The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-04
a COLONY WIPED OUT.
sickening Reports Come from Various
Parts of Louisiana.

sickening Reports Come from Various
Parts of louisiana
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. ga Republic special
from New Orleans says: Reports come
from Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes
of damages by the storm of a most alarm
ing character. 1t is impossible to verify
the loss of life reported, but there is no
reason to doubt it is very heavy and the
storm much worse than around New
Orleans.
Greek, whence New Orleans gets its supply
OF oysters. This is midway between
Bsratria bay and the mouth OF the Mis-
sissippi. Here a colony of oyster fishers,
numb ering $50, are reported to have been
totally annihilated, with nearly the en-
tire population killed or drowned. Boats
| have gone down from New Orleans to the
settlement, but 1t will be impossible to
get any news from the relief party be-
fore tomorrow.
1t is not yet possible to give a fairly &C
curate estimate of the damage " rough
by the fury OF the elements. The damage
done in the city and harbOr will run con-
siderablv over 500, GOO.
The principle sufferers were the ship
ping interests. The losses includ the
ferry boat Jerome Hanley, the steam
launch Shannon, the Grace Pitt steam
boat and half-ad dozen loadedcoal barges,
all OF which went down. Electric poles
were keeled over, sheds torn down ana
most of the telephone and fire alarm
wires were completely Frustrated. The
levee and railroad tracks were damaged.
Pointe Ala Hache, Bohemia and Pres
colt, small towns in Plaquene parish, felt
the storm. Several houses were blown
down and there was much terror until 1t
had spent its Jury. The loss was
heavy and Mrs. Lafrance and babe
were both killed in trying to
cred by the storm. Near Pointe Ale
Hacbe. a young mulatto woman was
killed by falling timber. Many persons
were bruised, but the death list is con-
fued. as far as known, to the three men,
toned. Most of the plantation houses,
barns. sheds and fences suffered, and
MANY thousands of dollars will have to be
spent in repairs.
The orange crop at Plaquemine, as q
result of the storm, suffers money loss
of a quarter of million.
From Poydras plantation south most
of the cane is blown down. No planIa-
ton escaped. What the loss will be de-
ponds on future conditions. Rice SUI
/ Tered a great deal, much having been
blown away and more injured.
| A mile of the Louisville q Nashville
track at English Lookout is wrecked
No trains have arrived since Sunday
Wrecklng trains are at work at the scene
of the trouble.
| Many prominent residents OF the city,
| including business men, were caught in
| the storm at the fishing swamps at Eng
! Iish Lookout and had night of terror.
| a tug encountered a schooner bottom
up near English Lookout and two dis
masted and wrecked.
| 1t is impossible to learn If there is any
loss of life, but it is feared there was.
A large number of people OF the city are
virtually quarantined at resorts of the
| Mississippi sound. They are unable to
| get TO town, owing to the damage to
! bridges and Washouts.
| John Oset, nightwatch Of the Jetty
1 company, was drowned while attempting
to come to shore.
| The signal service station and apparatus
were blown down, but the wind instru-
ments of the United States engineers
weathered the storm.
| At Shell Beach the club house was
wrecked and the fishing camps damaged.
| Following is a summary OF the number
of lives lost so far as known up to mid
night: Below Baratria Bay, 100; at
Pointe Ala Hache, 4; Empire Mill, 2;
Ingles, 2. Daisy postofice, 8; Point
Pleasant, 2; Fort st. Phillip, 1; Gaspar
Smiths, /; Nichols postoffice, 3; Foster
| ling 4; Grand Bayou and Bayou shute,
25; st. James, L; Pigneols, /; Grand
Prairie, 4; total, 200.