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Newspaper Page Textffitffl YOU XVIII. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 19 1886 PRICE FO'Y o'KNtt o uR- Story Corner AN UNCONSCIOUS HEROINE. Jly Kil.n Arrasiroac. From lai N’ew Orleans Time* Democrat. MV Dos-Chat lotto—Pray forgive tnc for not ••oner it plying to yonr very kind and wolcomo Jotter. 1 .’.esaroyou that my time hat boon very 'IbByecc.piedbymyuewdntte*. Yoaavkm* seno$raing these duties. At present I am only a copy ipg dork at $30 par month. Not a very nrfgWtely income, yon sr.y, but rcmonibor that ' firtth my influence I shall very soon bo promo ted fo a higher and more lucrative posliion. .For the present aiiterSelina and I are strut- ( aim;, to n.ako both ends meet and appear as be- Pis my ulher’s daughters. \ Belies, sa yon aro atrtre, still has a tnnll in homo of her own, from fnnds invested t.y her Prether-in-law. I knew yonr husband hu not vtjbJgb - -inion of Ur. A.’a integrity, but X do botthtd: be eoald boso base aa to dofrand hta .brother’s widow. We are, for tho present, in ■unity lodgings on S. street, wiicre the cook- leg and attendance aro not quite what wo wero * 'UeeestoM'.-’ to in thoso palmy days "boforotho • SmL-'’ Df course,onr residence hero is merely Aai&pornrf, as I feci sure that onr friends, who ■are much better acquainted with the town will •arise ns to And a more genial home. Yonknow ghat tho Wifo of onr senior senator is a consin f t fallicr's hrothor’a wife. Sho will doubt- prove a hind friend, as sho has frequently a guest at ‘Tho Cedars” in htppicr days. 'Judge Blank, who also resides horo, was a dear friend of my sainted methor, and Itepro- ■mtative 0— is, as yon know, the sou of my ..when they havo had timo to answer g rs of introduction, wo shall no longer *i strangers hero, bnt will, through thorn, lie’ the entre to tho meet elegant society of ■ topi!a,', of which cur dear mother has so Mi told us. Selina Insists upon my making a M toilet every day on my return ‘Treat of- •."!» order to lio prepared for callers, bnt, so t none of them havo fonnd timo to call,as the toon has commenced and they havo doubt- eJtBSai- calls os their time: bnt, no doubt, http will very soon. You tell me of the min tage of Colonel Savilio. Pray, deer Charlotte, o net imagine that we were ever aught ss7e try good friends, and please preoent my fin- Us congratnlatlons to bimadr and bride., -So far I have not fonnd n publisher for “In - K 1 Bod Days,” but havo rs-copiod it and will lain,” and if not successful, will, whon ary la raised, pollieh it at my own ex- twhich time (as I am assure! by Jitss ~ ‘ i, who onco wroto a book caliol pretrr.ro that they, loo, ware “at tho springs.' The dspartments ware jest eat; the stroat can were erewdtd with those who were flub enough to ride to their respective homos. Yoong ladies crowded in by twea sod-threes, each with her relabel or lnneh basket soar - “out with the hoys” lost night, cigarette on the rear platform, and talked of holidays atdexenttioiia. Bnt scotos of pile women hoisted shabby sunshades and walked bravely etc to distant komaa. They were obliged to save, net themselves, bnt their pen nies, for the sake of these at home. Of these plodder* Miss Mercian was one; >h* Was so very tired of sitting all day in the hot, dote room, and bar aye* sehsd with the endless pages of black and wbite she had bean writing; for, ala*, she was only n copying dork still, thentb her salary was a little larger than at flint. Bnt poor Selina leaded many things; many, indeed, which her lister oonll net give her, and the revenue from her brother-in-law’s investment! cam* in very slowly, and rame- timea threatened to atop altogether. Mia If st eins hoisted bet ancient sunshade, through the crevice* of which theitmVrayt danced with blinding force. She allowed the shabby little embroidered shawl sbe wore to bang loosely on her arms for Miss Marelssa consid ered it unladylike to appear on the street, even in July, without some pretense of s wrap. She felt that ahe could scarcely walk the many squares to her horns but ber ear -fare wonla buy Selina a little fruit, and her appetite was vary poor. I-Ittlo Miss Dodge from Ohio, who sat at the next desk, carno tripping oat behind her, munching somo chocolate* aa sheeame. She halted an already, crowded ear and daintily mad* her way within, regardless of tho fact that soma member of the sterner sex must re Yeung,” of which I hed iwur .-.luc lAiemo Ujiino. Wi’bl-fvo J.u.., EuXoron nnd kind rcg.ir.lc to i clue ' H ' - in- he . yo us ilc; Jour htuband, X *u, do« Charlotte, yonr r.la uere friend. Napi'IMA BlACKfom,. 1'. S.