Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-12
KILLED BY HUNDREDS
TERRIBLE WORK OF THE GREAT
TIDAL WAVE.

The Number of Persons Now Known To
lie Dead Reaches Hundreds of
BodIes Found Floating Far Out to
Sea- Other Bodies washed Far Inland.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. with
the information that reached the city
Yesterday from Grand Isc, from
Chenicre Caminda, from Bayou Cook
country and the territory adjacent
thereto and from that section lying
upon this side of the river from the
upper limits of the parish OF PLAQUE
mine to the quarantine station, from
the lake coast and elsewhere, IL Is
possible to give fair calculation OF
the loss OF life and extent oil d. mage
done by the late storm. Sea hirg
parties arc still out with prospect
of increasing tho number TO an even
100 ut least The destruction Of prop
erty and crops in the SINE vicinity
will 20 into the thousands, Around
Shell beach and St Mnlo island, the
list of dead Is n the neighborhood OF
thirty. On the Mississippi sound and
vicini Y probably u score OF persona
have been lost, with reports coming In
that the Chandelier islands Were swept
away aud that great damage resulted,
with attendant loss of life The loss
to shipping will amount 10 many thou
sands OF dollars.
1t is pretty well determined now
that the loss % life in the bayou Cook
country will approximate 200. Scores
of fishing smn,ks and luggers have
been DESTROYED and the country swept
al. Of n.1t ..l1 4.
from Grand Isle, reaching hero yester-
day morning shows that the loss Of
life there Will not exceed twenty five,
and strangely enough all OF these are
negroes The island had miraculous
escbpe, but 1t was due TO the fact that
tho land is higher than that OF Chen.
ierc and TO the further fact that IL was
less exposed, because OF he ticllcness
or wind ana wave, to the fury OF
tho elements Many houses were
blown down, bricks were scattered In
every direction, massive oaks were
bent and even huge bars OF iron were
picked mp and catered by the wind,
The property damage there will be in
the neighborhood of 100000
On Grand Tcrre. partof Fort Living
ston, which was built OF brick and
had n massive foundation, caved of
into the gulf, while the Livingston
lighthouse was unscathed.
The property loss win be several
million dollars. ! hero were 800 or
400 craft engaged in the oyster and
fish industry. and half of these have
been wrecked, turned bottom mp or
sunk The result is severe blow to
the oyster business with scarcity of
oysters for part of the season at the
east in prosncct. New Orleans oh.
tains large proportion OF her oysters
from Bayou cook layou la atariu
and the lower end of Jefferson arsh
From persons arriving on tho shell
Beach train this morning IL is learned
definitely that the loss of life at
fointe-a-la- llnche has now reached
eighty. Fiity-scven bodies were found
yesterday in the vicinity of Crane
Prairie and the old quarantine station
the larger part of whom were Aus
tran co'ouiss who were engaged In
the oyster business on he bayous
near Grand Prairie. Grand Isle, with
population of 700, lost - killed
Cheneirc Caminda, out OF n population
of zoo, lost 1850 At Bayou Andre
72 deaths out OF rs is the result OF the
storm. Az Rayou DUPONT 10 are lost
out OF 70, making IL total of 2.07s.
The ma jority of the bodies aro
washed out to sea or washed far into
the marsh. The unfortunatcs were
found in every imaginable place,
Some were lying high and dry on the
land, where it Is supposed they were
washed by the water after death had
relieved them from their suiferin0s.
Some OF the Gend were buried under
the wreckage OF their houses, which
evidently collapsed without warning.
The bodies were mutulated and torn
in most horrible manner. Arms and
logs hal been pulled from the bodie8
and were soon either floating in the
poo in the depressions i'm the fields
or lodged on an elevation where the
water had cast them when tho wave
receded
The suffering OF the survivors Is
being relic ed as fast as possible, and
a second shipment Of supplies and
provisions were sent out yesterday
morning. The entire population Of
all The places named is now In alb
lutte need of food and drink. Dead
bodies are floating around on every
side and the situation is unparalleled
in the history Of the south.
LATER.
The aftermath of the great storm
which visited the gulf coast recently
continues To pour in, bringing addition.
al details of death, suffering and DIES.
truction. On ChenIere- Caminda 1t
reached the climax of horror. IL CON
tanned one town, Camindavilln. with
about l,s00 people, he majority fisher.
men. On Sunday evening there were
l,200 dwellings within the limits; to-
day twenty five only remain standing,
and Of these not one is nnlnjured The
very ground upon which they were
built IS torn and rent. The per has
disappeared, and only n heap of oyster
shells mark the spot where it stood.
Not leaf remains upon the luxurant
shade trers, and the trees for the most
part are Frustrated. The gardens an
growing fields are blotted from the
face of the landscape Hundreds II
bodies are laying along the coast and
they are being buried as fast MS posi-
BILE, but hundreds more will never be
received. The loss Of life at Cheniere
is not less than 700 and may reach
1000. The total death loss in the see.