Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-10-12

tine Station DESTROYED
New Orleans, Oct 5.-The latest re
ports from the storm swept district
along the gulf show that the awful
devastation has not yet been pictured
IN Its true light
The loss of life is now placed at more
than 1900, and all indications point
20 this figure being increased as the
details of the hurricane come in. Fully
So,OOO,OOO worth of property has been
annihIlated.
There has never been anything ap-
proNmating it since the country was
settled. More than half the population
in the region over which the hurricane
swept is dead
Everything is wrecked and not one
house in ten is lett standing, while
the survivors are left in the most desti-
tute condition, wIunOut food or even
clothing, for most of them were sleep
ing in their beds when their houses
were crushed by the winds or the
waves.
There have been similar disasters
ON the coast. At Lost Island, where
2S6 people lost their lives, and at
JOhnStOn'S bayou where the lost num-
bered 22O six years ago. Mondays dis
aster far surpassed these in horror.
The weak and injured were all killed,
and in the settlements where the storm
was worst, not a child survived and
very few women.
The survivors are the young men in
the vigor of manhood. Not one of
them but has terrible story to tell;
not one but is badly bruised and in
jured They escaped mainly on RATS
or logs, floating from twenty to ninety
hours in the water with the wind at
115 miles an hour
Many of the bodies have haen car.
ried into the marshes and will never
be found. Perhaps some are still liv-
ing, but without food and water will
perish before assistance can be sent
them.
The train crews arriving on the
GRAND Isle track say the track is
strewn with bodies and many have
been buried. One of the passengers
said this morning that no less than
twenty seven dead were seen along
the road. He had witnessed the har-
rowing scenes about the Bayou Cook
country and the ruin is appalling.
Trains that arrived brought many
Of the Bayou Cook survivors to this
city. Many of them We're .cs.ttily
attired and their faces bore the marks
Of fearful suffering. There Wee III, n,
women and children, and thew wer7
met at the depot by fellow country
men and generously cared for. The
population IN Bayou Cook consisted
of nearly all men-Italians and Aus
TRANS. There were few, if any. lc-
grOes in the settlement
Probably the worst damage and loss
of property was at Chandelier island
Here was located the United States
Marine hospital quarantine buildings.
in charge of DR.. G. NJ. Guitearas, with
DR.. Chas. PeIaiz of Biloxi as assistant
At this point the fullest strength of
the storm was developed, resulting
not only in the almost complete de.
struction of all buildings on the. is
land, but a fearful loss of life.
The velocity Of the wind reached
100 miles per hour. The building and
pier known as the disenfecting plant
supplied with all the modern appli
ances for the thorough distinctions
of vessels from infected ports, is a
complete loss, while the other build
ings on the island are more or less
damaged. The following persons are
missing, and it is almost certain they
| are drowned:
| Steward L. A. bucket of New Or
| lean; Nurse Mckenzie of Mobile; Sea
man Muller of Amsterdam, and tive
| PATIENTS one named LaZen of the
steamship Ravensdale, and Geo. 3
Salts. bOatman of the American bark
Rebecca GODDARD. Neither of these
patients, however, were suffering from
any contagious disease, and there was
no disease of that character existing
at the quarantine. Miles of the island
have been washed away, and what
little remains is liable to be complete
| ly submerged with a little more than
ordinary high tide.
| DR.. Guiteras has notified the depart.
ment at Washington that the island is
no longer habitable, and recommended
the transfer of the quarantine station
to Ship island, and DR.. Peliaz has been
transferred to that point.
About forty head Of cattle were al
so Cost on the island. Yesterday a
Manila sailor made his was to the
Chandelier station from the fishing
SloOp Laura B., of New Orlenas, which
was wrecked in Grand Pass Out of
a crew of seven men he is the only
survivor, and when found on he is
land was unconscious and perfectly
nude, having been in the water over
ten hours. He was furnished with
clothing and brought to Biloxi.
The Austrian bark Nikita which was
in quarantine at Chandelier has dis
appeared and is believed to be lost
with all On board, about twelve men.
Other vessels were wrecked.
From information received from
Mississippi City, Handsboro, Pass
Christian and Ocean Springs, it is
learned that the destruction of wharYes,
bath houses and boats has been COM
plete At HandsbOrO the mills of the