St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-04

large number of people of the city are
virtually quarantined at the resort on
the Mississippi sound. They are unable
to get to town owing to the damaged
bridges and washouts on the Louisville
& Nashville. Communication with the
city is difficult owing to the fallen tele-
graph lines.
News reached here this evening from
Port Eads that the wind blew eighty
miles an hour there Sunday night-that
Is, at the mouth of the river. John
Caset, the night watchman of the Jetty
company, was drowned while attempt
ing to cross the pass. 1t was thought his
boat was shattered by the Morgan steam
er Ed Clio, which was going to sea. The
poor fellows cries were heard, but it
was impossible to send a boat to hi m
The steamer went to sea in the teeth of
gale, carrying with her the bar pilot,
Capt, Williams. as no boat would vent
ure alongside to take him off. The
signal station and apparatus were
blown down, but the wind instruments
VI biiN - illSO OldlCS GIG "Edll-
cred the storm. At Shell Beach the
club house was wrecked and fishing
camps damaged.
THE DAMAGE
to the Louisville & Nashville railroad Is
beyond computation at this time. Re
ports from Montgomery are to the effect
that the bridge across the Three-Mile
creek is damaged and portion of the
Tensas bridge is washed away. There
are 400 trees across the track between
Bay Minette and Dyas creek, a
distance of about ten miles. No
trains can get any further south than
Bay Minette, and several washouts are
reported. a rowboat trip of the marshes
made today by an experienced news
paper reporter reveals a state of desola-
tiOn and death that will almost equal
that of month ago at Savannah and
the sea islands.
At every point touched houses were
completely gone, while the upper east
ern shore was swept as if by Western
cyclone. Broke RIakely, as far south
east as reports could be had, the
natives report only death and
destruction. For miles inland the trees
are laid low, and much loss of life is re-
ported along the shore. The rumors
over there would place the loss at
fifty, but possibly not more than
twenty-five have perished. This
side of BlakeIy, in the marshes,
whole families have been swept
away and the actual loss of life
will PROBABLY never be known. The
reporter who made the trip rescued sew
eral children and tied up two unknown
bodies. one of a girl aged seventeen, the
other of man aged about thirty-five,
both apparently Germans. Five of the
children, the eldest not over eight years
of age, were
FOUND TIED TOGETHER
in the marsh opposite the mouth of the
Spanish river. They said their father
and mother had gone in boat after the
house. They could give no ac-
count of themselves, being evidently
German. 4 little farther up the river
two more children were rescued. Where
these children came from could not be
learned. as the only family known TO re-
side on the point where they were
found was that of Mr.. Desson, whose
wife was drowned.
The upper delta of the rivers depouch-
ing into Mobile bay, the streams are re-
ported to be full of floating bedding,
furniture and household effects,
showing that the reports of suffer-
ng and death from this quarter
are hardly overstated. Owing to the
sparseness of the settlement of these
marshes and their unaccessbility ex-
cept by means of small sail or rowboats,
it is probable that many have perished
whose identity will lever be
revealed. The spots inhabited by the
marsh gardeners are only few feet
above mean low water, and the houses
are generally built on pilings as a pre-
caution against high tides. So far only
one family, the Bangles, are known to
have escaped death.