—I regret to say tbst Seiiua’s health mo hotter, bnt, as I feci quite into, rtt worse, film wlU'iloubtlOM roiovor her strength in the •spring, which is, 1 am told, a mild and early • season here, though scarcely that of our more geutkciu dims. So wroio Misi Kareisr* Blackford to bor friend, Miss Lonqulcr. a resident of her om mntivoiown. Ilcd-handcd war ha-1 taken from iiiai Nsrclcea and her sister thoir father and thoyenng husband or tie latter, lira. Ab bott had nevor recovered from tho terrible ■block of receiving tho no va of her husband's death, which was furw.irdcd “through tho line*” on a a filed scrap of paper, by the Cfionol fiavill* of whoso mr.rrligo Mies N'Jrrlm wrote. The beautiful homo of the sisters, too, was ticno. Ttlshomo had been thoresldenoaof tho JHackforda sinco tho days whoa oao lioglnild of that name fled over tho seas with Lady Afary Davenport, a chancery ward, whoso espousal for a timo threatened tho liberty of her husband. Here, In bit timo, ha l lived Gregory Blackwood, a colonel in tho rovolu- •fionary wet; hero ho bad royally entertained Washington, Lafajctto and many of their ion illustrious followers; hero catuo thoIiutof hit due, to die of his wounds, just threo day.-- bo tforo tho historic dwcllicc was burned to tho rjroULd by tho fortunes of war. And so them two tcnderly-nniturcd ladies wore loft sln.0 •penniless, as wolt as homeless, and with «mi etldiiiy to, liolp themeelvoe t-> a livollbool. Mrs- Abbott, tho elder Hitler, had been tho *ielIo*r.d l-cautyof thecountryreund; indeed -hoy were known far and near aa tho “Black ford Watt tin," for Mies Norctasa’a charms were ten,ml only to thoto of her sitter. Hall- 2* had married young, bnt Mantissa b»l dc - dined to giro up her belloship, and w.at still gjneenlng it, at the ago of tiventy.flve, when the basil) call startled her lovert from her foot. Terhitpe if Tout Savilio had ouco more asked her fo marry him, aha would not then litre said him nay, Bnt, thou-fh sho watched his career with snxioas eye*,hedid not on hit rc- furn renew hi* snif, ire-l no ono ever knew -whether or not sho csrei more for him than ! ibr too other anHora who sskod her the ques- tlion over again, or took her "Mo” at final. (if ihese gallant youths somo now lay buried in wore laid to mowithomp. sek, port*,' s. t any rate, at isclen” still, :auty.” Timo olds heavily s a copying t Mrs. Abtett ,vo iier sitter, might lire to w&tdiod d jjoiv tbc-io amber in a hod for tie djys. Out-o ly hoTtio from tho office,saw a carriage, with llvcrel driver, Before the door, bat tho visitor* wore always •far torno one else. Once tho senator's wife tsent a basket of flowers to the invalid, and Sloy wore watched and bonded until they faded quit* awiy. Once or twico tho julgo'a ■spouic left cards, which wero treasured in the docking f.Iasi for many a day. But that wa; all. ‘The Cedars” lay in ashes, tho world wont on 11s way forgetful of thotgopoar ladles, wdnso fbopea at last lay dead. Irreverent boarders mimicked the sister, not qnito to their faces, nnd epoVe of “my friend, Mrs Senator so and- so.” or “ciy distant relative. Mrs. Ju igc such ■a ono." .holies’* eyea grew brighter aul hor -el-eris more pallid. Sue gave up going down fobcrmials in the tpring, the ilnt vvaria weather «m “so enervating,” slio aiid, and In « tamer tuo boat was too great, but when vim- rcftruo again tbero were no more pro’.encev sho kept her room, a hopeless, uncumplilu- Yog invalid. Hammer In the year of onr lord Is-i, tho i tbronth tho crowd tl Jot July son itreamcd down in Washington, mgj ITho tries were motionlei*; the ilaworain the ‘'htbdkcicLief aqnires” hong their ho-iii: the street r«r horses plodded along with a weary, lropeltfk air. In tho fashionable streets the siouic, wer dosed, their ovnera sway at aei- Shorc or monoKio; bouses in less protentioaa ffinasrs were also dosed, while their owners Itrcd in tho Lick rooms, trying to keep up tits i -J i s ‘‘Shc'a afraid she might take cold without that abaw); wonder if it’s the ono horgraedmothar wore whan sho r«eetred Goneral Washington and tbo Marqnla I.arayetto, 01 my graeioni, ain’t tbo funny? Sho was real good to mo last Iwintor, though, when I was alck, but she’s •nek a guy I have to laogh at her. Say,Stoll*. I'm going boating tonight svith that follow I told yon abont. Ha's in tbs patent olBoa, a regular swalk own consin to Senator Smith, too. Well, bore’s my stopping pltoo—got to got aoma thing* for tonight, i'll toll yon all about it. tomorrow. Bye, bye.” ■Yea. this was Mill Narciua, her friondsall P*Ji*» Wanty faded—poor Miss Narciaia! bo clerks In herrooa all laughed at her bo nd her back, yet openly gave her somo of tbo courtesy her gontto breeding demanded, oven from youth and giddiness, ami many a llttlo favor tire old maid did for thoso who needed it. Sho helped one poor llttlo widow to nnrso her child through the scarlet fever hfc i tj/o rh„ ahowgAUvr, gfl how to Uikatar tnoVark *k*M first dtP clajrd sho coolil not do; shocuco even pa«-ned tier watch to lottlo the unpaid board 1,111 of a young girl who had a uiothor nnd llttio’siator ■pendent on her. And It she did it all with a little air e f nitrcnago, and would not bo in- tlmato with thoso sho helped, who could bUrao her—this daughter of MajCr Blackford—for her pildt? Today, a* aha walked down Penn sylvania avenue, aha was wrappod in a day dream; a day-dream In which sho saw “In too Bed Daye,” froth from tho hands of tho pub lish! r, and beraalf the most popular authoress of Hie day. Ala*: Tho book still