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FOL. XXVI—NO. 40.
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Terrible Devastation Wrought
on the Gulf Coast.
$5,000,000 DAMAGE DONE.
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Ud from the Sea Came the Cruel
Death Demon.
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HIDING THE TEMPESTUOUS FLOOD, i
Over th© Low Islands It Swept En- |
gulling All Life and Matter.
rEW REMAIN TO TELL THE TALE, i
Nothing Like This Disaster Was Ever j
Known on Those bhor ‘S —The .Louisi-
ana Orangs Urop Ruined.
New Orleans, October 4.-(Special.)
Near!' 2.’XH) killed and live million dol
lars' worth of properly annihilated is the
record ot the great gulf storm in Louisi
ana. Th. re has never been anything ap- ,
proaehim. it since the country was settled. ■
More than half the’population in the region |
over which the hurricane swept are dead. I
1 ivervthing is wrecked. One house in ten i
is standing, and the surviving population is >
left in the most destitute condition, with- j
out f >od or even clothing, for most of them
were : h-oping in their beds when their ,
houses were crushed by the wind or the I
waves. More than a dozen relief expedt- I
*;., went b.c.-n <r<>ni New Orleans today
to distribute food among the survivor;. .
Some of them had had nothing to eat since |
Monday ami today an appeal was imide I
to Collector of Customs > ...nson to let |
the revenue vessels pick up the survivors j
vr carry :ii<i to them.
The death list is already above I.S<M» ami
we have heard from only a portion of the de
vastated country. It is such a network .
vs islands, bayous, lakes and swamps that ■
it will be a week before the relict boats ,
can traverse all the waterways and discov- ,
er the full extent of the damage .lone,
l'he worst, however, is known, for all the
targe s< ttlem.nl.-. have beei heard lr..m ami
it is only the smaller ones s. altered along
the bayous ami interior lakes that will have •
lo be visited.
I, K<»se !■ it teen ♦***».
The loss of life in the parish of Claque- I
mim-. lying on both sides of the Mississip
pi. has been heavy in property and r~-> are
dead. But the great loss was on the in
terior settlements on uw gull coast ami
'm- ba' oils lean mg toil. I lie count ry 1 ..ere .
is mainly sea marsh almost destitute ol ;
trees, 'f ile highest point is only seven 1-el
above till' sea level alld tie greater p HU ion
is omy three feel apow. ineretor. . when ■
the si..rm piled lie waves up bile. i. o-et |
they swept over the i hit is at i dg< -
carrying everything bet..- them. Imre ’
hate lie. n several similar disasters on the
coast al j.osl island, where 2>'i people
lest’ th. I. lives; at duh st . ■ bayou, six
'! .. .. .' ' ■' A rp.is .. ese m
i'.’’ des., m ine ill Plaquemine pailsll
ami the loss ot lite was estimat'd as high ■
tiitriv live. 1 iics.tay the news vam< o; me
destrneui.il of the Bayou Cook settlement
and the ib allis were thought to be as many .
•
m. , the asters at <’hellieie Lamina -
La? liV’ L. I ’ nA.C- settlement mi the
. »tsl ill ( » I'.i i !>»•• ‘Hhl eliicr .111'1
t e' ’mortality m e-iimatcd a bet ween 1 >'■ u
~id J.'Hi'i. the loss ol lilt will probably
exceed the latter figure when Hr full re
cord is made nil. Im- deaths are col.
imed to two parisiies, 1 laqm .mm. and
Jeiiersoii, and ar< more than oae-ioutlh
«.f the total white population. '1 he s. rloiis-
L wounded ar< t< w- in number. In I.i f, ■
of the hat it
required a lll;i:i of Hie finest p.iysique and
m porter! condition to live through it. Im*
weak ami injured were all killed, and in
the st tllenient s where the storm was worst j
11..; a single child urviv-I ai d very few i
women. Lie survivors are the youn .- tmm
in the vigor of manhood. Not one of them
but wha* ha- a terrible story Io tell. Not.
one but wh.ii i- badly bruised and injured. |
They escape.; main'., on rafts or logs, tloat
iug for twenty to nim I . hours in the waler,
with the wind at 115 miles an hour howl- ■
ing around them.
1.8-10 Dead.
The deaths -o far reported, and which >
are confirmed, as follow-
Cheim- .■ Caminada 82' ’sticrinen from i
the settleim tit.
At sea in their boats 2411.
Bayou 1 .leailon In.
Oyster bayou 28.
Bayou Cook .'u
rishi ng settlements .around Bayou :
(jock I*.-
Bird island 45.
Simon island !•>.
Rosario ishiml_ 20.
i.t. zor island
S' Malo 25. all Malays.
Adams bay 2<M.
Fishing ea.mps around Daisy pcs;., ■■■ 20. :
Grand bayou 2'l.
Tropical I>< ud 11*.
Pass Alou’re 4t‘.
I’ointe a la liatcl e -!-.
Grand Prari" 5.
Barthelene- <».
Fm-t S;. py;r ?
Hospital bar s.
Shell b'.«n C 2.
(fraud Ban’: 8.
Grand isle 10.
Buras 3.
Point Pleasant 5.
Sixty Mile Point 3.
Bayou Andre 40. all Chinamen employed
by a San Francisco Chinese firm in packing
shrimp.
Devil's Flat 1.
Bolivar Point 3,
Ilapfry .Tael; 2.
Xieiiolls’s postolliee 3.
Faitulings 3.
F. Cosses 5.
Stoekflefcho 1.
Quarantine 2.
Fadsport 1.
