The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-10-06

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adjacent thereto, from the section lying
on the other side of the river, from the
upper limits of Plaque mine and from
the lake coast and elsewhere, it is now
estimated that between 100 and 1,4OO
lives were lost and damage caused to the
extent OF 81 100000 by the late storm.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 5.-The reports
from Point a La Hache and vicinity
this morning put the death list up to
500 persons. Yesterday the searching
parties were in the vicinity of Grand
Prairie and they found fifty. seven
bodies, some buried beneath the debris
of the wrecked houses and others high
and dry on the land where the receding
waters had dropped them. They were
nearly all Austrian colonists who had
large settlement at this point.
The dead were buried FIVE or six in p
bunch, except where relatives or friends
took charge of the remains and gave
them Christian burial. The dead had
to be inferred as soon as possible, and
collins were unobtainable.
The call for aid from the storm
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response and the large shipment OF sup
plies went by rail to-day to Point La
Hache and Bellaire. John Dymo nd, one
OF the largest sugar planters in the un--
fortunate section, yesterday sont the
steamer Neptune TO the above points
loaded to the guards with flour, meats
and other supplies.
a conservative estimate places the
loss to tho rice crop at 10 per cent,
while the sugar cane suffered very
slightly. The heav est loss was on the
orange crop. 1t is estimated that fully
fifty per cent. of the fruit has been
blown from the trees and is lying on the
ground too green to ship and unfit for
use and will prove q dead loss to the
growers.
Reliable news has come to-day from
Grand Isle and Cheniere. The loss of
twenty-five, all of the dead being
negroes. The property destroyed ia
valued at nearly 100000 Many of the
whites were bruised by falling timbers
and some Of them crippled, but they
were thankful to get off with their
lives.
There is no bright side to the picture
of desolation at Cheniere and the death
list will run from eight to eleven hun
dred. The total death list in this Sec
ton by the late storm will be from a
thousand to fifteen hundred.
The first definite news from the Missis.
sippi gulf coast reached the city this
morning. All the wires have blown down
and the Louisville and Nashville railroad
has been washed out at intervals from
Mobile to New Orleans. The financial
loss along the entire coast will foot up
not less than S1,000,0OO and fully 100
lives were lost. The news is almost as
appalling as that from the gulf coast of
Louisiana. AT Biloxi nothing escaped
the fury of the elements. On every
side could be seen wrecks of boats,
piersand bath houses and in many in
stances the fronts of houses on the
beach were totally demolished.
Throughout the town great trees were
uprooted, swinging signs were swept
away like the leaves and sheds and
vehicles were tossed about like match
boxes. Much of the damage at the back
bay was caused by section of several
hundred feet of the railroad bridge,
which was swept away at Ocean Spring,
washing up against the buildings,
crushing them like egg shells.
1t is difficult at this time to make an
intelligent estimate of the damage sus-
tanned by the loss OF luggers, small
schooners, fishing boats and like craft.
Out OF more than 100 boats on tha front
bay, little and big. only three rode the
storm, and the beach is strewn with
wrecks of all descriptions. Not single
wharf is standing on either the front or
back bay
When the storm came up there were
many Biloxi boats in the Louisiana
marsh oyster fishing and it is almost
certain that number of these boats
have gone down with all on board. or
eight schooners that were known to be
there on Sunday evening three have
been picked up bottom upwards with
their masts and rigging all gone and not
a soul on board. 1t Is believed that the
loss Of life will not fall short of 100.
at Ship Island previous to the storm
there were seven vessels loading for
foreign ports. TIE British bark Rosella
Smith was found bottom up drifting
outside and Is total loss. The mate,
carpenter and cook were drowned. The
Austrian barge Annie e. B. ia com
plete wreck. OF the crew of thirteen
men and two stevedores aboard, the
captain, three sailors and two steve
dores were drowned. The stevedores
were from Pascsgoula, one white and
one colored. Other vessels suffered
considerable damage. The barge Hero
lost the only man aboard, named
Shepard, and the barge Boss, of the
same place, also lost colored man,
name unknown.
Probably the worst damage and loss
Of property was at Grandeur Island, of
which an account has already been pub
lished. DR., Guiteras has notified
the bar pilots and the health authorities
at Pensacola, Mobile and Pascogoula
that all vessels from infected ports will