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VOL. X. NEARLY 2,000 DROWNED. Fearful Havoc Wrought hy the Gulf Coast Tornada Appalling Loss of Life and Millions ill Property Swept Away. Tho news received at New Orleans Wednesday morning from the islands on tho lower coast of Louisiana is most appalling. The rumored disaster at Grand Isle has been confirmed and tho death list has swollen until it now reaches *nto the thousands. Grand Isle was all but swept out of existence, and out of 750 souls who were on the island at the time of the storm, only about twenty escaped. Tho island of Cliieniere Carrida, about a mile and a half west of Grand Isle, contained over two thousand persons. Of these only about one hundred escaped. There are five small islands in Grand hay, and each was populated by a large number of fishermen, of whom only a few escaped alive. At Bayou Coke, eighty-seven persons lost their lives by actual count. APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. Nearly 2,000 killed and five million dollars’ worth of property annihilated is the record so far. There has never been anything approaching it since the country was settled. More than half the population in the region over which the hurricane swept are dead. Everything is wrecked. One house in ten is standing, and the surviving pop¬ ulation iB left in the most destitute con¬ dition, without food or even clothing, for most of them weresleeping in their beds when their houses were crushed by the wind or waves. Mere than u. dozen relief expeditions went down from New Orleans Wednesday to dis¬ tribute food among the survivors, The death list is already above 1,800 and only a portion of the devastated country has been heard from. It is such a network of islands, bayous, lakes and swamps that it will be a week before the relief boats can trav¬ erse all the waterways and discover the full extent of the damage done. Tho worst, however, is known, for all the large settlements have been heard from and it is only the smaller ones scattered along the bayous and in¬ terior lakes that will have to be vis¬ ited. 1,840 DEAD. The deaths so far reported, and which are confirmed, as follows; Che meie Caminada 820 fishermen from the settlement; at sea in their boats 240; Bayou Cleallon 40; Oyster Bayou 28; Bayou Cook 87; fishing settlements around Bayou Cook 43; Bird island 45; Simon island 16 ; Rosario island 20 ; Razor island 5 ; St.Malo,25,all Malays. Adam bay, 200 ; Fishing camps around Daisy postofiioe, 20 ; Grand bayou,26 ; Tropical Bend, 10; Pass Aloutre, 40; Pointe a la Hatche, 4; Grand Prairie, 5; Bartholemy, 6; Fort St. Philip, 6; Hospital bay, 8; Sheel beach, 12; Grand bank, 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; Boli¬ var Point, 3; Happy Jack, 2; Nich olls’s postoffiee, 3; Faitulings, 3; F. Cosses, 5 ; Stockfletcho, 1; Quaran¬ tine, 2 ; Eadsport, 1; Pearl River, 1; Near Point Pleasant, 2 ; Bay St. Louis, 2; Back bay, 1; Lost on Webre, 20; Lost in the bogs or at sea 45; Bayou la Fond 110: Bayou DufonlO; Cal sausage 20; on lugger General Vixie 4. ALONG THE COAST. The towns and settlements extend along the Mississippi from Pointe a la Hache, forty-five miles below New Orleans to the gulf on Balou Baratara and the oyster reefs between there and the mouth of the Mississipi, and on the islands stretching from the Mississippi to the main land at Cbe rneie Caminada, Bay St. Louis and Pearl river are in Mississipi. The great majority of the people drowned are whites and not over one hundred are colored. MILLIONS IN PROPERTY LOST. The damage is now estimated as fol¬ lows: New Orleans, $360,000; Palque mine parish, houses, etc., $600,000; orange crop, $280,000; other crops, $250,000; cattle, etc., $250,000; ship¬ ping-schooners, luggers, etc., $250, 000; cattle, etc., $250,000; fibbing set¬ tlements, $40,000; railroads, $900,000; miscellaneous, $350,000; total, $3,590, 000 . Between New Orleans and Mobile the damage done is placed at $500,000, and in and around Mobile at $300,000, the total damage amounting to $4,300, 000. The loss of the crop of Plaque mine parish is estimated at 25 per cent the loss in oranges is 75 per cent, while about 20 per cent of the orange trees were killed or blown down. The oyster and fishing fleet is almost com¬ pletely destroyed and the levees badly washed and will have be rebuilt. The shipping suffered severely, but prin¬ cipally the the smaller vessels. The dueW ebre, Aspinwall, Chamberlane and two other steamers are supposed to be in the wreck. One of them was blown into a rice field. One hundred and twenty schooners and bargeB and 265 luggers are sunk, in most cases aceom- The Banner-Messenger. BUCHANAN, HARALSON COUNTY, OA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1893. of life. Some ..... supposed to he lost. The entire gull coast of Mississippi and Louisiana west of Atehafalaya is strewn with wreckage. DAMAGE TO RAILROADS, Of the railroads, the Louisville and Nashville is the heaviest sufferer' and the damage inflicted will run from $500,000 to $000,000. The greater portion of tho line be¬ tween Now Orleans and Mobile, 142 miles, is more or less damaged. Nine thousand feel the Bay St. Louie bridge is completely swept away, 3,000 feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, while