Pearl river 1.
Xear Point Pleasant 2
Bay St. Louis 2.
Pcu k bay 1.
Lost on Webre 20.
Lost in the bog- or at sea 4a.
I y<nt la Fimd 110.
B.r.o't Dufon 10.
< 'a Isa usage 20.
On lugger General Vixie 4.
Along tile Coast.
These towns ami settlements extend
ahmg the Mississippi from Pointe a la
Itaeite, forty live miles below Xew Or
leans to th -gulf on Balou Baralara and the
ovster reels between lhere anil the mouth
of the Mississippi, and on the islands
sirelching from the MJ.-sissippi l" the main
land at Clu meie I'aimmida. Bay St. Louis
and Pearl river are in M isstssippl.
Tim great majority of rhe people are
whiles and not over one hundred are col
ored . .
At ('hemeie Caminada was a large ( htn
ese colony engaged in preparing and export
ing shrimp to China. St. Maleo was set
tled by Malays or Manillameu, all ol' whom
were fishermen. A majority ol the popu
lation in th< fishing towns were Creoles,
Itali'an-'. Spaniard- and so-called Austrians
or Dalmatians. A large proportion of
them were encaged in fishing and owned
b.-ats. At the time the storm visited
t lhemeie <'amttuida, 12*1 fishing vessels w ere
Xot a word has since
bii'n heard ot ilmm or their occupants.
Along tile Mississippi the loss of life
is i'l some extent due lo falling buildings.
On Baratai'it bay it was caused wholly uy
drowning. The Mississippi r"-~'’ nine teet
and poured over the levees. I lie gull rose
fifteen feet, and between these two floods
everything was washed away or destroyed.
loss'of life occurred, is a fishing (own of
Cliemeie Caminada. where the greatest
1.1 till people, situated on the mainland
of Louisiana opposite Grandee isle. It
was supposed Io be the safest place on the
gulf coast, but the fury of the storm rais
ed the water i’l the bay back of it. Ear'y
.Monday morning, the water had risen fit
teen feet and poured over the island eight
feet deep. With a current of eight to ton
miles an hour, it swept every thing before
it and of the -’ll'' hm-- - in the settlement,
only three were standing at. sunrise. Tin
survivors were saved by clinging to trees
or poles in the few houses which escaped.
Most of the bodies Were carried to sea, but
those that were found in the wreck--, were
buried in trenches, it being impossible to
lind cufiins.
Terrors of the Night.
Throughout all the storm-visited sect rm.
the ma jority of the people are i.i groat in s
titution. many of them being without cloth
ing. The storm came upon them in the
night when they were disrobed and they
hav been in that condition ever since. It
had rained all Sunday, and the wind was
quite strong, but no one anticipated a seri
ous siorm. It was after midnight when the
lury ol' the siorm broke out and it was so
sudden that the people were unable lo gel.
anything. It was impossible to see or hear
a distance of ten feel away and husbands
and wives stood up lo their necks in lhe wa
fer all night, dinging I■> trees only a few
feet apart not knowing where each other
was until daylight. Xine feet of the Hood
swep! over the levees. When the sea back
ed up fifteen feet, it rushed over into tiie
river and continued iodo -o until the water
had gone down. The I ide then slarted out
like a mill race, carrying most of the bod-
The pecuniary damage while heavy is
not a.- large as mignt have been expected as
lhe sugar pla ul a i ion- r ami tie ' richer por
tions of I’laquemiiie parish were mu worst
ed by the storm, an I it was lhe smaller
farm- and fishing mH llemetds which suffer
ed most.
The damage is now estimated as follows:
New 111- ■.ill-, .Sotill.tMlO.
i .ilquemiiie parisii, hot) ■ etc., Sli'iO,-
(IIMI.
Orange crop. ,f2sii,i >. t; I.
Olla; crop-, 82->ti,(MHl.
< 'al I cl. ell . . S_ > 1.1 II It >.
Binppui.g si-m ■■ ■■r-'. etc.,
ftt ii >.
Fishm.i I 1.-meji; s. ly 10,(Hili.
L.tiiroaus. .<doo,0o;>.
.Mis.-, tia.i .hi,-. •>ii,t!ot).
I otal. S.'k. ‘ii .
Between here and Mobile tit;- damage
done i- placed at Ssoi >.i HM l, and in and
around Mobile al S.'lc t.oio, the total dam
age amounting to > Hi.ihit>.
The I" -of lhe crop of I'laquemine par
ish is e.-iimated ai per e.-nt, lhe loss
in oranges is 75 per cent, while about 20
pel' •■'■nt of the orange trees were killed or
lilimii down. The oyster and iishing Heel!
j., alm. ; eoniplet ely destroyed and iim
levels bi'.y washed and will have to bo
i-, built . Tao shipping suffered severely,
but principally the smaller vessels. The
due Webre. A-pinv ail. (Ihambi-rlane and
two other steamers are supposed lo be in
lhe wreck. One of tiiem was blown into a
rice field. One hundred and twenty schoon
ers and barges and 21i5 luggers .are sunk,
in most eases aeeompa nied with heavy loss
of life. Some 101 l small ve-sels arc miss
ing .nd are s;qiposed to b lost. The en
tire guii coast of M i si-'dppi ami Lo'ii-i
ana ..ve.-' of Ac Im ak.ya is strewn with
wreckage.
Kailr »r.<ls V. * >t«t.
()f the railroads, the Louisville and Xash
ville is the heaviest sufferer and the dam
age inflicted will rua from SuiM.tW to
if bl hi.i rjt i.
