The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-05
THE DEATH LIST GROWS
The Southern Cyclone One of the
Most Appalling en- Record.
TWELVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST,

Reports Slowly Coming In from the De.
vastated Districts Show That whole
Communities Were Swept Away by the
Fury of tho Storm.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5.-lgAe latest nd.
vices from the section of the state Gevas-
tated by the recent storm indicate that
the death list VIII reach the appalling total
OF tweiNe hundred. Train crews arriving
today on the Grand Island road report
the track covered with debris in which
dead bodies are profusely intermingled,
and one of the passengers asserts that he
counted no less than eighty-seven bodies
on his journey to this city from that part
OF the destroyed district
The country throughout is scene nj
wreck and devastation. The trains which
reached New Orleans last evening brought
number OF the Bayou Cook survivors to
the city, many Of them wretchedly attircd
and their faces bearing the marks of fear.
ful suffering. Tony Negovitch, one of the
survivors, reports that eighty seven bodies
had been found tfere up to the time he
left, and from information volunteered by
other arrivals it is estimated that 800 peo-
pie perished on Bayou Cook and in that
section of the country
From the meagre details at hand It is
highly probable that the greatest destruc-
tion to life occurred at Cheniere a settle
ment of 5000 people, mostly fishermen, on
the maih land, west of Grand Island. The
loss of life there is variously estimated at
from 500 to 500.
Mr., Matthew Schuib, of Gouldsboro,
Just opposite this city, was one of the sur.
Of ba
brought with him a narrowing story of
his experience and of the loss at Cheniere.
Mr. Schurb estimates that the loss of life
on Grand Isle and Cheuiere, Caminada
and In the Grand Lake, Adams, Cook,
Chalon and Trister Bayou settlements
will reach 800. When he left Cheniere
Island he counted but five houses standing
out of total of about 300, while the land
was covered with corpses
The first authentic news came from
Grand Island yesterday, when lugger
from the island reached this city. The
man In charge reports that the steamer
Joe Webber was blown to pieces and sew
eral of the crew drowned.
The Joe Webber was not alone in her
trouble, the j. McSweeney, consort of the
Webber, having also met with total de-
molition. With these two steamboats,
went their entire crews to watery grave.
Besides these fatalities the following lug
gers were swept out of existance: Afedele,
Velus, Flying Dntchman, Princess, Ste
phanie and Grand Island. This does not
begin to account for the luggers lost for
more than a score of these crafts were
known to be In the vicinity of Grand
Island
Such survivors OF the frightful scenes of
Sunday night as reached this city were
mostly Austrians, ignorant of the English
language, and besides that, by reason of
their excitement caused by the strain on
their nervous systems. were very poor sub
tects to secure IN intelligent account of
what transpired
Captain John Telsansos, of the lugger
Btephanie, through an interpreter told
narrowing story. He said
81 made my lugger fast to her usual
moorlngs on Sunday afternoon and had
gone on shore to camp. This was at
Grand Balk, about one mile from Grand
Island. The weather had been beautiful
all the forenoon, but toward evening
snv9 rm imds s,ofmS bloNin SET In: aceompepsa h
OF the compass. made all snug ON board
the lugger and then went on shore and
waited events. Luggermen are nccus-
toned to bad weather, but this storm
proved to be the worst ever was in. The
wind howled, and towards II O'Clock it
WIS blowing full gale.
III The shanty was sheltering in stood
svfN blow fairly well until, should judge
III ont midnight, the end came. thought
nqne world was on MS. The sen came up
asWigh-well 1t seemed to be like wall, and
hen found myself fighting for my life
\ Ia the midst of the ruins Of my shanty,
I I
.After this it seemed to me as il the storm
+, 1had exhausted its fury, and from that
lANtine on the wind continued TO abate.
nfYht back to Socola canal in skiff | hap,
theaAed to pick up on the beach when day.
Philaas came. From Socola canal | came to
gnh Witty by the North jackson and Gull
10 sahe islands adjacent to Grand Island
)ayIse also included in the hurricane. Ro-
on 81 Is one of the group, and, like all OF it,
rs Meighbors, was settled by people, all o.
" whom were clear Spaniards by descent
It had not more than score of inhabi
tants, who earned their living by fishing
This place was entirely depopulated.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 5.-Reports of dam
.wn1fs by the storm are coming in slowly
u railroads, shipping and mills are tn
oN N4ieaviest losers, the amount aggregatini
= nearly million. The loss of human lif
~ cannot be estimated. On Farmers Island
opposite this city, only two farm house
are standing out of a total of twenty
three. Relief expeditions TO that sectlo
found group of little children clingin
to trees and their parents swept away. On
house crossed the bay. a distance of fl
teen miles, and landed ON the tracks of th
louisville and Nashville railroad. Th
owner with his family have not yet turne
mp On both sides of the bay, are man
villages, some of which are totally d
utroyed and the inhabitants gone An III
known barque is ashore ON the gulf sid
and as none of the crew has come in, 1t
supposed all were lost.