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Galveston, October 12th. The storm rivors Neeches and Sabine. It was this stump-tailed roocónaíne—farger than a man's homeless, penniless-and-without clothing. which was reported by the Signal Service lake, according to the most experienced arm. Wildcats also visited pellmell upon the We now have to take care of 210 persous as entering the gulf of Mexico last Sator navigators on this conat, that destroyed the parlestrings, while coons and every parily of from that section."
Bonument (Tex.), October 17th-Refugees
by,
day night reached Galvestore to-day, and at town, The hurricane of inst. Sanday inaimals sprang at this passers-Captain from the flooded district about Sabine Pess
this time (8 p.m.) a furions gale in blowing the West Indies blew the waters with great New Orleans,
from the north at the rate of forty-five violence toward the Texas const The Briley, a me pilot at Fort Eads, reports that continue to arrive on every small ornit mites au bour, The tide on the gulf-side hurricane wave was first noticed on the const there were twenty six lives lost during the that comes ap the river. It na estimated
B":" of the island has been very high ever since Sunday morning, attaining its maximam on recent storm on the bayous lending from the by persons here who lure been over the Saturday, and waves were so powerful to Toesday morning, and was maintained by gulf in the direction and back of the quarat-acones of devastation at Sabine Pass, John- day that they washed along the streets for the impotus of the water behind. The hurtine atation.
son's Bayou and Taylor's Bayou, that the five squares right in the teeth of the galefricano" itself did not reach this coast at: all. New Orleans, Outaber 16th.It is now death list will exceed 250 souls. Eights- from the north. This extraordinary tide is as scarcely a breath of wind was stirring learned, that aver eighty-fire of the in-five corpaus have boca recovered nud andoabledly due to hurricane prevailing when the tidal wave first toached the habitants of Johna's Bayou lost their lives buried around Johnson's Bayon, and afty- in the West Indies. The damage to ship coast. When its maximum we reached in the store. Forty of their bodies are four bodies thus far have been buried at Sabine, ping will be heavy, as half a hundred on Tuesday, how the coast, becs required at de bih domin Sabine and these are of course dend as it would while only six persons are still missing at largo eteamships ard sailing vessels are ern gale sprung up along the whole coust. in the all reefs, while the decomposing Sal Founding against the wharves. Two barges and at Sabine Pass the gate blow the waters corpses of the remaining forty-five icbe impossible for any human being to survive from Hosaton, each laden with 1,000 bales of out of Lako Sabinenud drove them toward
Radford was this long in the swamp and bagong without {food or shelter. An oramination of the cotton, aro being submerged by the waves, the gulf, where the labo waters were quotestoring in the runcaties.
very thickly settled, and when the stom and the cotton will he rained. The barometer by the great swell caused by the hurricane, began Tuesday everybody took to their nonutry backs of Sabins and immediately has fallon six points Bisco 7 o'clock this This resulted in driving the lake waters homes and waited with bated breath the in the vicinity of Beaumont shows that salt morning. Telegraphio commauication with over into the little town and subaorging the fate which they foresaw. The water began wrator came back from the const fully forty the mainland will probably be entirely country for ten miles around, without rising, the wind swept through the tower miles through the swamps and hundreds of suspended before morning.
moment's notice. This account of the dienstics of the buildings, driving the thousands of acres are still pubmerged by the
has been done.
The gale has increased in velocity, and nt or is confirmed by our experience here with frightened people into the attics and upon water that was forced back, and line no onl this hout, (10.30 p.m.), is blowing from tlie the same gale, and all information from the roofs. By 19 o'clock the first ridigo: let. This fact makaa search for the bodies northwest at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Sabine also confirms the above theory. which was twelve feet above the sea level, very difficult. The haromster has ceased falling, and it is As soon na the Collector of Customs at was ten feat under water, and house after The carcass of thousands of drowned throught the storm has reached its maximum. Galveston was apprised of the disaster fehouas feet in or was swept away, either cattle, hogs, horses, and fowl-nre strewn New Orleans, October 12th-A severe ordered the Government tug Peurore to pro-barying the doomed people in the debris everywhere, and loads of seagulls and gate has prevailed here since Monday night, ceed to Sabine, and she started for that place being them into the hissing waters.nzzards hover over the desolate country and rough weather on the gulf is reported at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The disince to The villages of Radfort and Jolinson's for an sees of thirty square miles. It is Several railroad tracks in this vicinity ve Sabine is sixty miles. The Penrose en Bugou were destroyed na completely as if known that the number of sufferers around submerged, thongh but little other damage get back befora to-morrow, when the details invading army lad done the work. ForfJohnson's Bayou who have lost overvi
of this awful disaster will be known.
