The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-04
On the Coast Suffer Very
Great Loss of Life.
STILL THE NEWS is MEACER
Numerous Outlying Districts
Not Yet Heard From.
BY Associated Press to The News.

BY Associated Press to The News.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 4.--The
latest reports of damage on the
Mobile and New Orleans division
of the LOUSY lie and n ,shville are
more serious than at first thought.
1t will be fully three weeks before
a ira II can run, according to Super
intendent Marshall, who has been
east on the division. No trains can
reach Mobile from Montgomery,
the upper track and bridges for
twenty miles north of Mobile being
either swept away or seriously dam
aged in many places.
The news lee -ived here this morn
ing from the Islands on the lower
coast Of Louisiana is most appalling.
The rumored disaster at Grand Isle
ls confirmed and the death list has
swollen until it now reaches in
to the thousands.
Grand Isle was all but swept out
Of existence, anu out Of 700 souls
who were on the island at the time
of the storm, only about twenty es.
capped.
The Island of Chine Size Cant.
MAZDA, about mile aud a half west
Of Grand Isle, contained over two
thousand persons; Of these only
about one hundred escaped.
There are five small islands in
Grand Bay and each was populated
by large number of fishermen. A
few of these escaped alive.
AT Bayou Cook 81 persons lost
their lives, by actual count.
1t is impossible to state the loss
Of lie in the immt date vicinity
a. the storm was so intense and the
water 80 higr that men arriving
from there could not give an accu
rate guess of the number of persons
who were drowned.
Many of those who got in from
some disaster this morning, stated
that the news of the extent of the
suffering from the storm was only
beginning to arrive, and befor,
long the de.th list would reach al
almost incomprehensible figure.
| The passenger train on the New
, Orl. ans, Fort Jackson 81 Crane
lie Road, which was due here a
$3.50 O'Clock this morning was ny
ward of an hour late. The della,
, was caused by the train stopping t.
pick up parties who had escaped tn
floods aud were anxious to reach tn
city.
Oae survivor from Bayou Cook
+ whose wife was swept away befor'
his eyes, reach. d here this morning
While seated on top of his cabin h
T saw hundreds of people drowned
+ and was unable to save them. Soor
; his own house was demolished anc
he saved himself by hanging on to {
/ log. The entire 81 bodies wer,
= recovered at Bayou Cook last nigh
and no doubt many others were
also drowned. Out Of the fourteen
hundred people on Chenlere Ca i
NADIA Is'aad, this survivor claims
: only three hundred escaped.
Dcminick Milcross, fisherman
vas out at sea off Grand Isle wher
the storm came up. He attempted
to make laad, bat was unable to de-
so untll Monday evening. Whe1
midway between Grand Isle anc
Cheinire Calinada he saw the hui
Of the steamer Joe Weber, tina
plies between the end of the New
Orleans aud Southern Railroad
Grand Isle) and Grand Island, bu
her cabin and everything else wal
gone. Milcross is satisfi d all or
board were lost. He also states
that four cabins remain standing or
Cam nda, and he observed signs OF
lite thereon when passing. Milcrosl
thinks only ten people escaped Oh
Grand Isle, but was not positive a.
he did not stop there.
STORM NEws FROM MOBILE.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 4.-Details
lof the storm which broke over the