the Scranton nnd Jackson bridges are all badly injured and cannot be used. About five miles of embankment and trestlo work nnd fifteen miles of track are washed away. FIRST REPORTS. Special dispatches of Tuesday state that the storm which visited Mobile, Ala., Monday left it a perfect wreck. At present the damage can only be conjectured, but it is safe to estimate it at. nearly a million dollars. Several schooners and small crafts were dis¬ mantled and the passenger steam¬ er Crescent City was wrecked on the bay shore. Several of the scows work¬ ing in the lower bay went ashore, but fortunately no one was hurt. CATTLE LOST BY HUNDREDS. It is certain that three or four hun¬ dred head of cattle have been lost. The home of Stephen Walker was swept away and his family, consisting of himself, his wife and niece were drowned. The city was in utter dark¬ ness Monday and no street cars were running. There was only one wire out of the city and no trains are run¬ ning. THE LOWER COAST DESOLATED. News from the lower coast is heart¬ rending. At Grand Bay four churches were destroyed, whilo at Scranton five churches suffered a like fate. Houses have been scattered, crops ruined and desolation appears on every hand. Between Mobile and New Orleans are twenty miles of bridges, the long¬ est of which are at Bay St. Louis and Biloxi. All these bridges are washed away, and traffic on the Louisville and Nashville railroad is suspended. Accounts of the storm are coming in slowly and it will be several days before a true account can be obtained. THE DAMAGE ABOUT NEW ORLEANS. A New Orleans special says: A ter riffic storm struck New Oi leans late Sunday night, coming from the north¬ east, and raged all day Monday, sweeping to the south along the line of the Mississippi river, through the par¬ ish of Flaquemine to the gulf. The storm was one of the worst which ever visited this part of tho country and, as far as can be learned, twenty-four or more persons wero killed and probably three times as many wounded, some fatally. The wind had reached a velocity of 48 miles an hour at 8 o’clock Sunday night, when the anemoneter of the weather bureau was destroyed, and it constantly increased in force until 2 a. m., when its velocity was estimated at 60 miles an hour. The crash of sheds and buildings blown down, trees torn up and houses unroofed, caused intense alarm, and most of the population of the city re¬ mained up all night, expecting their houses to be blowu down. The revetment levee on Lake Pout chartrain, which protects New Orleans from overflow on the rear, was washed away, and water swept over it fifteen feet or more. Many of the yachts there were sunk or injured. The tracks of the Louisville and Nashville railway were badly washed for fifteen miles, and it will be several days be¬ fore it can run trains. THE MORTALITY SEVERE. Three deaths and one person wound¬ ed severely, if not fatally, is the mor¬ tality record in New Orleans. Below the city it is far worse, especially in Plaquemine. Here the wind reached a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour, sweeping everything before it. The parish seat of justice, Pointe a la Hache, a town of 2,500 people, was the worst sufferer. In the town not a single house escaped injury. The courthouse and the Catholic church, the principal buildings in the town, and some twenty other buildings were destroyed, and the situation was so threatening that the greater part of the people, fearing destruction in their buildings, camped out in the street all night in the heavy rain. The air was filled with debris, and the wind was blowing so fiercely that many of them had to anchor them¬ selves against trees to prevent being blown away. Four grown persons are known to have been killed in Pointe a la Hache, and several children—how many is not exactly known. It is probable that the mortality will be greatly increased when the news is re¬ ceived from the far-away settlements on the gulf coast below Pointe a la Hache, in tho range country of Lou¬ isiana. THE ORANGE CROP RUINED. The orange crop was ripe upon the trees and about to be harvested. It was completely destroyed in the storm, with a loss of $350,000 on this one item The crop in the orange farms of 1 radish Johnson, the largest in the south, had been sold to r fruit dealer in New Orleans, Mr. Otexi, fox $65,- 000 . It is said that there is not an orange left on the trees, and it is the same all the way down tlm coast. The sugar district escaped the worst of tho blow. Them is much damage to rice and sugar cane. LATER DISPATCHES. A New Orleans special of Thursday says: The return of several of the relief partiessentto the storm-stricken districts of tho state fully confirm tho news of Wednesday and adds to the list of those drowned or killed a cdh rected list which swells the total num¬ ber of dead to 2,041. This may he increased some 250 or 300 more by news from tho St. Bernard marshes and thia vessels off'the Louisiana coast, from which only meagre returns have been received. These indicate nearly complete destruction and that none of the smaller vessels in the open sea es¬ caped. The additional losses reported arc: Rigolets 1(5; Biloxi I; Chandlier 110; Near Grand Bauree 10; from