| Show BY T E L E G JR A PU UNION LINE AMERICAN A E R 11 C A N GALVEs galveston abw tex 14 our town is in a state of intense excitement at news lust i f from pass it is news of terrible loss of life and destruction truc tion of pro property gerty property in anat place from high water we e have now no telegraphic grap graphic lile communication from the pass the the being down but an engine arrived here hereto tonight to night over the east texas railway that left there about 6 two citizens who rowed in a small email boat across an expanse of tossing waters a distance of of several miles from the town of sabine to the railroad track came in on an engine and gave a heartrending heart rending account of affairs there they say the waters began to invade the town from the ithe gulf eulf and lake together about 2 alel 0 ck T tuesday afternoon ter and rose with unprecedented rapidity the citizens of the doomed place ed did not realize their imminent danger until it was too late to escape when bacety by flight was recognized recognize as being out of the question people who were situated so they could do L 10 lo 60 o betook retook themselves to houses house sand and resorts ad adjudged budged to be the safest the WATER KEPT RISING I 1 and between 3 and 4 the smaller houses began to yield to the resistless force of the waves and not only moved from their foundations but turned on their sides and tops A little later large houses began to give way and leath eath by drowning seemed inevitable for every citizen of the place with the yielding of the smaller smaller houses several persons who had remained in a them were drowned drowne dand and when the residences and business places began to crumble the fatality began egan to double the fo following lowing incomplete list of the drowned was obtained from two gentlemen who came over on an engine miss mahata jim vondy and family of six ais the wife of otto brown and two children homer king wite wile and child mrs junker and son mrs pomeroy and family of live mrs stewart wart and son a man by tho th nane of wilson mrs arthur mrs mcdonald and daughter frank mulligan anand and family tarn ily colonel martee and family and about 25 people whose sames names could not be given the above list comprises over FIFTY HUMAN BEINGS victims of the storm among them some of the leading families lamila s of the wace place there are others and many of them ahem doubtless drowned without anyone now livin living knowing of it it is feared whole families in different parts of the place have been swept away without leadir leaving g a personal to ind indicate leate their horrible fate on receipt of the tha news the citizens of beaumont immediately began preparations for relief the texas railway placed an engine at their di disposal dispo aa and u party ot of men have gone to orange to carry the news there and procure boats and start for the scene the damage to property at sabine has been ery great jhai wharf property of the town was owned by new york capitalists who also own the adjoining land and they were endeavoring to make sabine pass an important port on the gulf coast new orleans 14 A special from orange texas to the picayune says details of the destruction by the storm at sabina pass and johnsons bayou come in slowly and are yet indefinite though they fall agree that there has been A GREAT LOSS OF LIFE and of property two brothers named pomeroy were picked up by the nor ner andrew babou in sabine lake they had been in the water 36 hours clinging to their capsized yawl their ir mother and sister and mrs captain junker her son and little girl ol 01 the party were lost the Pome roya roys report that fifty lives were lost at the porter house where the people had collected as the best place ot of safety it went to pieces ata ocl bek many persons are missing A still greater loss is reported from johnsons bayou whole families were swept away not a house was left within five miles of the lake parties parti s were organized last night and left on the steamers mar and jemelia emelia P with provisions and bedding they are expected back tonight to night when further particulars will be obtained the times democrats Is lake charles louisiana special says the loss loas to property along cameron parish on the gulf coast and for some distance west of sabine pass pass by the storm of tuesday night was fearful A mail boat irom rom cameron parish reports that the water at calmasin Cal casin pass was eight feet deep at the light lighthouse houge and that the entire ente country east and wes submerged tuesday night drowning THOUSANDS oy OF and ruining the crops no lives were lost at leesburg Lees bura or taleasin Cal Ca casia leasin pass but the following are reported lost at johnsons bayou louisiana the entire families of albert lambert mari on n lukes bules george Str evir charles blankheit Blan heit helt radford gray and two families by the name of Fran esware besides many others whose names have not been ascertained A special to the picayune from beau moa says sabine pass pais has been nearly destroyed about 27 whites and 30 negroes were drowned the wires are down searching tg parties have ibave goue out and will return tomorrow to morrow until learned which time bolens further cau can be I 1 galveston revas 14 this city has beep in a state of