The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-06

condition, having been in the water over
10 hours. He was furnished with cloth
ing and taken to Biloxi on the steamtug
Julius Ebert. The oyster lugger Rosalie
of Biloxi is also known to shave gone to
the bottom with q crew of men. The
schooners Alice McGuigon and Angeln
have been discovered bottom upward
three or four miles from the mouth of
Pearl river.
TwENTY-THREB DROWNED.
Twenty-three men known to have been
on board Of them are supposed to be
drowned The schooner New Union
broke loose from her moorings between
and Z o'clock Monday morning and drifted
out to sea.
The roadbed of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad from Pearl river TO Wave
land is completely washed away, and
west of Lookout it is nearly as bad.
Last night the Henry Greggs took two
Italian fishermen from a raft as they
were drifting to sea. Another raft also
passed the vessel with three men on
board but the Greggs small boats were so
badly wrecked that they could be of no
assistance to the unfortunates and moth
ing has been heard from them since.
The pilot boat Chicora, about which a
good deal of uneasiness was felt, was dis
covered to be ashore on Cat Island
beached high and dry with two old
veteran pilots, Capt. John Nelson, Sr.,
and Joe Lewis, on board, with the cook
and sailor. A number Of other vessels
were badly damaged, but it will be
several days before full and complete
record of the total loss of life and prop
erty can be made.
BRIDGE TENDER DROWNED.
Jack Shepard, the assistant bridge
tender on the Biloxi bridge, was washed
overheard and drowned. His body was
recovered the next day and buried at
Ocean Springs. He leaves a wife and
several children,
From information received from Missis-
sippi City, Handsboro, Pass Christian
and Ocean Springs, 1t is learned that the
destruction of wharves, bath houses and
boats has been complete.
AT HandsborO the mills of II. Leinhard
and the j. L. Liddle Company have been
damaged considerably, but to what ex-
tent is not known.
Appeals for aid have come in so swiftly
from the stricken sections that it is inn
possible to render the necessary assist
ance. The Red Cross society has taken
the matter in hand, and issued call for
aid The commercial club will meet to-
day and take steps to raise subscrip-
tions.
800 KILLED AT PoINTB LA HACHE.
The reports from Pointe la Hache and
vicinity this morning put the death list
up to 500 persons. Yesterday searching
parties were in the vicinity Of Grand
Prairie, and they found 81 bodies, some
buried beneath the debris of wrecked
houses and Others high and dry on the
>laud where the receding waters had
dropped them. They were
nearly all Austrian colonists, who had
a large settlement at this point. The To-
cal Austrian and SlavOnic societies have
sent committees into the section to at
tend to the wants of their countrymen
and relieve the distress and
suffering as much as possi-
BILE The dead were buried five or six in
trench, except when relatives or friends
took charge of the remains and gave them
a Christian burial. The dead had to be
inferred as soon as possible, and collins
were eunobtainable
The call for aid from the storm stricken
country has met u ready response and
large shipments Of supplies went by rail
to-day to Pointe a la Hache and Bel
laire. John DymOnd, one of the largest
sugar planters in the unfortunate sec
tion, yesterday sent the steamer Neptune
to the above point loaded to the guards
with -four, meat and other supplies
These places will be made distributing
points and other shipments will be made
to-day.
THE DAMAGE TO CROPS.
The crops are as badly injured as the
first reports indicated. A conservative
estimate places the loss to the rice crop
at 10 per cent while the sugar cane suf-
fered very slightly. The heaviest loss
will be ON the orange crop. 1t is estimated
that fully 90 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 dead loss to the
growers
Reliable news has come from Grand
Isle and Cheniere. The loss of life at
Grand Isle is not more than twenty-five,
all of the dead being negroes The prop
erty destroyed is valued at nearly 81 900.
Many of the whites were bruised by fall
ing 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 800 to / 100. The total
death list in this section by the late
storm will be from 900 to l,500.
THE DAMAGE AROUND MOBILE.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 5-The schooner
Alice Graham, Capt. Louis Graham,
which left here Sunday night for Porters-
vile, having on board Miss Susie Heron,
a young lady school teacher, who was
bound TO Dauphin Island to open the pub
lie school there Monday, has been
wrecked and Capt Graham, Miss Heron
and the mate, whose name is unknown,
were lost. These were all the souls
on board the schooner, which is lying
bottom up, two miles of J. j, Delchamp's
place. A tug will be sent down to-mor-
row TO search for the bodies. Charles
Graham, brother Of Capt. Graham, Is sat
ished of the identity of his brothers yes
sci, and is confident that all on board were
drowned.
The schooner Consulta, which left here
Sunday night for the oyster reefs, is on
the beach at Heron Bay and is not dam
aged.
From Cedar Point comes news that
about twenty-five houses all there were
on the point, have been blown away and
great damage done.
Reports from Portersville, the popular
summer resort south Of Mobile, are TO the
effect that the town has suffered a terri
BILE disaster, entailing loss Of $50, 900 or
over From Joshua Clemmons, who came
up to the city, it is learned that the
Booth canning factory has been de
stroyed, and the general merchandise
store Of Charles Graham was blown away
and the stock destroyed.
MORE LOSSES.
d. Bosarge, of Portersville, reports to-
night the following additional list Of
losses at Portersville and other points.
The residence Of Frank p. Andrews