Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-16
WRATH OF THE ELEM ENTS
FURTHER DETAILS OF. THE TERRIBLE
FLOOD IN TEXAS.
The Latest Report Places the Num-
Der Of People Missing at One
Hundred and One.

List of People Known TO Have Been
Drowned-Immense Property Loss
Terrific Gale at Buffaio-Another Dis
after on the Lakes Destructive Con-
fagratiOn at EastpoI!, Me.-Char!cston
Again Shaken.
GALVESTON, Tex, Get livery little
additional information ID obtained from Sa-
| bne Pass. Telegraphic communication has
| been re-established with Beaumont and Or
anSe, but the people of those places seem to
| be awaiting the return of the relief partie
which have gone to Sabine Pass According
| to all information the hurricane itself did
| not reach the coast around Sabine at all, and
| when the tidal wave struck the town there
was hardly breath of wind stirring A
| fierce northeastern gale soon sprang up, how
| ever, forcing the waters out of Lake Sabine
| against the high tide from the gulf and driv-
| ing them over the town The government
| tug PeurOse started for Sabine Thursday aft
| erlioon. Reports from Beaumont confirm the
less of life The latest reports place the loss
| of life at sixty.
| ORANGE, Tex, Oct. 4-Details of the de-
| Struction by the storm at Sabine Pass and
Johnsnn's Bayou come in slowly and are yet
| indefinite, though they all agree that there
has been great loss of life and property.
| Two brothers named Pomeroy were picked
| up by the schooner Andrew Baden in Sabine
| lax" They had been in the water thirty-six
hours, clinging to their oapszed yawl Their
mother and sister and Mrs. Capt Junker,
her son, and little girl of the party were
lost The Pomeroys report that fifty lives
were lost AT the Porter house, where the peo-
| pie had collected as the best place of safety,
1t went to pieces at Q O'clock Many per-
sons are missing. Still greater loss is re-
ported from Johnsons Bayou Whole fam
ilies were swept away. Not house was
| left standing within five miles of the lake
Parties Were organized and left on the
steamer Lamar and Emily z with provisions
| and bedding.
An incomplete list of the drowned is as
| follows: Miss Mahata; Jim Vondy and fam
| ilv of six; the wife of Otto Brown and two
| children; Homer King. wife and child; Mrs
Junker and son; Mrs Pomeroy and family
If five; Mrs. Stewart, daughter and son; a
man named Wilson; Mrs. Arthur Mercy
| nods; Mrs Mcdonald and daughter; Frank
Muili-an and family; Columa Martee and
ldiiiiS apput twenty i've tOlOfeu people,
whose names could not be given.
LAKE CHARLES La, Oct. 1.-THE loss of
| property along the Cameron parish gulf
coast and for some distance west of Sabine
Pass by the storm of Tuesday night was fear
| fui. The mail boat from CAME ron parish re
| ports that the water at Calcasieu Pass was
| eight feet deep at the light house aud that the
entire country east and west was submerged
Tuesday night, drowning thousands of cattle
and running crops. No lives were lost at
Leeshurg OF Calcasieu Pass but the following
are reported lost at Johnson's Bayou, La.
The entire families of Alfred Lambert,
Marion Lukes, George Striever, L. Charles
Blanchet, Radford Berey, and twa families
by the names of Franesware. besides many
others whose names have not been ascer-
tanned