The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-13
LITTLE STORMLETS.

Chandeleur lighthouse is no more,
Only one death reported ut Pass
Christian.
Cattle on Cat Island drowned by
wholesale.
The Biloxi lighthouse stood, but is
seriously washed.
Mobile estimates her damage at a
million dollars.
The pecan crop on the coast was Sc
riously damaged.
Sixty-three Cinnamon were drown
ed1t Bayou Andre, La.
The loss to Waveland and Bay st.
Louis is estimated $500, 600.
There were two ladies that braved
the storm on Chandeliers.
Narrowing tales are told by those
who escaped the storms fury.
Traffic between Mobile and Mont
gomery was resumed Friday.
Wharves and bath houses lost at
Pass Christian amount to $780, DOC.
From the trees blown down in Mo-
bile will be cut probably 5000 cords of
wood.
Portersville was washed away and
the Booth Packing Company's plant
destroyed.
Thursday around Cat Island over
100 dead bodies were seen by different
sailing parties.
There are very few wharves and
bath houses left standing along the
Mississippi coast.
A 3000-pound whale was washed
ashore at West Jetty light near Port
Eads. 1t was alive.
On the Louisiana coast the storm
was at its worst on Sunday night BE-
tween 8 and II O'Clock.
VIM. II. Patton, manager of the BIZ
loXi Canning factory, and Hugh Mil
Ter, and son of Biloxi, were drowned.
Orange and sugar cane crop in the
affected Louisiana section was cut so
per cent, Rice also suffered.
Grants Island, near Mobile, was
washed away. This island during the
war was known as Fort Powell.
A New Orleans paper sold in Bay
st. Louis for So Thursday. 1t was
the only news from the outside world.
The Postal Telegraph Company had
the only line in operation up to the
first OF this week, and was crowded
with business.
Biloxi's loss of property was great.
From $500 to $4,000 loss sustained by
at least IA dozen citizens. Canning
factories lost $4,000.
The delayed passengers at Ocean
Springs were carried over to New Or
leans Friday blythe steamer New Ca
melia of New Orleans.
The storm ruined the fish and oys
steI market in New Orleans for more
than a week, and the butchers did a
paying business.
The New Orleans dailies displayed
considerable enterprise in sending out
relief boats to the flood sufferers. and
at the same time giving full reports
of the storm disaster.
In the vicinity of Portersville. CO.
den and Grand Bay, Ala, about sixty
poor families were rendered almost
destitute in the loss of houses, house.
hold goods, boats, etc.
The number OF lives lost in Chenire
Caminada, La, over 800, and the total
in the various settlements in the
Louisiana marshes will reach IN the
neighborhood OF 1000.
In the Louisiana districts the fish
and oyster industry suffered a severe
blow and almost ruined. New Or
leans got the most of her oysters from
the stOrm-swept section.
Many little fishing settlements in
Louisiana were washed out of exist
ence, and the few survivors, until re-
lief came, subSisted on dead animals.
and anything they could get.
Two Slavonians in Louisiana were
adrlft for five days on an upturned
skitf. One man sought death and
begged to be killed that he might fur
nish food for the comrade who strug-
gled to save him.
The people of New Orleans have
contributed to the flood sufferers with
noted l%lberality, and the exchanges
and charities Of other cities through
out the country have come to the re-
lief promptly and literally.
New Orleans had secured up to Tues
day a relief fund of about $50, 900. The
death list between Chaniree and Bay
on Cook is placed at 1900. The total
number of deaths by the storm will
reach 1000.
In the Louisiana fishing settle
ments the scene after the storm was
appalling. Hundreds dead in every
direction, homes wrecked and distress
and despair depicted ON every suryi-
vor's face. For the most part they
were a simple folk, but withal cheer
ful and busy in the peaceful 0ccupa-
ton of fishing. They were frugal in
their habits, honest in their engage
ments and religious with the simple
ity of children. The ti1al waves de-
stroyed their shipping, engulfed and
swept away their homes and families
and the destruction was complete.