twelve hours the storm raged. De 8,000 hend will reach 1,200, while the Sabine Mobile, October 12th. The storm last New Orleans, October 14th-A special to of rock which once the bayou boasted, 6,000 uber 300, one half of whom are now in
Beauraont. night was henry along the coast and vessels the Picayune from Beaumont enge: Sabinere drowned, while the reunindor will die of
Parties who returned to-day were detained from sailing. The tide rose Pags bae beon nearly destroyed. Ainut thirst, no all the syster is salt. There is no from Johnson's Bayon district say that 60 higher than ever before known. The tele-twenty-soron whites and thirty negroes were way of nacertaining inlutions, bence it persons are still missing there, and the graph office at Fort Morgan, at the entrance drowned.
suffices to say that the towns are destroyed searching partion hava almost reached the
conclusion that of the bay, was flooded, and the operator The Times-Democrat's Lake Charles (La.) and abandoned.
many of those missing wero drowned and their bodies carried out to ses renched dry land by swimming.
special says: The loss of property along Galveston, October 16th-Reports from by the receding waters. New Orleans, October 18th-Chief Oper-Cameron parish, on the golf const, and for dobison's Bayou bring the terribla inlcili
Galveston, Oat obor 18th.-The committee Ator West of the Western Union Telegraph some distance west of Sabine Pass, by regence that eighty-ro persons are now know of citizens who left here Swardtag night Company has received the following mes-storm of Tuesday night, was fearful to have been lost in that place, and it i the tagboat Matelle, which s sage from the operator at Grange, Texmail boat from Cameron parish reports that gently feared that the list will be swelled Lo schooner in tow, carrying $1,000 worth of
The town of Sabine Pass was totally de. the water at Calension Pass was eight hundred of more.
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This morning the total provisions for the sufferera at Sabino Pass stroyed by the water of Sabine river Inst feet deep at the fighthouse, and that the of victims of the hurricans was fully 200 and Johnson, Bayou, returned at a fats night. There are known to be sixty-fire outire country enst
A sub-The destitution of the survivors, of whom hour last night. They reached Sabine
on the Sabine river.
west
at Johnson's Bayou, La. The entire faui-
lives lost: Last night during the overflow merged on Tuesday night, drowning tolere are over 100 around Johnson's and Pass early Sunday morning and found shout a hotel, with fifteen or twenty people in it, ands of castle, and raining the crops. Radford, is described na something awinl. 100 persons still living there, reluctant to len ve was swept out into the bay and every one lives were lost at Leosburg or Catension They Inst everything and are without food the site of their former homes. They are now of the inmates drowned. The captain of Fase, but the following are reported lost and clothes.
occupying the few houses that have withstood a schooner from there to-day says that no of Alfred Lambert, Marion Lakes Father particulars of the great disaster the storm. One half the provisiounand clothing s house is left in the whole country. Every George Striever, L. Charles Blanheit, Rage Stally being received. The situation among these sufferers, who, were in great Sabine Pass and Jobson's Bayou are taken up by the committee were distributed thing there was drowned," A party of
ford Gray and two familiee by remo of men, camo from Beaumont this evening an
The remainder was the train with the intention of joining the Francaware, bosides many others whose mast heen exaggerated in the least. Aueed of everything.
correspondont, who ting just returned sent up to Joksson Bayou by the targe poopla of Omago and going down to Sabine have not been ascertained. Pass with a relief-bont. The wires have been Now Orleans, October 15th-The steam that Turkey buzzards
from Sabing Pass, telegraphs from Orange Topsy, as the tide and channel would not
are soaring over permit of the Elella going up the river. down all day on both sides of Orange. bat Lamar was sent on Wednesday sight Sabino for miles seeking for the bodies of The committed. is naani in their Sabine Pass in twelve miles below Beaumont with a relief committeo tu Sabine Pass persons and anins. The town has been statements regarding the abaulnte destito-
The party returned to Beaumont, Tex, to
They say thoy [Sabine Pass is a small village of Jefferson dny. Dr. P. B. Caihoun, one of the reliefwept out of existence. There are 127tion of the survivors.
persons missing and supposed to be dead, never saw such suffering for the common county, Texas, about sixty-six miles northeast committee, says. there are many persona in Only about twenty-fire bodies have thus necessitios of life existed at Sabino Pass of Gairenton, on the gulf of Mexico, and at the vicinity of Sabine Pass who are utterly been recovered. Innumerable touch and Johnson Bayou. The committee ns- the mouth of the Sabine river.]
destitute, being without clothing to cover their nakedness. На asks aid for the des- and heartending incidents of the certained that the total number of porsans Galveston (Tex.), October 14th.-Imier ro-i poris confirm the statement that the town of tinte. Dr. Callion is Mager of Ben-sommare rated by survivors. One house who lost their lives was 180, and of theso containing fourteen soloveil persons was seen sixty-four were colored and thirty-eight Sabine Pass, at the month of the Sabine pent, and he will distribute through comto go down with a crash and every one of whites. Only sixty-five bodies thus far inve river, the dividing line between Louisiana and mittees whatever is sent to him. Out of theur was loss. Incilenta noe related of been recovered and buried. Scouring parties Texas, was entirely washed away by the terrific more than 150 bouses in the village less asbands Inahing their wives and children to continue to hunt for the bodies of missing
of! night. Over fifty livenare ro-than six remain standing, and they are lanting wreckage and then seeing them kiled friends.
