Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-15


Pass, but the following are reported lost
OF
ALFRED LAMBERT,
MARION LUREs,
GEORGE SIRIyRR,
CHARLES BLANcHET,
RoDFoRD BERRY, aud two families by
the name Of
TRANKsrvER, besides many others,
whose names have not been ascertained.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Associated Press.
GALVESTON, TEX, Oct. 1.-THE town
OF Sabine Pass, at the mouth Of the Sa-
bine river, the divicing line between
Louisiana and Texas, is reported to have
been entirely washed away by the terrific
storm of Tuesday night. Over fifty lives
are reported lost out Of population of
200, All telegraphic communication with
the town is cut of. Sabine Pass is sixty
miles up the coast from Galveston and
twenty-five miles southwest of Beaumont,
the county seat of Jefferson county. 1t Is
thought that the bar in front OF the
town will prevent any tugs from landing,
and tug owners here regard 1t as useless
to attempt to enter the treacherous chan
mel since the storm. The Associated
Press is making efforts to secure full
particulars of the disaster via Beaumont.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
Tele graphic communication with all
points outside of Texas was nearly sus-
pended last night owing to storms in
Louisiana, Arkansas and the Indian Terri
tory. The following account or the great
disaster at Sabine Pass was telegraphed
last night to Houston;
BEAUMONT, TEX, Oct. l8.--Our town
is In d state of intense excitement to-
night at the news Just received from Sa-
bine Pass. 1t is news of terrible loss
of life and destruction OF property from
high water. We have no teleeraphlc COM
munlcation with the Pass, the wires be-
ing down, but an engine arrived here to-
night over the East Texas railway that
| left there about O'Clock. &. Two citizens
who rowed small boat across an ex-
panse of tossing waters, a distance of
several miles from the town of Sabine to
the railroad track, came in on the engine
and give heart-rending account OF
affairs there. They say the waters
BEGAN TO INVADE THE TOWN
from the gulf and lake together about 9
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon and rose with
| uuHlNSOdObbpu Nv blllNOho VI
the doomed place did not realize their i'm
mlnent danger until 1t was too late to es.
cape, when safety by flight was out OF the
question. The people who were situated
80 that they could DO 1t, betook them
solves to houses and resorts adjudged tC
be safe. The water kept rising, and be
tween s and 4 O'Clock the smaller
houses began to yield to the resistles.
force of the waves and not only moved
from their foundations, but turned OF
their sides and tops, A little later the
larger houses began to give away, anC
death by drowning seemed in store FOL
every citizen OF the place. With the
yielding of the smaller houses severa
persons who had remained In them wer,
drowned, and when the residences anC
business places began to tumble the ia
tality began to double. The following In
complete list of drowned was obtained
from the two gentlemen who came owe
on tho engine;
Miss Mahala Chambers,
Jim Vondy and family of six,
: Vile of Otto Brown and two children
Homer King, wife and child,
Mrs, Junker and son,
Mrs, Pomeroy and family OF Ave,
Mrs, Stewart, daughter and son,
A man by the name OF Wilson,
4 Mrs. Arthur McReynolds,
Mrs, Mcdonald, daughter and grand
a son.
Frank Mulligan and family,
u Columbus Martel and family, and
About twenty-five colored people, who's
8 names cannot be given.
q The above list comprises over aft
! human victims OF the storm. Anon
N 80 Nh.a laa a. .
the place. There are others, and man
L OF them we're doubtless drowned withou
!, any one now living knowing anything {
Q 1t, II is feared that whole families /
e different parts of the place have bee
! swept away without leaving q person c
IS Vestige
% TO INDICATE THEIR TERRIBLE Fate.
!, II is said that the situation during Oh
d latter part Of the afternoon beggars q,
IS scription, The manifestation of terrC
le and agony Of the people looking face /
u face at death and realizing that there wa
d no escape, the dying cries OF women, al
m diole but rendered almost noiseless /
1t the roar OF the mad sea, the hoarse Voic,
= OF pallid men trying to save those del
10 10 them, all combined to make
70 scene too terrible to be describes
=. On receipt of this news the either
v Of Beaumont Immediately began prepar
re- lions for relief. The Fast Texas raiiros
y, has placed sn engine at their disposal, al
rs party Of men have gone TO Orange
Or carry the news there, aud procure bo
~ aud start for the scene. The damage
propertyln Sabine Pass has been We
great. The wharf property OF the TOW
was owned by New York capitalists, wi
also own the adjoining lands, and We
~ aiming to make Sabine Pass an importa
y; port on the gulf coast.
b. IN MICHIGAN.
IS, DETROIT, MICH, Oct. 1.-THE wir
throughout the state are almost all dow