lay in her desk, after having boon returned, a neat parool, ‘•declined with thanks” by publisher after publisher—to be sent forth each time wl ‘ litti* let* bow. At first Miss Marelssa and her sister apoko of their hopes to tho ten friends they bad among their fallow-boarders, bntsoon they only apoko of the Btnnsctlpt when alone together, and, Anally, no word waa said when It wta sent forth, only to coiuo back with such unfailing regularity. Only hliia Marrisza grew n shade paler, and ber aistor kissed ber oven more tenuorly than washer wont. Today, tho poor authorise bad heard of a new publisher, and hope whispered, “Try again.” Who decided, aa the selected So- Urns’* bananas, that ahe would recopy it and send it forth for one more trial, and if that failed--well; than Waa tlsraya tha hops of promotion, with higher salary whoa sho eonld unconscious of all save pain, whllo bar life fat ebbed Itself away. Tbs tiro was aeon tub- deed, evoo before tha firemen reached the house, bat not before “In the Bed Dais,' had been awrpt op Ilka sutamu loaves before tbo wied. But llttlo of this rooked Ilita Nardsat; abo.osly taw hor dead aiater'o lacs, and knew that hor solo atsy and comfort in Ufo waa gone fton hor. In October Mies Marc iso* Blackford ast slain at bar doth, her moan, pinebod crapa and bombasine making a sombre patch in the sunlit room, whore flower* blossomed la the windows, and beyond thorn tbo fair polomac glitteied. Ivy Dodge aat near her. her votoa a little lower, her eyes a trifle softer as aho looked at Mil* Marebso, whoso pale hand traveled rap idly over tho paper before her. Be ah* sat there, doy after day. among them, yet not of them, as on* who had eomo bask from the other world, whore all bar hops* ware bnriad. The sister or her love lay in Beautiful Oak 1I1U; her book, tho one child of bar brain, wta a heap of ashes with only one word decipherable, and that “Finis” month, in tho moot was the promoted to (i nino-hnndred.doUarclark&ip. Oddly enough, is tltauso pspor waa the notice of Colonel SarlUo’s second marriage. Miss Ktrdssaresid them both, end only united. Three months later, ono dreary February day Mist Narciits, sitting at bar desk, slowly read a latter postmarked in a western eity, and tbit mi what itatid; "Dear NarcUia—You will wonder what in the name of goodness bat brought mo here, and why 1 write to you after a ailance of tty. oral yean. Fate, my dear, stranger than wo, and that la why yon wero suddenly brought to my mind—not that I’d really forgotten I drat, wbetam I doinghsre? Well, 1 am kvoping honae far my two bays; you know, of conrso, I that my poor hatband is dead. The boys aro both doing well, and I am as happy with them sa lt is portillo to be, now that poor Lawrence ie gone before. I kept yon will corns out eomo day and to* oil for yourself. Mow, bow do yon think I came to hear yonr namoawny out hare? Why, from poor Tom BartO*, who baa joat died hat* in gnat poverty. It looms that after hit second marriage (which took I place only a few months ago) ho otmo hero to live, after invootlng all bis little fortno* In what preyed to bo a gigantic swindle. Bis wife la a foolish llttlo piak and arhlte beauty, not oyer toranty, whoso on* idea seemed to bo toget back to lioreastern borne. Well,-poorI ITera baa a llttlo girl abont ten ysar* old. I should think. Florence (la her name. Ha was in despair oyer what to do with her at his death. I would havo taken her my-1 self, but, as yon know my Income is small, and my fons are young and srill marry by and by| t.-nodny I was sluing with Tom while hi* wifel _____ Igbt t Blank Brothers and Slash A Co. Tbo air was stifling hot in the llttlo room aa Mia* Mardasa aat at bor work with tho dim rays df thoUmp falling partly an tkopsgoood partly on tho floccy knitting, by whloh, whan •bo waa able, her sis tor adds! s little to (hair ■canty store. On and on flaw tho bney pen, tho writer be coming more interested in tho work her sister would never Interrupt. It was almost ten o’clock, whon, after a fn- ricift tinging at the beU. a email servant threat hpr head In at the door with the an nouncement that “Mist Ivy Dalgo was done drowndqul, and please,” she said “Wonlil Miss Nil elm com* to bar at one*.” It was bnt th* work of a moment after wi ping her pen In hercareful, oid-bahloned way, to kill her sister, and beg ban white aho pat on ter bonnet, not to ait up for her, though that Selina always did when an errand of mercy called bor slater away. Itwaaonlyofawiqaarcstolvy’s boarding honae, & sure protentioaa ona than hor own, and on tho way lliaa Marelsa* laarnod from her callow rqaIre that Miss Ivy had been opart ftom a aklffand brought homo, half drowned and wholly frightened, hogging them to and at <mc* for bar, Th* foolish child horealf waa found walking th* floor In a red Mother Hub- hard, with ber hair unbound and bar tooth chattering, while tbo talked and gesticulated, telling tha story of hat escape toaovml curious listeners, A fttreoEo difficulty Miss Nareiin got tbo ex cited girl to bod, where she pioeosdod to have several chills, alternated