Show TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION A Hotel Swept Out Into the Bay SixtyFive Lives Host NEW ORLEANS Oct 13Chief Operator West of the Western Union Telegraph Company Com-pany has received the following message from the operator at Orange Texas The town of Sabine Pass was totally destroyed de-stroyed by the water of Sabine river last night There are known to have been sixty five lives lost Last night during the overflow over-flow the hotel with some fifteen or twenty people in it was swept out into the bay and every one of the inmates drowned The captain of a schooner from there today says that not a house is left in the whole country and every living thing there was drowned party of men came from Beaumont Beau-mont this evening with the intention of joining the people of Orange and going down to Sabine Pass with a relief boat The wires have been down all day both sides of Orange Sabine Pass is twelve miles below Beaumont onthe Sabine river |