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Orange where in a very short time a relief party was organized. One of the steam
boats in port at Orange carried a number of Orange citizens, with provisions and
clothing, who helped bury the dead. Most of those who survived the storm, both
from Johnson's Bayou and Sabine Pass, came to Orange and were cared for by the
Orange people until other provisions were made for them.
Soon after this disaster, it was known all over the United States, and
donations of money, clothing, bedding, and many other things, began arriving.
There were many bodies that were not found and years afterwards, persons
hunting in the marshes frequently found skeletons. Guy Junker's mother and
brother were lost at Sabine Pass. My brother, Henry, found a heavy piece of plate
glass on the lake shore twenty miles from the pass. It must have come out of the
lighthouse. It was about five feet long and two feet wide and had not been broken.
However, when he lifted it out of the sand, one corner broke off. He still has it. All
along the lake the shore was strewn with feather beds, furniture, and wreckage of
every kind.
The old town of Sabine Pass was completely destroyed and it was never
rebuilt. For years before the war, and all during the war, it had been a very active
shipping point and much wholesale and shipping business was done there because
everything that came down the Sabine and Neches rivers had to go through the pass.
All merchandise, or anything else, that went into any of the area adjacent to the
Sabine and Neches rivers had to go by boat from that point. Bull Hutchings and
Company, of Galveston, started their company, and I knew them when their
business was at Sabine Pass. As far back as I can remember, there was a custom
house at the pass. Old Captain Hurd was the custom house officer and I, as a child,
admired him as an odd old genius.
A third storm which happened within my memory was the Galveston storm of
1900. This storm took place on the 8th day of September, 1900, at which time
Galveston was washed away by a severe wind and tidal wave. I had heard it said
from my earliest childhood that Galveston would some day be swept away by a
storm and this storm fulfilled that prediction. A traveled and observing man has
said that another such storm, combining both wind and tidal wave would do even
more damage to Galveston than that of 1900. He contends that the sea wall built to
protect the city should have been extended for some distance into the gulf so as to
throw the tidal wave water from the island. I have no desire to live in Galveston. I
am as near the coast at I want to be.
For the benefit of my children, who know little about them, I will give, to the
best of my ability, some information about my parents' families and my wife's
parents' families.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). A History of Orange, book, 1998; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth312851/m1/13/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Orange County Historical Society.