wish Its of half dol- iricua bysttricr, which kept her carte in con- slant morion until the doctor gave bar a Moth- lag draught whloh rent hor off in a fitful alrtp, from which ah* would start up, catling npon “Allert" to aav« her, claicllng poor Mias Nsrdraa’s tired hand in nervous agony. At lift rxhautfed, ah* slop* heavily, and aitUog silently by bar Min Marcia* noted the sound of pining wheels and tbo excited voice* of pa- drabianr, and discovered that what she bad tlooght to b* the striking of the hour waa th* clanging of tho fire bolls. Homo vague fear, •nch aa often aaaaili ns at aneh times, struck Mia* Marclna'a heart. "Felina! What if—” She rushed down tho ftaire and out into the street and atrairht for home Worn half way there she area mot by Mr. Benton, a fellow-hoarder, to whole sickly wile the sisters had been very kind, it dl I an a tike her aa strange that ho should meet her there, and taking her arm hurried her tbronrh tbs crowd that was gathered round their door, and led hor Into * room srhero lay —merciful God, eonld that Kricxen, moaning ibm* be Selin*! It war not until long afterward that the knew bow it bappoood; that in reaching for more wool while quilting and waiting Ire bar, Balias had upset th* lamp. Haw Itaxploled, and aha rushing manly out calling for help had falltn down it* stairway, where aho lay iO turned 5’nnd”f!rai onfc, ‘Marciisa will doit! A-k Marelssa Biaokford to tuko my child.’ My dear, I was shocked.. You know ■w** — ‘ ‘ - * - - . • Hjjrei of hKand you with poor Soilon and your llt- erary work to lock after. I thought It selfish to ask such * thing of yon. Ha died that night, aid tho last thing ha said to ms was; ‘Ask MaroJsaa, prorate* to ask Narciua.’ His wife went loto histories, and ho only seamed to think of hcraftsr that, and at theatroke of midnight he died, 1 only writ* to yon be came I premised th* daad. Ills relatives will of conne take car* of the llttlo girl. She ta with me at present. Good-by, dear Narciaia, witto whan can, and if you ovor care to como so far to see me, yon will recaiy* a warm welcome from yonr old friond.” “C’nanwTt*." ...at spoodlog alon, lliaa .Varelas* Blackford, Walk tngton, D. C, to Mrs. Charlotte Fanqntsr, Kauai City, Mo.: “Am coming fbr tho child.” And poor, delicate Mite Narcissi, who fn bar sheltered girlhood had never traveled twenty miles without an oscort, was traveling wait- wardalsnc. But though sho waa half fright ened at attempting what wu t> her inch* terrible Journey, tbo mover onco regretted her <3c citlon to Uke it* When the spring came, and poor Sallaa’s grave rpoke of rcasnrrrctlon in Its budding giart and flowers, Miss Marcias* wautthtthar on Hnnday aftornoona with her fragrant offer- inn—bnt not alone, for always with hoc waa a rhy, silent child, who tulleJ bar “Aunt, 1 and loved hor hotter than tho world, bsaldo Henceforth th* old mald'apath la not a lonaiy onr. The child gees with her; and lu nlaanlag for bar future, this unconscious borolno tar get* tbs spent ambition of bar own aad life— content when Florence lift# to hire, in lore and gratitude, tbo eyes so liko hor father’*. Great Katore and Thair Food, From the PUiadcIpU* Mean. Haydn, th* great com pour, and equally great consumer, liked to din* alone. Trie dnke of Norfolk would eat at a Cort ot Carden tavern food enough for fire person*. The Cure dc Brcquter would cat *1 a tingle sit ting as ouch food aa would serve a werklomtn for ten days. Brlllat Savarfn once saw him, fn Ibrce-qcattert of an hour, sweep Into bis capa cious stomach “a quart of loop, a plate of hooUll, a large leg of mutton, a superb bam, * looploua rated, o pound or twoof oboes*, aprodigtens quan tity of bread, a ootti* of wiu, another of water ard a cop of cotke.” An XaglUh man of tetters and politics ato ft a solitary dinner seven pounds and a ball of solid ■seat. At Ibe shop where ba performed ttr* foil tbe costumer* were at liberty to cot u much aa they liked Isr eeertebsaum, test lie beeper bad never bt foreViiranotcred a man of hk ftk. "Cap ital beef,’’ said the gourmand, when at length hta appetite waa setltfled: "hire Indeed o man may rut and erase again.” "Too may cm, air," re plied lbs trail purveyor of good cheer, "but i’ll bo •—*» If 900 iliAll wfflM* an|t," 1 he pwtloenl of tbo tribunal at Avignon,** ax- ct-Ueat Judge of good cheer as wall as of law. was relating to an auditor the delights of a dinner from which ho had lost doste. “We had a anpsrb tinker, tender aa a chicken, fat trio ortolan and nutted to the teak frith truffle*. We left nothing but Us bones.” “And hew matar were Otero of yonr asked th* better. "Only two. Thgre was myself and them was tes turkey." Luenllo never dined more atimptuoasly than when he dined alon*. and ou one occasion up braided Ida cook for serving him with a obeat, re- past when "lAioollna dined with Lucullus,” lb- cat of which was only about t’XX). Hie Vlcomoe de Vlelcl Castel wagered that lie could utoioma ten Irenes 1 worth of food and llqusr In two hours. Ilia erder consisted of twenty-four dcreu 0} tiers, a soup, a h-afsteak, a pheasant nr.lTed with truffles, a >alml of ortolans, adlsh of siyaregua, a plate of young peaq a pineapple, a dish of strawberries, gve botUes of win*, coir*) and ilqnota. lie won bis anger la ona boor and forty nalunte<. A wall known indsleian one* disposed or the balfofaterge mmkmelon, foliowodky* oosertuk and mmluooau, of which be had a second and a llbcial help, potato creqnattea, font bolted eggs, aad toast and tartan* ad ilbUtua followed there- past kctogooootedod wish al* wheat oak**. Bald ourbosteae tease atterwa.