The greater portion of tile line bet '.'. eeti
I
damage.!. Xine thousand feet of lie Stay
St. Louis bridge is completely swepl away.
3.01)0 feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, wh'le
the Scrnnto; am: Jackson bridges arc .'ill
hadlv ininred an' canmil he n- : ■;. Aii hi
live 'mile, of embalmment ami trestle w
ami tifti'er mile-'- of track a: ■ wasm I
away. The amotiiil of work !o be done
before tin road can be pm tn order ag: ; i
is so great that the general superinleml in
is coming south to take eommami, sn.: be
sides all the 1 x*al force !r mi I.:-' southe.i 1
divisions a large body e: men ate • :i th’- r
way h.-re lrm I'.'i ansi ilb . 1m... wi pii •
drivers, etc., to e.’ editc lhe vork.
The nor!liern a id eastern mad. \ ,d ii f> --
merly w -u’ by : <' ■ ' luk! mHi- b; 1
Xew Orieaus an; X ■" . .•.;!••• ■ The ' ■;
■-<v iile .i , Xa-h v:''e ;■; el • - tore
belW'.i'ii bci'" a; ll:. r
■ •aught ali tile far;. • f th .'.I! i
few II- of tj'." r.i i! a■ i •-- ■ . I-n. Ill'- i" ■
befwi en h.-re and .M..hile an.i b -twec. >. ■ ■
an 1 eighty small re— is >i w; -i-k d. Cli. :
is ■■■ additj. :. to i'l-, . ' > Louisian:!.
Th • iir.ir ; ■■! ;■ ■’ .-t."i: m : < m: by ■■ ■ a...d.
’ 't‘ not simi.'ien. to infei i :m: !>:>• im ,s. \ ;
I 1 r 1 :1 .' th- ■.’ii;:- d im’ll"'!.
Fort Livingston, in Barnmro, o'm of t'le
; !■ >-t in i v y •• ,’is. rm-led f- - , - mi'
's •• -h-L'.v ,j •<! r, y , <!. nothin .- b-m ' 1 ! ‘.
but '■■ l .-’r’ m-o. Onlv ' n Imuses are
-famling at Ibm.;s se’il gnent an I i one at
ATLANTA. ©A., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1893.
Bohemia. Os the 3(10 people living in or
around Bayou Cook only twenty-three are
accounted for or have reported. N. XV.
U iiiklkolh J<'loHt<'<l Out to Sen.
Xew Orleans, October 5. —(Special.)—
The return of several of the relief parties
sent to the storm-stricken districts of lhe
slate fully confirms the now’s of yesterday
.’ini adds to the list of those drowned or
killed a correcied list which swells ~t he to
tal number of dem] to 2,<>11. This may be
im reased some 25(> or 300 more by news
from the St. Bernard marshes and the
vessels off the Louisiana coast, from which
only meager returns have liet'n received.
These indicate nearly complete destruction
ami that none of the smaller vessels in the
open sea. escaped.
The additional losses reported ar ':
iligolets, l(i.
Biloxi I.
(’handlier 110.
Near Grand I’attree 10.
From vessels !).’;.
The loss of life at. Chernne Caminada
is now known to be 1.250. At Bayou
A ttd ijl seven! v-t wo perished instead of
forlv, and at Grand Isle twenty-four in
stead of ten.
I erh »p«4 All Are Loßt.
The only section from which noreturns
have been received as yet is the Si. Ber
nard or Lake Bargno marshes. lhe
marsh extends from Lake Burgne to the
gulf. It is a dead level ocean mt mb—more
.voter than land- covering 1.200 square
miles. Its only inhabitants were some
200 fishermen, who lived in cabins built
on spiles. Xol a word has been heard
from this section since the storm. Xot one
of the inhabitants has come to town or
any neighboring settlement. At. the spot
in the Chandeliers where lhe torna lo was so
/v ('/ Ji o j.ys'-e
n&vT6rleans / \
/ tM-
GRAM) AND NEIGHBORIN'; ISLANDS.
violent none are said to have escaped. In j
the west. Plaque mine parish the wind j
reached a velocity' of 12<> miles an hour. ‘
Tile chances of tlie Lake Borgrn- fishermen
surviving the hurricane are considered very
dmibtfiil ami a boat was -ent lo their set- i
tlotiiejits today to see if any survived. ;
Loud complaints come from the Bayou i
Cook section of the stench from the deml .
holies then, 'l'he mnd is mo low for
!,- lr vi; . '• ’. m'y sone ( 12(1 bo.m-s l.nvt
imh’li Louveved bv beat to the highlands I
~ ili.. Mie.-issippi at Frysn.-tl Bend for'
burial, but many tiro unbtir.od in the
swamp and rapidly decaying. Many "t
the bodies were found to have been looted
a,id re’.l. Most ’ f the fishermen were
well-to-do mid all carried tlc-.r fortunes tn
<-:ir-h iu ilu ir ip° ll 11
f.mnd on their remattis and sums oi from
DOO to SIO.tMM) have disappeared . Nearly
,!']’ ~f the bodies were badly mutilated by
the slime.
I.oSB to Shippers.
The loss of life on the shipping, as far
as ran b- learm’.l, is: The Doing Ame'’]-
15; ]’;],. Niketa. 12; the Annie 1.. (>;
t ;„. New I nirni. 5. lhe Ait.-e M.i.uegan.
t’, ; the Three Brothers. ■>; tne l.asane. 4.
tlie Rosalia Smith. :’>; li"’ Laura L. <>;
I : 111.. Angelique, <>; the Aiinm
I- 11:;- Ihe Sino. !; the General \ ixie.
iVtl"’ Remus. 1: the Centennial, _; the
Ravensdale. 1 '• the Boss. .
pm..wing vessels were badly m.mred.
