The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-11

badly injured they cannot be used. Five
miles of embankment and trestle work
and fifteen miles of track are washed
away
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 5.-The return Of
several of the relief parties sent to the
storm-stricken districts of the state fully
confirms the views of yesterday and cor
rected lists put the total number of dead
at 2,041. This may be increased some 500
by the news from the st. Bernard
marshes. Lake Borgues swamps and from
the vessels lying off the Louisiana coast.
Such news as is had from the latter
shows them to have suffered greatly, few
of the smaller ones escaping.
The loss of life at Chenire Ganumada
is now put at 1850; at Bayou Andre
seventy-two instead of forty. and at
Grand Isle twenty-four instead of ten.
Fears are entertined for the fishermen
to the number of 200 living at Lake
Borgues swamp. This was directly in the
line of the storm and since its occur
renee not one of its inhabitants have
been seen or heard freom. A relief boat
was sent out today to hunt them up and
see If any survived
There is great complaint all through
out the Bayou Cook section of the
stencil from the dead bodies lying in the
swamp. A large number have been
taken out and carried to Tropical Bend
for burial but there are still over two
hundred unburied. Some OF the dead
were buried under the wreckage of their
houses, which evidently collapsed with
out warning The bodies were mutilated
and torn in a most horrible manner
Arms and legs had been pulled from the
bodies and We're either floating in the
pools, in the depressions in the fields or
lodged on elevations where the water
had cast them when the tidal wave re-
coded. II is claimed that an examina ton
of the bodies shows them 10 have been
looted. Some of the drowned men were
known to have large sums Of money in
their pockets when they We're drowned,
but not a cent was found when the
bodies were recovered.
Wreck of Quarantine Station.
The damage at the Chandelier islands,
lying oft the coast of Louisiana east of
the Mississippi. prove today more seri-
GUS than thought at first. Nearly all the
vessels anchored there were wrecked.
The United States quarantine station was
destroyed and everybody on the quaran-
tine island was lost except the United
States government physicians The
islands are very low. rising only few
feet above high tide. The immense
waves which dashed over them washed
miles Of soil away and a large portion Of
the main island is gone and nothing but
a bar of reef submerged at ordinary
tides is left and the service will be tenn
porarily suspended and transferred to
Ship island.
The loss to the government in the de-
structiOn Of the buildings and the wreck
of the transfer steamer w. H. Welsh
will be S13O OO0 The steward, nurse and
three patients were drowned. Relief for
the sufferers has poured in today. The
city of New Orleans subscribed 81 500 and
the Parish Au Jefferson and Plaque
mine voted much money and at once sent
relief expeditions sto Bayou Cook and
BarataVia bay.
Work of the Red Cross.
The Red Cross society. the Seamen's
and several other benevolent societies
have taken action. Relief boats with
clothing and provisions and eight ply
sicians will be sent out at once. 1t is
now well authenticated that several peo-
pie have lost their lives since the storm
from exposure and lack of food and at
tention. The greatest suffering is for
wa ter. a dozen luggers reached New
Orleans from Grand Isle and other por-
tons Of the storm country today. All
were crowded with refugees and there
are now between two and three hundred
i'm town. They arrived here nearly naked
and in a bruised condition. One man
named Georgerich had actually been
hayed alive from the debris and timbers
against him and did not have a piece
of skin on him as large as dime. He
is not expected TO recover, but with
this and a few other exceptions the
refugees will all get well.
The failure of the signal service to is
sue any warning of the storm is eX-
planned by the fact that 1t came without
the slightest warning, without atmos-
pherical or barometrio disturbances.
Whence IL came there IS not the slight
est idea. Lieut.. Kerkam. in charge of
the weather bureau. declares that the
government ought to have additional
stations on the gulf to warn the people
of the appearance Of these storms.
swept on the Ships.
According to a Republic special, the
loss below New Orleans TO shipping and
the number of lives lost aboard ships is
as follows:
Number Of persons swept off ships and
drowned-On the American. 10: Nikita.
II: Annie r.. 6; Laura b., 6; New Union,
3: Annie Eads 49, Lurd, 4; Gen. ViXie.
4: Three Brothers. 3: Rolla Smith. 3:
Sino Rosalie. 4; Angiliquie. 8: other YES
sells. g.
Most of these were drowned in Mis-
sissppi sound or off the Chandeliers, the
outer fringe OF islands at the delta.
The three-masted schooner Anna M.
Stammer Capt. Stephens. for Vera Cruz
VIA Frontera, Mex, with a cargo OF
mahogany IL ashore I'm two feet OF water
In West Bay, La. where she was driven
during the hurricane of Sunday night
last. She was built at Bath. Me, I'm
1890 and is owned by Henry Budding OF
New orleans. The fate OF the crew rs
not known.
NEW ORLEANS. oct. 6.--With the tel
ograph wires singing more regularly, with
a vein Of communication being opened,
and more especially with the lapse OF
time. permitting scores OF reporters To
gather the news, the fun extent OF the
disasters In this section OF the country
* becoming known. and every message
brings additions 20 the number OF vcssels
wrecked and lives lost, The storm WIS
the worst that has ever been experienced
In the South, but it has never anywhere
been equnled in It's destruction OF prop
orty aud ita sacrifices OF human lives
by any storm confined &c az limited an
area or country.
Shipping has suffered 90 an extent
that * almost incredible-that would
be incroditihlc II upturncd craft and
stark bodies did not bear ample evil
dence thereto, Hardly less than $50
craft were wrecked and I'm many i'm
stances all OF their crews were lost
Nine out OF ten OF those who were saved
underwent experiences that will be ter
rlhie Nightmares 90 them during the re-
mainder Of their lives More thnn 200