St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-04
DEATH IN The Wind.
Sunny South Visited by a
Death-Dealing Storm.
OYER 200 PERSONS WE'RE KILLED
Damage to Property Of All
Kinds Immense.
0RAKGE CROP A TOTAL LOSS.
Shipping Interests Damaged
to an Untold Amount.
OYER 200 PERSONS WE'RE KILLED
0RARGE CROP A TOTAL LOSS.
AUcH SUFFERING rs REPORTED.

AUCH GUFFEEfHG 10 HEFUHIEU
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.-The storm
has passed, and though the wires are
still down, news is trickling into the
city from the surrounding country, but
1t is not get possible to give fairly ac-
curate estimate of the damage wrought
by the fury of the elements Sunday,
Sunday night and Monday morning.
The worst news is from Bayou Cook,
whence New Orleans gets its supply of
oysters. This is midway between Bar
atarla bay and the mouth of the Mis-
sissippl. Here colony of oyster
fishers numbering $50 is reported to
have become totally annihiIated, with
nearly the entire population killed or
drowned. Boats have gone down from
New Orleans to the settlement, but it
will be impossible to get any news from
the relief party before tomorrow.
At Grand Isle much damage is re-
ported The new ocean levee was blown
down and the island flooded. but the
loss of life is not known. The Jetties
sustained considerable damage from the
storm. The following is a summary of
the
NUMBER OF LIVES LOST,
so far as known up to midnight: Below
Barataria bay, $50: at Pointe a la Hache.
4; Empire Mill, 3; Hingles, 2; Daisy
postofice, >; Point Pleasant. 2; Fort
ST. Phlllip,1; Gaspar Smiths, l; Nichols
postoffice, 8; Fostering, 4; Grand
Bayou and Bayou Shute, 25; st. James,
!: Pigneoia, l; Grand Prairie, 4. Total,
eos.
The damage done in the city and in
the harbor will run considerably over
100000. The extremes of conservative
estimates and exaggerated opinions are
SO vide apart that it is difficult to ap-
proXlmate the loss in the country, the
major portion of which is confined to
the parishes of jefferson and Plaque
mine, and more particularly the
latter. The upper limit of the storm
was not more than a dozen miles above
the city. In the city the storm was not
as severe as that of 1883. Here this
year the principal sufferers were the
shipping interests. The losses Include
the ferryboat jerome Hanley, the steam
launch Shannon, Grace Pitt, a steam
boat and half dozen loaded coal barges
belonging to Pittsburg firms, all of
which went down. Electric poles were
keeled over, sheds were torn down, and
most OF the telephone wires and the
wires of the hIe alarm
COMPLETELY DESTROYED
At the West end the reyetment levee
and railroad tracks were damaged.
POinte la Hache, Bohemia and Pres
colt, small towns in PIaquemine parish,
felt the brunt OF the storm. Several
houses were blown down, and there was
much terror felt by the residents until
the storm had spent its fury. The loss
there will be heavy, and Mrs. La France
and her babe were both killed
in trying to escape from their home,
which was shivered by the storm. At
the Empire mill, near Pointe a la Hache.
young mulattO woman was killed by
falling timber. Many persons were
bruised, but the death list is confined.
as far as known, to the three mentioned.
Most of the plantation houses, barns,
sheds and fences suffered, and many
thousands of dollars will have to be
spent in repairs to them.
The grange crop of Plaquemine runs
from 100000 to 1000 boxes a conserva-
tive estimate put the crop this year at
100000. That was before the storm. 1t
is feared that the figures will be cut
down 30 per cent, making a money loss
OF quarter Of million. From Poy-
dras plantation south most of the cane
was blown down. No plantation
escaped. What the loss will be depends
on future conditions.
If there is period of favorable
weather and late freeze the cane will
have time to recover, and the loss will
be comparatively small. Rice in PLAQUE
mine has suffered a great deal, much of
it having been blown away and much
injured. The Louisville & Nashville
railroad is tied up. A mile of its track
at English Lookout has been wrecked.
The pier head of Pearl river bridge was
badly injured, and the roadbed gen.
orally washed out, the wind having
blown the water out of Lake Borgne
across the land in great volume and
velocity.
No TRAINS HAVE ARRIVED
since Sunday. Wrecking trains are at
work at the scene of the trouble.
The company posted a bulletin this
morning saying it would have no train
oday. Egorts are being made, how
ever. to transfer the government mail
by boat. 1t will be two or three days
before trains can come, and week or
more before the road will be in fair
running order, and month before the
track and roadbed can be made as sound
as before the storm.
The Shell Beach road expects to get a
train up from Plaquemine tonight, and
the Grand Isle road also. The morning
train on the latter road did not material
ize this morning. The Queen 81 Cres-
cent suffered but little, and all their
trains are running as usual. MANY
prominent residents of the city, includ-
Ing business men, were caught in
the storm at the fl hing camps
at English Lockout and had
night of terror. Ali the
huts weathered the storm but one.
There was no loss of life, and the citi.
Zens who had been caught at that point
and could not get home owing to the
washout on the Louisville & Nashville
were brought to town this morning on
Capt POintevant's tug, which crossed
the lake. On the way over the tug
encountered a schooner bottom ur
and two dismasted and .wracl-aj A