Wives and childrea were givent ported to total population of 200. Telo ruined. graphic communication with all points outside husbands and fathers, who were powerlesstimated by the value of the town, for all is to Johnson's Bayou.
Away and drowned in the presence of their reasy logs being driven against them.
The damage to property can only be es-bius Pues, and went as far as the entrance of Texas was early suspended last night, owing
They brought back Waves broka against the to storms in Lomisison, Arkansas and the In-tave them,
last, The Sabine and Texas Railroad is with them a complete list of names of the dian Nation. The following account of the lighthouse fifty feet high, tearing out windows washed sway for a distance of ten miles, coldred people who were úrowned grost disaster at Sabine Pass was tolographed at the very top of the structuro. Corps have fies have floated off and rails are twisted Sabine. Among the colored victime there fast night to Houston from Beautunut. Our beeu picked up a distance of thirty mites like wires. Millions of dead fish were cast are thirty boulins still missing, while but town is in a state of intense excitement at the mar took on board is pargo of font, strow the ground. A young woman
from the scene of the disaster. The
up by the waves and thousands of birda also fifteen whites, have been recovered and Dewa jest received from Sabine Pass of blankets and clothing, and also a fresh re-perfectly nude atate was found roaming around masing bodies are stack in the mud, which interred. It is thought that some of these toes of life and destruction of property in lief committee, and at daylight this morning on that pises from the high water. We have started down the Neches to ascent the was lamented and could not tell bor inme.
the prairio five miles from Sabile. She is saveral feet deep on the bottom of Sabine now no telegraphio communication withs
baynu and the river frouting the spot where
The local relief committee visited Sa-
Babine Pass, but an enginn arrived here unfortunate. She will probably reach teré to-night over the East Railway that left on her return trip about midnight to reached Sabile pesterday Columbus Mar lief of the distressed are being actively pross-
When the Government tag Penrose the town forinerty stood. Measures for the re there about 6 o'clock, Two citizens win The peonniary damage at Sabine, includ rowed in a small boat across an expanse offing that to the Government works, will age was found roving around the delta ed at Houston, Galveston and other cities.
Buffalo, October 18th-The fand in nid several miles from the town of Sabine Pass gregato nearly $6,000,000, as many plan looking for the bodies of his family. He
anid: "bigaelf, wife and three children of the storm forors now exceeds $1,500. to the railroad track came in on an engine talions enstained serious injury.
receive from President and gave a heart-rending account of the The latest list of these known to have were clinging to a floating roof, which was letter wh
First one
Classland this morning inclosing a check situation there. They say that, the waters been drownod is Mrs. A. W. Juuke, Charles gradually breaking to pieces.
went and then another. I was holding the for $100 and expressing sympathy with began to iarade the town from the gulf W. Junke, Mrs. P. F. McDonnaugh, Afies wen
per and the lake together at about 2 o'clock konMe Dounaugh, Mrs. Columbus Martee and youngest, and soon my wife said, Good the distressed poople. There are 105 Tuesday afternoon, and rose with ampre.child, Mrs. Pomeroy and three children, by, husband, I am going. I could not sons being cured for by the Relief Commit- cedented rapidity, The citizens of the Mrs. G. Pomeroy and child. Mrs. Mulligan reach her. The piece of roof supporting Lee and food and clothing are being liber doomed plage did not realize their immi-mud four children, Mra. Von Day and her broke and ato sauk before my eyes. Ially provided. There is considerable doubt ngut danger until it was too late to escape abera. Homer King, wife and child.Pearl, some time longer. The child, ad-turn to the island to be vietima of overy three children, O. F. Brown Miss Mahal held on to the youngest child, unmedpressed about permitting squatters to re- When anfety by flight was recognized ne being out of the question, the people who two children of William Show, a child of dressing me, said, Paps, I am tired; won't severe storm, and it is probable that the city were situated
they could do so betook Captain Stewart, Mrs. Whiting, John Wil-you walk with me? The piece of roof 1 will refuse to allow fatura occupation of that themselves to the houses and resorts ad-sox and B. Foley. The foregoing names are was on was now drambling to pieces. Istrip of beach for living purposes.
