Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-06
I'd EDITION.
DEATHS NOW $500.
Latest Returns From the Gulf
Coast.
IMPOSSIBLE TO BURY THE CORPSES.
Bodies Robbed by Heartless Sur
vWors.
IMPOSSIBLE TO BURY TRE CORPSE
SAFETY OF THE SEWARD.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.-The return Of
several Of the relief parties from the
storm-stricken districts of the state fully
confirms the news Of Wednesday as to the
list Of those drowned or killed. A correct
list swells the total number to 2,5ll This
will be increased some 200 or 800 when news
from the Louisiana coast is all in.
The additional losses reported are:
Rigolets, 16; Biloxi and Chandelier no;
near Grand Bource. 10; from vessels. 80.
The loss OF life at Cheniere Camilida is now
known to be LEO instead OF l,O40 as first
reported. At Bayou Andre " persisted in
stead of 40. and at Grand Isle "a instead Of
10.
Heavy Loss Feared ut st. Bernard.
The only station from which returns have
not been received as yet Is st. Bernard, on
Lake Borgogne marsh.
This marsh extends from Lake Borgogne
to the gulf. 1t is dead level with the
ocean. more water than land, covering LOU
square miles. Its only Inhabitants were
some 200 fishermen. who lived In cabins
built on piles. Not a word has been heard
from there since the storm, nor has one Of
the inhabitants come to town or to any
neighboring settlement. As IL is near the
Chandleur Islands, where the tornado was
SO violent that none are said to have es-
capped the chances Of the fishermen surviS-
ing the hurricane are considered very DOUBT
full, and boat was sent there today TO see
II any survivors remained.
Dead Bodies Robbed.
Loud complaints come from the Bayou
Cook section Of the odor from the dead
bodies there. The land is too low for bury
ing. Already some 126 bodies have beea
conveyed by boat to the high lands on the
Mississippi at Frismal Bend for burial. but
many are unburicd in the swamps and are
rapidly decomposing. Many OF the bodies
were found to have been looted and robbed.
Most Of the fishermen were well to do and
carried their fortunes in cash in their
pockets No money has been found on their
remains and from 5000 to $4,000 has dis
appeared. Nearly all the bodies were badly
mutilated by the storm.
1t will be months before the gulf fisheries
will revive. Half the population and nine
tenths of the vessels engaged in them are
lost, and oysters and fish are an unknown
quantity in New Orleans today. The crop
damage Is great. The orange crop will lose
only so per cent, but the destruction Of or
chards will be very great.
A dozen luggers have reached the city
from Grand Isle and other portions of the
storm sections, and there are now some 30
refugees being cared for here. They are
naked and i'm a bruised condition. One man
named George Ovichs had actually been
fiayed alive. He did not have a piece Of skin
the debris having f1ayed him. He was sent
to the hospital and is not expected to live.
With rare exceptions the other refugees viii
all recover.
Several cases of insanity resulting from
the horrors Of the storm are reported
Lieut.. kirkam's Excuse.
Lieut.. Kirkam, signal officer here. ex-
plains his fault to give a warning Of the
approaching storm by saying that there
was not the faintest evidence Of it. The
storm came from the gulf. The telegraph
from Port Eads. which ought to have an
nouncd IT, was working all right early in
the night when 1t suddenly ceased and the
storm swept over southern Louisiana
Whence IL came ts impossible to say. Lieut..
Kirkam thinks additional weather stations
on the gulf absolutely necessary for protec-
ton.
The Picayune relief boat returned to the
city at 30 this morning from Bayou Cook
Grand Isle. and Cheniere, and confirms the
reports OF the awful loss OF life in that Sec
ton. The vessel will leave today with q
full supply of provisions.
The following reorganization on the spo,
is absolutely correct: Cheniere, living 6e6
dead, 11s. Grand Isle. q dead. Bayou An.
drew. Chinese camp, 63 dead. Bayou din
the rear. one dead. At Grand Lake al.
most all those people were drowned Caba.
nogue-no news.
Disaster to Shipping.
BAY ST. LOUIS, La, Oct 6.-The lugee,
Jacor. in command of Capt Tony Barraco
and the schooner Salvador Rosa under
command of Capt Rosa, have Just returned
from a cruise around the islands and hav
ing In tow two disabled vessels, the lugge,
Australia ard schooner Mary. They found
five dead bodies at Creole Gap and buriec
them where found.