Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-20
URGENT NEED OF SUCC0R.
STRANGE INDIFFERENCE TO
THE WANTS OF TEXANS.

..or.s donation uf ST 900 all the
O-.tda ajd Yet Received by Sabine
pass Outsid f Oranges Noble heip-
THE News from the Devastated DIS
trict as Distressing as Ever.
GALVESTON, TEX, Oct. 19.-Ihe local
.o1,ef committee that visited Sabine Pas s
.nd want as far as the entrance to john
sons BAYOU has brought back acompiete
list of the names Of the colored people
drowned at Sabine. OF the colored
5rowned thirty bodies are still missing,
7,bila all but fifteen of the whites nave
beon recovered and inferred. 1t is thought
chat some of the missing bodies are STUCK
in the mud. which is several feet in depth
m the bottom of Sabine bay and in the
river fronting the spot where the town
formerly stood.
RELIEF MEASURES.
Measures for the relief OF the distressed
are being actively pushed at houston,
Galveston and other cities. The calves
ton committee, who returned last night,
have issued a second appeal to the cltl-
zeus and new subscription llsts VIII pe
circulated tomorrow. Inc mempers oI
the local committees say the calamity
GROWS Will 6dCu hOuLs NAAA
fbe devastated region make the disaster
arqreater and more distressing tnan was
It first thought possible.
WORSE THAN EFT HER.
MIR, Lasker, of the committee, was one
ot the Thousand or more who fed for their
lives on the night of Galveston's great
FIRE. He also recently visited the drought
stricken districts of Northwest Texas,
but declares that neither of these calaml-
ties compare in point of suffering ana as
tress with what be witnessed sunday at
Sabine Fass and Johnson's Bayou.
The Mayor of Orange to-day tele-
graphed Mayor Fulton asking for
assistance to care for the survivors who
are crowding into that place. The Clty
Council last evening appropriated S3OO,
which fact Mayor Fulton last night
telegraphed to the Mayor of Orange.
MORE SURVIVORS AT ORANGE.
special from Orange says: 'FThe
steamer Lamar returned here last evening
from Sabine Pass with sixty additional
sufferers, one-half of whom will go to
Beaumont as soon as transportation can
be obtained. The balance will remain
here in care of the relief committees. Ten
additional bodies had been found and
buried up to the time the Lamar left
Sabine Pass at noon yesterday. The re-
lief committees OF Orange have exhausted
all their supplies and funds. Sufferers
are constantly coming IN. The relief
committees have $50 now in their charge,
and 100 more were expected last night
from Jobnson's Bayou, the Emily p. hay.
ing gone for them yesterday morning.
MORE AID NEEDED.
"Unless more relief comes immediately y
great distress will prevail. Many of the
sufferers are sick and require the greatest
attention. The citizens of Orange are
doing all in their power to alleviate theil
distress. but the demands are greater
than they can bear. The relief commit
tees were notified yesterday that 81 ,O0(
had been donated by Houston, which is
all the aid that has been received outside
OF our town."
Parties returning from the coast report
that much thleving is going on. Scarcely
trunk, valise or package can be found
that has not been broken open and rifeC
OF its contents. Business has been at &
standstlll since the great storm.
The subscriptions toward the relief o
the sufferers at Sabine Pass and John
sons Bayou reached $1,000 in Galveston
to-day. The Relief Committee has ISSUED
an appeal to the charitaby disposed
people Of the United States for further
help.