Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-05
DEATHS ESTIMATED At 1000.
Late Reports of Suffering and Loss of
Life.

DEATHS ESTIMATED At 1000.
Late Reports of Suffering and Loss of
Life.
The loss of life by the storm in Louisiana
on Sunday may reach 1850, about 1000 hav-
ing persisted on Grand Island and Cheniere
Carminada, in the Grand lake. and in the
bayou settlements of Adams. Cook. Chalon
and Trister. 1t is estimated that the crews
of luggers and other craft to the number
of 200 lost their lives in the vicinity of
Grand Island. Two steamboats, with their
entire crews were also lost.
Mr.. Matthew Schurb of Gouldsboro, just
opposite New Orleans, was one of the sur
vivors of the Cheniere calamity, and ar
rived yesterday morning on the steamer
Good Mother. He brought with him a har-
rowing story of his experience and Of the
loss of life at Cheniere. MIR. Schurb went
to the island about four weeks ago with
Mr.. George Thompson and a negro brick
layer named Louis Roberts, for the purpose
of constructing school house. He engaged
board in house In which there was very
large family, not less than twenty-five in
all The house was rude establishment
of boards, but II had withstood many gales.
and the occupants of it felt reasonably safe
from 1he storm. 1t turned out to be the
tomb of probably a score of persons.
Mr.. Schurb on Sunday night had an ex-
perience severe enough to turn a man s
hair gray, and when he reached the city
yesterday morning showed the results Of
the peril he had been through. He was al
most naked. as the clothes he had on were
torn into shreds. his face was bruised. and
he had not yet recovered from the excite
ment he had undergone Mr.. Schurb es-
Inmates that the loss of life on Grand Isle
and Cheniere Carminada and in the Grand
lake. Adams. Cook, Chalon and Trister
bayou settlements will reach 500. When he
left Cheniere Island yesterday he counted
but five houses standing out of total of
about 800, while the land was covered with
corpses.
also included in the hurricane that swept
Louisiana last Sunday. Rosari is one of
the group. and, like all of it's neighbors, is
settled by people all of whom clear
Spaniards by descent. 1t has not more
than score of Inhabitants who earn their
living by fishing. This place was nearly
depopulated
Capt. John Teisanzoo told a narrowing
story. He said: Il made my lugger fast
to her mornings on Sunday afternoon and
had gone on shore to camp. l was at
Grand Bank, about one mile from Grand
Isle The weather had been beautiful all
the forenoon. but toward evening a heavy
rain storm set in, accompanied by strong
winds blowing from all quarters of the
compass.
About midnight the end came. l. thought
the world was on us. The sea came up
high; well. ii seemed to be like a wall and
then i found myself fighting for my life in
the midst of the ruins of my shanty. and
how on earth / escaped cannot say. 1
got back to Socola canal in a skifY 1 hap
pened to pick up on the beach when day
light came"
Train crews arriving on the Grand Isle
read report the track covered with debris
in which dead bodies are profusely inter-
mingled, and one of the passengers asserts
that he counted no less than eighty bodies
on his journey to New Orleans from that
part of the destroyed district The coun-
Try throughout is a scene Of wreck and
devastation.
The trains which reached New Orleans
last evening brought a number of the Ba-
you Cook survivors to the city, many Of
them wretchedly attired. and their faces
bearing the marks of fearful suffering
Bodies and Wrecks Everywhere.
From the meager details at hand 1t is
highly probable that the greatest destruc-
ton to life occurred at Chenier. a settle
ment of 1900 people. mostly fishermen,
on the main land west of Grand Island.
Here the wind and wa.es dealt out death
IN an appalling manner. Bodies and wreck
age are strewn everywhere, and the pic
lures from descriptions by one or two refu-
gees are heart rending.
Georgia Town Wrecked,
A tornado struck the little town Of Ho-
gan, Ca, and Rocked it all to pieces Tues
day afternoon, killing George Barnett, a
boy, and injuring seven others. Hogan is
In Tattnal county, ffty-seven miles from
Savannah. Nine houses were demolished.
Bales of cotton were blown 200 yards from
the depot platform.
The Loss mt Mobile.
Reports of damage by the storm near
Mobile are coming slowly. Railroad, ship
ping and mills are the heaviest losers the
amount exceeding 100000. The loss of
human life cannot be estimated On Farm
ers Island. opposite the city, only two farm
houses are standing out of a total of twen-
ty-three. Relief expeditions found a group
OF little children clinging to trees and their
parents swept away
one house crossed the bay a distance of
nfteen miles, and landed on the tracks of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad The
owner and his family have not yet turned
up On both sides of the bay are many viii
ages. some of which are totally DESTROYED
ana the Inhabitants gone. No train on the
Louisville and Nashville has been moved
either way, but a large force of men are
al work clearing away the wreckage
An unknown Austrian barque for Pensa-
cola Is ashore on the gulf side in one of
the many coves. AS none of the crew have
come H. IL is supposed all were lost
FROM BALDWIN county. which skirts the
eastern shore of Mobile bay from Blak
10 Muiiet Point, distance of forty miles
and the shores of Bon Secour bay to Fort
Morgan, distance of twenty miles. come
reports OF great destruction to property,
.