The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-10-05
THE DEATH LIST GROWS
The Southern Cyclone One Of the
Most Appalling on Record.
TWELVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

Reports Slowly Coming In from the De
vastated Districts Show That whole
Communities wero g. -pt Away by the
Fury of the storm.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 5--The latest adj
vices from the section OF the state devas-
tated by the recent storm indicate that
the death list will reach theappalling total
Of twelve hundred Train crews arriving
today on the Grand Island road report
the track covered with debris i'm which
dead bodies are profusely intermingled,
and one of the passengers asserts that ne
counted no less than eighty-seven bodies
ON his journey to this city from that part
of the destroyed district.
The country throughout is scene Of
| wreck and devastation. The trains which
reached New Orleans last evening brought
a number of the Bayou Cook survivors TO
the city, many of them wretchedly attired
and their faces bearing the marks Of fear
ful suffering Tony Negovitch one of the
survivors, reports that eighty bodies
had been found there up to the time he
left, and from information volunteered by
other arrivals it is estimated that 300 peo
pie pershed on Bayou Cook and in that
section of the country.
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highly probable that the greatest destruc
tion to life occurred at Cheniere, a settle
ment of 8 600 people, mostly fishermen, ON
the main land west of Grand Island. The
loss of life there is variously estimated at
from 500 to 500.
Mr. Matthew Schurb, of Gouldsboro,
just opposite this city, was one of the sur
vivOrs of the Chenere calamity. He
brought with him a narrowing story of
his experience and of the loss at Cheniere.
Mr. Schurb estimates that the loss of life
on Grand Isle and Cheniere, Caminada
and in the Grand Lake, Adams Cook,
ChaIon and Trister Bayou settlements
b will reach 800 When be left Cheniere
Island he counted butfve houses standing
out of total of about 300, while the land
was covered with corpses
The first authentic news came from
Grand Island yesterday, when a lugger
I, from the island reached this city. The
man in charge reports that the steamer
Joe Webber was blown to pieces and sew
eral of the crew drowned.
The Joe Webber was not alone in her
trouble, the j. McSweeney, consort of the
r Webber, having also met with total de-
moliton With these two steamboats,
"a went their entire crews to a watery grave.
}, Besides these fatalities the following lug
gers were swept out of eXistance: Afedele,
] Velus, Flying Dutchman, Princess, Ste
10 phanie and Grand Island. This does not
a begin to account for the luggers lost, for
more than a score Of these crafts were
r. known to be in the vicinity of Grand
I Island
Such survivors Of the frightful scenes of
Sunday night as reached this city were
mostly Austrans ignorant of the English
| Ia, hat ID
q their excitement caused by the strain or
j their nervous systems. were very poor sub
iects to secure an intelligent account Of
le what transpired
g Captain John Telsansos, of the luggei
Stephanie, through an interpreter told &
narrowing story. He said;
n 81 made my lugger fast to her usua
Us moorings on Sunday afternoon and had
)r gone on shore to camp This was at
~ Grand Balk, about one mile from Grand
Island. The weather had been beautiful
= all the forenoon, but toward evening
heavy rain storms set in, accompanied by
strong winds, blowing from all quarters
OF the compass. / made all snug on board
the lugger and then went on shore and
waited events. LuggermJu are accus
toned to bad weather, but this storm
proved to be the worst l ever was in The
wind howled, and towards Il o'clock ii
was blowing a full gale.
"The shantv l was sheterinC in stood
he blow fairly well until, l should Judge
about midnight, the end came. Thought
the world was on us. The sea came uT
high-well il seemed to be like a wall, aud
then I found myself fighting for my lif,
in the midst of the ruins of my shantv
and how on earth escaped 1 cannot say
After this it seemed TO me as if the storm
had exhausted its fury, and from thai
time on the wind continued to abate.
got back to Socola canal in skitr / hap
pened to pick up on the beach when day
light came. From Socola canal l came t,
the city by the North jackson and Gul
road
The islands adjacent to Grand IslanC
were also included in the hurricane Ro
sari is one of the group, and, like all of it
neighbors, was settled by people, all o
whom were clear Spaniards by descent
1t had not more than a score of inhabi
tants, who earned their living by fishing
ay This place was entirely depopulated.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 5-Reports of dam
on age by the storm are coming in slowly
"a Railroads shipping and mills are tn
Dy heaviest losers the amount aggregatiu.
se nearly a million The loss of human lif
tt' cannot be estimated. On Farmers Island
nd opposite this city, only two farm house
40 are standing out of a total of twenty
three Relief expeditions TO that sectio
nd found "a group of little children clingiu
be to trees and their parents swept away On
lo house crossed the bay. q distance of IN
rc teen miIes,aud landed on the tracks of th
lu Louisville and Nashville railroad TN
Ad owner with his family have not yet turue
of up On both sides of the bay are man
TO villages some of which are totally d,