The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-16
MEDLEY OF Municipalities.
THE PEOPLES THAT SUFFERED IN
THE LOUISIANA STORM.

| Ont OF tho 5000 Drowned Only 81 wer,
NeEroes-The Others We're Ac.sisns
Austrisn.. Creoies, Isiinguos, italians
Man'iinmen, Spaninrds, and Chiuese-How
| These Races Came to Settle In Louieisns
Their Characteristics and Daily Lite
New ORLEANS, Oct. 14.-Many newspapers o.
| the country. in commenting upon the recent
storm In Louisiana, have declared that most
fths people affected by It we're negroes. This
is probably due to tho fact that the coast coun.
try OF the Southern Statos. particularly Nir-
gina. the two Carolinas. and Georgia, ID
overwhelmingly peoplcd by negroes.
The contrary is the case in Louisiana. where
the Inhabitants Of the coast are nearly all
white. Not 10 per cent. OF the storm victims
are negroes. and OF the zoos drowned only 80
are OF the colored race. There is no portion OF
the South whore the whitos are In rs largo
majority rs the part visited by tho storm.
There was only one negro family In the entire
Bayou Cook country and only few at
Cheniere Caminada. Chinese and Malays were
far moro numerous than negroes.
There is. perhaps. no more remarkable COL
lection OF nationaities In the United States
than In that very storm country. among them
some races which exist nowhere else. OF the
1000 odd persons whose lives were lost. 1890
were fishermen engaged in supplying New
Orleans with fish. and In the oyster and shrimp
trade. which has recently developed great
proportions In southern Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi.
There are dozens OF oyster canneries
here. supplying the West. The shrimp
are sent to Europe. and even to Asia.
by tho ton. or the others drowned per-
haps 100 were sailors and 100 trad
ers. storekeepers, and farmers-the latter
In ,irna rip rlnro 81
storm WINS not very destructive to life.
Less than Ave per cent. was Anglo Saxon or
Tsutonic In any way. Tho predomnating
races were the Acadians. Austrians. Creolea.
lslingues. Italians. Manillamen. Chinese and
Spania.d in the order named. The Acadians
are best known as descendants OF the Nova
Scotia colonists who were banished from that
country after the English conquest A few
thousand came to Louisiana-Long fellow
tolls their story-where they have increased
with such rapidity that they are crowding out
tho other races and rapidly driving the negro
from southern Louisiana. The Cheniere
Caminada settlement consisted chiefly OF Aca-
dians and. with rare exceptions, every one Of
TIE loo inhabitants was at least cousin to
the others. An Acadian OF the name OF Terro-
bonnie settled there acme sixty years ago. and
Gheniere Cnminada at the time OF it's destruc-
tion contained lo5 Terrebonncs. all his de-
The families there were all phenomenally
Wfh ths aca
dams we're quite q number OF Italians-mninly
Siciians-who had become more or less creol-
lied and spoke French and bore French
names.
Just beyond Cheniere Caminada are Bayous
Which has SO 0 puzaed the 1e sPf Here
other side Of the Mississippi. are settlements
What they are returned as in the census Is
l,,o ~ oIa k,,A 4
as a matter OF fact. ,full-blooded ,Tagals from
the Philippine Islands. and are called Manilla-
from Manila They live SO much among s
themselves and are SO seldom visited BY the
whes. that no one knows exactly when they
came to Louisiana. but they have been here
They live in a sort Of. savagery with very few
which was DESTROYED. there was only one
81 owe. and that was used for heating purposes
s.4e wsa If ,hs 5
seTy litis trouSie there are no women a'i IN
They are treated by the whites on equal
terms. and the color question was not raised
Traternize well. and at bayou Andre and Dufon
hem worked for II. L. Lewis Chinaman de-
spite his American name. who sends millions
of shrimp from Louisiana each year to China.
Shere they are regarded as n great delicacy.
which was SO badly injured by the storm. con.
.ists mainly o. what are known az Austrians |
nfs Th e 9f
thoroughly slav. and they are a Frankovlchs.
'a acc or some other kind Of "yichs,"
ellie OF the day when Venice ruled Dalmatia-
las confused the Louisiana public. which is
lot to distinguish the two races apart. al
hough they are as different as they well can
istinguish them MIRO from t the 10 Italians % 'H'ni -
A glance W i'll show them to be full blooded
'lays; wearng, full boards. swarthy. and
much superior to tho Slavs OF the Pennsyva-
ia mineral districts. They are industrious.
'osure and fatigue. They live in the midst of
swamp. convenient 10 the Bayou Cook oyster
eds, the beat on the Gulf. and there they have
hove the swamp. exposed TO the fury OF tho
t Wnar tno torDodo oono t,.r .howo, .,o,
lost courage and determination. and the
eeds OF herosm performed by them were as
as ye any % to
hey live apart from the other residents.
Although more than half of them were lost
erurn to their old settlement and rebuild
Ie.r former homes. They have not been dis.
asked i:S op o1 from the Heo
20 to get their wrecked boats out of tho
wamp. when they will 10 to work again oyster
The Isngues. a creole version Of Islenos.
re- tho descendants OF colony OF Canary ISL
hHc.S VINO NcIt Drought ONST 10 LOUISIANA |
lrng the days OF Spanish invasion. and
hen nm attempt was being made to
rengthen the Spanish influence in the Mis-
ssppi; They have dash Of the Berber
e darker than the ordinary Spanard,
Settling at Terre aux Bpufs. in st Bernard
irish. they have spread over the surrounding
'untry. \ majority OF the names throughout I
at country are still spanish. The people 3
no suffered at Shell Beach. La ChinCha. and
most Of tho Lake Borgne camps were OF {
lis race. =
settled. where they have been surrounded
creoles for century and a quarter. most
them have given IN spanish for French. b
1t they stl II preserve the names. appearance.
ID characteristics Of the Spanard.
Such are some Of the races OF the coast
untry OF Lou slana. Scattered among them ,
q fow Americans and Germans and many
coles. Italians and Chinese. II makes a re- 4
aikably Heterogeneous class
As a general think. the races live separate.
d one can 20 from ono settlement to an
her and lind colonies of entirely different b
cos, Thus, il ono travelled thirty miles in ~
10 duo east from Chenitre Caminada, he \
,uld strike in his Journey settlements OF
inese., Malays. Acadians. Slavs. Creoles,
anards. and Canary Islanders. represent j
U unaTlV tnr al tha plnLn ! "