The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-07
THU CLIMAX on
HORROR Is REACHED.
Grief-Stricken Survivors Come
and Go Silently.
RUGGED MEN IN TEARS.
Parents Bury Children and Children
Inter Parents.
AS Many as Ten Corpses Put in Grave.
and Many Others Are Lying Around
in the Debris or Floating
ON the Water.

New Orleans, Oct. 6.-The after
math of the great storm continues to
pour in, bringing additional details of
death, suffering and destruction
On Cheniere. Caminda, it reached
the climax of horror. 1t contained
one town, CaminadaviIle, of about
!, 800 people, the majority of whom
were fishermen
On Sunday evening there were 1900
dwellings within the limits. Today
twenty-five only remain standing, and
of these not one is uninjured. The
very ground upon which they We're
built is rent and torn The pier dis
appeared and only heap of oyster
shells mark the spot where it stood.
Not a leaf remains upon the luxuri-
ant shade trees, and the trees for the
most part are Frustrated. The gar
dens and the growing fields are blot
ted from the face of the landscape.
The grief stricken survivors came
and went silently or muttered few
lWOIUS VI COlQOlellcS. IL ID 1iO Q11uouobi
thing to see rugged fishermen en-
brace each other in tears.
Fathers and mothers are burying
sons and daughters, and vice versa.
AS many as ten people are placed in
one grave. A hundred bodies are still
unburied; some are under the wreck
ed buildings, others floating on the
bay. The brave little band of grave
diggers is exhausted. They have al
sons and the work is not.yet done.
In the house of l.. Terrebonne, the
grave diggers found his body and that
of his wife and six children. In the
rear of the island, hundreds of little
mounds mark the resting places of
those who were killed in the terrible
storm. Men, women and children
joined in the search for the dead.
With poles and hooks and ropes they
drew the corpses from the water or
dragged them from the debris and
buried them.
In Ducros house were found fully
fifty bodies all mangled in such
manner that they could not be identi-
| fed.
) Madame L. Cidioc and daughter
were found many yardsi away from
their ruined home, IN Which the bodies
Of a son and another daughter,
Arthur Bizani. Leo Paul, wives and
children with numerous cousins, aunts
and other relatives all drowned in the
homestead. The family consisted of
twenty-five people, The bodies were
buried in three graves. Thomas Lorio
was killed by a falling tree. Flores
tine Broussard and two children were
drowned. In BrousSardS house, Fer
dinand Broussard Bernard Broussard,
Regina Broussard and Bernado Brous-
sard were drowned.
Hundreds of bodies have been found
since Monday and they were buried
without prayer.
The New Orleans board of trade to-
day telegraphed to the leading
: boards of the country reciting the
terrible disaster and the fact that
the survivors are left penniless and
in dire distress. THE people of
: Louisiana will bury the dead and feed
the starving but appeal to the gen
eral public to assist in contributions
which will enable thousands of de-
avocations and support their fami-
: lies" says the telegram. Subscriptions
of every character will be thankfully
. received and distributed by the exc
cutive committee of the board OF
trade, acting jointly with com
mittee of other commercial bodies
This morning the lugger Evelena
: Cavarnache. on Grand Bayou. Cav.
arnache was completely wiped out
2 but none of the inhabitants were lost
At Bayou La Fonde eleven were
i. killed.
Bayou Henry reports place the
: loss of life at 65 The suffering at
Bayou La Fonde the people are eat
that persisted in the storm. The
greatest suffering is from lack of
water.
The Chinese colony near Bayou
: Henry was entirely wiped out. Over
forty Cinnamon persisted.
The Picayune'S relief steamer re-
t turned this morning from Grand Isle,
and Cheniere. The Grand Isle hotel
: with contents valued at $4,000, was
l totally wrecked. The inhabitants Of
E both islands are in need of clothing,
S water and provisions. Nine hundred
!; bodies were found floating in the wa
: ters of Grand lake.
: AT Bayou Caminda, a family of
e At Bayou Caminda, a family of siy
S was washed to sea on raft and bacl
: again when the wind changed The
: loss of life at Cheniere is not less
d than zoe and may reach 1000 Only
: eighteen persons were killed on
S Grand Isle, though the destruction o
It property was great.
: Shipping suffered to an extent al.
: most incredible Hardly less than 35(
craft were wrecked, and in many in.
: lstances all the crews were lost. Nine
e out Of ten of those who were saved
e underwent terrible experiences. More
: than 200 sailors were lost at different
: points. The total property loss will
e run into millions. An arriving schoon.
IS er at Biloxi reported many bodies
= floating on the shore at Cat island
e Ship island and Chandileruer island
d Not less than seventy of them were
n counted on Cat island alone. The
e American bark Helen B, with crew
e American brig Rosetta Smith, witt
!. Grew, and American schooner Unior
e and crew, are reported lost. Five
If large ships on Chandileruer island
e are complete wrecks, but the name.
n have not yet been learned and thu
h fate of the crews is a mystery. Be
/. fore the storm Sunday there were
n over 100 craft anchored around Biloxi
IS and only three survived.
!, SIX LIVES LOST.
A Gillian Bark Runs Ashore and