10.-ing imi-is and anchors and being so
<li-.idled that they will havm to be repmted.
\tm-ri.-an x’hoom-r Two Brothers, An"‘>’‘-
...H -.lm-Hier Chicora, \menean batk R.e
- ,-a God Lord. American bark Henry I .
m nan bark Margaritiua. Norwe
gian bark Simon. 'Dm' <•']'’
-niil’t r scii'Hiurrs. lu.u.-ui* iJ I 11
iH . seis is complete. Out ot 1(M) at Cm
' ; x ., ~( Biv St Louis: KM) out of ;
121) a; ia-.m r I'D OU the Missis-ippl
I altogether between <.<»•» and .
< t .,rm wept i-.'ion. worth prob-
S4(K).(M 1. It wi bef,,ri '
.' .-e 1 -' tiCmries will revive hill the popu
■md nine tenths ot the vessels en
! , lost Hid oysters and
a,-.- an unknown quantity in New
‘ , ' l 'm"memm’'m Maurice and W'elne. barks
1-l.e. 1..- and Anna, brigs Emma. Mary <
I Mariner, Sloop t-' 1 "' 11 ' 1 ; S
r ; ,milbm>. .los.-phine. Labella, hoi’!'.'. M. ,
Borlha Sunny. \«>nu;r/.. -Xasaiio. lucoini.
... Grithn, Amelia. Anv>l ■
!’--anklm. Webb Taylor. Palos and Hur
vv ~,1 Th.-, were wrecked in tin M s
" pi ami Charleston sounds On the
B-r a three lives were lost, on the Sunny
th, Premie- five Reeottr hve on an ttm
known schooner three. tlie total ' f
the v.-.el- is now estimated at 1-S.
Two deatlrn are reported at < al island.
1 h«- Injury to H>« Crops.
Ou the other hand, the crop damage is
less than was reporm i yesterday he
i)" ui’ r (‘ <*r<»p will 10-su only p’’ l <ont, but
m’e desirm-tie-i of the orchards i- very
|l|,. Ife.-s being broken oil at Ute
r’,.ms'.’ I ne loss of property is grealer than
al first rep .ft.’ii-
canneries on Misst-sippt sound
.. j,, .s of S3I..’XX) by the storm .
:.,ss on the wharves and landings is
St? I (II xi.
■ i". ; imal loss on the Mississippi eoast is
, . ; $ I,(Mit>.(K)(>; the loss at Chande
ij.i . -i rant iiie station. SI3t».(MH): at Che
m:m:da. Sl< X >.(:()( >: loss of luggers
r('. si’IOM’K); loss m shipping on
i . ; sound, S<M>.’MM); loss at Grtlml
i. .. . >,'xx>: total' loss. .s■>,.’>2’).( >’.•:>.
A ]>;><' Its t or
\ , have been made to Governor
J ■ from (’lieim re Camimid.a mid Bayou
, ■ ...pi ]||,. lower portion <d Plaquemines
p :i. giving au a.’, ount of th.- suffering
... . de-.ittit ,-n "f ia pie in those sec-
am] a-I: tig t’m ; . die state take some
y.-m. ii 'fo.- their i-ciiei. The jtolii <• of Piaqite
i.i:'c-- ami .1. fi’er- m parisite.-’ made provis
i a fc'- ’reli-f boats yesiet'.ia.v and the
It. ■' t’ro- Society. Sktvoni; .; Soeiety _m:-l
mtmlie;- of other benevolent associations
vvi-l! a-- tlidix i'lital ; f.irw at i at
wit i contributions eveti before a re-
■ 0i,.. -me;;- w.as organized . Today a j
~ . ■ Het as.so ’iatimi Nva organized at |
]i ; . •'oimuen’i-u Club .and ss.<”> > wa-; sub- I
;a; 0...- . .\]>pi’ai- for aid wriv tna ■■
■ii i;.,. ex -limtges promised to ml, a < the
■ tlie -.Offerer.- i immediate. Some
iticoi m-' lil.-b i’> starve to dea a unie.-.-.
i sen them. Sevm-.reii boats
ve:. sent down to I’.ayot! C ink and Cheniere
l 'amil'-’ .. .
,m--. ■ lug: r-’ac'i' I the city today
frota C ’sh- 1 I L’ !"d other portions of the
. .oinir an ! there are now some
".in r fii .i 1.--. ■ ear. <t for hero. They
wriv. 1 mi'.'’.! n.l i-i a bruised condition.
One m'.n n.-i’.md (Lorgeovielt hat actually
been Hayed alive and did not have a piece
of skin on him the size of a dime, the blows
from the debris having Hayed him. He
was sent to the hospital and is not ex
pected io live. With rare exceptions the
other refugees will all recover. Several eases
of insanity resulting from the horrors of the
; storm are reported.
KoadlM'd Torn Mp.
I The roadbed of the Louisville and Xash-
I villo railroad from Pearl river to \Save
i I: ’"! is completely washed away and west
Lookout it is nearlv as bad. Last night
tlu Henry T. Griggs took two Italian tish-
I't’aen from a raft as they were drilling lo
BQI. . ...
