The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-10-11


were scattered In promiscuous confusion
wherever the vision was able to reach, and
here. there and everywhere were the CHASTITY
faces Of corpses turned upward to the peace
ful skies now bright and bearing no traces
Of the terrible night.
Many of the men, women and children
had lived through the night, but, mortallv
wounded and without anything to quench
their thirst and no medical assistance at
hand, had given up the struggle. There
were broken arms and legs;. bruised and
battered bodies, faces slashed out of all
human resemblance. Many n pile of
debris was the temporarv crave of n fau,iiv.
Cheniere lies across from Grand Isle and
IS separated from the island by Cheniere
bay. Its head is stuck out in the gulf and
when the storm came up the mighty W ives
OF the ocean washed over the face of the
slric EN- land and swept everything before
them. Cheniere was even more thickly
settled than Grand Isle. IL was the
home OF fishermen and s,orekeepers and it
comprised colony OF l,400 souls. with
churches and schools and evidences of
modern civilization. Nearly all its residents
were white people, the Spanish race largely
predominating
Scores OF bodie, had already begun to
show signs OF decomposition. Under the
circumstances, for the safety ofthe rest of
ne colony, 1t became necessary TO take
prompt steps to bury those who had lost
their lives. The living were Immediately
organized for worA OF duty and charity,
There was no time to build collins. If there
nau oeen there were no tools with which to
Hhstruct them, no boards that could Ie
nailed together AS receptacles for the bodies
yihg everywhere; so the living merely
hunled up spades ana commenced the work
OF Juggling q tches in which to deposit the
remains. Mr.. Schurb assisted in the work
and inferred not less than 80 persons In n
,nt. A.
upon their persons to show what had caused
death; Others were badly lacerated.
PEOPLE rERisHING IN TnE MARsEs,
Bebe kando proved himself hero. He
was me head OF family that, besides him,
sell consisted of his wife ana two children
Their house had been torn to pieces by the
hurricanes and they were in inmed ate peril
ot losing their lives. Just about this Tim,
the Weber had parted from her moorinvs
and was sweeping down past the Cheniere
with tie tide. Many planks had been blown
from her and were drifting ashore. Randc
swan about in the water until he gathered
sufficient to make an improvised raft with
TINS raft lie succeeded N saving himself
and family from watery grave or worse
death.
1t will never lie known how many were
lost in the storm. The mighty waves swent
with such irresistible force over the land
and at such depth that it is possible that
many DO lies ami perhaps many who were
still living were carried into the marshes.
Unless steps are taken Immediately to or.
gan 20 relief parties il is not unlikely that
many will perish from starvation and
thirst, The waves destroyed all the provis
ions on the Cheniere Island. The result is
that fresh water is 50 scarce that It is not
sufficient to relieve the thirst of the hun.
dreds that are without anything to eat, and
scarcely anything to wear
81 200, coo LOSS NEAR MOBILE
A Il ola. At II.
damage by the storm are coming in slowly.
kailroad shipping and mills are the heaviest
losers the amount aggregating nearly 81 900.
UoJ. The loss of human life cannot be esti,
mated ON arners Island only two farm
homsts are standing out of a total of %.
These towns and settlements extend aonn
the Mississippi from Pointe la Hache, 4s |
miles below New Orleans, to the Gulf OF |
Bayou Baratara and the oyster reefs be- |
tween there and the mouth of the Missis. |
slppl and on the island stretching from the |
Mississippi to the mainland at Cheniere |
Csminada, Bay st. Lodis and Pearl River |
are in Missi ssippi.
The pecuniary damage, while heavy, Is !!
not so large rs might be expected, as the !
sugar plantations and the richer positions |
OF Plaquemne parish were not worsted by |
the storm, and 1t was the smaller farms and |
fishing settlements which suffered most.
lhe damage is estimated as follows:
New Orleans $500 OO0 PlaQuemne, par
ish, houses, etc, $500 600; orange crop.
s2s00 900; other crops $3.50 O0O; cattle, etc,
s2QooOO; shipping, schooners, luggers etc,
s2oO,OOO; fishing settlements 100000; ril-
roads 1000; miscellaneous 1850, 900:
Total S3,59O,O 600. Between here and Noble
the amount of dainaGe done Is placed at
20 1000 and in and around Mobile $500 900.
irand total damage si,390,000.
on MIssIssrPPI's SHORE.
Biloxi, Miss, isscarcely less than wreck
On every side are scattered vessels. piers
and bath houses Those houses fronting on
the beach were blown down or so badly
damaged as to be uninhabitable. Up in
the town great trees were torn up. the
streets were filled with debris of wrecked
barns, carriages fences, etc. Many of the
streets are SO blocked with Nrcckage as to
be impossible. The canning industry, the
leading industry OF the place, has been
wiped out, all the factories having been
either swept aaay or rendered useless.
LATER DETAILS
The latest advices from New Orleans are
as iollows:-As the news from the outlying
and exposed points on the gulf comes in the
great storm OF Saturday night is shown to
have been the most destructive of human
life that ever occurred in this country Only
johnstown's ter rible flood exceeds 1t in
horror. As the figures now stand it is be.
lieved nearly 1000 persons have been
drowned or crushed by falling houses, and
the property loss will reach about S5,000,-
600.
Half the population of the region over
which the hurricane swept Is dead. Ever =
thing is wrecked. One house in 10 is stand.
ing, and the surviving population is left in
the most destitute situation, without food
or even clothing, for the most of them were
sleeping in bed when their houses were
crushed by the wind or the waves
The deaths so far reported are as fol-
lows:
Cheniere Caminada, $40, fishermen from
the settlement at sea in their boats, 2IO;
Bayou Cleallon,4O Oyster Bayou, %; Bayou
Cook, 81; fishing settlement around Bayou
Cook, 43; Bird Island, So; Simon Island, 10;
Bosario Island, 20; Razor Island. 8; St Walo,
25 All Maleys. Adams bay, 200; fishing
camp around Daisy postotce. 20. Grand
Bayou, 26; Tropical Bend, 10; Pass A. Lou.
ire, 40. Pointe a la Hache, g. Grand Prairit.
6; Bartholomy, I; Fort st. Phillip, O. Hospi-
tai bay, !; Shell Beach, II; Grand Bank, s;
Grand Isle, 10 Curas g. Point Pleasant, s;
Sixty-Mile Point, 3; DEVILS Flat /; Bolivar
Point, 2; Happy Jack2; Nichols postoffice,