all oay about the dreadful news anuw from sabine pass mau many anxious persons have eagerly visited the rab offices seeking further particulars from THE STRICKEN TOWN communication witti with beaumont and orange oran 9 e the nearest points to the mie nn na fortunate town has beau re dished but the inhabitants of those places appear to be awaiting the return of relief parties that have bave gone to sabine pass the village of sabine pass is located at the mouth of sabine rivert river within half a mile of extreme point jutting froin the texas side the town lies only tour four ket k et above the mean tide mark and is bounded by a great swamp on the west and lake sabine babine on the north the entrance to lake sabine is a mile and a half above the town thia The is 15 miles long by 10 miles in width with an average depth ot of seven feet which I 1 is always maintained by the huge volume of water pouring big into the basin from the two navigable rivers r neckties and sabine it was this lake according to the most experienced navigators on this coast that destroyed tile me town the hurricane of last sunday in the west indies blew the waters with great greaf vio violence lende toward the texas coast THIS HURRICANE wave was first noticed on this coast on sunday morning attaining its maxim maximum um on tuesday morning and was maintained at a high point b by the impetus of the waters behind the the hurricane itself did not reach this coast at all a as scarcely a breath of wind was stirring when the tidal wave first touched the coast when its maximum was wais reached on tuesday however a fierce northwestern gale sprung up along the whole coast aubut and at sabine lass the gale blew the waters out of lake sabine and drove them toward the tae gulf where the lake waters were met by the great swell caused by the hurricane this thia resulted ted in driving the lake waters over into U the ie little t tofu own and lug ing the country lor for ten miles around without a mo moments menti notice this account of the disa ter is confirmed by our experience nere here with the barue ale and all information from sabine 11 ISO confirms the above theory As s son on as the collector of customs was APPRISED of THE dissert he ordered the government tug penrose to proceed to sabine and am she started for that place at 2 this afternoon with a i of the galveston news and several others on board the distance to sabine is sixty miles the penrose get back until tomorrow to morrow when the details of this awful disaster will wih he K known knon non private telegrams froan beaumont this evening confirm we the reports previously sent regarding the toss loss ot of life at beaumont and orange haugo the gale did serious damage it played havoc among the lumber mills but occa signed no loss if f life the latest report places the number of lives lost at sabine at over 60 00 chicago 14 A heavy wind and rain storm storm passed over the city this morn numerous is ing two real estate buildings bui aings and doing treat great damace damage in dou douglasb glass glasa duffield and humbal humboldt t parks park cincinnati 14 A dispatch from fort wayne indiana states that A GALE from thi the south passed over ove r that city this afternoon and at 2 raaf based d in full force the odd fellows temple tempie Genie Cente livres brewery rakes hakes bottling works work adams express office to together ther with some of the principal business business buildings were unroofed shortly before 2 afire a fire broke out in the outskirts of the cit and at the time the dispatch was sent about 2 p pm m five frame dwellings were ia flames with the gale spread spreading ing the lire buffalo 14 A terrific gale accompanied by byrain raial iset set inhere this afternoon and continues with increased fury at midnight the wind is blowing 65 miles an hour the island inhabited by squatters is flooded and the waterspout waters water pour in huge waves over it nine houses have been totally destroyed and over persons gre are homeless the people are moving their household effects effect sto to mainland officers were sent to rescue the family of charles lambert lambert was saved but hiti his wife and daughter WERE DROWNED several others are reported missing the basements of houses on canal street are aie hooded Ilo oded the inmates inma teti taking 4 refuge in the upper floors the roof of the western transportation house ho use was blown off causing a blockade on oa the lackawanna track Mich igna and main streets are flooded 00 feet from froin the dock ohio street is completely flooded all the lumberyard lumber yards on oil tbt abu island are wrecked the damage to shipping hipping is very great barges are arc floating over evans dock ariu a number are rc reported ported smashed this evening t the rear wall of the new music fail went down with a crash nobue no aue was injured I 1 CHICAGO 15 1 i at a meeting tonight to night of district assembly no 57 knighty Kni abts of cabor it was decided to order ord e r out tomorrow to morrow all the employed emp loyes of armour co s beef cannery 1 chis his move will add ada several thousand men to tho e already out and will make tle tie strike general at least so tar far as the armour establishments are concerned at midnight the members of district DIS pista brict act assembly no 57 were still