vessels 93. The loss of life at Chernue Cam inada is now known to be 1,250. At Bayon Andrew seventy-two perished instead of forty, and at Grand Isle twenty-four instead of ten. PERHAPS ALL AliE LOST. The only section from which no re¬ turns have been received as yet is the St. Bernard or Lake Bargue marshes. The marsh extends from Lorgne to the gulf. It is a dead level ocean marsh—more water than land—cover¬ ing 1,200 square miles. Its only in¬ habitants were some two hundred fish¬ ermen, who lived in cabins built on spiles. Not a word, has been heard from this section since the storm. Not oue of the inhabi tants has come to town or any neighboring settlement. At the spot in the Chandeliers where the tornado was so violent none are said to have escaped. In the west I’laquemino parish the wind reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour. The chances of the Lake Borgne fishermen surviving the hurricane are considered very doubtful and a boat was sent to their settlements to see if any survived. Loud complaints came from tho Bayou Cook section of the stench from the dead bodies there. The land is too low for burying. Already some 120 bodies have conveyed by boat to the high¬ lands on the Mississippi at Frysnal Bend for burial, but many are unburi¬ ed in the swamp and rapidly decaying. Many of the bodies were found to have been looted and robbed. Most of the fishermen were well-to-do and all car¬ ried their fortunes in cash. No money lias been found on their remains and sums of from $3,000 to $10,000 has dis¬ appeared. Nearly all of the bodies were badly mutilated by the slime. MINERS DROWNED: Thirty-Seven Unfortunates Caught in a Flooded Mine. The Mansfield mine, a few miles from Crystal Falls, Mich., caved in Thursday night and a number of miners were entombed beyond hope of rescue of any of them aliv-e. The ac¬ cident occurred during the night. The water of the river rushed into the mine and the men were entrapped like rats. It is not possible that any es¬ caped. Most of the viotims are Cor¬ nish men and nine-tenths of them are men with large families. The number of the victims is now placed at thirty seven. Mansfield is an isolated stfu tion on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad. The mine was the only ac¬ tive one in the Crystal Falls district on account of its being a producer of high-grade bessemer ore. It had a producing capacity of about sixty thousand tons per annum, and gave employment to about one hundred always men. The Mansfield mine has been considered a dangerous one to work in, and Thuzsdaybight’s disaster oftvn been predicted. TWO RECEIVERS Will Now Direct the Affairs of the Cen¬ tral Railroad. Tho Central Railroad Company co¬ receivership matter was disposed of by Justice Jackson at Washington Saturday. Upou the petition concur¬ red in by many bondholders and secu¬ rity holders of the system tho court appointed R. Somers Hayes, of New York, co-receiver with H. M. Comer, the present receiver, tho ground of tho petition being the magnitude of the interest at stake and necessary for the division of labor, the appointment in no wise reflecting upon the present receiver. Mr. Hayes is the president of the St. Paul and Duluth railroad, and of the New York and Northern. The appointment is received with general satisfaction by all concerned. The Work of Wreckers. The worst wreck in the history of the Mobile and New Orleans division of the Louisville and Nashville railroad oc¬ curred at Gulfport, Miss., at 1 o’clock Thursday morning. Passenger train No. 2, consisting of three sleepers, pas¬ senger and smoking coaches, mail and baggage and express car and engine and tender, went into an open switch. Investigation Bhowed that the ewitch, which had been properly set and lock¬ ed, had been forcibly opened. Three negro tramps who were stealing a ride were killed. AT TEE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Affairs of Govcriieiil and Routine of the House and Senate Discussed. Notrs of Iiifei-ost Concerning tlie Peo file mid Their (ieneral Welfare. It is understood that the committee on foreign relations at a meeting Wed¬ nesday decided to make a favorable report on the nomination of j. j. Van Aiion to be ambassador to Italy. A large delegation of Baltimore business men, representing a capital of one hundred and fifty millions, waited on Senator Gorman at the cap its! Wednesday morning and urged speedy action on the silver bill. Theproside'nt has approved the joint resolution of congress empowering the national board of commissioners of the Chickamaiiga and Chattanooga board, national pork to authorize the states or agreeable to the regulations it may t The substance of Minister Blount’s report regarding the policy of the United States towards Hawaii is no longer a secret. He recommends that no action either as to annexation or protectorate be taken without tho full consent of all the natives, to he ascer¬ tained by a vote. It is said that if this course is decided upon, there’ll be no annexation, as the natives are friendly to tlie queen. It was stated at the treasury depart¬ ment Saturday morning that, no infor¬ mation has been yet received as to the rumor that the revenue cutter Seward was lost in the recent storm in the gulf of Mexico. The