Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-04

NEW ORLEANS, October THE fol-
lowing is a summary Of the number OF
lives lost, so far as known, up 20 mid
night: Below Bartoris Bay, $50; at
Poipte A-Haache, a; Empire Mill, 3;
Higles. .: Daisy Postofice, S; Point
Pleasant, .; Fl. st. Phillip, /; Gaspar
Smiths, /; Nichols PostOfice, 3; Foster
ling. a; Grand Bayou aud Bayou Shute,
25; st. James, i; Piguota, 1; Grand
Prairie, 4. Total, 2o6.
New ORLEANS, LA, october 3.-The
storm has passed, and though the wires
are still down, news is trickling into
the city from the surrounding country
but it is not ret possible 10 give fairly
accurate estimate Of the damage
wrought by the fury Of the elements on
Sunday, Sunday night and Monday
morning.
The damage done In the city and IN
the harbOr will run considerably over
SlOO, 900. In the city the storm was NOS
"a severe as that of 1883. Here this
year the principal sufferers were the
Shipping interests. The losses laclude
the ferrvboat Jerome Hahley, the steam
laupch shannon, Grace Pitt and q
steamboat and half q dozen loaded coal
barges belonging to Pittsburg firms all
of which went down.
Poiate a La Hache, Bohemia and
Prescott, small towns In PiaQuemlne
Darisb felt the brunt OF the storm.
Several houses were blown down, and
there was much terror felt by the resi-
dents unit! the storm had spent us
furv. The loss there will be heavy.
Mrs. La France and her babe were
both killed ito trying 20 escape from
tbe,r home, which was shiyered by the
storm. At the Empire mill, near
Pointe a La Hache, a young mu,atto
woman was killed by falling timber.
MANY persons were bruised, but the
death list is confined, as far as known,
to the three mentioned.
Most OF the plantation houses, barns,
sbeds and fences sufIereC, and thou
81 fIaQ06ni il3 ruus from tw1 -~ant
hundred thousand boxes; a cOnset2 4oD-
estimate put the crop this year at three
hundred thousand. That was before
the storm. It is feared that these
figures will be cut down fifty per cent,
making a money loss Of a quarter of a
million.
From Poydras Plantation south most
Of she cane was blown down. No plan
tation escaped. What she loss will be-
depends on future conditions.
No trains have arrived since Sunday.
10 will be two or three days before
trains can come, aud a month before
the track and rOadbed can be made as
sound as before the storm. Many
prominent residents of the citO, inClud-
ing business men, were caught in the
storm at fishing camps 40 English Look
out, and has a night of terror. The
hutS Weathered the storm, all out one
There was no lives lost and the citi-
zens who } ad been caught at that point
and could not get home owing TO the
washOut on the Louisville and Nash
vile, were brought 20 town this morn
ing on Captain POiuteYant's tug which
crossed the lake.
On the way over the tug encountered
a schooner bottom up and two others
dismasted and wrecked. 10 was imDos-
sible 10 learn q there had been any loss
of life, but 10 is feared that there was.
News reached here this evening from
Port Eaus that the wind blew so miles
an hour there on Sunday nigbt-that is
81 the mouth OF the river. John Case,
the night watchmau at the Jetty Com
pany, was drowned while attempting 70
cross the pass.
II Is thought his boat was shattered
hu 80 L.
was going 90 sea.
AT Shell Beach the club house was
wrecked and the fishing camps dam
aged.
The worst news Is from Bayou Cook,
midway between Bartoria Bay and the
mouth OF the Mississippi Here
colony OF oyster fishermen numbering
$50 Is reported 20 be completely ami
.h.lated, with nearly the entire popula-
tiOn killed.