St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-06
TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE.
T0TAL NUMBER EILL REACH TWENTY
FIVE HUNDRED.
OF THE LATE sToRm.

Damage to Property Will Be Many
Millions Hundreds of the
Bodies Looted by Thieves
Large Sums OF Money Stole n
Destruction OF Vessels Very
Great-Governmen Loss. %
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5.-The Republics
special from New Orleans says: The
return of several relief parties sent to
he storm-strick en- districts of the state
fully confirm the views of yesterday and
corrected lists put the total number OF
creas ed some 500 by the news
| from the st. Bernard marshes, Lake
| y orgne swamps and from vessels lying
| off the Louisiana coast. Such news as
Is had from the latter show them 10 have
| suffered greatly. Few of the smaller
ones escaped. The loss of life at Che.
Mere Gaminda is now put at 1850; al
| Bayou Andre twelve, instead of forty,
| and at Grand Isle tWenty-four, instead
| of ten. Fears are entertained fol
| the fishermen to the humber of 200 llV-
ing at Lake Borgne swamp. This was
| directly III the line of the storm, and
1 ollIOC Ito occurrence llOb ObO VI 10
| habitantS have been seen or heard from.
| A relief boat was sent out today to see
if any survived. There is great COM
plant from throughout the Bayou
| Cook section of the stencil from the
bodies lying i'll the swamp. A large
| number have been taken out and car
ried to Tropical bend for burial, bu-
| there are still over 200 unburied.
Some of the dead were buried under
| the Wreckage Of their houses. which
| evidently collapsed without warning.
| The bodies were mutilated and torn IN
| a most horrible manner.
ARMS AND LEGS
| had been pulled from the bodies and
were either floating in the pools, in the
depressions in the fields or lodged on
| elevations where the water had cast
| them when the tidal waves receded.
1t is claimed that examination of the
| bodies shows them to have been looted.
| Some of the drowned men were known
| to have had large sums of money in
| their possession when they were
| drowned. but not cent was found
when the bodies were recovered.
The damage at the Chandelier Islands,
lying off the coast of Louisiana east OF
the Mississippi, prove today more seri-
GUS than they were thought at first.
WAL NOoSClo oASIlOLCo
were wrecked. The United States quar-
antine station was destroyed and every
body on the quarantine is lost eX-
cept the United States governments
physicians. The islands are very low,
rising only few feet above high tide.
The immense wave which washed over
them has washed miles of soil away,
and large portion of the main island
is gone aud nothing but bar or rect.
submerged at ordinary tides, is left, and
the service will be temporarily sus-
pended until transferred TO Ship island.
The loss to the government in the de-
struction of the buildings and the
wreck of the transfer steamer will be
$4,000. The steward, nurse and three
patients were drowned. Relief for the
sufferers has poured i'll today. The city
of New Orleans subscribed $4,000, and
the parish authorities of jefferson and
PlaQuemine voted much money, and at
once sent relief expeditions to Bayou
Cook and Baratavla bay. The Ked
Cross society, the Seamen'S and several
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES
have also taken action. Relief boats
with clothing and provisions and eight
physicians will be sent out at once.
1t is now well authenticated that sew
eral people have lost their lives since
luC OtOA III AAOHl SAPOouLC anu loSh vi
food and attention. The greatest suf-
fering is for water. A dozen lug
gers reached New Orleans from Grand
Isle and other portion of the storm
country today. All were crowded with
refugees, and there are now between
200 and 800 In town. They arrived here
nearly naked and in bruised condition.
One man named GeOrgerch has actually
been tiayed alive from the debris and
timbers beating against him, and
did not have piece of skin on
him as large as penny. He is not ex-
pected to recover, but, with few eXcep-
lions, the other refugees will get well.
The failure of the signal service to
issue any warning of the storm is
explained by the fact that 1t came with
out the slightest warning, without
atmospheric or baronetric disturb
ances. Whence it came, there is
not the slightest idea. Lieut.. Kerkam,
i'll charge of the weather bureau here,
declares that the government ought to
have additional stations on the gulf to
warn the people OF the appearance of
these storms.
According to a Republic special the
loss below New Orleans to shipping,
and the number of lives lost aboard
ships, is as follows:
vi the American 10, Nlklta IL, Anna
B &, Laura B 6, New Union 5, Annie
Eads Ii, Lurd 4. Gen. Vixie 4. Three
Brothers 8, RUlla Smith 8, Sine Rosalie
4, Angilique 6. other vessels 6. Most of
these were drowned in Mississippi
sound or off the Chandeliers, the outer
fringe of islands at the delta. The Nj
kita, Annie B., Angelique, Annie Eads,
Eliza B., New Union, Sino Rosalie,
smith and Centennial were sunk. The
Chicora. Rebecca Goddard, Henry L.
Gregg, Maragaretna and Seamen wero
injured.
The destruction of smaller vessels and
| schooners, oyster Iuggers and fishing
smacks was complete. Out of 100 at
Chemise Gamma, 15S were lost: 81 out
of 60 at Bay st. Louis, 100 out OF 100 at
other points on Mississippi sound, and
altogether 600 or 700 in the storm-swept
region, the total losses of this kind of