The morning call., 1893-10-05

chiIiren.
Tebe Rando saved himself, his wife and
two children by swimming about until he
hid gathered sufficient lum Der to make an
inpromptu raft. He put the family upon
land they drifted to place of safety.
fom Valence, his wife and several chill
dren, are believed to be drowned, as we'll
as his brother Tony, with his wife and
three children.
1t will never be accurately known how
many lives are lost. The population OF
Chenere was about 1400, and Schurtz
thinks at least 1000 are missing. Ii is also
impossible as yet to give even the financial
loss, but it runs into the hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars.
Unless steps are Immediately taken for
relief it is not unlikely that many will
perish from starvation and thirst. All the
provisions on the island were swept away
and fresh water is 80 scarce that there is
not sufficient to relieve the thirst of the
hundreds who are now without anything
to eat and with scarcely anything to wear.
Schurtz was one of a party of thir-
teen that came to the city on the lugger
Good Mother and each had thrilling
story TO relate.
Matthew WeertZeZ and Dominic Mrgo-
dich. sailors, we're rescued by one of the
luggers. The story they tell of the disaster
at Gfande Isle is horrible in the extreme.
During the recital of the scenes of that ter
rible night they wept bitterly. They said
the sea, raging all day, increased alarm
ingly toward night. A bout 10 P. NJ. the
wind shifted to the southwest. These men
lived on the west end of the island. Far
out at sea. as the flashes of lightning illumi-
mated the darkness, mammoth waves
could be seen travelling with wonderful
rapidity toward the island. accompanied
by noise like thunder. On came the ter
rible thing, growing larger momentarily.
The island was wrapped in slumber
The men were too frightened 10 60 to their
homes and remained in the boat during the
terrible night Horrified, they watched
the tidal wave approach the island until 1t
struck. Then all was darkness and the
island, as far as the eye could reach, was
covered with water. The next flash of
lightning the two fishermen found them
selves far off to the north Of the island,
and looking about could see nothing but
sheet of water, the island having totally
disappeared.
Near Burras the bodies of three little
girls. evidently sisters. were found lying
together, horribly mangled by barbed
wire fence, against which they had been
thrown by the force of the wind.
A map. his wife and two children went
ON board schooner outside of Bayou
Cook. The schooner was wrecked and the
husband and children drowned. The
and fioated in the angry sea all night. She
was rescued in the morning by passing
vessel and brought here to-day.
John A. Sebut, a fisherman from the
shores of Bayou Cook, told representa-
tive of the Associated Press that nothing
was left either on the shores of ths bayou
or the islands
On Bayou Simon. situated In Grand Bay.
there were fourteen fishermen. All were
drowned.
He said not house is left on Bayou
Cook. ard where the people are the Al
mighty only knows.
The family of Juan Barber, fisher
man in Bayou Cook, were washed away.
The husband and two children were
drowned, the wife and four children were
rescued.
In the house adjoining man was saved.
but his wife and two children were
drowned.
The house of George Cefarochi was
washed away with his family, wife and
three children. All were drowned.
The next neghbor. a man named Bar
ton. and his two daughters were drowned
Only one person was saved from the
De- Ha
hanging by one hand to a post. uncon-
scious. He will die.
The wife and children of Thomas Mory-
orich were lost at Bayou Cook.
John Stock, an Italian boy, was instant
ly killed.
Luke Detrovitch lost four daughters.
his wife and two Of his sailors on Simon
Isle.
There were eighteen Inhabitants of the
oyster camps and sixteen were drowned.
On Razor Island there was a camp of
five men. All were drowned.
On Bird Island about $50 people lived.
All were drowned.
On Grand Bank eight persons were
killed.
There Is only sadness in the news from
Bayou Cook and places tributary thereto.
for there has been frightful loss of life
throughout that section. Houses have
been blown to pieces and smacks destroyed
and wrecked.
Many bodies were carried into the
marshes and will never be found. Train
crews arriving on the Grand Island road
report the tracks strewn with bodies and
large number already buried. Ths
country is scene of wreck and devasta-
tion. One passenger said that 10 less than
eigety-seven bodies were seen along the
road. Throughout the Bayou Cook.
country the distress is appalling.
Trains arriving to-day brought many
survivors to the city, all relating terrible
tales Of suffering. Anthony Negovitch
saw his wife swept by him In the torrent.
appealing piteously for the help he was
unable TO render. He saw scores of peo-
pie drown about him. Many who did not
drown had their lives crushed out by
wreckage. George Signorovlch saw his
wife and children perish before him while
In the water up to bis chin.
1t is variously estimated that from 200 to
900 people perished on Bayou Cook. The
deaths at otner points will swell the total
to not less than 1900. according To the best