-d “Irootidarbim Ibe very prf nrr of giwera seith hi* delightful dottyerao- Won, hi* dtvttte music, and aucb an appeetter’ STORM SWEPT. A Whole Parish Under the Raging Ftooda OVER ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST Ihc TcfriM#' Fate or SaWne Pass ail Johc- sod's Bajon, THE SAD STORY AS TOLD Itnoof the moat destructive storms that bai visited this country for several yean awrpt ovor Babino I’aas, Johnson's Bayou and other places in Texas and Louisiana onTuoalay night last. Ores one hundred Uvea wore lost and many homes carried away. Tha foil •lory eftho terrible disaster will bo found be. low. The »'nil story Told. Ngov OkidURi, Ml, October 11.—Tho town of Sabin* -Fim, at tho month of tho SaUao river, a little between Louisiana and Texas, which was, entirely washed away by Ibe terifls storm of Tuesday night, had a population „r two hundred. All tolegraphio communication with tha town la ent off. Ba bin# Pus Is sixty miles ip th* coast from Gal- ration, aad twenty-right miles southwest of Beaumont, tho county sort of Joffareon county. Tbo destruction of Sabine Pass ta oomplote. Tho river rcae suddenly and creeping up Ibe Mghlaudi, soon washed away every house, carrying cot lew than alxty-flva porsons to tbeir drath. During tho ovarflew, a hotel containing fifteen or twcuty porsons, waa •wept out Into th* bay, and all th* ociupanta onto dimmed. The captain of* schoonor from Jhere says that not a honae Is left lo tho whole country and that ovory living thing waa drowuod. A party of men wont from Beaumont on a train with tbo Intention of joining tha people of Orange and going down to Sabine Pass with a relief hoot. riurnt, in Texas, waifn a itato of intense rxbUBMst at tha nowa received from Babino Jttto> tho ucwsof tho tonriblo loss of life and destruction of property in that placo from .: \yi.I-". Bcnmiont. lira nu leiograpiiln ,.i'),luinn;(«Jjp)l n .'!)> Sal.lnc I’an, os tho tvlros are-lrVigiareUJrY.’f*q-.rlco tr-lvcd tonVitt ' ever toe in it Tcx*h railroad that loft thoro about (1 o’clock. Two citikcne who rowed fn a small beat across tho expanso of tossing water* ail lit it co of several mllea, from tbo town of Saline, to the railroad track, cam* in ou tho nglno, and gsvo a heart rending account of the aflhtr. They lay the waters began to in vade th* town from the gulf and lake together about S o’clock Tueoday afternoon, and raso with unprecedented rapidity. Tbe cltlr.eni of th* doomed placo did not roallu tho danger until it waa too late to oaoapo. When sifaty by flight trig recognised as being out of tho tho question, people who were situated so they eonld do so. betook themselves to the homes and • - other resorts, which they judged to be ufo. Tho water kept ris ing, and between threo and four o’clock email heusea began to yield to tbo realaUsos force of tho wave*, whloh not only moved them from their foundations, hut turned thorn over on their aides and tops. A little later larger houses began to gtvo way, and death by drown ing aeomed In stare for ovary parson In tha place. With tbe yialdlog of th* itneller homes, several persona who had remained In them were drowned, and whan tbo residence* and bneluasi placet bagan to rumble, many of thorn, donbtlsai, drowned with out auyono now living knowing anything of it. U la feared that whole families In dif ferent places havo been swept away without leaving a tastigo or thair fate. It li aald that the situation daring tbo latter part of tho afternoon boggard de scription. Manifestations of terror and i _ by tha pcopla, looking fae* to face at death and realialng that there waa no escape, tho cries of women audible, hot rendered almost nolaciett l>y the rear of tho mad era, the hoarse voica of pallid man trying to rave thou dsor lo thorn, ail combined make the •cans too horriblo to bo daaorfbad. Tbe slllag* of Sabin* Pass lies only foUT fret shore the mean tidemark, and la bounded ly a great swamp on tha west and Lak* Sabine oa th* north. It was this lake, ac cording to th* most experionced navigator*on this cout, that destroyed the town. Th* hurricane of last Sunday In th* Wist Indict blew the waters with great violsno* toward this coast. This hnrriesns wsrs wu first noticed on the Tons cout on Sunday mcmlng, attaining it*maximum on Toaaday afternoon and seas maiatelMd at a high point by tbe impetus of wstere behind. Th* her- rices* itself did not retch tho eoart at alt, oa irarccly a breath of air atlniog whan tha tidal wavs flirt tauohod th* cout When Its maximum wu raackad, on Tnaoday afternoon, howovor, a flat* north, westerly