Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-05
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| NEW ORIxaxs Oct A--Reports { the
heavy storm on sunday and Sunday ntxhe
r~ reaching the city very slowly. owing
10 the almost general prostration Of tele-
ehoue and telegraph wires The storm
rxtendel about six miles up the river
above the city. and did considerable dam
/ aye 10 sugar cane In that section
| From Bayou Cook it is reported that
the settlements Of the fishermen have
been completely demolished, and that the
| loss Of life has reached the appalling hg-
ure Of so
/ Grand Isle, summer resort lying in the
gulf, directly in the path o; the storm. is
said TO have been utterly destroyed. and
Hid is known that the loss Of life is large.
Many people were there spending the
early autumn season. TIE hotels and the
two long rows OF cottsges which consu-
tutsd the resort are said 10 DC no more,
and il is feared that the loss Of life at this
point viii be very great.
In the parish OF Pls9uemine. the villages
of Bomhemia and Shellbeaeh were wiped
our, and az least four lives lose in each
place
On both sides of the river the sugar. rye
and orange crops suffered greatly, and on
the west side the loss of life is reported TO
have been very great IL viii be some
days before the full extent Of the damage
wrought will be known. but 1t is feared
| here that the grand total VIII pale into
insignificsnee the number of deaths re-
| ported from the storm which recently de-
yastated the Atlantic coast.
A Fisherman's Story.
A lone aud ragged fisherman from
| BAYOU Cook came TO the Socola canal,
opposite Points la Haehe, yesterday,
and reported that OF the 800 people who
composed the colony but 80 hal succeeded
| in escaping the fury of the elements. The
| fishermen hsd all retired Sunday ri--t.
| as usual, and though the wind was blow
| ing pretty hard, there was $50 forerunner
| of the terrible catastrophe that followed
| As the night grew apace, the wind in
creased in velocity, and the water rose
| with startling rdpidity, anu before the I'M
| fortunates, who had no possible means q:
escape, had time TO grasp some loatlng
| object, they were overwhelmed with the
| awful might and found their fate in
watery graves.
| He had chung to u tree throughout the
| night, and when morning dawned the
scene Of wreckage that spread before his
view was simply terrible. OF the many
little cabins which had sheltered the pros
porous colony the night before barely one
| was standing. OF the 800 or more human
beings who inhabited them, but a tenth of
| the number lived to tell Of the night OF eX-
periences filed with horror. He describes
/ the visitation as in the nature D. tidal
wave, which swept everything before it.
| While nothing definite WAS received
from Grand Isle, there WAS general i'm
preston at Point a Ia Hache that dire dis
aster had occurred there, and il was even
reported that the water had swept over
| the island, carrying everything before II
| in its awful fury, and much concern was
| felt for the safety Of the two or three hum
dred inhabitants who were known to have
been there. The report also says that the
| big hotel had been blown away.
Report has it also that the settlements
| at Chenier Amananda, which is directly
across the bay from Grand Isle, had been
the scene of u terrible loss of life. but this
also lacked confirmation. No eommuni-
cation was possible with thes, points. and
| il will be several days before the extent of
| the calamity there is made known. 1t
was also reported. that several CASUALTIES
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| Jackson, but there was no way of getting
at the particulars.
| The greatest damage by this storm on
the left bank Of the river from New Or
| leans to the gulf is To the crops, and espe-
| cially rice, which suffered severely.
The orange crop Of Plaquemine is ruined
to the extent Of a quarter of million
| dollars
| The Louisville and Nashville railroad is
covered up. A mile of its track at En-
| glish Lookout has been wrecked
Florida Got Some Of u.
| PENSACOLA, Fla, Oct, +.-The most de
| struetive storm that Pensacola has ex-
| perienced in 10 years began at 6 o'clock
| Monday morning and ragged with increased
| fury until late hour Monday evening
| The storm had been brewing since Satur-
| DAY. The wind reached Il velocity of 6
| miles an hour. The rain fell in torrents
| and was swept in binding sheets through
| the streets No loss Of life has been re-
| ported, but upon every street uprooted
trees and rooacss buildings testify to the
storms force
| On Baylen street wharf large building
| used for smoking fish was blown Into the
| bay Il was stored with cured fish and
the loss will be great. On ths same
wharf, dwelling and its contents was
| lifted from its foundation and dropped
| into the bay. The greater damage was on
| the bay The Portuguese bark Josephine
II and the Norwegian bark Wiihemia
we're blown on the beach. The fishing
smack Isabella is also on the beach
| The only train reaching the city during
| the day was from the north at 4:35 All
other trains are greatly delayed. i II tele-
| oh communication was cut off before
| 10 O'Clock Monday. wires being down in
every direction, and no news Of the storm
| could be sent ont until last night.