The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-05
station TO Ship Island, aud Dr. PeIaiz
has been transferred to that point

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has been transferred to that point
| QUARANTINE REGULATIONS CHANGED.
DIR. Guiteras has also notified the bar
| ntlots, and the health auth horities at
Pensacola, MOBILE and PascaRoul that
all vessels from infected ports will hero
after report at Snip Island.
wind TO the quaraatiue service
alone at Chaudeleur Island will amount
| TO nearly 100000. The distnfecting plant.
| which had been erected during the past
year. together with the wharf and disins
| fectiug apparatus cost $1,000, and
the other buildings and improvements
| be added aboat $4,000 for the steam
transfer boat. William B. Welsh
! Captain Joseph Delmas. which is
! aground at the north point of the island
in three feet Of water. Should the tug
| get atost. which Is extremely doubtful,
she will sustain damages to the amount
OF several Thousand dollars. About
forty head of cattle were
also lost on the island Yesterday as
| Manila sailor made his way to the
Chandeleur station from the fishing
sloop Laura B, of New Orleaus. which
| was wrecked in Grand pass. Out
of a crew of seven men he Is.
the only survivor, aud when
| found on the island was In an unconsci-
Gus and perfectly nude condition. having
been in the water over ten hours. He
was furnished with clothing and brought
to Biloxi on the steam tug Julius Albert
The oyster lugRer Rosalie of Biloxi is
| also known to have gone to the bottom
| with crew Of four men.
The American bark Rebecca Goddard
from St. Johns, lying at quarantine.
dragged her anchors about five miles
| from the station. and was only save
from going ashore by the cutting away
of her masts and rixRing.
The Heury Il. Gregg had similar ex-
| perience, and was completely dismssted,
| the loss footing up fully 5000. Both
vessels were towed into Ship Island
harbor by the steam tugs Toiler and
Julius Ebert.
The Austrian bark Nikita. which was
in quarantine at Chapdeleur has disap-
peared and Is believed to be lost with all
on board. She had crew of about
twelve men.
The Norwegian bark Rogna was also
dismasted aud taken to Ship Island by
the steamship Ravensdale.
The Lena Storer and Flora Wood
bourne. both three maSted schooners,
were the only vessels lying on Chande
leur Islands that were mot seriously
damaged.
UNFORTUNATES ADRIFT ON RATS
Last night the Henry 7. Greggs took
two Italian fishermen from raft as they
were drifting TO sea. Another raft also
passed the vessel with thres men on
board. but the Greggs small boats were
SO badly wrecked that they coul
lend no assistance to the unfortunatesd
and nothing has been heard from them
since. The pilot beat Chicora. about
which great deal of uueasiness was
felt, was discovered to be ashore on Cat
Island, beached high and dry, with
the TWO old veteran pilots. Captain
Nn1n ya
on board with the cook aud sailor. A
number of other vessels were badly dam
aged, but it will be several days before
the full and complete record of the total
loss of life and property can be made.
Jack Shepard. the assistant bridge en-
der on the Biloxi Railroad bridge WAS
washed overheard and drowned His body
was recovered the next day and buried
at Green Springs. He leaves wife and
several children. From Information re-
cetved from Missisisstppl City, Hands
boro. Pass Christian and Ocean Springs
It is learned that the destruction of
wnarvss. bath houses and boats. has been
complete
AT Handsbero the mills of B. Lein
hard and the !. L. Liddle Company have
bsep damaged considerably, but to what
extent Is not known.
RoADBEDs WASHED AWAY
The roadbed on the Louisville and
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Wavelani. is completely washed away.
and west OF Lookout it is nearly es bad.
Telegraph poles along the railroad are
down as far as the eye can see.
The schooners Alice McGuigan and
Angeline have been discovered bottom
upwards three or four miles from the
mouth of the Pear river.
The names of those lost on these two
vessels are:-Anderson Thompson. Tobias
Young, Samuel Young, Dan johnson. AL.
Burton. Steve Peters. Cord Galloway,
Eli Galloway. Henry Galloway, Ed
Grant, Louis Banks, Wi liam DELIVERY,
Guy Freightman. john Walker, Perry
Harris. John Baker. Eli Peters,
Allen Peters, Philip Peters Eli
Jan Williams George Scott,
aud two young men from New Orleans,
all colored. One of the last mentioned
is supposed to be named Manuel Munro,
and Is cigar maker by trade
APPEALS FOR AID.
Appeals for std have come in so swiftly
from the stricken sections that it is i'm
possible to render the necessary assis-
tance. The Red Cross Society has taken
the matter In hand and issu cd CAL 70
aid.
Thy Comerclal Club will meet toda.
and take steps TO raise supscriptionsy
Governor Foster has been called upon
and will arrive in town during the day
Twenty-three deaths had been report
ed this morning by the relief and search.
ing party which is securing the devas-
tated section of the country in the
In the vicinity of Pointe Ia Sache
The dead were negro laborers and fisher.
men.