The record-union., 1893-10-05
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.


erty demolished is the record of the great
gulf storm in Louisiana. There has
never been anything approxlmating it
since the country was settled. More than
half the population in the devastated
region are dead. Everything is wrecked
and the survivors without food, shelter
ported and confirmed, aggregate over 2, ZOO,
as follows: Cheniere Caminda, $40; fish
ermen at Dea, $40; Shell Beach, 2l2; Ad-
ANS Bay, 200 Bayou Lafond, ITO; Grand
Isle, 100: Bayou Cook, 81; Bird Island,
Il; fishing settlement, 43; Bayou Cleal-
ton 40 Pass Loutre, 40; Bayou Andre,
30; Oyster Bayou IS; Grand Bayou, 26;
San Malo, %; Daisy Postoffice, 20; Bayou
Cabinage, 20; Rosario Island, 20; Weber.
20: Simon Island, 16; Pleasant Point, TO-;
Tropical Bend, 10; Bayou Dufon, 10;
Hospital Bay, s; Grand Bank. s; Buras
Point, s, Sixty-mile Point, 6; Barthly, 6;
Fort st. Philip, 6; Razor Island, 5; Grand
Prairie, 3; ST. Crois. .; Port la Hache, 4;
on lugger, 4. Over seventy others are
reported lost in the bogs and at various
places.
Over 100 fishing vessels in the gulf were
fishing when the storm broke over
Cheniere. Not word has been heard
from them or their occupants since.
DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY.
New ORLEANS, Oct. At is now esti-
mated the loss of life on Grand Isle and
Cheniere. and in Grand and Adams Bay
and the Cook, ChatOn and Oyster Bayous
settlements will reach 800 to 1000
John A. Sebut, fisherman from the
shores of Bayou Cook, told representa-
tive of the Ass ociated Press that nothing
was left either on the shores of the bayou
or the islands. On Bayou Simon, situ-
ated in Grand Bay, there were fourteen
fishermen. All were drowned. He said
not house is left on Bayou Cook, and
where the people are the Almighty only
knows. The family of Juan Barber, a
fisherman in Bayou Cook, were washed
away. The husband and two children
were drowned, the wife and four children
were rescued. In the house adjoining a
man was saved, but his wife and two
children were drowned. The house of
George Cefarochi was washed away with
his family, wife and three children. All
were drowned. The next neighbor, a
man named Barton, and his two daugh-
ters were drowned.
Only one person was saved from the
Oyster Bayou catastrophe. He was found
honcinCr nv hand tn
scious. He will die.
The wife and children of Thomas Nor
yorich were lost at Bayou Cook. John
Stock, an italian boy, was instantly
killed.
Luke Detrovitch lost four daughters.
his wife and two of his sailors on Simon
Isle.
There were eighteen inhabitants of the
oyster camps and sixteen were drowned.
On Razor Island there was camp Of
five men. All were drowned.
On Bird Island about 150 people lived.
All were drowned.
On Grand Bank eight persons were
killed.
Near Burras the bodies of three little
girls, evidently sisters, were found lying
together, horribly mangled by barbed-
wire fence, against which they had been
thrown by the force Of the wind.
a man, his wife and two children went
OI DOdlQ d SCuOOlSI OulSluO Oh bayou
Cook. The schooner was wrecked and
the husband and children drowned. The
woman lashed herself to a broken mast
and fioated In the angry sea all night.
She was rescued in the morning by
passing vessel and brought here to-day.
Matthew Weertzez and Dominic Mir
godich, sailors, were rescued by one of
the luggers. The story they tell of the
disaster at Grand Isle is hOrrifying inthe
extreme. During the recital of the
scenes of that terrible night they wept
bitterly. They said the sea, raging all
day, increased alarmingly toward night.
A bout 10 p. NJ. the wind shifted to the
southwest. These men lived on the west
end of the island. Far out at sea, as the
flashes of lightning Illuminated the dark
ness, mammoth waves could be seen
travelling with wonderful rapidity toward
the island, accompanied by noise like
thunder. On came the terrible thing,
growing larger momentarily.
The island was wrapped in slumber.
The men were too frightened to go to
their homes and remained in the boat
during the terrible night. Horrified,
they watched the tidal wave approach the
island till it struck. Then all was dark
ness, and the island, as far as the eye could
reach, was covered with water. The next
flash of lightning the two fishermen
found themselves lar off to the north of
the island, and looking about could see
nothing but a sheet of water, the island
having totally disappeared.
Matthew SchurtS, of Goldsboro, one of
the survivors of the Cheniere-C -Caminda
calamity. arrived this morning. He
brought q narrowing tale of the
loss of life there. He was engaged
there in constructing Schoolhouse, and
boarded in a house where twenty-five
people were lodged. The house was de-
molished, and it is believed about all the
inmates were killed. Schurts himself
was frightfully knocked about and
bruised, and his clothes torn to shreds,
He estimates the loss of life on Grande
Isle. Cheniere and in Grand and Adams
wand Cook, Chalton and Oyster Bayou
settlements at $40 to 1000. When he left
Cheniere Island yesterday he counted but
FIVE houses standing out of a total of
about 800. The land was covered with
corpses.
AS the wind increased in severity the
bouses began to go to pieces. The wind
nicked the roofs off as though they had
been shaved from the rafters with great
carving knife. Then the buildings be-
gan to rock violently, and one by one
thew were torn to pieces, crashing down
upon and killing the occupants, then
rapidly drifting away with the terrible
current sweeping across the lands. The
shrieks and groans OF the unfortunate
Daonle were heartrending as they were
buried in the ruins of their frall homes.
In one house. in which fully twenty
ave people were all huddled together,