The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-10-13
Pen Cannot Portray the Havoc
Caused by the Late Gulf
Coast Storm.
Latest Estimate of the Number
ofDeaths Places the Total
at 2,27O.
A Death Dealing Wind and
Rain Storm Sweeps Over
Arkansas.

New ORLEANS, Oct. with the
telegraph wires singing more regularly
and the lapse of time permitting scores
of reporters to gather the news, the
full extent of the disaster in this Sec
ton is becoming known and many are
the add tions to the number OF vessels
wrecked and lives lost. From WOODS
Island on the Rigolets, all around
through the bayous and little lakes out
into the Mississippi sound and then
into the gulf, the havoc is beyond the
power of pen to describe. The wreck OF
the Louisville and Nashville road is the
worst in its history and it will be
weeks before the line is running again
regularly to this poin An arriving
steamer at Biloxi reported that many
bodies are floating on the shore at Cat
Island, Ship Island and Chandelier
Island. Not less than 70 OF them had
been counted on Cat Island alone. They
were
In a State of Decomposition
and are being buried as fast as the re-
lief parties are able to dig graves for
them. Before the storm of Sunday by
actual count there w re 100 craft an
chored in and around Biloxi. Only
three survived to tell the story OF the
storm. A list is being prepared that is
fairly accurate of the luggers, sloops
and other Fl hing craft that have been
engaged in the oyster and other indus
tries in this section. 1t is evident from
the number of vessels supposed to have
been lost. more than half of those that
were not in the city have disappeared
The stories of the death and desolatlon
which continue to come in from the
storm-stricken district of Southern
Louisiana, lying between Poine la
Hatchie and the quarantine station, are
of the most narrowing character.
Scores of dead bodies are still lying on
the rivers edge or are in the high and
tangled weeds of the marshes. whittier
they were driven. Many of those who
escaped are
In Starving Condition.
and destitu ion and woe prevails. It
has been reported that men and women
driven to de peration by want and
hunger are feeding on dead animals.
Mothers hear their children cry for
bread and are unable to provide it for
them. Parties arriving from down the
coast say that the stencil from the
marshes is unbearable and that the
gases from dead bodies is a menace to
others living in the vicinity The dis
tress is so great that the board of health
concluded to send away to similar
bodies in the leading cities of the coun-
try an appeal for help, promising that
Louisiana will bury the dead and feed
the starving. but soliciting the assist
ance of the charitable in getting the
unfortunates who have been we'll nigh
ruined upon their feet again. 1t seems
Almost Impossible to Believe
that any human being would attempt
to fatten upon he misfortunes of suf-
fering humani during period like
this is, am ye the charge was made
and proved at the Cheniere islands.
Every since Monday people have been
arriving from different points. They
represented that they came upon mis-
sion of relic and they were received
with open arms, but instead of coming
to save they came to plumber, proceed.
ing to ransack the ruins and the little
piles of belongin which the survivors
had saved, without regard for the suf
fering they imposed thereby. They
have stolen clothes and money an(
other articles that they could lay theil
hands on. The New Orleans board O
health has issued an appeal to the people
of the United States for aid. The tota
death list is now estimated at 2.27O