gal* sprang up along tk* whole eoart, aad at Sabin* this gal* blow tho waters oat of Lake Sabine and drove thorn toward th* gulf, wlttre tho lake waters ware mot by th* great awall Conrad by th* hurricane. Thfa resulted fn driving lak* water* over Into the llttlo tows. sab. margiog th* country for ten mliu around without a moment's aotic*. Mows from Point A La Hatch* and point* below show that the flirt account of damage was rather under than ovor th* utlmate. There hu been almost a total destruction of crops of all kinds ftom Poiot A La Hstobeto Port Eadr, on the east aide of the river. Th* achoeiwr I. and J , lumber laden, waa driven on tbo levee thirty five mllea below the etty, end left b igh and dry. Taro onkoown luggers shared tha earns fat*. WbatfrworeogM there wore ms th* tree* were blown off. Tbo damage between Point A La Hatch* *nd Port Eads In rlc*, gasdent, rattle, hoiaei, poultry, bouses, ate. Is animated at $100,000. Mo tea of Ufa ta reported. A special fttm Orange rays th* detail* of tbo dwtrsettea by th* atom at Sahlao Para •ad Johnson's Bayou com* They bad boon in tho water thirty-six hours, clinging to their c*prised yawl. Thair mother and ilatcr and Mrs. Captain Jnnker, hor son and and a litti* girl of tha party ware lost. Ptuaroy’* report that fifty Urea wore lost at th* Pcrtor botiso, where tho people had col- Irotcd aa the boat place of ufaty It wont to p'rces at D o’clock. Many persona are mining. 8-111 greater lou Is reported from Johiuon’a bayou. Wholo families ware swept away. Mot a house waa It ft standing within five mllea of the lake. Houston, Texu, October 11.—[dp* rial.]— Before the storm sat in, a train on the Texas and Sabina railway started for tho doomed town. On reaching It, th* Morin was raging, and the danger from It wu apparent to tho conductor. Ho at onco pulled back, but the water had gouo ahead of him and ho sraa penned In. The people of Beaumont yesterday, fearing the train might meet with disaster, ant out a sped*! train and a number ofikitif. They reached the train and dead engine, and took from thorn all the paiaen gen, among them a number of women and -bllir n. Baacuonr, Tex., October IS.—The flrri re ports of tho groat disaster at Biblne Pass ware not in tha least exaggerated, in fact the death roll now reaches ninety aostia awpp) Into eter- arty by tbo aarging waters. The relief partioa shat went down as aear Sabine as possible oa tho Sabine sad But Texas railway are yet there luccerint the deatltato and lick. Tha train could not get within twelve miles of tho town, but over a doacn tow baits bar* been sent thoro and are at work living life and procatty. There la oonildcrabio back-water yetatSabiao, hemmed lu and held iharo by the rallroed embankment. The mart intcrie excitement has pravaliad here since the tret news of theAarfhl catastrophe. The people have neither eaten nor dept, and crowd: tiave turronnded tho wharves and depot watt ing forth* return of* train or boat from tho devastated town. Tbo atcambost Lamar, left Orange Wcdnsaday-night of ten O’clock with ch* relief committee on board. When aha would return no ono know, bnt a constant watch waa kept at Orange and hare. At mid. night teat night tbo whistle of the Lamar waa baord. The people hurried heltar skelter to hear the nawi and to receive the alok and dai- tltute. nonmurji pxvAWTATtoir. The relief commttteo aboard tbe Lamar con. stated of twenty citizens from Booumont and abont Arty from Orange. They traveled up the Neches river between 1p.m. and mid night, which wga an extraordinary trip fraught with fearfal danger. Twonty.flre of thorcoODttte* were left at Rtbloo f Mas to rnako attempts to locator some of thabodlci, many of will, h si,- reported to liavo been woahod dr reus of miles over, lot? i/Otri-Uni,. Tho : miciH.--xof com iriuicCn ^wrre «o wornobb cciuq by il*u horriblo devsatethm - thej witnessed that It was next to imooMlUo to get a coherent story from thorn, and osoh ros curd rcftigeo was aumiumlwl by about a hundred peoulo. It waa cqinlly lmp»,il,:o to get a detailed account from nny ono of them. Tire exact extent of the sterol swept district is jot unknown. From reports brought by the committee it la certain that tha flooded diaulr-i embraced an expanso of country nuny times larger than was at first supposed, Tko gulf seems to have moved overland for mllea m ono high, aobroken wall oftretoi. Tha coniinltti* report ihat 101 persona are missing, nil ciy of whom are known to havo boon drown ad, MiaAcnnous xatiarg*. Thirty Are of tbo victims were white and flfsr live colored, Joseph Smith, a famous local character known aa “Alligatoi” Smith, wu supposed to b* among tho lost, u people on tbo roitef train uw him driving btforo tho gal* on lake Hablrn at th* rato of twenty’flvo tuilei an hour. Great was tho aurprlao, thoro- frer, when “Alligator” ovorhautad aateamor on In return bringing wttn him, in hta gmall boat, threo potions whom ho had rescued In tko swamp. Many other miraculous tsrape*ore recorded, Mincty-ona half oUu],*blv- tiicg, wretched victims wore brought upon tbo Larnur. Blanket* and