'mother raft also passed (be vessel ' v ’>h
11 ree men on board, but the Griggs s
boats were so badly wrecked that they
could lend no assistance to the unfortunates
a ;i nothing has been heard it’om them
si.ee. 'l he pilot boat Chicora, about wlm h
! a. great deal of uneasiness was bit. was
I d-.-over.'d to bo ashore on Cat island beacli-
I ed high and dry with two old veteran pi
i lots, ('antain John Xelson mid Joe Lewis
I on board with the cook and sailors.
BURYING THK I>l".A!>.
■ Almost Too Horrible to Believe is the Misery
ttenorte.l from the Cult.
1 New Orleans, October f>. -(Special.) r l he
fc;' story of tile groat storm is now told.
■ ICve.’y settlement in its path lias been visit
oi , every survivor int.erviewed mid has
told his tale of its terrors and its heroism.
The newspapers here are at last able to
publish a list of the dead, which is not like
ly to require many changes or additions.
'The only doubtful element is the loss of
life at. Cheniere Caminada. where 7~<J bod-
i ■ have been recovered and buried. A
f ",v are found from day to day in isolated ,
10.-'i’.ities. hut the general sentiment is that. .
nearly all that are likely to be loimd have ,
1. ■ ci discovered, and that the others have I
be -.-i swept to sea in the great tidal wave, i
'I -is leaves some doubt as to the exact I
number lost, as the population of the set- s
lit .mi:! at tin' time of the disaster was not
i; i:. 1' ather Gonderaux, the parish priest. ,
„ f..- ' • ' s-’-> i : 'lo'.vn to be
Die estimates of tin 1 rom ,
this figure to 1.2(H) for (he Cheniere proper, :
and I:■') ft h- i lie whole dist riet.
This may lie increased fifty or sixty by j
other losses mi missing vessels. In addition j
to those vessels reported lost yesterday the ;
following are known to be wrecked with !
rhe following lives lost on them: Corinne. 5; '
Hope, ?>; .Xnne, 1; C-ovella.2; Victoria. 4:N’a- i
bi'lln. 5: Roma, 3; Clementine. 1; Idonia, ;
5; Georgiana, 2: Rosalie, 4. 'Die Rosalie’s
men were found lashed to the side of the i
vessel, but: dead. Other wrecked vessels are ;
the Pauline, Made, Messenger, Daniolo.
Mary B Villain, K St. 1 ’.arthomevv. ly.li- :
Lire. I >1'111.". St. George, Beddeeke, Julia,
Sarah and St. Helena. The Australian i
bark Niketa reported lost, yesterday has ;
turtle.l up only slightly damaged.
1 liey Hint Lui-Ke I'minlies.
Os the 522 dead at Cheniere Caminada ■
whose names arc known, 4!)G were children. |
l'he Caminada people are famous .or large
families. Mr. La ion lost his wife and j
lilleen children, Aiser Petre his wife ami I
ten children ami August Bonamour his !
w ife and ten children. Tim families of tlie
three f aience brothers, who lived together.
John, Attlome and Perie, consisted of six :
grown persons ami twenty children. (>f
these twenty-six only one. John Valence. ’
survived. Complaints have been made of i
the visit to the settlement of people from :
:h • neighboring counties Imping to get j
setnei hiiig out of the wr ek. Two strangers |
were found today robbing the dead. Tuvro i
were threats of lynching, but they were ■
snared and finally' drummed out of the I
p:ace. Their boat was found tilled with ;
stolen property.
StIO.OOO liaised,
l'he chief interest in New Orleans now ,
centers on the relief work which is being i
carried on very energetically. There are j
a dozen relief associations, each acting |
independently of the others, and already i
SUD.tMM) has been raised in cash and sup
plies. 'Die Alice was sent today to Chand- j
letir island laden with relief supplies, the j
McSvveeney ami Labonne Mere to Cheniere
Canianida. the steamers Xeptuno and Gama
to Grand Isle, while the New Orle-ans,
Jackson and Grand Isle railroad distribut 'd
relief along the Planquemines parish. Every
vessel from the storm section brings up
refugees and perhaps over fifty of the
surviving population are now quartered in
New Orleans ami cared for here by friends
or relatives. The population at Chenier.'
(’amimb.it. which was I.5(M> to I.S(>t) less
than a week ago, is only 278 today. The
board of trade today sent a telegraphic ,ip
p.'tl f. r assistance to the commercial ex
change of New Vork, ('hicago, St. Louis,
Cincinnati. Kansas City. Philadelphia,
Boston. Baltimore, Pittsburg. Minneapolis,
St. Paul. Omaha ami other cities. The ap
peal says that tile people of Louisiana
will butw the dead and feed tile starving,
but ask contributions to enable the sur
vivors of the disaster to follow their for
mer vocations and support families.
Have Lost F.verytliing.
The number of sufferers who have lost ’
everything ami who are in a more or le.-s :
than a week ago is only 27S today. The I
destitute. 79G, Grand isle, 713; Bayou Cook. I
32t>: lower Plaquemines parish 1.2!’) | .
fishing camps east of Mississippi, 3GO; other
settlements estimated. s(i<); total, 3,!>5!>.
These people have nothing: neither shelter, ,
food nor even clothing. Th. .sitiierers
in Plaquemines are in lhe least want, -
the sugar planters of that parish have guar
anteed them work and a large number have
already secured place.-. Archbishop Jyns
sen, who is away, telegraphed to the Cath
olic clergy' '■> take up a subscription in :
every Catholic church in thi-; i-::,' on Sun- 1
day. He reports four Catlmlie churches I i
amt on . convent totallv de-troyei and i
three churches seriously daumged.
U.>r'or » t'linmx.
