The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-10-10
STORM ON THE GULF COAST.

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Lost-"The Immense Amount of
Property Destroyed Help
ing the Sufferers.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 5-The reports
from Point a la Hache and vicinity this
morning put the death list up to 500
persons. Yesterday the searching par
ties in the vicinity Of Grand Prairie
found 81 bodies, some buried beneath
the debris of wrecked houses and others
high and dry on The land, where the
receding waters had dropped them.
They were nearly all Austrian colon
lists, who had a large settlement at this
point. The local Austrian and Slavonic
societies have sent &C mmittees into this
section to attend the wants of their
countrymen and relieve the distress
and suffering as much as possible. The
dead were buried, five or six in a trench,
except where relatives or friends took
charge of the remains and gave thema
Christian burial.
The dead had to be inferred as soon
as possible and collins were obtainable.
The call for aid from the storm
stricken country has met a ready re.
Spouse and the large shipments of sup
plies went by rail to day to Point a la
Hache and Bellaire. John Dymond,
one of the largest sugar planters in the
unfortunate section, yesterday sent the
steamer Neptune to the above point,
loaded to the guards with flour, meat
and other supplies. These places will
be made distributing points and other
shipments will be made to day.
A conservative estimate places the
loss to the rice crop at 10 per cent,
while the sugar cane suffered very
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the orange crop. 1t is estimated that
fully SO per cent. of the fruit was blown
from the trees, and is lying on the
ground, too green to ship and unfit for
use, and will prove a dead loss to the
growers.
Reliable news has come from Grand
Isle and Cheniere. The loss of life at
Grand Isle. is not more than Is, all of
the dead being negroes. The property
destroyed is valued at nearly 800, 900.
Many of the whites were bruised by
falling timbers, and some of them
crippled, but they were thankful to get
off with their lives.
The total death list In this section by
the late storm will be from 1000 to
1, SEQ.
THE STORM ABOUT BILOXI.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 5-Tha first
definite news from the Mississippi gr1f
coast reached the city this morning.
All the wires have been blown down
and the Louisville & Nashville has
been washed out at intervals from Mo-
bile to New Orleans. The financial loss
along the entire coast will foot up not
less than 81, 600, 600 aud fully 100 lives
were lost. The news is almost as ap-
palling as that from the gulf coast Of
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the fury Of the elements. On every
| side could be seen the wrecks OF boats,
piers and bath houses and in many in
stances the fronts of houses on the
beach were totally demolished. Many
of the streets are blocked with fallen
trees and a mass of rubbish washed in
from the sea, while the beach itself is
impassable on account of the piles OF
wreckage visible all along the entire
coast.
At Deer Island, just opposite Biloxi,
over 40 head Of cattle were drowned.
When the storm came up it was q
genuine cyclone. There were many
Biloxi boats in the Louisiana marsh,
oyster fishing, and it is almost certain
that a number if not all of these boats
have gone down with all on board. OF
eight schooners that were known to be
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been picked UP bottom upwards with
masts and rigging all gone and not a
soul on board. It is believed that the
loss of life will not fall short Of a hun
dred. At Ship Island, previous to the
storm there were sever vessels loading
for foreign ports.
The British bark Rosetta Smith was
found bottom up drifting outside and
is a total loss. The mate, carpenter
and cook were drowned. The Austrian
barge Annie E. B., is a complete wreck.
Of the crew of 10 men and two steve
dores aboard, the captain, three sailors
and the two stevedores were dro wnedS
The stevedores were from Pascagoulas
One was white and n colored. The
damage by winds to the quarantine
service alone at Chandelier Island wIR
amount to nearly 800, 900. =
From information received from Mis-,
sissippi City, Handsboro, Pass Chris
tain and Ocean Springs, it is learned
that the destruction of wharves, bath
houses and boats has been completes
At Handsboro the mills of II. Leinhard
and the j. 7. Diddle Company have
been damaged considerably. Appealsi
for aid have come in so swiftly from
the stricken sections that it is impos-l
sible to render the necessary assistance
The Red Cross Society has taken the
matter in hand and issued a call for
aid. The Commercial Club will meet
to-day and take steps to raise subscrip
tons.
The canning industries were com
pletely wrecked, all the factories being
either badly damaged or utterly de-
stroyed. Much of the damage at the
back bay vas caused by a section Of