The morning call., 1893-10-04
MANY LIVES WERE LOST,
And Property Damage Reaches
Into the Millions.
NOTHING LIKE 1T EVER KNOWN
From Florida to the rlississippl tn,
Gale Swept With a Fore
Perfectly Irresistible.

MOBILE. Ala, Oct 3.-YesteSdafs storm
left the city complete wreck. The dam
age can only be conjectured. butit is safe
to say that it is nearly S1,000.W0. So far
saVeral deaths have been reported. In the
gardeners district. across theriver. dwelt
twenty-ihree families. whose houses were
visible from high points in the city; now
only one can be seen standing and il is be-
lieved that many lives nave been lost
there. The home of Stephen Walter was
swept away and Walter and his vile and
niece. Carrie Wise, were drowned. There
Is only one wire cut OF the city. No street.
cars are running. At Grand Bay. on tie
lower coast, four churches were destroyed
and at Scranton five churches. Homes
have been scattered, crops ruined ana des-
olation appears on every hand.
Details of the storm are just beginning
to come in, and, as feared. the loss of life
in the lOwlands east of the city is great.
1t will be fully week longer before the
full story can be told. The work of clean
ing out the muddy sediment from the de-
bris from the streets was pushed with en-
ergy and vigor to-day.
The steamer Crescent City was beached
two miles below the city. and the river
steamers Lee and Lotus were driven on
the marshes high and dry, and will proba-
bly, be total losses. The tug Colonel
Woodruff was driven on the marshes, and
may be floated. The sloop-yacht Annie L
is bottom up, but may be saved. A num-
Der OF barges were blown in on the
marshes.
The beautiful she'll road is almost
total wreck. involving heavy loss. Be
tween Venetis and Scranton thirty or
forty houses were blown down. but no
lives were lost, and at various towns along
the route twelve churches weEe wrecked.
In Scranton'snd at East Pascag0uIa houses
were blown down, stores flooded and dam
aged. while at East Pascagoula the entire
beach was wrecked. The losses at the
Two points, it is said, will reach S1o0,0 600.
: a rowb boat trip of the marshes made to-
day. by an experienced newspaper re-
potter reveals state of deSolation and
death that will almost equal that of
month ago at Savannah aud tue Sea
Islands. Rumors place the loss Of life at
fifty, but possibly not more than twenty
five persisted. Whole families were swept
away, and the actual loss of life will prob
ably never be known No doubt the
damage in Mobile will reach S250,000.
=. In the upper delta of the rivers debouch-
inginto Mobile Bay the streams are re-
ported to co full of floating bedding fur
>niture and household effects. showing that
the reports of suffering and death from
this quarter are hardly overstated. So far
only one family in that vicinity is known
to have escaped.
ST. Louis, Oct. 3.-A Republic special
from New Orleans says: The damage by
the storm in New Orleans will amount 10
5000, divided as follows; West End,
$4,000; other lakeside resorts, $4,000;
Vesseimen's evee, $4,000; clubhouses.
yachts, S25. 900; coal barges sunk on the
liver, $4,000; damage to shipping, S75,-
1000; damage to fences, trees. yards, etc..
S54, coo; market and other buildings and
railroads, 100000; miscellaneous, $50. 900.
Outside Of New Orleans. as far as can be
estimated, the damage will be $500, 600,
making the total something over 81, go. 600.
: a Republic special from New Orleans
says: Reports are coming from Plaque
mine and Jefferson parishes of dam
ages by the storm of most alarming char
ac1er.. 1t is impossible to verify the loss of
life reported, but there is no reason to
doubt that IL is very heavy and the storm
is much worse than around New Orleans.
The worst news is from Bayou Cook,
whence New Orleans gets its supply
. of oysters. This is midway between Bar
atara Bay and the mouth of the Missis-
sippi River. Here Colony of oyster fish~
ers mum bering $50 is reported to have been
totally annIhifated with nearly the entire
population killed or drowned. Boats
were seut from New Orleans to the settle
ment but it will be impossible to get any
news from the relief party before to-mor-
row.
: The following is the summary of the
NUN Der lost so far as shown up to mid
: night: Below Barataria Bay $50, at Pointe
a la Hache 4, Empire Mill 3. Hingles 2,
p: Daisy Postoffice 5. Point Pleasant ., Fort
Phillip 1, Caspar Smiths l, Nichols Post
office 8. Fostering 4. Grand Bayou and
: Bayou Shute 25, st. James l. Pigneola /,
: Grand Prairie 4. Total, 206
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. St is not yet
: possible Ito give even fairly accurate es-
fitnate of the damage wrought by the fury
of: .ths elements. The damage done in the
Gity and harbor will run considerably over
:
shipping Interests. The losses include the
.terry-boat Jerome Haniev. the steam
launch Shannon, the Grace Pitt, steam
boat; and half dozen loaded coal-barees.
ALI of which went down. Electric POLES
have keeled over, sheds have been torn
i. dow i. and most of the telephone and IRE
alarm wires are completely prostrated.
:. AT the West End the Revetment levee
and the railroad tracks are damaged.
Pointe a Ia Hache, Bohemia and Pres
colt, small towns in Plaquemine parish,
= felt the storm. Several houses were blown
down and there was much terror until the
: gale had spent its fury. The loss is heavy,
ahd Mrs. La France aud babe were both
Killed In trying to escape from their home.
wtlch was shvered by the storm. Near
felnts la Hache young mulatto woman
was killed by falling timber. Many per-
: sons were bruised, but the death list is
confined. as far as known, to the three
mentioned. Most of the plantation houses.
:: barns, sheds and fences suffered. and many
thousands Of dollars will have to be spent
:. I'm: repairs. The orange crop in PLAQUE
: mine as a result of the storm suffers a