The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-10-06
THE GULF STORM.

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News Slowly Coming in Of Its Ter
rible Effects.
TWO HUNDRED FISHERMEN DROWNED
All at One Place-Almost Certain That tho
| Loss of Life Elsewhere.Wm Be
| Appalling When
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 4.-The great
storm of Monday has passed, and, al
| though the wires are still down, bits
| of intelligence continue to come from
i various parts which inpart the infor-
nation that the loss of life, to say
! nothing of the destruction of property,
; is tremendous. From Bayou Cook, the
i great oyster field which leads to the
/ gulf it is reported that the settlements
of the fishermen have been completely
demolished, and that the loss of life
has reached the appalling figure of
, 200.
| Grand Isle, summer resort lying in
, the gulf directly in the path of the
storm, is said to have been utterly de-
! stroyed, and it is known that the loss
of life is large. Many people were here
! spending the delightful early autumn
season, and numbers of those who had
spent the late summer month in their
cottages here had not yet started for
their homes. The hotel and the two
| - ~ 10 h iob tint faa
the resort is no more, and it is feared
the loss of life at this point will be very
great
In the parish of Plaquemine the viii
\ lagos of Bohemia and Shell Beach were
wiped out, and at least four lives lost
in each place. On both sides of the
river the sugar, rice and orange crops
suffered a great deal of damage, and
on the west side the loss of life is re-
| ported to have been very great. 1t
will be some days before the full eX-
| tent of the damage wrought will be
kno wn, but it is feared here that the
grand total will pale into insignifcance
the number of deaths reported from
the storm which recently devastated
the Atlantic coast.
| The. upper limit of the storm was not
more than dozen miles above the city.
In the city the storm was not as severe
as that of 1883. Here this year the
principal sufferers were the shipping
| interests The losses include the ferry
boat Jerome Hadley, the: steam launch
| Shannon, Grace Pitt, steamboat, and
| half a dozen loaded coal barges be-
longing to Pittsburgh firms all went
| down Electric Iyira r,O1aS tom
pied over.
Owing to the fact that all wire COM
mu nication is temporarily interrupted,
| and that no vessels of any description
| have arrived from the remote sections,
the information is necessarily meager.
| A lone and ragged fisherman, who had
| been a member of the fishing colony at
| Bayou Cook, where all the oysters
bearing that name are fshed, and
! which is located about seven miles
back of the Buras settlement, reported
| to the keeper of the locks of the canal
that of the 800 people. who composed
the colony, but thirty had succeeded
| in escaping the fury of the elements.
The fishermen had all retired Sunday
night as usual, and though the wind
| was blowing pretty hard there was no
| forerunner of the terrible catastrophe
| that followed. AS the night grew
| apace the, wind increased in velocity
until the timbers in the houses began
| to crack in an alarming manner, and
| the roar of the waves grew louder and
| louder. The water rose with startling
rapidity and before the unfortunates,
who had no possible means of escape,
| had time to grasp some floating object
| they were overwhelmed with the awful
might, and found their fate in watery
| graves He had clung to a tree through
| out the night, and when morning
| dawned the scene of wreckage- that
spread before his view was simply ter
| rible.
OF the many little cabins which had
| sheltered the prosperous colony the
| night before, barely one was standing.
| OF the 800 or more human beings who
| inha bited them; about a tenth of the
number lived to tell of the nights of
| experiences filled with horrors which
they will never forget. He describes
the visitation as in the nature of d
tidal wave, which swept everything be-
| fore it
The loss of life, as far as diligent
| lows: Between Point-a-la-Hache and
| Bohemia, four, Mrs. Leonce La France
| and two babies and Charlotte Brinkle,
| a colored woman; at Grand Prairie,
four, Wiley Anderson, the son of a man
named Perot, the daughter of a man
] named johnson and an unknown, all
| cclored. .
| At the old quarantine station two,
| the children of Mr.. Hingle: at the
jetties one, James Carey. Total, IL.
! The destruction of the orange crop is
almost complete. The new fruit is
| badly injured. The sugar cane was
blown down, but as it is ripe, it will be
| cut and ground at once. The negro
! church at Freetown was blown down,
! and several halls were unroefed OF
badly injured in Algiers-
The damage by the storm in. New
| Orleans win amount to. 1915 600. Out
/ side of New Orleans, as far as can be
/ estimated, the damage will be 5000. 600,
/ making the total losses over 81, ,250, 600.
Shocking ,stasbins An.ay.
-FAYETTE,: Mo-, Oct 4-Edward
=, Spry, young farmer, living near
+; Boonsboro, was almost disemboweled
/ and otherwise seriously cut with a
| knife in the hands of Edgar Robinson,
I during a dance at Spzy's mothers.
! Mrs Spy, who!went to her sons as
s;S4ance was also severely cut Younp