The evening world., 1893-10-05
ANIsLAND WIPED OUT.
First Definite News of the Storms
Work in Mississippi
0svsrnment. Quarantine Station on
chandsleur Destroyed.
E4srftA| -s.'If.4.4 r-.. .s' Loo. '
Louisiana's Dead Now Believed to
Number at Least 1900.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. b.-The first
definite news from the Gulf coast OF
Mississippi reached the city this morn
ing, all the wires having been down.
and the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road washed out at intervals from Mo-
b..s and New Orleans.
The financial loss. from The storm and
Hood along the entire coast will foot
up not less than 100000, and ully
100 lires wers lost.
Out Of moro than 100 boats on the
front bay. Of Biloxi, little and big, only
three rode the storm safely, and the
beach IL strewn with wrecks of all de-
ecriptions. On the back bay there were
onlys one or two that weathered the gale.
Of property was at Grandeur Island.
Here, Yves located the United States
Marine Hospital auarantine buildings,
In charge Of DR.. G. M. Guiteras, WIN
d.: Charles Pelaiz' Of Biloxi as assist
At this point the fullest strength OF
the storm was developed resulting not
only IN the almost !, comSple,t tie. d nd SSt n
fearful loss OF life. u,
miles per hour. The building. and pier
piled With all the modern appliances for
the Thorough disinfection of yes
sells from infected ports, Ii a complete
l 3s;. exc yaaser buildings SsdE wo on the hi s1and
are more or less damaged and unin,
habitabIe. The largest house connected
with the main station was also carried
The following persons are missing, and
Il Is almost certnin they are drowned
Steward L. A. Duckert. OF New Or
leans Nurse Mckenzie; OF Mobile; Sea
man Muller, of Amsterdam. and two pa
tients, one named Lazen. of the steam
ship Ravensdale, and George b.. Salmis.
boetman Of the American bark Rebecca
SHeltEsr or the patients was suffering
from any contagious disease, and there
was no disease of that character exist
ing At the quarantine.
an extent that the lighthouse keeper
has abandoned it. Miles of the island
have been washed away. and what lit-
tie r-mains Is. liable to be completely
Or. Gniteras has notified the Depart
ment,Rf.W ashinyton that the island Is
no longer habitable. and recommended
the transfer Of the quarantine station
to Ship Island, and DIR. Pelaiz has been
transferred to that point.
DR.. Guiteras has also notified the bar
sacoia, Mobile and ~Pascagoula that all
vessels from infected ports will here
after report at Ship Island. instead OF
CnanQeleuT. lIe udludbt Wy IN w
the quarantine service alone at Chande-
leur island will amount to nearly 10000.
LOO DEAD IN LouIsI ANA.
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 5.-The latest
advices from the section of the State
devastated by Sunday nights storm.
indicate hat the death list will reach
the appalling total of twelve hundred.
Train crews arriving on the Grand
Island road report the track covered
withs debris in which dead bodies are
~profusely intermingled. and one of the
passengers asserts that he counted no
less than eighty-seven bodies on his
journey to this city from that part OF
the destroyed district.
The trains brought a number Of the
Bayou Cook survivors to the city. many
Of them wretchedly attired and their
faces bearing the marks Of fearful suf-
ferfng.
From information volunteered by other
arrivals II Is estimated that 800 people
persisted on Bayou Cook n In that sec
ton of the country. At Grand Bayou
not less than twenty-six persisted.
News received last night from CORE
spondeAts on the Picayune relic
steamer, en- route to Bayou Cook, Crane
Isle and the Cheniere, fully confirms tht
loss on the Southern Louisiana
Capt. Terrebonne now thinks NOR,
than 800 persons were saved at Chenier'
out of q population estimated by hin
at 1,300. He thinks that about 800 live
were lost there. The Picayune also ha'
information from Grand Isle indicating
that not more than eight lives were lost