Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-10-12


beginning sunday night aud contiuu
Ing most of the day Monday did a ter.
ible amount or. damage to property
and killed many people. The news
is best told in the reports from THO
cities along the coast. They are as
follows:
THE NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The storm was one Of the worst
which ever visited this part of the
country, and, as far as can be learned,
twenty-four or more persons were
Killed and probably three times a,
many fatally injured. The crash OF
sheds and buildings blown down,
trees torn up and houses uuroofed,
caused intense alarm and most of tue
population of the city remained up all
night expecting their houses to be
blown down. The Royetmeut levee
on Lake Pontchartrain, which protects
New Oaleans from overflow on the
rear, was washed away by the water
Many of the yachts there were sunken
or injured. Tho tracks of the Louis
vile Il Nashville railroad are badly
washed for fifteen miles, and it will be
several days before it can run traius.
Th ee deaths, one person wounded Sc
verely, if not fatally, and ten hurt, is
the mortality record in New Orleans.
Below the city 1t is far worse, espe.
clally i'll Plaquemine. Here the winl
reached velocity of 100 to 125 miles
an hour, sweeping everything before
it. The parish site of justice, Pointea
La Hache, of 1000 people is the worst
sufferer. In the town not single
house escaped injury. Four grown
people are known to have been killed
and several children, how many is not
exactly known. Probably the mortal
ity will be greatly increased when the
news is received from the far away
settlements of the gulf coast below
Pointea La Hache, in the orange coun-
try Of Louisiana, The crop was ripe
upon the trees and was about to be
harvested. 1t was completely de.
stroyed in the storm with loss of
$3.50, 900 on this one item. The crop
on the orange farms Of Bradish John.
son, the largest in the South, had been
sold to fruit dealer in New Orleans.
NJ. Oteri, for 500, 900. 1t is said
there is not an orange left on the
trees, and il is the same way all down
the coast. The storm came from the
north and northeast and went in a
sou.hwesterly direction. Tho sugar
district escaped the worst of the blow.
There is much damage to rice and SUI
gar cane.
AT MOBILE.
The storm broke in its fury here
Monday morning. The city was
largely inundated with water blown
from the gulf. The indications are
That the loss of life in the low lands
has been very great. Many boats
were blown up high and dry and left
total wrecks. This Buffalo shell road,
The pride of Mobile is almost total
wreck. Communication direct be,
tween Mobile and New Orleans has
been cut OFF and will probably not be
resumed for three or four weeks ia
come. Between this city aud Scran.
ton the Western Union has barely q
pole left standing. Between .Ventia
and Scranton, thirty or forty houses
were swept away, but no loss of life
has been reported. AT Scranton and
East Pascagonla, four miles distant on
The sound, houses were blown down,
stores flooded and stocks damaged.
The losses at these two points are said
to reach 100000. The Louisville 81
Nashville railroad is heavy loser all
along this section, Several miles of
u ack has been washed AWAY and
bridges badly damaged. AT Biloxi
200 feet of the span of the bridge
were washed away. The entire dam
age to the road is beyond computation
at present. A row boat trip of tho
marshes revealed tale of desolation
and death that almost equals those sent
out a month ago from Savannah and
the sea islands. The natives along
the coast in many places are in des-
litute condition. For miles inland
the trees are laid low and the loss of
life is reported very large. Along the
coast this side of Blakely, whole fam
lilies are known to have persisted. The
streams flowing into the bay are said
to be filed VITA floating bedding, fur
niturc and household effects. In this
city there was great damage done to
shade trees and flower gardens, and
many houses were unroofed. 1t Ia
impossible to estimate the damage
aonesin the CITY, but it will not fall
short of S250,000
AT PENSACOLA.
The most destructive storm thai
PENSACOLA has experienced in twenty
years began At 6 O'Clock Monday morn.
ING and ragged with intense fury until
IN the evening. No loss Of life has
been reported, but upon every street
"piooted*elecs, broken fences and
roofess buildings testify to the storm's
force. On Baylen street wharf the
building used by Warren 81 Co. for
smoking fish was blown into the bay.
II was stored with cured fish, and
their loss will be great. On the soma