The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-05

the intsrmert OF no less than fstx r.-.
sens. naen. women and children. Rehe.
ksnaa saved himself. wife and two chill
drsa BY swimming about until he gath
cred sufficient lumber TO make rude rsft-
He pat his family upon IL aud drifsea
10 rlsce Of safety. Tom yalence.
wife and several ehiiaren are believed "a
ee drowned rs weli as his brother Tony.
wife and three children, The steamer Jos
Weber was blown 20 pieces and several AZ
the crew drowned.
All the provisions on Chienere island
were swept assay. Fresh water Il so
scarce that there Is not sufficient to relieve
tae tairst ef hundreds Who are now with.
Out anything te eat aud with scarcely anv.
thing 70 Wear. Schurts was one OF party
OF thirteen that came To the city on the
iugger Good Mother. Each had thrill
ing story 20 relate
Matthew Wertxex snd Dominic Mirro.
dlch. sailors. were rescued hy q lurger.
ihe story they tell Of the disaster 1t Grand
Island is horrifying in the extreme. Dur
lnx the recital Of the scenes OF that terri-
be night they wept bitterly. They said
the sea Was rising all day and increased
aiarmingsy toward night Al about 10 "a.
IN. the wind shifted 20 the southwest.
These men lived on the west end of the
island. Far out at sea flashes Of lightning
Illuminated the darkness and mammoth
waves could be seen travelling with wonder.
fol rapidity toward the island accomranied
BY noise like thunder. On came the
terrible thing, growing larger rnomenta.
riiy. The Island was wrapped in slumAor.
The men were too frightened 10 20 Ia
their homes, and remained in their boat
during the terrible night. Horrisied, they
watched the tidal wave approach the
island until il struck. Then all was DARK.
ness and the island. as Car as the eve
could reach. was covered With water. AZ
the nexs fash of lightning the two fsher.
men found themselves far OF TO the north
of the island. and looking about could see
nothing but sheet Of water, the island
having totally disappeared.
This morning near Burras the bodies or
three little girls. evidently sisters. were
found clinging together. horribly mangled
by barted wire fence against which they
had been thrown by the force Of the wind.
A man and wife and two children went on
board schooner outside OF Bayou Cook.
The schooner was wrecked and the hus.
band and children drowned. The woman
dashed herself to a broken mast and vas
tSSNoSN an ttt0 tA1tAtuH by . N4S$AHX to4s
sci and brought here today.
John A. sebut. . fisherman from tha
shore Of Bayou Cook. told representative
of the Associated Press that nothing was
left either on the shores of the bayou or
the islands. On bayou Simon, situated in
Grand bay. fourteen fishermen were
drowned. It Is said that not house 10
left on Bayou Cook. and where the people
are the Almighty only only knows. The
family Of John Barber, fisherman in
Bayou Cook, was washed away, the hus@
band and two children drowned. the wife
and four children were rescued. In the
house adjoining the man was saved. but
his wife and two children were
drowned. The house Of George Cefaro-
che was washed away, with his
family consisting Of his wife and thre
children, all were drowned. The next
neighbor. O man named Barton. and hia
two daughters were drowned Only one
person was saved from the Oyster Bayou
catastrophe. He was found hanging by
one hand to post unconscious and viii
die. The wife and child Of Thomas Mory.
Orch are lost 81 Bayou Cook. John
Stock, On Italian boy. was instantly
killed. Luke Detrovitch lost bis four
daughters and two of his sailors. On
Grand bank eight persons we're killed.