in session T P barry who was one fit of the tw two de delegates agates sent here by the Eluh Richi moad nond convention with authority to s ettle the he will probably leave for richmond tomorrow to morrow night lie he says that lie lias has arrived at the conclusion that the packers are arc merely playing for time ile he broadly intimates that bis mission in richmond bd will avill be to institute if possible a boycott against armour whom he be is convinced is alone ip the way of an amicable settlement seu lemeut of the stock yard troubles SAN 14 the a temer wilmington loii which arrived tonight to night from honolulu brings additional particulars tic ulars re regarding arding the shipwrecked crew of ne the ship Dum Duna castle which became a total loss on the ocean or cure ireland july there au also 0 O arrived on her as passengers the mate of the Dum Dun trotter castle and three of crew who made a 52 dayal day a voyage in an open boat f from cure island to the sandwich islands in in order to obtain aid for their companions 22 in number who remained ed on cure Is land baad hiis IL is learned t that hat the steamer Wair leale which was fitted out under the e joint auspice aus of the hawaiian and major K H british commissioner left lef t honolulu september and ar rived at the scene of the wreck sept I 1 A bottle was lound found on the island which contained a note dated august cilitti it stated the wen men of the dum castle after being on tle the island 33 days were taken off by the snip ship birnam wood of st johns N bf rom kiong hong koog kong to val ara that they expected to be landed at me latter orcia place lace the note w yas as signed 1111 H 1 A martin muster master of the ship datre castle 11 before the Wair leale started on da her return col james H boyd the special commissioner ot of the hawaiian government ern ment I 1 took possession of the island inthe in the name of his government and planted canted the hawaiian flag the wair leale fla le arrived at honolulu again agai n on sept CLEVELAND ofilio ohio 14 A report was received here this morning by M K A bradley co owners of the pro propeller harah aarah Chain chamberlain berlan stating that tile the vessel v m as sunk in a collision with a new york central line boat six miles east of sheboygan wisconsin last affet and four deck hands and coe second engineer names unknown were lost port Col colburne burfie 14 the tup tug booth has returned here and reports thac the sch schooner boner geo M H chase capt cook grain laden bound from chi chicago cago for buffalo foundered when the sooth reached the ail fated vessel she found the tug IV V A moore there together they saved four of tile the crew whom the they found dining clining to the spars which stuck stuck up out of the water captain cook and one roan man never came up after aft erthe the vessel went down NEW YOUK YORK 14 abram S hewitt has agreed to accept the tammany nomination for mayor and has written a letter announcing the fact hewitt stipulates hot however vever that the balance of the ticket ticket shall be satisfactory tro 6 him the committee of one hundred to night nominated theodore roosevelt for mayor the democracy organization tonight held its county bounty convention Tamm anys nomination of hon abram S hewitt for mayor was endorsed BUFFALO 15 the gale which visited buffalo last night did a vast amount of damage for a time the wind rescued it a velocity of 70 miles an hour on the like lake front in the vicinity of what is known as the r feea ea wall 40 small houses were totally destroyed by wind and water and the occupants had bad to fly for their lives several persons are known to have perished among them a sailor canted charles mitchell and an old man john edmunds edmonds the bodies of two children were recovered this morning and also avio two bodies which are unknown ht at present on the hamburg turnpike near tue the city twenty or thirty families have been rendered destitute APPEALS FOR AM AID have hare been issued throughout the city many buildings were damaged damn ped the most serious damage wa sustained by the new music hallin hall in course coarse of construction A large see section uio of the rear wall which was nearly ready for the roof was blown down with a terrific crasti shaking the louses in the vicinity like an earth earthquake 6 tle the damage to the buk iding is estimated at jil 2000 mrs 1 roberts Ro berls saloon and bouse on the road was earned about feet i odthe family were rescued from the tac by the police ice the office officers ys illse found a family named up iu a tree their hou if had been deloli shed hed and breir hiir r 1 man inan named john edmunds ii id munds who oud not climb WAS DROWNED another house iu hi the turnpike was curried away and t the hb family Is ia m missing in the scenes on the beach tins tais inc aning troia the toot loot of gauson ganson street to fo halt hail a coile or more to the east babiles les des caninan cn inan tim the people were achiu jao ai hiu siu in crowds over heapy of wrecked wreck jed houes aul aud along the beach near the sea w w V bare b era houses disei had bad stood 04 04 piles ot lav lar forty or inore houses that stood on abut part pare of jt the island but thi ee it if fourre mf in intact lom DEALl mox T 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