Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-18

Gulf COast-The storm Aieng rhs
l Lakes and on che British Coast,
| New Orleans, Oct. l6-It is nov
learned ihat over eighty five of th,
inhabitants of Johnson's Bayou los
their lives in the storm. Forty OF thei
| bodies have, been recovered and con
signed to graves in Shell Ross, Will.
decomposing corpses reaching forty five
| lie fostering in marshes. Radford was
very thickly settled, and when the
storm began on Tuesday everybody
took to their homes aud waited with
bated breath the fate which they fore
saw. The waters began rising, swept
through the lower stories OF buildings,
driving the affrighted people into the
attios and upon the roots. At 10 a'cIock
the first ridge, which was twelve feet
above the sea level, was ten feet under
water. House after house fell in or was
swept away, either burylng the doomed
people II the debris or hurting them
into the kissing waters. The villages of
Radford and Johnson's Bayou were
destroyed as completely as if IN invad-
ing army had done the work For
twelve hours the storm ragged. OF 5000
head of stock which once the bayou
boasted 5000 are drowned, while the
remainder will die of thirst, all the
water being salt.
Beaumont, Tex, Oct. 16-A train,
which went toward Sabine to-day as far
as the track allowed, returned here at
SP.M, Fifteen bodies were recovered
on q highland called Black Ridge, west
of Sabine, and were buried. Six bodies
more were recovered on the west shore
of the lake, two colored, and four white,
one being that of Mrs. w. A. Junker, OF
Carlisle. Mr.. Junker is still missing,
The steamer Emily returned from
Johnson's bayou, Louisiana, and re-
ports that those drowned at that place
were chiefly colored people. The
deaths at Enbine Pass and vicinity will
aggregate more than ninety, and at
Johnson's bayou about eighty five. Only
three houses are lett fit for human hab-
itation, though perhaps a dozen are
standing in their precarious condition.
The people who escaped with their lives
are completely ruined financially. q ma
jority OF them not being able to provide
themselves with the bare necessities OF
life. A telegram from the merchants OF
Galveston TO the relief committee here
says that Galveston subscribes 81 200.
Galveston, Oct. 16-Later reports
from Johnson's Bayou bring terrible in
telligence. Eigbty-tiye persons are now
known to be lost in that place and it is
feared that the list we'll be swelled to
l00l or more, thus making the total
of victims OF the hurricane 200. Relia-
BILE information from Johnson's Bayou
arrives slow, all the roads being inpass.
able and only two boats are running to
that section. The destitution of the sur
vivors, of whom there are over 100
around Johnson's and Bradford village,
is described as something aSful. They
lost everything and ere without food,
drink and clothes,
Detroit, Got. 16-Reports are slow 10
| coming in of damage by the storm.
| In most cases the damage ia to fences,
| trees, roofs, cot. The water in Lake st.
CLAIRE was raised to an unprecedented
| height, being seven feet, six inches
higher than ever known. Heavy losses
are reported all along the shore of the
| lake, particularly on the American side
between Fairhaven and New Baltimore
The water extended mile and hall
upon the land and hoated away much
valuable timber and small houses The
sloop yacht Turk. OF Detroit was carried
away by the water and finally lodged in
an orchard, $50 feet from ehore. Fields
we're generally inundated. The sIoor
yacht Annie s, OF Detroit, bgoke he
cabin on the eastern side of the lake
and was landed high and dry quarter
Iof mile from shore.
| London, OCT. 16--The gale and hoodt
which began Thursday night along the
south and west English and Irish coast
continues, having extended far north
ward. Many reports of bridges anc
buildings being swept away are coming
in. In Ulster, Ireland, the storm anc
foods seriously impede railway traffic
Many small vessels have been wrecked
The loss OF life ashore by the storm ha
l not been great