Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-10-07
TIVE GULF STORM
Tina. Destruction. of Property and 1.-two Of
Life Appalling Meagcr Details.


Tkssr Destruction of Property and 1.-Two Of
Life Appalling Meagcr Details.
NEW ORLEANS, Gsrt. 4.-Thn:. great
Storm of Monday has passed, and, al
though the wires arc still down, bits
CT intelAgenGs continue to come from
various parts. which impart th& infor-
nation that the loss of life To say
nothing of the destruction of property,
is tremendous From Bayou Cook, the
great oyster field which leads To the
gulf, 10 is reported that the 81 ttlements
of tho fishermen hive been completely
demolished and that the loss of life,
has, reachsd the appalling: figure OF
200.
Grand Isle, Snmmer res4Bt lying In
thu gulf directly in the path of tie
storm, is said to have been utterly CT
stroyed, and il is known, that the lass
of life IS large. Many peaple were hare
spending the delightful early autumn
season, and numbers of those who had
spent the late summer month in 1heir
cottages here had not. yet started for
their homes The hooel and tho two
long rows of cottages which constituted
tho resort is no more, and 1t is feared
the loss of life at this point will be very
great
In the parish OF Plaquemiae the VIZ
lagos of Bohemia and Shell Reach were
wiped out, and ut least four lives lost
in each place. On both sides of the
river the sugar. rice and orange crops
suffered 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
known, but it is feared here that the
grand total will pale into insignificance
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
] rs that Of 1888. Here this year the
/ principal sufferers were the shipping
! interests. The losses include The &esrN
boat Jerome Had]cy, the steam launch
Shannon, Grace Pitt, a steamboat, and
half a dozen loaded coal barges be-
longing to Pittsburgh firms all went
down. Electric wire poles were top
pied over.
Owing to the fact that all wire com
munication 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 tished, 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 300 people who composed
the colony. but thirty had succeeded
in escaping the fury of the elements.
OF the many little cabins which had
sheltered the prosperous colony the
night before. barely one was standing.
of the 500 or more human beings who
| inhabi them about a tenth of the
number lived to tell of the nights OF
experiences filled with horrors which
they will never forget. lie describes
the visitation as in the nature OF
tidal wave, which swept everything be-
fore it.
The loss of life. as far as diligent
search could ascertain, foots up as fol-
lows: Between Point-a-la-Hache and
Bohemia, four, Mrs. Leonce La France
and two babies and Charlotte Brinkle,
colored woman; at Grand Prairie.
four, Wiley Anderson, the son of man
named Perot, the daughter of man
named johnson and an unknown, all
colored.
At the old quarantine station two,
the children of Mr. Hingle; at the
jetties one, James Carey. Total, II.
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 ut once. The negro
church at Freetown was blown down,
and several halls were unroofed or
badly injured in Algiers
The damage by the storm in New
Orleans will amount to s375,00O. Out
side of New Orleans as far as can be
estimated. the damage will be 100000,
making the total losses over $780, 600.
A vlNDlCTlvE VILLAIN.