messages of inquiry sent out were not delivered, as the Western Union Telegraph Company reports that the wires are down at the different gulf points to which they were addressed. Further efforts are being made ti dispel tiie doubts that surround the fato of tho Seward. The house committee on privileges and elections met Tuesday morning to consider the contested election case of Whatley vs. Cobb, of the fifth Ala¬ bama district. Neither the contestant nor liis attorney appeared. Represent¬ ative Cobb suggested that, in order that all parties should have a fair trial the case should bo postjioned and the committee fixed October 17 for the next liear.in^j Tho 20th o^ October was fixed for hearing argument in the case of O’Neill vs. Joy, of the 11th Missouri district. The president has issued orders that no one except cabinet officers shall he admitted to his office without first sig¬ nifying the nature of their business to Private Secretary Tliurber. The new order applies to senators and represen¬ tatives and under it Mr. Tliurber is to exercise his discretion as to whether, representative or any other persons shall be admitted to sec the president. Mr. Cleveland issued this order to re¬ lieve the pressure upon him that he may have more time to attend to pub¬ lic business. Mr. Blacbbaru'* l’lnn. Mr. Blackburn sent to the clerk’s desk during Friday’s session of the senate and had read an amendment to the repeal bill which he had given notice of in his speech on Wednesday. It strikes out the Yoorliees amend¬ ment to the house bill and substitutes for it six additional sections. It au¬ thorizes the free coinage of silver from United States mints except as to seign orage, the rate of which is to be es tablished by the secretary of treasury on the first of each month. The seig¬ norage is to be the difference between the market price of silver and its minted value after coinage. The seig¬ norage is not to he coined, but is to be sold for gold, (either at home or abroad) and the gold received for it is to he held in the treasury and used only for the purpose of maintaining the parity between the two metals. New (/oiiNiilti Named. The president sent to the senate Friday the following nominations: Stephen Bonsai, of Maryland, now secretary of legation at Peking, to be secretary of legation nt Madrid Spain. Charles Denby of Indiana, now sec¬ ond secretary of legation at Peking, to bo secretary of legation at Peking, China. To be consuls —F. A. llean, of Mich¬ igan, at Naples, Italy ; Marshall Han¬ ger, of Virginia, at Bermuda; W. B. Hall, of Maryland, at Nice, France; Edgard Schramm, of Texas, at Mon¬ tevideo, Uruguay; J. H. Stuart, of New York,at St. Thomas, West Indies; P. P. Spence, of Indiana, ut Nantes, France; E. S. Wallace, of South Da¬ kota, at Jerusalem, Syria. 0. M. Force, of Kentucky, deputy first comptroller of the treasury. J. B. Grady, of Florida, collector of customs of the district of Apalach¬ icola Fla. Postmasters—J. C. Wooten, Jr., at Kinston, N. C. The nomination of John P. Haskett, at Kinston, N. C., as postmaster, is withdrawn. Ohio, Illinois and Missouri have constitutional provisions prohibiting state banks of issue. THE CHEAT SOUTH AMERICAN AND Stomachs Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery % ' ol the Last One Hundred Years. , , ’ It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest NectarA It is Safe and Harmless as th® Purest Milk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic lias only recently been introduced into {bis country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet its great value as a curative agent has long been known by the native inhab Rants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon its great medicinal powers to cure every form of disease by which they are overtaken. • This new and valuable South American medicine possesses powers and q Ua ljties hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine has <>p completely i solved nd dj the problem f th of the neraiNervo cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liver “ n t ’“ 8 "**° i f u s % stem -;«™ frrms of f failing health from_ whatever cause. It j , performs this by the Great Nervine ionic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative powers upon the digestive this organs, wonderfully the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy compares with valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great renewer of a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in tha treatment and cure of diseases of the Lungs than any ten consumption rem¬ edies ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nervousness of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost constantly for tho space of two or three years. It will carry them safely over tho danger. This great strengthener and curative is of inestimable value to the aged hold and infirm., life. It because will add its great fifteen energizing properties lives wtH of give them a new on ten or years to the many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year. CURES Nervousness and Nervous Prostration, Nervous Headache and Sick Headache, Female Weakness, All Nervous Diseases of Women, Chills, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Nervous