The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-13
ALONG GULF AND INTERSTATE
E0HTr-rIvn DEAD BODIES WE'RE
WASHED ASHORE AT PATTON.
A Majority of Them Were Those of
women and chiidrcn-There Was
No Idcntiacn ton.

Beaumont. September 1.-THE relief
train which left this city yesterday TO
rescue the storm-stranded people at Boil
var and Patton. two summer resorts on
ghe Gulf and Interstate between Beau
mont and Bolivar. returned to Beaumont
at O'Clock this afternoon with all the
people who had boon made homeless as
suulmerlng along the beach, alive and
we'll. While there had been no fatalities
TO the people along the coast ut these
points their suffering had been terrible.
Early Saturday Ssening they were driyea
from their homes and tho hotels. Quite
a number boarded train which came up
FROM Bolivar while others went back %
the peninsular to the ridges. Those on
the train got as far toward Beaumont as
Bolivar. Here they found the track
washed away. They went back TO Pat
ton but could get no farther ON account Of
high water. They remained In the cars
at that point during Saturday night and
say that frequently they we're submerged
by waves which rolled in from the gulf
There were no accidents, however. but the
women and children were virtually eS-
uIuSlOu, tNelT Delug lnIGuSlHNu
by absence or food,
AS soon as the waters subsidized Sunday
Captain Cadc, owner Of resort and ranch
at High Island, sent horseback couriers
! to Patton. They returned with the report
I that no lives had been lost. The captain
| then began endeavortng to get food 10
the people and succeeded in accomplish
ing his work of relief Monday.
! In the meantime Beaumont had been
doing everything within human power t.
relieve the stranded people. Relief trans
were sent out but they could not get
closer than two miles OF High Island,
\ Yesterday a train with naptha launches
and skifIs loft. II was in charge OF Nj.
Emmett Fletcher and last night he phoned
| IN that he would reach the sufferers tn S
morning. In connection with the people of
| High Island he succeeded In getting the
sufferers aboard the relief train early this
morning and the return trip was under
taken.
The train proceeded without Difficulty
until Taylor's bayou was reached Hero
considerable stretch of track had been
washed away since the relief train passed
going down. This was temporarily re-
built and the train arrived in tho city
at 5 O'Clock this afternoon.
On the train were all the people living on
Ehe penlnsular who could b. reached and
they are physically weak from exposure
and excitement.
DR., j u. Gober, who was with the Beau
mont relief party says that before th
relief party left Patton forty-nve dead
bodies had washed ashore and they wege
still coming in. Many bodies were
buried. but he is of the opinion that the
gulf beach from High Island to Calves
ton is strewn with corpses. The sight
says DR.. Gober. beggars descript on. A
! majority OF the bodies which washed
ashore were women and children, Many
of them were perfectly nude, swollen be-
yond recognition. and many OF the wo.
men had children clasped to their breasts
No Beaumonters lost their lives d
Patton, but five families living in thai
vicp!ty are missing and are probably
drowned. Two OF these families wer,
Barnabus and Landrum Names Of the
other three could not be learned.