Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1856-08-30
From the Picayune Of Wednesday
The Lost Island Calamity.

From the Picayune Of Wednesday.
The Last Island Calamity.
MORE SAVED.
More and more particulars of the ter
rible Last Island calamity continue TO
reach US, and it is with deep satisfaction
that we have still to record the name Of
more who have escaped from its horrors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foley, Of Lafourche, MIR.
VIM. Rochelle, white woman whose
name we have not been able to ascertain,
negro servant of Mrs. Hines, are posi-
lively rescued, and happily in a good state
of health. They were found in the marsh
six miles inland, whittier they had been
washed when the storm was at its height,
and there left on the receding ofthe waters.
They had existed ever since on crabs,
crawfish, &C., and as it had rained fire.
quently, had not suffered from want OF
water.
The comparatively little suffering Of Mr..
and Mrs. Foley, who have not the vigor
of youth to aid them to sustain il. is stated
to be quite remarkable, and we record it
with great pleasure. Mrs. Foley had re-
ceived slight wound on the shoulder, and
that is said to be the wors, injury sustain
ed by any of this miraculously saved party.
We understand that there are still, as
there have been from the first moment
after the scene of the disaster could be
reached by those to whom it was first
made known, some five hundred persons
searching every nook and corner for the
living or the dead, for the property Of the
victims and for their sacrilegious plum
derers. m m r$H
1t may seem curious that any Of the sur.
vivors should have remained so long with.
out being discovered; but it appears to be
satisfactorily accounted for, at least in
some cases, as in the present, for instance.
They were carried SO far inland-six
miles-tha. no one thought Of going in
that distance. The beach opposite the
point, and the bayous end creeks intersect.
ing it. have been repeatedly searched.
and to what was considered a reasonable
distance inland. The storm, however,
went beyond the imagination even of its
victims and their afflicted relatives and
friends. There has been no indifference,
laxness, or want of judgment exhibited by
these. Very far from it. ssFia SO a
1t gives US pleasure TO be able to add a
statement which will relieve some of the
oys'ermen and others inhabiting the vicini-
ty Of the disaster, from the odiu,n that the
conduct of some seemed but too likely to
attach to all Of them. The party whose
safety we have just recorded are said to
owe their lives, in great measure, to one
settlement of these people, who had suffer.
ed as much as any others by the storm
their huts, provisions, chickens, boats,
&C.. having been all swept away. Never.
theless they aided Mr.. Rochelle and
others SO kinkly and effectually that we
are assured that gentleman presented
them with his pocket.book containing
$3.50, which he had saved, and assured
them that il, while he lived, they needed
his assistance, they should not apply to
him in vain.
We are happy to add that Mr.. and Mrs.
Foley are now at the hospitable mansion
Of DR.. Scudday in Thibodaux, and At our
last advices We're doing remarkably we'll,
considering the hardships they have en-
dured. FED. CERRs.
1891 81, Z. s.41 -
]. The SUGAR CRop The Baltimore
American, OF the ] 5th inst. has the follow.
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