budding wer* immedi ately procured for th* comfort of tha heart broken iufhron, every ono of Whom has rams dear friend or relative among tho daad. Near ly all refugees are risk and prostrated from exhaustion and hunger. They are bstag ton. dstly rated for by tho cIBzsna of Beaumont. Alt Amur. FOX TDK IrSVXITUTg, Dr. U.F.CWbounA>noofth* relief committee, raya there aro man? pereongio tha vlolnlty of Ilia pa» who are utterly destitute, bstag with out eloihfng to corn thair nakedness. Dr. ('a)fconn requests ail rorrespcndanU to atk aid for th* destitute. U* says It oakaa no dlf. fcren ca what It seat, whether feed, clothing, mcdtalno or money; they need them all. Dr. Calbonn la mayor of Beaumont, and lio will dlitrftnte through ccmmlttera whatever ta wut to him. Fiom all account* gathered language could net ixa/grrala tho state of affaire at Sabina Pas*. Out of more than on* hundred and fifty bouses In the villas*, Iras than gia remain standing, and they aro rained. Wlvai and children were awept away and drownod In the presence of thair husbands and fathers, who were powetlew to aavathem. Tho waves broke agaiaat tho light boug* in solid walla fifty fort high, tearing ont wlndosra at the vary top. Ctrpsca havo been picked up at a dlitauso ol thirty mllea from th* acta* of tha disaster. Friends and relative*cf th* drowned resident* art coming Into Orange and Beaumont by ovary txtfn* Tbe dAinago At Sabine, Including that to tho ftftTttomant work* will iggreintn nearly $500,* (ion. tots Lirr ov th» i»«ad. TbeUtat list of the so known to bkve bean drowned I* aa follows: mrh w. a. jrmci. CHARLES U.JUNKK. 8 a y.MtfjotfouuB. M< pCRQL’OU# LuLlbllU'H IfORTf R A HD CHILD. POM FRY AND TURKS CillLbUK's. O.POMKRV AlfDCifIM). MUI-UGAN AND FOIfK ClfrLDRty. MRS NON DU AY AND 11IKKS OUtl«DftRN* J. F. 1 ROWS’. _ 5a?£?,St, A CHILDOFCAPTAIB tfTXWART. llEKJABIN FOLEY. Tha foregoing name* are all of white pot- ■rag. Tho name* of th* dfty-dv* oolored vie- time have not yat bean ascertained . a nsuuowntn stocv. An grrival from Sabin* Para bring* th* fol lowings There la not on* Inhabited home In tho place, not.fi store building can bo found, aud cot A dollar’) worth of goorb, ra for as wo could toare, wag raved by all tbo merchant* er-mbinod. Every vartigo of property ta goo*. A rchoouor, Sltar, lira oat on tho tend, abvut •to) yards from the water, sod is a total wreck. The iron tng Towier ta heautiol near Mrxrbst’s Point, bot will ho aavad. Th* tallway for tlx or tight mites U a twisted mua of Iron. Onr steamer found tha remaining in slowly. Two tohaMte,urajftrtog for food iidwaSr and brethore named I’omaroy ware picked up by from th* nlgbl’a te” S! TSttSL lS’M thaacaoonar Andrew Badon in Sshtnk lak) | work of rescuing them wag at ono* begun. The water in tho streets of tbe town wav from oto to two feet deop. All th* raffoton wore gotten aboard tho steamer aa apoodlly as pos sible, and thoir want* supplied aa beet wo could. Whan all wore aboard the steamer put off for the lighthouse towor, out of which a number of sufferers warn taken. Here a small craft was sighted out la tho gulf. Tho steamer wont out and picked up eight man, tbecrowof a Mexican schooner, which wax swamped about ten miles off tho pot*. Having supplied all who were hungry and tbrtaty wo act out for Beaumont with M retldsnls of Sahtno Pass aboard, moatly woman and children, and on tha way serosa the bay Mrs. Otto Brown and a number of otbars ware picked up. Th* hoot sent out to Johnson’* btyou re turned to th* itoamer In tho afternoon with moot distressing reports from that committee, hundreds of parsons being drowned as wall aa tho tearful aud complete dastruoUou of property, Inclnding thousand! of head of Uw* a’oek. Cameron Beach hotel was seriously tireateucd, but was aavad by cattle crowding into the lower story, thereby provontlng tha bnlldlng from floating oil' with iti upper stories filled with terror-stricken humanity. Tbo Emily 1', has Just attired with sixty* two aurvlvors. Thlrty-iavan bodies of poraona who ware drowned at Johnson’s bayou havo keen recovered aud tixty-flve arestlll missing, Houston, -Texas, October 18.—The Poat'a staff correspondent at Beaumont, last night, telegraphs eomo Interesting datalta of tho groat delogo at Babino Tata, lio ssyi that at ptecej where water was never over eight Inches deep since tho town wav settled, two years ago, th* flood waa nino feet doep. Tho new honio of Bradley Oxrnett was xwept away with hta tatnlly of dv# gorson*. After floating two and • half miles tho home landed on a ridgo back of taws, *11 intact aad nobody hart. Beats that lift Beaumont to auceor tho die. tinted took largo quantities of drinking water, than being nothing hat rata water for ten miles around Babino Pan. Mr*. John Stewart and bar daughter wore tops, rated al thair tome whon tho dood attack the town. The daughter raised a festhar bad and the mother a window frame and so auppotted themselves. After being cot all night they landed at Aurora, on tho ilalt* abont vrtIMa half a mil# of soot oOtor, ’ posing tha other wav lost. They fifteen mllea before they were found. I’ostuiwtcr Ward.of Resumont,hM telegraphed Postmaster General Vilas, asking normlislrm to dist-Urate tho Sabine l’aas mall from Uoau- inont, as tho postmistress and her assistant at Sabine Pass aro both reported drownod. ■ rxtaKs or Tm: wind. ■To glv* somo idea of tho velocity of tho wind, * sliver ipoon was blown from tho rooi- flenco of William Harris a tUilanoc of twelve mllea. Mrs. Joukura'v body wak found this morning, and a casket has boon tglcgrotmed ft.r from mango. Mr. Moiso ilrousiard lost (-°.