London, October 18th.—The following ad- judged to be the anfeat. The water kept all of white persous. The names of Efts-live both her little arms round my nooks additional particolars of the damage caused and between 4 and 9 velock the colored victims have not been ascertained both arms neck and by the recent stores have been received: The rising, smaller houses began to yield to the re Au Orange, Tes., spacing to the Times are a big squez, the British steamer Aruos, Captain Whittlesey, Biatlona forse of the waves, and not only Demborat says: Your correspondent, who won wave dashed us off and I saw her no from New York. Septembar 29th, for Bor moved from their fondations bat formed with the relief party on the steambout Lamar more." He was pressed to go on board the aux, se been lost on Pointe de la Coabrie, Penrose, but refuse, saying: "Hore! at the northern mouth of the Gironde. A little later as bundreds of persons wore drowned st tops. large houses began to give way, and death by Johnson bayon. The destruction of property among these lagoons are the bodies of
from Wreckage wife and children, and bere will I stop until
the steamer, and part of her drawning soomed inevitalde for every citizen was great, including thoustiads of head off can and them. No tongue can tell how cargo are washing ashore.
livestock. At Cameron bench the hotel of the place. With the yielding of the smaller
The British steamer Kate, Captain Durkee, ved the people have suffered during the past from Savannah, September 29th, for Liver houses, several persons who had remained in was serioosly threatened, but was
lew days. them were drowned, and when the residunces by cattle crowding into the lower story,
pool, arrived at Queenstown disabled. Sho and business places began to crumble, the far-off with its upper stories filled with people which went toward Sabine: yesterday as far broku twenty-five steam pipes. Her decks Deaumont (Tex.) October 16th-The train shipped an immense quantity of water and thereby preventing the building from Boating tality began to double,
On the receipt of this nows the citizens The Emily A. and relief party for Johnson's as the track allowed, returned here at 8p.in. were much damaged.
on their sides and
and four wbike.
of Bearmont immediately began preparations bayou has arrived with sixty-two survivors. Fifty bodies were recovered on the highland The Norwegian bark Ornen, Captain for relief. The damage to property at Sabine Thirty-sovon bodies of persons who were called Backridge, west of Sabins, and were Nielson, from Mobile, August 14th for Goole, bas been very great. The wharf property of drowned have been recovered and sixty-five buried. Six boding of women were recovered line heen towed to Cowes. She has lost her the torn was owned by New York capitalists, are still missing, but their names cannot be on the woat shore of the lake, two colored sails. Thies of her cow died of ague and who who own the adjoining lands and were given.
others are suffering from the malady," Aiming to make Sabine Pass an important Coptain F. A. Hyatt and William Guy re Galveston, October 17th.--The following The British bark Rutland, Captain Casoy, port on the gulf coast,
port that they had a singolar experience as special to the Associated Press from Orange, from Quebec, September 15th, for Greenook, The village of Sabine Paas is located at members of the relief committee. Ou their Tex, given the latest particulars regarding the was abandoned off Lundy island. The mate The month of the Sabine river, within half way to the pass a train in which they were great disaster at Jobneous Bayon and Sabine and carpenter were drowned. The other smile the extreme point jutting from
town. The water all around this ueck of o'clock this afternoon, bringing 160 addition-at Falmouth.
are Dablia, October 18th.-The branches of
the Texas side. The town lies only fearing stopped on a duinp five miles from Puss. "The stermer Emily P: returned at 3] members of the crew were rescued and landed foot love the mean tide mark, ond island was fully eight feet deep. The, handafal suffores from-Jenson's Bayou, who the Irish National League in counties Cork bounded by a great swamp on the west of Messrs. Hyatt and Gag are blistered entirely destiute of everything that is necessary and Lake Sabian ou the north. The on-from fighting snakes which literally co-to sustain life. They were received at the and Waterford bave been making inqui trance to Lake Sabine is a mile and a halffered the dump for a distance of five miles. wharf by our relief committee, who are doing ries regarding the condition of the farms shore the town. The lake is fifteen miles There were thousands of water moccasins all in their power to make them comfortable. in these districts and have just made a re long by ten miles in width, with an average from the overflowed district taking refuge Most of them are women and childran. The port. They say that the harvests have depth of seven foot, which is always main- on the narrow stretch of land, and every Emily P. will return to the bayou im-been bad, that onts are selling at from three: tained by the boge volume of water pour-stop across it had to be fought through mediately to bring back 150 more persons, to five shillings por barrel, and that s ing into the basin from the two navigablo twisting serpenta, many of them the deadly who are waiting there and who are now beary fall in stocks has rendered the farmers