Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1893-10-11
HUNDREDS PERISH.
GULF COAST STORM WORST
EVER KNOWN THERE.

Loss OF Life Estimated at Over 2,0oO
and Property Damage Placed at
about $4,000, O,OoO-survivors Left
In Destitute Condition Without
Food or Clothing. -,
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 4.-Over 2,0o0
killed and nearly $5,O00,00 of property
annihilated, is the record of the great
gulf storm in Louisiana. There has
never been anything approximating it
since the country was settled. More
than half the population in the region
over which the hurricane swept dead.
Every thing is wrecked and not house
in 10 is left standing, while the surviv-
ors are left in the most destitute con-
dition, without even food or clothing,
for most of them were sleeping in their
beds when their houses were crushed
BY the Wind or the Waves.
There haye been several similar dis
asters on the coast. At Lost island,
where 2S6 people lost their lives, and at
Johnstons bayou, the loss numbered
220 six years ago. Mondays disaster
far surpassed these in horror. The
weak and injured were all killed, and
in the settlements where the storm was
worst not a child survived and very
few women. The survivors are the
young men in the vigor of manhood.
Not one of them but has
Terrible Story to Tell;
not one hut is badly bruised and in
jured. They escaped mainly on RATS
or logs, floating for 20 to 80 hours in the
water with the wind at 115 miles an
hour. The deaths so far as reported
and which are confirmed aggregate
over 1000, as follows:
Chemeie Canunada, $50; fishermen at
sea, $40; Bayou Cleallon, 40; Oyster
Bayou, %; Bayou Cock, 81; fishing set
Elements at Bayou Cock, 43; Bird Island,
At; Simon Island, IL; Rosario Island, 20;
Razor Island, 80; ST. Malo, 20; Adams
bay, 200; fishing camps at Daisy P. O.,
20; Grand Bayou. 26; Grand Prairie, 5;
Tropical Bend, 10; Pass A. Loutre, 40;
Pointe la Hache, 4; Barthely, 6; Fort
ST. Philip, 6; Hospital Bay, =; Shell
Beach, 212; Grand Bank, s; Grand
Isle. 100; Buras Point, 8; Pleasant
Point, 10; Sixty Mile Point, 8; Devils
Flat. /; Bolivar Point, 8; Happy Jack,2;
Nichols, j; Faitulings, 8; Cosses,5; Stock
Fleths, 1; Quarantine, 2; Eads Point,
1: Pearl River, /; near Point Pleasant,
2; Bay St. Louis. 2; Back Bay, 1; lost
on Weber, 90; lost in the bogs, 40;
Bayou La Fond. 10; Bayou Andre, 40;
Bayou Dufon, 10; Cabbinage, 20; on
augger General Vixie, 4.
Many Fishing Vessels Lost.
At the time the storm visited
Chemeie 1xO fishing vessels were in the
gulf fishing. Not a word has since
been heard from them or their occu-
pants. Along the Mississippi the loss
of life was to some extent due to fall
ing buildings. In the bay it was caused
wholly by drowning.
The pecuniary damage, while heavy,
is not as large as might have been ex-
pected, as the sugar plantations and
the richer portions of Plaquemlne
parish were not worsted by the storm,
and it was the smaller farms and fish
ing settlements which suffered most.
The total damage in this vicinity to
shipping, crops, ETC., is estimated at
,f3, $40, 600.
AT Other Points.
Between here and Mobile the amount
of damage done is placed at $500, 600,
and in and around Mobile $500, 900.
Total damage, $4,420,00O. The total
loss on oranges is 75 per cent, while
about % per cent Of the orange trees
were killed OF blown down. Of the
railroads the Louisville and Nashville
is the heaviest sufferer, and the damage
inflicted OH it will run from $500, 600 to
$500, 600. The greater portion of the
line between here and Mobile, 142 miles,
is damaged. Nine thousand feet of the
Bay street bridge is swept away and
{. 900 feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone,
while the Scranton and jackson bridges
are all so badly injured they cannot be
used. Five miles of embankment and |
trestle work and Is miles of track are
washed away.