Terrific as was the work of tlie storm else- : <
wh: !•;■. oil Cheniere Caminada. it reach-d | ;
a climax of horror. <’heniere is one of ili.it j i
croup of islands which extend along ilu- I
lower eo;>-.|. ami !■> which belong (Iran:' . 1
is’.;?. Tambalier and Lost island. It’s a ' I
long. low-. Hal strip of earth, .-iboitt titre" j t
miles I .ng by one in width, ii was m I :
of the old haunts of Lal’if.e and his band | i
Os late, it was j station for fishing boats. I t
It contained one town. (’ti.tiiimhi villo. o’’ <
about L.SIMI popitlalioiq the majority of
j
[Continued on third column third page.] j
MOBILE DELUGED.
JI'ATJSIi DRIVEN IN I ROM THE RAY
FAR W IN 1 HE CITY,
Steamers Wrecked nnd tb« Number |of Lost
Unknown—'l he Wind Blew at the Kato
of 75 Allies an Hour —Later News.
Mobile, Ala. October 2. —(Special.) —A
southeast gale broke here this morning
about 4 o'clock and the wind increased in
velocity until at I o'clock. It was blowing
at. least titiy miles an hour. lhe aarom
eter was still falling. The wind had blown
the wale]- from the gulf until t:ie river had
reached Royal street, which is four blocks
from the river and at tin elevation of about
lifteeit ti-"i from the main river height.
'There is no possible ehanee lo estimate
the money damage. All the w iiolesale mid
a great portion of the retail district of the
city is some four feel under water and
thousands of dollars worth of goods have
been damaged.
The pilot, boat. Heorinc, was driven on
the Mobile and Ohio wharf and almost to
tally wrecked. The Crescent City, another
bay boat, left Point (.'tear at the smite time
the Heroine did litis morning and has not,
been heard from until tonight.. It was
reported that three dredges working on
tile channel have been lost. It is also re
ported here that some fifty miles of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad along
the coast are muter water and that the
Biloxi bridge has been swept away by the
gale. Nothing has been heard from the
gardeners in the marshes east of the city,
and the worst is I'ear.’d. Telegraphic com
munication is cut off in almost every di
rection. All the suiokesi acks ol all the
manufacturing industries have been blown
down. Street ear traffic was totally sus
pended at midday because i.t lite damage ;
to the electric wires.
■ Hf » revv Had lo Swim for It.
The bay steamer, < 'resent ( ity, dragged j
her anchor seven miles and went ashore
on the beach between Arlington and Mon
roe park, about three miles below the city
on the western shore ot the bay. ( apt.mn
Frank Lumsden and his crew and one
passenger, a cotton broker, mimed R. A.
Lewis, donned life preservers and swam
safely ashore through the angry waves. ■
Nearly every bath house a 1 < west- :
e. shore was blown down ami al Morgan's ;
tin altciidant mimed Graham was swept ,
awav with five bathhouses and '
drowned The Magnolia X Coolly
warehouses were blown down and .
two unknown negroes were drowned in lhe ■
cotton vard.
All the wives Down.
There is not a wire in the Western I nion i
oflbe affording intercourse with the outside
world, and this is w ritten to be sent sev- j
oral miles out of town where Jt is hoped j
commtmi< a I!'hi may be established. lhe
loss of th. ('rescent City represents Sl2 (KM); ;
Cleveland Brothers, grain dealers, estimate I
I.!-. ./ b'lw." .t S'l.OI'l) and ST.iKIO
One merchant lost a thousand l.arrcls of
cement, another :t thousand sacks of salt
and another a quantity of lime. A large
quantity of grain has been lost.
It will bi' several days before all the de
tails can possibly be known.
s in I He -Hen Itoait
Mobile, Ala., October Ji.—[Special.]—
The beautiful shell road wjiieh wound ;
along the western shore of Mobile bay I
tor a distance oi nine miles is almost a .
total wreck involving a loss -if it can ■
in- replaced al ail, which is extremely doubt- I
j'ui -that will take an outlay of between •
.SfO.OOO to .'filo.l.Hitl. Il is washed out and ;
where the toad once wound around the I
bends of tin- shore there is nothing but j
masses of logs aii.i driftwood piled in the
most nnextri' .able confusion while across that j
portion of the road which the storm lias !
left, intact trees Lave been blown down in j
ci tangled network ol loliage that makes
passing on loot, even diliicnlt.
('ommunica I ion direct Irom Mobile and
New Orleans by rail ami wire lias been '
totally ent. off ami will probably no! b«
resumed lor weeks to come. Between this
citv and Scranton, the \\ .'stern I nion Ims
barely a pole left standing, though the
Postal fared better. Between \ . tieiia and
Scranton, thirty or forty houses have been
blown down but no lives have been re- ;
ported lost. At various towns along tho
route twelve chtirelies were wrecked, live
of them being 10.-ate.l at Grand Bay.
Heittv 1.c.-v.--- llonu : !>.■ sound
In Scranton and at Last Pascagoula,
four miles distant on the sound, houses .
were blown down, stores Hooded and stock
damaged, while at East Pascagoula, which |
is lhe port of the city, the entire beach is
said to have been wrecked. The losses at
the two points are said to reach 81OO.IM).
'Die Louisville and Na. hvil.e bridge .across
Ihe Pascagoula is slightly damaged, two or
three spans having been loosened and bad
ly wit shed.
Between Scranton and West Pascagoula,
a distance of about live miles, threi md. -;
of track and roadbed have been washed I
away.
There is a three-masted schooner across :
the track at West Pascagoula.