Choking llot Flashes, Palpitation Mental Despondency, of the Heart, Sleeplessness, St. Vitus’s Dance, Nervousness of Females, Nervousness of Old Ago, Neuralgia, in the Heart, Fains Pains in the Back, Health. ‘ All these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonio. NERVOUS DISEASES. As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been abla to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless In all its effects upon the youngest child or tho oldest and most delicate individ¬ ual. N> n e-tenths of all the ailments to which the human family ie heir, are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, and a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply the all first the power suffer by for which the of vital perfect forces nutrition. of the body are carried on, it is to want Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This recent production of the South American Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous Cbawfordsvillk, Ind , Aug. 20, ’88.' To the Great South American Medicine Co .; Desk Gents:—I desire to say to you that I have suffered for many years with a very seri¬ ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine I could hear of but nothing done me any appreciable good until I was ad vlBed to try your Great South American Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and since using several bottles of it I must say that I am surprised e,t its wonderful powers to cure the stomach and general nervous system. If every¬ one knew the value of this remedy os I do, you wouM not he able to supply the demand. J. A. Habdki, C*. A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS’S DANCE OR CHOREA. CRAWrOBDSvrbLE, Ind., old, May had 19,1886. been af My daughter, twelve months years with Chorea St. •Icied for several reduced to skeleton, or Vitus’s Dance. She was talk, could a swal¬ could not vralk, could not had handle not her low anything but milk. I to like an infant. Doctor and neighbors South gave Ameri¬ her up, I commenced giving the effects her the sur¬ can Nervine Tonic; she rid were of very the mising. In three days improved. was Four bottles ner¬ vousness, and completely. rapidly I think the South cured her the grandest remedy ever American Nervine n^mmen^cvery discovered, and would Blau of Indiana, > ss . Subscribed Montgomery County, J to before this May and sworn me Public. M. Tea INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. The Great South American Nervine Tonie Which we now offer you, is tho only Dyspepsia, absolutely and unfailing the remedy ever discov¬ ered for the cure of Indigestion, the result of disease and debility vast of train the human of symptoms and horrors which are by jewel of incalculable stom¬ ach. No person can afford to pass this value who is affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands thousands go go to to prove prove that that this this is is the the one one and and only only one one great great cure cure in ii the world world for for this this universal universal destroyer. destroyer. There There is is no no case case of of unmalignant unmalignant disease di of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South ■American Nervine Tonic. ^__, EVERY BOTTLE WARRANTED. PRICE: Large Eighteen ounce Bottles, $1.25. Trial Sizo, 15c. J. T. COBB & CO. 1 onts for Haralson County. NO. 39. Broken Constitution, Debility Indigestion of Old Age, Dyspepsia, and Heartburn and Sour Stomach, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach. Loss of Appetite, Dizziness Frightful and Dreams, Ringing in tho Ears, Weakness of Extremities and Impure Fainting, and Impoverished Blood, Boils and Carbuncles, Scrofula, Scrofulous Swelling and Ulcers, Catarrh Consumption of the of Lungs, the Lungs, Bronchitis and Chronic Cough, Liver Complaint, Chronic Diarrhoea, Delicate and Scrofulous Children, Summer of Infants. Kr. Solomon Bond, a member of the Society of Friends, of Darlington, Ind., says: “I hava used twelve bottles of The Great Sooth Ameri¬ can Nervine Ton ie and Stomach and did Liver Otjrg, and I consider that every bottle tor me one hundred dollars worth of good, for because l have not bad a good of irritation, night’s sleep pain, horrible tw-nty dreams, yean on account and been general caused by nervous chronic prostration, which and dys¬ has pepsia of the stomach and indigestion broken down condition of by a Butnowlcain lie down and my sleep nervous all night system. as sweetty as a and I feel like a sound man. I do not there has ever been a medicine introduced'into this country which will at all compare with this Nervine Tonic as a cure Ceawfordstolk, Ind., June 22, IMS'. My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus’s Dance or Chorea. !¥• gavo her three and one-half bottles of South American Nervine and she is completely re¬ stored. I believe it will cure every case of St. Vitus’s Dance. I have kept it in my tamily tat two years, and am sure it is tho greatest rem¬ edy in the world for Indigestion and Dyspep¬ Falling sia, all forms of Nervous Disorders and Health from whatever cause. John T. Mish. I State of Indiana, County \ . Subscribed Montgomery and ,) to ' before this June sworn me 22,1887. Chas. W. Whig nr. Notary Public.