Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-10-13
STORM VICTIMS.
The Loss Of Life Estimated at
twenty-five Hundred.
MANY UNBURIED7 BODIES.
Points to Be Heard From Yet-Sur-
vIvors in a Pltiable Condition.
Several Driven lnsane@Guir
OYSTERS and Fish Industry
ParaIyzed-Co

A despatch f.-- New Orleans, La, says.
The Picavune relief boat reir-~ I'D to the city
Of 80 A. NJ, from Bayou Cook, Grams 1910
and Cheniere and reports: Cheniere, living
696 dead 49, Grand Isle, q dead. Bayou
Andrew. Chinese camp, 63 dead. Bayou, IN
the rear. one dead At Grand Lake almost
all the people were drowned.
The Louisvle Courier Journal correspen'
dent teegraphed to his paper that correct
ed list swe Is the total number OF dead 10
2.54l. This will be Increased some 200 or 3Oo
when news from the Louisiana coast is all In.
The additional losses reported are Rigolets,
II. Biloxi and Chandelour, 10 near Grand
Bource, 10 from vessels, SO. The loss OF
life at CHI Mere Camilida Is known 10 be l,zoo
instead OF ,O40 as first reported. AT Bayou
Andre 70 perIshed instead Of 4, and az
Grand Isle "a instead of TO-
The only station from which returns nave
not been received ae yet Is st. Bernard, on
Lake Borgogne marsh. This marsh extends
from Lake Borgogns to the gulf. 1t is
dead level with the ocean, more water than
land. covering 1,2W square miles It's only
inbahitants were some 200 fishermen, who
lived in cabins built on piles. Not werd
has been heard from there since the storm,
nor he's one of the inhabitants come TO town
or to any neighboring settlement. As II is
near the Chanpeleur Islands, whore the tor
nsdo was so violent that none are SAID 10
have escaped, the chances OF the fishermen
surviving the hurricane are considered very
doubtful and boat was sent there to see IL
any survivors remained.
Loud complaints come from the bayou
Cook section of the ordor from the dead pod
ies there The land is too low for burying.
Already some 1876 bodies have been conveyed
by boat to the high lands on the mississippi
at Frsmal Bend for burial, but many are un-
hurled in the swamps and are rapidly de-
composng. Many OF the bodies were found
70 have been looted and robbed. Most OF the
fishermen were we'll to do and carried tnelr
fortunes in cash in their pockets. No money
was found on their remains and from s5,Ooo
TO 81. 600 has disappeared. Nearly all the
bodies were badly mutlated by the storm
IT will be months before the gulf fisheries
will revive. Falf the population and nine
teuths of the vessels engaged in them are
lost and oysters end fish are an unknown
ouantity in New Orleans. The crop damage
is great. The orange crop will lose only 90
ner cent. but the destruction OF orchards
will be very great
A dozen luggers reached the city from
Grand Isle. and other portions OF the storm
sections. and there are now some 5oo
refugees being cared for here. Ihey are
naked and In a bruised condition. One man
named George Ovichs had actually been
faved alive He did not have piece ofsIin
on him the sze OF dime, the blows from
the debris having fiayed him. He was sent
10 the hospital and is not expected to live.
With rare exceptions the other refugees will
oll recover. Several cases Of insanity result
ino from the horrors OF the storm are re-
ported.
Lieutenant Kirkam, signal officer here,
explains his failure to give warning OF the
approach Of the storm by saying that there
was not the faintest evidence OF 1t. The
storm came from the gulf. The telegraph
from Port Eads. which ought TO have an
nounced IT, was working all right enrly In
the night, when it suddenly ceased and the
storm swept over Southern louisiana.
Lieutenant Kirkam thinks additional
weather stations on the gulf absolutely nee