There tire no authentic reports from '
points south of Mobile on the j.ouisv'lb' ;
and Nashvill" road, except that two spans ;
of the Biloxi bridge are washed away.
1 II! Hl
The damage to the Louiseville and Nash- ■
ville railroad is beyond computation at this ;
lime. .
Reports from Montgoi,; are to th" < f
feet that the bridge across Three M ; h:
creek is damaged and fmtt. a portion of ;
tlie'l’ensas bridge is washe.i away. There
arc -DM) trees across the track beiweea ,
Bav Minette and Dyas < re. k. a distance of i
about ten mile.-.. No trains can g< I tiny
further south than Bay .Minette anil sev- |
era! washouts are reported.
A row boat trip of the marshes made I
today by an experienced newspaper report i
er reveals a tale of desolation and death '
that will almost equal those sent out a I
month ago trom fstvantmh and the sea ■
islands.
Death anil Destruction.
Al every point ton Ind him. are com- |
pletely gone, while tin upper eastern shore |
was 6w cut as if by a western eyeioue-
From Blakely as far southeast as reports !
c.ul.J be had Ihe natives s-.-p.n-1 only dea.tn j
ami destruction. For miles miami the
trees are laid low ami much loss ot lit" j
is reported all along the shore. Ri;:no' s i
place the loss ot lite at titty, but possibl;. j
n.>i more than twenty-five have p.-rishe . i
■ e.f BLik'-ly :ii tlie marshes who'. ' j
families have been swept away and the ac
tua, i ...s i . .i.c .in pos.'.' iiy never lie !
Tiie reporter who made the trip rescue! ■
several children and tied up two unknown :
l. . o one of a girl ag d s .<• ot ■ -r. tlio
othi’f of a m.in a;.<d about thirty live, both '
apparently < b’rmaUr.. Five oi th.' ."til'll", a.
■the elilest’ it 4 over "iabt year.; i ;:ge. w< re '
f. t;."l log' ther in tile nmisit opposit • ;
tiie mouth oi Spanish river. They said their ;
f.-irln r ami moth.’” h::<! gone in a l> ..;■ ,i:'t l
lhe h.>" t hey < ,>uld give n • iai 'lligib:.' |
aecount of t hem.-. I > l . <" ■! it' ■ Go - j
mans. \ little furth- • it > tin' riv. ;• tv •> :
tillin' ehi! Iren v.er.. tv-eno p Wa re tins' |
children camo ;'to'i' rl I n ' ;><■ 'a ■■;!<•'. |
as the only family known l<> reside al the I
point where they were found was that <>t
Mr. Dessett, whose wife was drowned. I
PKICES CENTS
I here was a Manilla man and his family
who lived a little distance up tho shore
who were reported drowned and the chil
dren tire probably rh.-irs, but sneaking n..
English, these children could not make
themselves uu lerstood- The children were
taken to the house of a widow on I‘olecat
bay whose house remained intact.
Bouses I'loatii.g Off.
In the upper delta o f the river debauch,
ing into Mobile bay the streams are report
ed to be full of floating bedding, furniture
and household effects, snowing that the
reports of suffering and death from
this quarter are hardly over stated. Ow
ing to the sparseness >f the settlement of
these marshes ami their iii.u'e. ssibility
ccp.t by means ol' small sail or row boats,
it is probable that many have peri.-L. j
whose identity will never be revealed. Tita
spots inhabited by tho marsh gardeners tira
only a. few feet above mean low water,
and the houses are generally built on pil
ings as a precaution .-.gainst high tides.
So far only one family the Bangles is
know n to have escaped death. Their con
tinued absence from their a.-customed
places in lhe market houses will probably
be the only way' in which their fate will
ever bo ascertained.
An .'tltcmjit was made today to gather
from the merchants some approximate es
timate ol their losses, but it was soon found
impossible lo get anything like a correct
estimate iu this way. as many of (hem are
unable lo sot nt any estimate. There
is no doubt that the damage will rea.-h at
least a quarter <d a milli hi dollaix. This
is a very conservative estimate ain't may be
largely" exeet'ded. The Plant lin.* stetim
ship. Florida and the Fruit Importing Com
pany's steamer. Nicaragua, the former
from Tampa, and the latter fro’n Blue
lields. arrivi'd today about thirty six hours
overdue. They report having en- vuntered
the storm about thirty miles off Mobile
bar. which is said to have been a unit the
center of the storm. They report that the
wind was blowing a hundred mile- .-in lioiir
and th.- waves running monntaii s high.
Both steamers rode the storm out without
damage.
Hvet-y Hour Brings I-resli Detn its.
■ i rom Baldwin county, which skirts the
| eastern shore ot Mobile bay ; front Berkelv’
10 Mullet Point, a distance of forty miles,
and the shores of Bon.Secour hay to For
Morgan, ,i dist.'ineo of tweiitv mibs. come
reports of great destriietion to" prop. rty. but
IhippiH liins f;ir liipr.' huts bi’cii ro upws
of Other human sacrifice from thi-. direc
tion.
Parties who witnessed tho stor.n from
| some of the summer resorts give graphic
I descriptions of' h<>w the waves rip.ied the
| planking irom the wharv.-s wit! much
; more ease than i la ly rips the thread
• irom a seam, and when the waves had
Part in th ■ \ ork of des ruction
I the wind took up the broken debris ami
I Hashed it away as it a; ■,;,m-, to giro veiit
trees I’ited on tin* Road.
I Some idea of the devastation wrought in
i the iorests of Baldwin eountv rmr be
i gleaned from the fa. t that there are ).s<io
I trees across the public road from Daphne.
