Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-06
THE STORM TRACK.
Figuring Up the Loss Of Life in
the South
AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY

Between LOO and 400 People Perished
in the Terrible Storm and the Property
Loss VIII BE More Than = 900 600
Many Craft Engaged in the Fishing In
dustry Swamped and Their Crews Lost
The Hero of the Hour.
New ORLEANS, Oct. with the in
formation that has reached the city from
Grand Isle, from Cheniere. Cumanada.
from the Bayou Cook country and the
country adjacent thereto, and from that
section lying on this side of the river from
the upper limits of Plaquemine to the
quarantine station, from the lake coast
and elsewhere, it is now possible to give
a fair calculation of the loss of life and eX-
tent OF the damage done by the late storm.
In the Puint-a-la-Hache district the death
list has been swollen to eighty, and the
searching parties are still out, with the
prospect of Increasing the number to an
even hundred at least. The destruction
of property and crops in the same vicinity
will go into the thousands. Around
Shell beach and AIaloX island the list of
dead i in the neighborhood of Thirty. On
the Mississippi sound and vicinity proba-
reports coming in that the Chandelier
islands were swept and that great damage
thereby resulted, with attendant loss of
life. The loss TO property Will amount to
several thousand dollars.
Two Hundred i'm Bayou Cook.
1t is pretty well determined now that the
loss of life in the Bayou Cook country will
approximate 200. Scores Of fishing smacks
and luggers have neen destroyed and the
country swept clean of its houses. Relia-
bic news from Grand Isle has reached here
and shows that the loss of life there will
not exceed twenty-five, and that strangely
enough ali of THESE We're cOlOred people
The islands had miraculous escape, but
that was due u the fact that tine land upon
1t Is higher than that of the Cneniere, and
because twas less exposed. and on account
of the tickleness of the wind and waves.
Many houses We're blown down, bricks
were scattered in every direct on, massive
oaks We're bent, and even huge bars of iron
were picked up and scattered by the wind
The property damage will b. IN the neigh
borhCOd Of 100000 On Grand Terre part
of the Livingstone hotel, wHich was built
Of brick and had MASSIVE foundations,
caved off into the gulf, while the Living
stone lighthouse was unscathed. The
Cheniere population was l.4OO in round
figures, ami the loss there il somewhere
between 500 and 100. The Chinese camps
Jn Bayou Senet and Bayou Andre have suf-
fered severely and many lives have been
lost.
Between LOO AID 400 Lost.
1t is fair to estimate, therefore, that be
tween 100 and 400 persons persisted in
The storm. The property loss will be more
than Sl,OC0,OOO There We're 800 or 400
craft engaged in the oyster and fish in
iustry and one-third or one half of these
have been wrecked, turned bottom up and
lost. The storm was a severe blow to the
oyster industry and a scarcity of oysters for
part Of the season, at least, is in prospect.
New Orleans obtained large proportion
Of her oysters from Bayou Cook, Bayou
Barabaria and tie lower end of jefferson
parish. The official census of Cheniere
Camanada in 1890 showed population of
Loaf, and the officials of jefferson parish
say that number had been increased 20
1900 just before the storm. The census of
Grand Isle in 1890 showed total of $50
people. just before the storm, it is be-
ieved there were more than 800 people on
;he island.