The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-04

w Adb tlG IOSS Will D6 Q6p6uuS on future
conditions. If there is period of favor
able weather, late freeze, the cane viii
have time to recover and the loss will be
comparatively small. Rice in Plaquemine
parish has suffered great deal much of
1t having been blown away and much in
jured.
DAMAGE TO THE RAILROAD.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad is
tied up. A mile of its track at English
Lookout has been wrecked The pier
head of the Pearl river bridge is badly
injured and the roadbed generally washed
out, the wind having blown the water of
Lake Borgne across the landing in great
volume and velocity. No trains have ar
rived since Sunday. Wrecking trains
are at work at the scene of the trouble
The company posted bulletin this morn
ing, saying it would have no trains to-
day. Efforts, however are to be made to
transfer the government mail by boat.
1t will be two or three days before trains
can be got through, and week or more
before the road will be in fair running
order, and month before the track and
roadbed can be made as solid as it was
before the storm.
The Shell Beach railroad expects trains
from Plaquemine tonight. and Grand
Island road expect to move trains tonight.
not materialize this morning.
NIGHT OF TERROR.
Many prominent residents of the city,
including business men, were caught by
the storm at the fishing camps on the
English lookout and had night Of ter
ror. All the huts weathered the storm
except one. There was no loss of life,
but the citizens who had been caught at
that point could not get home owing
to the washout on the Louisville
and Nashville, and were brought to
town on Capt. Poitevant's tug, which
crossed the lake. On the way over the
tug encountered a schooner, bottom up,
and two others dismasted and wrecked.
1t was impossible to learn if there had
been any loss of life, but it is feared there
was.
A large number of people of this city
are virtually quarantined at the resorts
on the Mississippi sound. These are un-
able to get to town owing to the damage
to the bridges and Louisville and Nash
vile WaShOuts. Communication with the
city is somewhat difficult on account of
fallen telegraph wires and poles.
News reached here this evening from
Port Eads that the wind blew eighty
miles an hour there on Sunday night and
that at the mouth of the river John
y
company, was drowded while attempt
ing to cross the pass. 1t is thought his
boat was shattered by the Morgan
steamer Ell Cid, which was going to sea-
The poor fellows cries were heard but
it was impossible to send boat to him.
A STEAMER PUTS TO SEA.
The steamer Ell Cid went to sea in the
gale, carrying with her the bar pilot,
Capt Williams, as no boat could venture
alongside to take him off. The signal
service station and apparatus were blown
down, but the wind instrument of the
United States engineers weathered the
storm
At Shell Beach the club house was
wrecked and the fishing camps damaged.
Grand Isle, summer resort lying in
the gulf, directly in the path of the storm,
is said to have been utterly destroyed, and
it is known that the loss of life is
large. Many people were there spending
the delightful early autumn season and
numbers of those who had spent the late
summer months IN their cottages had not
yet started for their homes. The hotel
and the two long rows of cottages which
constituted the resort are said to be gone
and it is feared that the loss of life at this
point will be great.
In the parish of Plaquemine, the vii
lagos of Bohemia, on the marsh and
Shell Beach on Lake Borgne 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.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE.
On the west side the loss of life is re-
ported to have been very great. 1t will
be some days before the full extent of the
damage wrought will be known. but it is
c1,, l, ; Il I
pale into insignifcance the number of
deaths reported from the storm which
recently devastated the Atlantic coast.
BAYOU COOK SWEPT AWAY.
Yesterday a lone and ragged fisherman
who had been a member of the fish
ing colony at Bayou Cook, where
are furnished, and which is located
about seven miles back of the Buras set
tlement, came to the Socola canal, which
is located on the west bank of the Missis-
sippi, opposite Pointe Ia Hache, and re-
ported to the keeper of the locks of the
canal, Ozene Martin that of the 300 peo-
pie who composed the colony but thirty
escaped. He described the visitation as
IN the nature of a tidal wave which
swept everything before it.
While nothing definite had been re-
ceived from Grand Isle, there
was general impression at
Pointe la Hache yesterday
that a great disaster had occurred there.
1t was even reported that the water had
swept over the island carrying everything
before it in its awful fury, and much anX-
iety is felt about the safety of the 200 or 300
inhabitants who were known to have
been there. The report also said that the
big hotel had been swept away. While
this has not been confirmed such a ca
lamity was possible in view of the terri
BILE violence of the storm at Bayou Cook,
as reported by the lone fisherman.
Report also had il that the settlements
at Chenier Amanda, which is directly
across the bay from Grand Isle, had been
the scene of a terrible loss of life, but
this also lacked confirmation. No COM
munication was possible with those
points and it will doubtless be several
days before the extent of the calamity is
made known.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 9.-The details of the
storm which broke with such fury over
the gulf coast Monday morning and ragged
with increasing fury for five or six hours
are lust beginning to come in, and as was
feared the indications are that the loss of
life in the low lands of the city has been
very great There is no doubt thatit will
be a week or longer before the full story
of the storm, with all its details OF death
and destruction, viii be fully told.
The sun rose clear and bright this af-
ternoon. as if endeavoring by its warm
radiance to dispel the gloom cast over