sustain life. They were re-
ceived at the wharf by the relief commit |
tee, who are doing all they can to make
them comfortable. Most of them are wo |
menu and children. The Emily p. will re- |
turn to the bayou Immediately TO bring |
back $50 more persons who are waiting |
There aud who are now homeless, penniless |
and without clothing. This town now has !
TO take care of 21O persons from that |
section. One can only know the heartrend. !
ing condition of these people by seeing and
cOnversing with them. The corrected list |
of the drowned at JohnsOn's Bayou as near
as can be obtained this morning is as fol.
lows: Whites-F. Gallon, wife and granG-
son, eight children of Sam Brown, JOSEPH.
Luke, wife and seven children. four OF
Frank Tanners children, Mrs. S. Caller and
five children, Mrs. Joseph Luke, four o.
George Stephens children, Mr.. ana Mrs.
Ferguson and four children, Mrs. George
Smith and four children, Mrs. Shell Wagiey
and four children, Mrs. Afford Lamber,
and two children, Mr.. Berry and
daughter, Alphonsc Degard, Mr.. Smith and
one child. ColOred-Henry johnson, wife
and three children, Mrs. Jack Lewis, Dick
Hambrck, wife and four children. and
James Lewis. Only few of these bodies
were recovered on the trip. There are two
teamerS. two SchOOnerS and about twenty
live small boats doing active work in gath
ering up the suffering and buryng the dead
from Sabine Pass and the bayou. The
steamer Lamar left to-day with new crew
aud relief men for Sabine Pass. Orange
has thus far received not single dollar to
assist in taking care of all these people
The citizens earnestly request aid on be
half OF tine destitute sufferers. Cuntribu.
lions can be sent to j. Sanders, mayor OF
Orange"
RECOVERING THE DEAD.
BEAUMONT, Tex, Oct 1S.-Refugees
from the flooded district about Sabine Pass /
continue to arrive on every small craft that
comes up the river. 1t is estimated by per.
sons here who have been over the scenes at
lnhnSnrsSs hov |
bayou, that the death list will exceed 25G
souls. Eigbty-five cOrpses have been re
covered and buried around Jolnson's bayou
and fifty-four bodies thus far have been
buried at Sabine, while sxty-siX persons
are still missing at Sabine, and these are O;
course dead, as it would be impossible for |
any human being to survive this long in
The swamp and lag0ons without food or
shelter. An examination Of the country
back of Sabine and Immediately in
the vicinity of Beaumont shows tha'
the salt water came back from TN
coast fully forty miles through!
tie swamps, and hundreds of thousands of ,
acres are still submerged BY water that was /
forced back and has no outlet. This makes
the search for bodies very difficult Car ,
casses of thousands of drowned cattle,
hogs, horses and fowls are strewn every.
where. 1t is known that the number of .
sufferers around J0hnson's BAYOU who
have lost every thing will reach 1900. while {
The Sabine sufferers number 800, one-half 8
Of whom are now in Beaumont
A Mary land Fire.
SALISBURY, Md, Oct ia FIRE which 6
started in frame stable about seven
o'clock last night swept over the entire T
business portion of the village A brisk q