The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-10-12
THE GULF STORM.
The Destruction of Property and Loss of
 Life Appalling Meager Details.

Life Appalling Meager Details. NEW ORI RMS Oct. 4.-The great storm of Monday has passed, and, al- though the wires are still down, bits of intelligence continue to come from various parts which impart the infor- nation that the loss of life, to say nothing of the destruction of property, is tremendous, From Bayou Cook, the great oyster field which leads to the gulf, it is reported that the settlements of the fishermen have been completely demolished, and that the loss of life has reached the appalling figure of POO.
 Grand Isle, a summer resort lying in the gulf directly in the path of the storm, is said to have been utterly de- stroyed, and it is known that the loss of life is large. Many people were here spending the delightful early autumn season, and numbers of those who had spent the late summer month in their cottages here had not yet started for their homes The hotel and the two long rows of cottages which constituted the resort is no more, and it is feared the loss of life at this point will be very great
 In the parish of Plaquemine the vil- lages of Bohemia and Shell Beach were wiped out, and at least four lives lost in each place. On both sides of the river the sugar, rice and orange crops suffered great deal of damage, and on the west side the loss of life is re- ported to have been very great It xx,t1l ha l,, haf ha f,rn tent of the damage wrought will ba . known, but it is feared here that the grand total will pale into insignifcance the number of deaths reported from the storm which recently devastated the Atlantic coast.
 The upper limit of the storm was not more than dozen miles above the city. In the city the storm was not as severe as that of 1888. Here this year the principal sufferers were the shipping interests. The losses include the ferry boat Jerome Hadley, the steam launch Shannon, Grace Pitt, a steamboat, and half dozen loaded coal barges be- longing to Pittsburgh firms all went down. Electric wire poles were top pied over.
 Owing to the fact that all wire com .mu nication is temporarily interrupted, and that no vessels of any description have arrived from the remote sections, the information is necessarily meager. A lone and ragged fisherman, who had been a member of the fishing colony at Bayou Cook, where all the oysters bearing that name are fshed, and r,,hinh ic lnnatal oh r.nilac back of the Buras settlement, reported to the keeper of the locks of the canal that of the 300 people who composed the colony, but thirty had succeeded in escaping the fury of the elements.
 Of the many little cabins which had sheltered the prosperous colony the night before, barely one was standing. Of the 300 or more human beings who inhabited them about a tenth of the number lived to tell of the nights of experiences filled with horrors which they will never forget He describes the visitation as in the nature of a tidal wave, which swept everything be- fore it.
 The loss of life, as far as a diligent search could ascertain, foots up as fol- lows: Between Point-a-la-Hache and Bohemia, four, Mrs. Leonce La France and two babies and Charlotte Brinlxle, a colored woman; at Grand Prairie, four, Wiley Anderson, the son of a man named Perot, the daughter of man named Johnson and an unknown, all colored.
 At the old quarantine station two, the children of Mir. Hingle; at the jetties one, James Carey. Total, II.
 The destruction of the orange crop is almost complete. The new fruit is badly injured. The sugar cane was blown down, but as it is ripe, it will be cut and ground at once. The negro church at Freetown was blown down, and several halls were unroofed or badly injured in Algiers.
 The damage by the storm in New Orleans will amount to s375, 900. Out side of New Orleans, as far as can be estimated, the damage will be s90O, 900, making the total losses over S1, ,25O, 900.