St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-05

the capacity of teacher She was we'll
known IN this city, and was highly eS-
teemed at the island. How Miss Doug
lass lest her life M seems to know.
but she must have had a
TERRIBLE. ENPnRiENCE.
Monday morning her body was found
among she Wreckage. She was quite
dead, and her remains were buried near
where she had met her sudden death.
AS stated before, the picture was a
terrible one Monday. There were
scores of bodies lying around, and be-
ginning TO show signs OF decompoSi-
ton. Under the circumstances, for the
safety of the rest of the colony, il be-
came necessary TO take prompt steps to
bury those who had lost their lives.
here were still many people who were
alive and able-bodied, and they were
Immediately organized for the work OF
duty and charity.
There was no time to build collins Ii
there had been time there were no
tools, no boards to be nailed together, no
receptacles tor the bodies. So the living
hunted up spades and commenced Dig
ging trenches in which to deposit the
remains. Up to II o'clock Mr.. Schurtz
assisted in that gruesome task, and dur
ing that time he participated in the
interment of not less than fifty
persons, men, women and children,
some of them having not mark upon
their persons to show what had caused
their death. Others. on the contrary,
were badly lacerated. Into one grave
MIR. SchurtZ assisted in placing DO less
than six people. They were all the
grave would hold. There was little
time for the ceremonies usual on the
burial of
A HUMAN BEING.
Rebe Rando proved himself a hero.
He was the head OF a family that, be-
sides himself. comprised his wife and
two children. Their house had been
torn TO pieces by the hurricane, and
they were in imminent peril of losing
their lives. Just about this time the
Weber had parted from the mornings,
and was sweeping down past Chieniere
with the tide. Many planks had been
blown from her and were drifting
ashore. Rando swan abont In the water
until he mad gathered sufficient lumber
to make an imprOmptu raft, and with
this raft he succeeded in saving himself
and family from watery grave or
from worse death.
MIR. SchurtZ says gentleman from
New York is among those lost. He had
+, gone to Chieniere for bis health. and oc-
cupied house near that in which Mr..
SchurtZ had slept During the height
of the storm Mr.. Sehurtz heard him
crying piteOusIy for help. But no sue
! cor was near, and Mr.. SchurtZ believes
he persisted along with the hundreds of
others who were lost.
The Valence family suffered terribly.
Iom Valence is we'll known citizen of
this city, and highly esteemed in Gran
ada and other parts of Jefferson parish.
He had wife and several children, and
Mr.. SchurtZ believes that every one of
| them are gone. Tony Valence, his
brother, suffered the same fate, and so
did Tony's wife. John Valence, still
/ another member of the family, was
| among the saved, but his wife and three
children were among the missing when
Mr.. Schurtz left Cbieniere.
1t will never be accurately known
| just how many lives were lost in the
| storm.
| THE MIGHTY WAVES
swept with such irresistible force over
the land, and at such great depth.
| that it is probable that many bodies and
| perhaps many who are still living were
| carried into the marshes. As previous
| ly mentioned, the population of CHEN
! iere was about 1,40O. Mr.. Schurtz
! thinks that 1000 of these have been
lost, though his calculation may be
| somewhat overdrawn. No thought has
been given to the monetary damage
Unless steps are Immediately taken
| for the organization of relief parties, it
| is not unlikely that many will perish
| from starvation and thirst. The wind
and waves destroyed all the provisions
| upon Chieniere island and swept away
ali the cisterns of the residents. The
| result is that fresh water is so scarce
that it is not sufficient to relieve the
! thirst of the hundreds who are now
without anything to eat and scarcely
anything to wear and who are about as
! homeless and as shelterless as was Rob
| inson Crusoe on his lonely island.
Mr. Schurtz was one of a party OF
| thirteen that came to the city on the
Good Mother, traverslng the company
route. Each of them had a thrilling
| story to relate. On their way up they
| had no water to drink, but fortunately
they saved several pieces of ice with
which they quenched their thirst.