: tho county seat, to the Loxley logg'n”
I camp, a distance of fifteen miles. In a
distance of two miles 240 trees were
J '”atted a.,..--- road -,>f the
Loxii-ys, wno a,so Inti their boon and
warehouse at Spanish Fork swep .'iw.iv
At Howards the hotel pavilion ,-tnl ihA
j magnificent grove of oaks and hi.-korv os
, caped injury, but mire wharf is -'wept-
■ away, while lite water wa< six feet de' >
i at the foot of the bluffs and when .t
side-1 it was discovered that a new bc.-t-h
, had been made-
The summer resi.lene t . s owned bv promi
j Dent and wealthy Mobilians and’ 1 ;-<-at. I
| along the curve of the shore south Df tho
i hotel, are said not to have suffered much
damage further than the Joss of ail the
; small eraft, wharves and bathhouses L ur
' ther south tho wharf at Zundel- vr.t - < ar
l ried away.
All on Board Unfit.
Aiobili*, O<.‘! obt*!’ •). 1 lit* s<4 iMjUOt
A lice Graham, Captain Louis Gt
which left here Sunday night for Porters-
I ville, having on hoard -Miss Susi, ll.rron.
a young la >y school teacher who was found
- l.'i’ Daiipnin isiami to open the public ocltool
there Monday, has be. n wrecked and Cap
tain Graham. Miss Herron and the mate,
■ name unknown, were lost. These w, to
i all tie- sottis .hi board the schooner, -vlticii
is lying -bottom up two miles off J. J.
Deleiiap’s place. A tug will be sent down
■ tomorrow to search forth.- bodies. Chari, s
Graham, brother of Captain Graham, is sat
isfied of the identity of his brotln r’s ves-
i sel ami is eonli lent all on board were
! drowned.
.Mr. D. 80-ange, ..f Portersville, renor'a
’ tonight the toll,,wing ad .it.ioii.il . s-. - ac
I Portersville .in.l other points: Tin res
j idence of Mr. Frank I’. Andrews was bad
: ly damaged; I’ori. is. i'l - piilum hail
torn to pn th- sloe; it. ,|.- «eut a ,h<- e
I in Jerry Ila w land's field It he Mt 1 i|. a
; is ashore, but not damaged: Gulf Coast
( lysler Company's piant is gam-; L. 11.
■ Faith s re-id.'iice is a tot.-d . reck; tins
• Bay view hotel, Mr-. .1. M. N.’ltiu. of Mer-
> idiati. Miss., propriei re-.-, i- a ."tai wreck;
j 1.. E. Ratield's risMcm-e, Ciiarles Graiiam's,
. Mayor F. S. Parker’s residem-os are tia.i
--1 ly damaged; Jerry Howard’s residence ig
I totally di-molisited ey.-pt ;h - m lin buikiim,'
i and one cottage: Tlnmias Forbes’s residen *
is badly damaged. N > p.-an tree.- are I it
. and all tin- orange trees are uproot-d.
i John Palstoii’s residenco was bad); dai’iag
-1 ed and the sloop, Irene, is jammed midm’ t.m
i llooring. Residences of S. T. Wei,st.
1 Mrs. N. S. B- Alexander ami William
I < karke, damaged slightly Jalues Cr> t-
■ siiaw lost every thing ex. ept his main bttild
i ing at St. Jillians. Terrapin farm.-, ouj
! of S,(MM), 4,(MM) were swept away.
: step. Ella 1 'orbes, was wash
' field. At Gram’s pass three building.- vv
swept away . At little river. .1. M. M-
1 Lean lost a cottage and terrapin farm.
All th- bridges in tin
gone except the Bay and I cßanre bri . -.
Eight. ’"n market garden. - aml tli-’ir fmn
i ilies living in the marshc- les- eteryihing
except the clot lies on their backs ami aie
in destitute I'it’cmnstmices. Reports re
ceived here are to tlie effect lli.it thTiy
lives were lost at Slop istaiid and 1 <)<> in
Biloxi mid vicinity. l’'e- Imest repor: re
ceived from the towns mid communities
along lite eastern ami western shores of
Mobile bay are io the eflect that the d.-i nag.i
wrought by the tornado was terrible, 'i’htj
western shore was i .ui- 1 io the full fury
of the waves and wind mid the whole com
munities were wip •<! ou . th.- inhabitants be
ing a hunt all Iha I is let I.
Statenville. G:i.. October I. (Special.)—
A terrific is sec-
tion of Ecnols < omiiy about a half mile
northwest of this place yesterday morning
at 7:-">'b o'clock. Houses were blown down
and ieuces taken a' ay. Ini' so far your
correspondent lias learned of no lives being
losl or injur.' to per.-.oiis, e\. ept tin- lo .s of
ni'operty. Mr. Gordon, ali ";>m on Mr.
11 . I>. Pfeseot i’s p’mm.ttimi. lost his crib,
me.’ii.hottse and kilep. i. >!| the trees
about his ;>remisi s were .w n away. It
is feared that sot’.ie liv.-s eave been lost..
t O'ti::i« in V r ansa-.
t'-'nii’en. Ark.. '>■ : "’ er News reachoq
this e : .i’. '."l:'.' that last n!gi;( a disastrous
"...’ ci ' na-sed i.ver the section of I’tiioa
~'n m - nia'.i of llld.'i-.x!•>. th.' imi.v seat,
•i 1,..' reporis fro:n tin' stricken section are
liien-cr. A cabin was demolished and tlio
inmates, three ni-grces, were crushed to deatti
bv the falling timbers
