Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-04
STORA-KILLfO.
SAID NOW 10 BE OVER TWO HUN.
DRIED.
later Reports of the Disaster show
the Damage TO Have Been rremen-
dous.

storm that took place iH New orleans
Sunday night was light breeze IN COM
parison with the terrific hurricane that
passed over the section Of the country
around Pointe-a-La-Hach place Of
$500 population down on the west bank
: Of the river coast, The wind there as
sumed proportions Of tornado. blowing
at the rate Of between 100 and 125 miles
an hour. and damages there were vast in
extent -Four people were known to be
/ killed, and II Is believed abou. twenty
others persisted In that vicinity.
Hardly house remained uuiujured
Some are absolutely demolished, some
blown into The river and great num-
Der unroofed People ont in the storm
were blown away like feathers. Through
out the time Of the gale, rain fell in a
perfect sheet The drops were large, and
The violence Of the wind was so great as
to give one subjected to the rain sensa-
tiOn of being assaulted by a million peas
hurled with mighty force. The lower
coast rice crop is almost totally ruined
Several other lower coast river towns
are known to be equally damaged, but
hANNl - hAH lHlVtuNh anu htNf uPhHtIs
Al Bohemia, small town Of 100 popu-
laion, few miles below Puute-n-l.u-
llache every house was demolished. but
no lives We're lost, but the suffering and
priyation Is terrible.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, large sugar
planter, Of Plaqueminc parish, estimates
the damage to the sugar crop at 10 per
cent The orange crop on the lower
cVlst Is thought TO be an entire wreck
Inc Brndish johnson orange CROP.
which lately sold 10 New Orleans deal
ers lor $4,000 on the trees, is said to be
entirely destroyed.
. The magnificent club house at Shell
Beach. erected az cost of 5000. was
swept away, along with some twenty
hShermeu's hus. IL Is impossible To-
ascertain whether all the fishermen es-
The water rose rapidly To a height Of
zen tcet and carried everything before n
me Keeper Of the club house bi4
i9lnily and several trainmen ON the Shell
Beach road, narrowly escaped wntcry
HHrN'es; One small house of the club on
the waves At this puiut two GshnTrnet,
ana railroad iircmen were in d house
Whlch lell with q crash. The water was
zen ieet deep and the WAVES ouuinIuotis
ollc hIrmnn and n fisherman had their
hllns broken by tlmbers Of the house.
but they all managed To crawl on ma
sue oil The demolished hut and were
swept four miles Into q marsh yyhrr.
th5y We're rescued next day almost dead
lhe lnke coast from New Orleans Ia
Mobile suffered the full brunt of tp
1loIiil' ana ihe Louisville and Nashvil,
lohhLcd Is disabled ut many places. n,
trans are running yet. and no prospert
Tor any for several days \ numb,r ul
prominent people arrived this morninp
IRON over the lake resorts by tugs. The,
confirm the damage stories The storm
| was me worst ever known
Al English Lookout. thirly.slx mile.
from the city, u milo of the Louisville AMI
Nashville truck WAS swept away ana In,
dividing line between the LIKE md m
prairie was destroyed The country /
now one vast sheet of water. The fond
p,l through inc marshes win have 10 h,
UTMOST entirely reconstructed u distunc,
OF some forty or fifty miles The two
mile bridge spanning Bay ST. Louis 4
also seriously damaged the approncle
at The south end and several huudrct
feet being carried away.
The bridge over Biloxi bay, connectin,
Biloxi aud Occnn SPRING.. Is reporter
down. Where the road crosses the arm
OF Lake Catherine, for distance %
about huff u mile, the company hlled II
the roedbcd Instead of bridging IL. Tb
has been entirely washed AWAY and III,
tracks sunk into the lake.
Coast resorts present dilapidatcd np
pctrancc, Fishing houses, wharvcs an,
bath houses are swept away nj oyrr,
point. The Pearl river Fishing cil
house toppled ever and Emile Luprce,
prominent rice broker, narrowly escape,
with his lie No lives are known TO 10
lost at coast resorts, hut passenger
, tcaching the city on a tug this morninj
via Lake Pontchartraln, report passin,
f.tIts. la 81 IL
wards, aud two other schoouers also Alc
were dispnstel by the storm. No ON
was on the capsized boat aud the crry
Z is believed to bV drowned
Al MOBILE.
MOBILE, Ala. Oct IA very hray,
storm struck Mobile yesterday, blow
ine moro than fifty miles an hour. Tn
T gulf water was blown MP as high us ROya
street, aud which is four squares from In
u river, Royal street is fifteen feet aboy
the wharf On The river, aud IN the section
wholesale business Of Mobile Is carrie,
on. Shipping suffered some damage
Several lrlves were sunk and many mar
row escapes are reported, One life wa
lost, that OF an unknown man, Tree
NcrV uprootei, fences ru2rd, steeplcs dan
aged and chimneys peeled OIL Stree
+ car lines were compelled TO stop las
night, nnd the city was In darkness, eleC
uic light works being forced to stu
, down There viii be heavy damap
suffered by merchants unable 10 rcmov
!. their stocks before the water came VI
u from the river The wires are wordn
badly aud details are difficult 10 obtain
A refugee who rclched hero from III
lower portion of ilAqucmiue pa-ish say
the water from the Gulf was drive
+ overland to the depth of three to eve feet
A The fury OF the wind wrecked man,
= houses The worst news Is from Bayo
. Cook, whence New Orleans gets It's SUI
ply Of oysters. This IS midway betwee
Rnatara Bay and the mouth Of IN
Mississippi Here colony Of oyster
men and fishermen numbering $50 are RI
% ported totally annihilated and nearly ia
Is whole population Of that section killed o
a drowned Boats have gone down fror
IS here. but Il Will I've impossible To get an,
l. news from the relief party before IL
o morrow In MI there has been tota
;. lnelualng the ahcv0 Of 200 deaths r,
ported.
AT PENSACOLA.
. PENSACOLA. Fla., Oct. a-Thc mo,