Evening journal., 1893-10-04
DEATH LIST is 23O.
Frightful Furry of the Storm
in the Gulf States.
EVERYTHING WAS SWEPT AWAY

Fishermen Were Overwhelmed in Their
Homes at Midnight aud Had No
warming or Chance OF Eseaps-vessels
Were Sunk and Railroad Embankments
Washed Away.
NEW YORK, Oct. A New Orleans
special says the loss Of life in the tor
nado which swept over the gulf states
Sunday night and Monday will reach the
appalling total OF 230.
The greatest loss of life was in Bayou
Cook, the great oyster field, where all the
settlements of the fishermen were swept
away. The fishermen were overwhelmed
in their homes at midnight, Sunday, and
had no warning or chance of escape.
ALI the fishing hamlets in the vicinity
of Bayou Cook were either destroyed OF
partially wrecked.
Yesterday a lone aud ragged fisher
man. who had been a member of the
fishing colony at Bayou Cook, whore all
oysters bearing that name are fshed
aud which is located about seven miles
back of the Buras settlement. came to
the Socola Caual, which is located on
the west bank of the Mississippi, oppo-
site Pointe la Hache, and reported tc
the keeper of the locks Of the CANA
Ozene Martin that of the three hundred
people who composed the colony but
thirty had succeeded in escaping the
fury of the elements
This fishermen had all retired Sun day
night as usual and, though the wind
was blowing pretty hard, there was nc
forerunner Of the terrible catastrophe
that followed.
The water rose with startling rspidity
and before the unfortunates could find
any possible means of escape they were
overwhelmed.
This survivor had clung TO a tree
throughout the night, and when morn
dawned the scene of wreckage thai
spread before his view was simply terri
bic.
OF the many little cabins which ha6
sheltered the prosperous colony the night
before, barely one was standing.
The Fort jackson and New Orleans
railroad has not been running trains OF
account of the wreckage on the track
The Louisville aud Nashville road is moi
running from New Orleans TO Mobile
The big bridges at Bay St. Louis ant
Biloxi are badly weakened, and the LAX,
Catherine embankment is washed away
On the river front number of Goa
barges are sunk, and the steamers Grace
Pitt, Harry Shannon, and Jerome Hanl,
were sunk. A number of vessels wer
torn from their moorings by the storm
carried down stream, and slightly I'M jured
A number of the leading citizens aud
fnanciers of the city, who were de-
tained at the summer resorts along tn
gulf coast by reasons of the washout o
the tracks Of the Louisville and Nash
willie road, arrived in the city yesterday
having been transported on a tug owe
Lake Ponchartrain.
They confirm the rumors of the heav
damage done to the towns along til
coast, and say that it is the worst storI
known for years On the way over tn
tug passed schooner bottom up in th
lake. There was not living thing [
be seen about the wreck, and :Captai
Poitevans was unable to discover th
name Of the craft. The tug also pssse
two schooners, both of whose mast
were gone.
Assistance has beel sent from Ne
Orleans to various points where th
people 81 e in great need Of shelter.
Georgia Town Nearly Swept Away.
ATLANTA, Oct "A tornado PARTIAL
destroyed the little town of Hogan, Ga
yesterday, killing q boy and injurir
seven others.
Nine houses were demolished Georl
Barnett, a lad, was killed in the wreck
his fathers house.
Bales Of cotton were thrown 300 var
from the depot platform.