The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-19
narrowing Particulars From
the Flooded District.
,spORrANT LAND GRANT CASE.
sufYsrsrs' Fund-MOre Prineely
nsad-Heads-On q Yistt-COld
Charity-Ete. 80
The Gulf storm.

ing Special 10 VIC 1ASSOS'e'S : : COO AAOL1
nS a. Texas, gives the latest par
ti.nrS., regarding tae great disaster at
Tobn.an Bayou and Sabine Pass. The
Stssmsr Emily P. returned at 3 o'clock
ri, afternoon, bringing 100 additional
ia from Johnson Bayou, who are
ooatiyaIv destitute of everything that is
S,dsssssrv to sustain life. They were
n-scsfvsd at the wharf by our relief com.
-,;ffee who are doing all in their power
- make them comfortable. Most of
t5sm are women and children. The
FSiL P will return to the Bayou i'm
1,edi8tely to bring back 15G more
1arsons Who are waiting there and who
ave now homeless, penniless and with
ort clothing. We now have to take
osra nj 30 persons from that section.
BFIUxoaT, Tex, October 17.-Refugee
from the flooded district above Sabine
Pass continue to arrive on every small
craft that comes up the river. 1t is
estimated By persons here who have
bsan over the scenes of devastation at
Ssbne Pass, Johnson Bayou and Tay-
Ior'g BAYOU, that the death list will ex-
eped 80 souls. Eighty five corpses
bseD recovered and buried around
johnson Bayou, and fifty-four bodies
thus far have been buried at Sabine,
Wills siIty-siX persons are still missing
ct Sabine, and thsSe are OF course dead,
as il would be impossible for any human
being 70 survive in the swamp and
lsgo0ns without food or shelter. An
examination of the country back of
Sabine and the immediate Vi
Cinity Of Beaumont shows that
salt water came back from the coast
fully forty miles through the sWamps,
and hundreds or thousands Of acres are
still submerged by water that was forced
back and has no outlet. Z his fact makes
the search for the bodies very difficult.
CarCssses Of thousands of drowned
cattle, hogs, horses ana fowl are streWn
everywhere, and clouds of sea gulls and
buzzards hover over the desolate coun-
try Tor az area of thirty square miles. 4
It's known that the number of sufferers /
around johnson Bayou, who have lost
everything, will reach 1 200, while Sabine |
sufferers number 800, one half |
OF whom are now in Beaumont. |
Parties who returned to-day from
Johnson Bayou district say that sixty
persons are still missing there and the
Searching parties have almost reached
me conclusion that many of those
missing we're drowned and their bodies
carried cut to sea by the reeeding
waters.
GALVESTON, October 18.-The com
mit.ee of citizens who left here on
Saturday night on the tug-boat EsteLts, |
which mad a schooner IN tow, carrying
SLIGO worth of provisions for the suffer
ers 81 Sab. Z Pass, and Johnson Bayou,
returned &C g late hour last night. |
They reached Sabine Pass early Sun |
day morning, and found about one /
hundred persons still living there, re- /
luctanJ 70 leave the site of their former
homes. They are now occupying the |
lev houses that withstood the storm
One hal the food and clothing taken up
oy the committee was distributed
among these sufferers, who were in
great iced Of everything. The re-
RaInoeT was sent up to Johnson
bayou oy the barge TOpSy as the tide
and-Channel would not permit of the
EStstss going up the river. The COM
mltIee are unanimous II their state
Iients regarding the absolute destitu-
.lon o. the survivors. They say they
never saw such suffering for the
common necessities of life as exists at
oao-le Pass and Johnson Bayou. The
committee asCertained that the total
lu1O5f OF persons who lost their lives
ndS I5J and Of those sixty-four are
COioIeQ and thirty-eight whites. Only
"a I'VE bodies thus far have been re-
covered oo AID buried. Searching parties
0o;n.:n1e 70 hunt for the bodies Of
missing friends.
GALVESTON, October 18.-The local
1e.l7I committee who visited Sabine
a2S ana vent as far as the entrance to
3tSo a-oA Bayou brought back with
t len complete list of the names of
&c &c CCIoTed people who were drowned
o.oas1 .ae. Among the colOred lost there
oT MY bodies still missing, while
=, o4t fifteen whites have been
ff5S.9'e-eG and inferred. It is thought
s sfS, some OF these missing bodies are
5 ,eCA II ne mud, which is several feet
the ~, "a ne bottom Of Sabine ayou and
ton. -''sE fronting the spot where the
tbg lotmerly stood. Measures for II
bsr, 1e!eL OF the distressed are
Gaigss.. actively pressed at Houston,
vss ,,se'On and other cities The Gal
niob ,VI committee Wbo returned last
ctii 1sr nave issued a second appeal to
be- circ, o--1 new subscription lists VIII ,
the 01iiC-,,a,ed 70 morrow. Members of
grog ~ q committee say the calamity
Jbs 60 VIZ each hour. All tidings from
f8- 800 -, as lated region make the disaster l
at s 2sta.er and more distressing than
Of fboo. -1olght possible. NJ. Tasker, I
sand ~ eo-lIaittee, was one of The thou, &
on ~ " more who fed for their lives
K a.. I-snt Of Galveston's great fire.
str,,' 80 recently visited the drouth- !
lev district OF Northwestern
Of olt declares that neither C
point Nsss calamities compares IN q
VIA " suffering and distress, with t
biDe s ~ Witnessed on Sunday at Sa- y
Of o. a.C Johnson Bayou. Tie mayor v
sSInss e JelegTaphed Mayor Fulton. a
sgrvig9or-.o ~ T. assistance to care for the ?
place. II T1 WIG q. are crowding into thas f
spprorrti.A me City Council, this evening. Q
o. fs sII'a-ed $500, which 3Tayor FuI. f
4aDppFs'.s gE[aphed to the mayor of <
HebT2ar.1o 39ap.ain James B. Fads, the l
hon 1Die sIu engineer, telegraphed 500 d
aud the her H5 Wells, FaTgo;s Express
ssrrvi-T5. " estern Union Telegranb are
Tue 'b, agSoaI.s ckages aud messages for I,
'aarge.- B;.{ Of the sufferers Free Of T
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