\rro w„rth of cattle, somo reports ray inucKsnrVr, (toioroat. All tbo cattte not Irak alt^Suiwurfux evtri^^iuK. Mir. Otto llrowu ilostcu-f’, miles on a feath er bed; she had her child with her, but it got br numbed end died in convulsions. During its alrugglcsit knocked lu mother into tho water. Tho waves pitched Mrs. Brown hack on tho l»c<l, hho sraa finally found In a Jlitfe Inlet and was saved. Captain J. A. Hyatt and William (Iny report thst they had a singular cspotienco im monitors of tho relief commit tee on their wny to iho pass. Tho train on which they wore Iravollng stopped on a dnmri five mlics from town. i-rvx 5iiirnor tviocauni RVAKsa. Tho water all arounl this neck t>f land, on which sns placed tho track, was fully eight feet deep. Tbo bands or Messrs, llyatt and (toy were blistered from dghtlngsnakoa.whluli I literally covered ih* damp for a distance of flvo lollcs. There wore thousands of water moccuirs from tho overflowed district, taking refogo ono narrow stretch of Ian-1, and ororv step acroM bail to bo fought through twining serpents - many of thorn deadly stump tailed mocr-aalns, larger than a man's arm, I Wildest* alio frenried at the water’s fury, rushed pcll-moll npon pedestrians, whllo tbo coons and ovary variety of aulmala suappod at l-u-in t-j Willi bjilruphuhii: r.1,-,1. Many llmtt tho pedestrians left tho dump Aud swam ■found the angry reptiles rather than try to l.aia them. Captain Hyatt alone killed over ISO makes during his walk of five mllM, which mourned about ten hours, (toy san sa> nosey could tempt him ta tako tho trip over again. In stopping about In tho dark ho WU tripped up and thr-rwn to the ground by a anak* two lacks* lu diameter and folly fly* feat long. ■ takinii lxi.ntr Mnanimn. ■At a meeting of cltlscna of Beaumont bell today for lb* purposo organizing relief mass- urea. Mayor Calhoun wsa chosen presiding nl a general relief committee organ. uniirman ureor, or inc ccuimi Inga,luu already made 108 refold for tbo time i cing. Tbo train ternrd Babin* today, a* for at thi tffictf ML _ „ Ind with Mayor Calhoun as permanent chair man, Mr. Walra aa permanent treasurer, and Alexander Wynne, asrccratary. Chairman Groat, of tho ccuimilteo on lodg- ‘ [totcomfortable In which wont _ I ■ . u fares th* track allow* ed, returned at H n. m. Fifteen bodies wore motored on tho high land called Back Iiidg*, Writ Sabina, aad wtrelrariod. Six bodies or wcmsnwtra recovered on thu west shore or tho lake, two colosod, four white, one being Ifcatof Mrs. W, A.Junkor, cf Carlisle. Hr. Junker ta still mining. Tho tteamor, Emily P„ returned from Jobnaon' iayera, Ixnilri*na, to Orange and re ports thatthoeodrownad at that place war* diliil; ciilt-icrl people. Tho deaths at Sabin* i’aet and vicinity will aggregate mere than ninety, and at Johnson’* toyou about eighty- five. Only threo houses an loft flt for human .ablhriten, though pcrhipe a clo/eo aro stand ing In a precarious condition. .The pooulo who escaped with their live* an completely rained, financially, a majority of them not being ab'o to provide themselves with tho bare nr ossfo tits of lifo. Refugee* from th* flooded district about Sabine lira coutinne to arrive on every small craft that eoswa np Ih* river. It la estimated by poisons who hare hems ovet th* (none or de vastation atBabfne l’asa, Johnson’* u and Taylot's Uyon that tho death list exceed *50 souls, filghty.flvo corpse* havo teen recovered and hurled around Jubnion'a bayou, aud SI bodies thus for had been buried at Ssblnc, whllo 88 white and. colored parvan* are attll missing at Kabino, white they are, of noun*, dead, aa It would bo tmpoialhlofor any human being to survive thliGong In thoiwampa andlagoons without food or shelter. An examination of th* c»n- try back of Sabine, and ImmaJIately in th* vicinity of Beaumont, shows that th* axle water cam*hark from th* eoart folly forty mliu through th* swamp, and hundreds of thousands of aora* as* still lubraorgod by the water that waa forced hack, aad ha* no outlet. Turt fort makes th* anarch for tha bsdlra very difficult. Th* carcasses of Ihosaaod* of drosnud cattle, bags, horses, aad fowl aro itreurn everywhere, sad cloud* of era gnlte and Duxrardf borer ever tha uuolafctl country for an ares of thirty square mites. Barries who returned teday from Johaeon’s bayou diitri- tasyslcsy paraona are (till missing thi rc, and sotti-Mug parlies have almost rra-hed the cvocl i- ' i (Cmutooedoa Third uoitram flwa-i I’skc-v

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, October 19, 1886, Image 1