Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-10-14

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ports from Tire storm swept district
along the gulf show that the awful
devastation has not yet been pictured
in its true light.
The loss Of life is now placed at more
than 1000, and all indications point
TO this figure being increased rs the
details Of the hurricane come in. Fully
100000 worth of property has been
annihilated.
There has never been anything APP
proXimating it since the country was
settled. More than half the population
in the region over which the hurricane
swept is dead.
Everything is wrecked and not one
house in ten is left standing. while
the survivors are left in the most desti-
ute condition, wi,nout food or even
clothing, for most Of them were sleep
ing in their beds when their houses
were crushed by the winds or the
waves.
There have been similar disasters
on the coast. At Lost Island. where
2S6 people lost their lives. and at
Johnston's bayou where the lost num-
bered 30 six years ago. Mondays dis
aster Tar surpassed these in horror.
The weak and injured were all killed,
and in the settlements where the storm
was worst, not a child survived and
very few women.
The survivors are the young men in
the yigoT of manhood. Not one of
them but has a terrible story 10 tell:
not n but is badly bruised and in
jured. They escaped mainly on RATS
or logs. coating from twenty to ninety
hours in the water with the wind at
115 miles an hour.
Many of the bodies have Eaen car
ried into the marshes and viii never
be found. Perhaps some are still liy-
ing, but without food and water viii
perish before assistance can be sent
them.
The train crews arriving on the
Grand Isle track say the track is
strewn with bodies and many have
been buried, One Of the passengers
said this morning that no less than
twenty-seven dead were e along
tive road. He had witnessed the har-
rowing scenes about the Bayou Cook
country ana the ruin is appalling.
Trains that arrived brought many
Of the Bayou Cook survivors 10 this
city. Many of them were .a.rtlly
attired and their faces bore the marks
of fearful suffering, There we q w,n,
women and children, and th'y wera
met at the depot by fellow country
men and generously cared FER. The
population IN Bayou CooE ralSistnG
of nearly all men-Italian> and Aus
trims, There were few, X any, IG-
-rocs In the settlement.
Probably the worst damage and loss
of property was at Chandelier island.
Here was located the United States
Marine hospital quarantine buildings,
in charge Of DR.. q. VI. G~uitelras, with
DR.. Cnas. Pe-aiz of Biloxi as assistant.
At this point the fullest strength of
che storm was developed. resulting
not only in the almost complete de-
~styuction Of all buildings on the is
land. but a fearful los Of life.
The velocity Of the wind reached
100 miles per hour, The building and
pier known as the diS'ufectins pant,
supplied with all the modern appli-
anceS for the thorough distinctions
of vessels from infected ports, is a
complete loss, while the other build
ings on the island are more or less
damaged. The following persons are
missing, and it Is almost certain they
are drowned.
Steward j. A. bucket Of New Or
lean: Nurse Mckenzie of Mobile, Sea
man Muller of Amsterdam. and We
patients. one named Iazeu of the
steamship RavenSlalt. aud Geo. B.
Salts, boJtmuu of the American bark
Rebecea GODDARD. Neither Of these
patients, however, We're suffering from
any contagious disease, and there was
II, iiSadsn os hat character existing
MT the quarantine. Miles OF the island
have been washed away. and what
little remains IS liable 10 be complete
ly submerged with a little more than
ordinary high tide.
DR.. Gu.teraS has notified The depart
ment az Washington that the island IS
no longer habitable. and recommended
the transfer of the quarantine station .
to Ship island. and DIT. Peliaz has been
transferred to that point.
About forty head Of cattle were all
So lost on the island. Yesterday a
Manila sailor made hts was to the
Cuandel ur station from rhe fishing
slpap LAURA t., of .>ew Or.eaas. which
was wrecked In Grand Pass out OF
d crew of seven men be is the only
survivor. and when found ON the IS
land was unconscious and perfectly
nude, having been in the water over
ten hours He was furnished with
cathiug ami brought TO Biloxi
Tie Austrian bark NiEie which was
in quarantine at C~h3ndeleur las dis
appeared aud is believed to be lost
with al on board, about twelve men.
Other vessels We're wrecked.
From Information received from
Mississippi city. Haud>bora. Pass
CHRISTIAN and Ocean Springs. Il is