The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11

sailors who We're upon their vessels
when the storm burst in all its fury. The
total property loss will run into the mil
lions and corporations and humble ciu-
zens suffered without discrimination. On
the Mississippi sound and on the gulf in
that direction scores of boats are known
10 have been lost and hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars worth of property de-
stroyed.
From weems island on the rigolets.
all around through the bayous and lit
tie lakes out into the Mississippi SOUND
and the gulf the havoc is beyond the
power OF pen accurately to describe.
Weems island was swept clean. Every
summer resort along the Mississippi
sound was damaged which to repair
will foot up to a fortune. Roads have
been washed away. bath houses demol-
ished. residences injured and factories
damaged.
Wreck on the l.. & n.
The wreck of the L. & n. road is the
worst in its history and it viii be weeks
before the line is running regularly again
to this point. The Ocean Springs bridge
is damaged and three miles Of track be-
tween Scranton and West Pascagoula is
missing The magnificent bridge across
Biloxi bay, except the draw and about
seventy spans, has been completely de-
stroyed. and the bridge at Bay St. Louis,
one of the finest in the country. has been
almost entirely ruined. A raft Of logs
broke loose here and pounded the bridge
to pieces. One Of the tenders was
| drowned.
Along the coast dozens of people were
! drowned, some two or three close to
shore, and at waveland one man drowned
in full view of a hundred people with
| no hand that could be raised TO save
him. The stories of heroism run jointly
with the stories of remarkable escape
and thrilling experiences.
Over on Martin Island a sloop was
beached as upright as she stood in the
| water, with her crew unscathed. An ar
irving schooner at Biloxi reported that
| many bodies are floating on the shore
at Cat Island and Ship Island and Chan
| delier Island. Not less than seventy of
them were counted on Cat Island alone.
They had been buffeted by wind and
wave and they were in a state of de-
| composition, and are being buried as
rapidly as the sOrely tried relief parties
can dig graves for them in the sand Of
| the beach.
| Cat island had scarcely any inhabit-
ants and the bloated bodies that have
| been washed upon it's white sands are
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| their vessels had been wrecked or those
| of people drowned upon the other
| islands.
| Capt. Singer knows personally Of the
| loss of eleven men in the storm on Lake
| Borgne. and he estimates roughly the
| total death list, so far as Lake Borgne
| is concerned. will range between thirty
] and forty Some of the boats that are
| missing may still turn up. The losses
at Slidell and at Mala have already
been reported. Roughly speaking the
| death list in that section will reach
| thirty Down at Port Eads the storm
| did heavy damage. but only one life Is
| reported TO have been lost.
| Piled in Trenches.
| A large number of bodies have already
| been thrown into trenches and covered
up. but those still lying exposed to the
| hot sun are rapidly decomposing side by
| side with dead animals and fish and give
| forth the most sickening of odors, adding
| a further peril TO the situation. 1t was
| to relieve this terrible condition that the
| board Of health this morning sent down
the coast a large quantity of lime and
! disinfectants to be used for sanitary
| purposes.
| Parties arriving today from down the
| coast say that the stencil from the
| marshes is unbearable and that the gases
| from dead bodies and animals is a men.
ace TO the health of the men and women
| who are camped in the vicinity, and
| who because of lack of strength and
| facilities and because Of the high and
tangled growth of bushes, are unable to
| penetrate.