The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-17

Eads which is at the mouth of the river.
and for. the ships that started for sea
just before sthe storm began. The wires
there have been FRUSTRATED since Tues
day night at eight o'clock but the Plea
yune reached "a man who left Port Eads
at two o'clock on Wednesday. He was
seen at Buras, which is sixty miles down
the farthest point with which there is
any communication IN to the present
time.
This man describes the storm which
swept that section as regular tidal
wave, similar to the one which resulted
In such awful loss of life in 1893 He
says all the people living on the east
bank of the river have moved up to the
lump" which is fifteen miles from the
mouth of the river. The house OF a
man named Golden half mile above the
quarantine station was swept away and
the fifteen members of his family includ-:
ing nine children, drowned. The quaran-s
tine buildings were badly damaged but
no one injured. The big towboat Cham
berlain was driven high and dry in the
marsh but her crew are safe. The Gov
eminent boat General Reese is believed
to have been lost. Captain O'Brien's
house was swept away but he was on
the boat which was believed to be out
side. The pile driver ut Port Eads was
sunk. The steamboat Buras was driven
ashore near the lighthouse and later 1t
was reported that she had sunk. Her
crew were said to have been saved. The
tugboat Velasco went down to Pass
LOutree which is the eastern mouth of
the river, with two barges. When las,
seen she had her decks awash and 1T is
feared she has gone down. If this boat
and her barges have been lost twenty
people more have been drowned. There
are numerous reports of individual cas-
ualties all along the river from Buras
down to the passes.
All the steamers which started for the
sea Tuesday remained inside the passes
until Wednesday evening and then went
out safely among the number the Crom
well Liner Proteus and the British trans
port Mechanician, which was dynamited
while in port a few days ago. Not
single vessel has passed up the river
since the storm began and great fears
are entertained for the ones which are
expected. There is serious apprehension
concerning the Cheniere Caminada and
Grande Isle sections, on the South Louis
lana coast, west of the Mississippi River
where two thousand lives were lost in
1891 by the tidal wave. Up to this writ
ing no word has been received from that
section which is largely inhabited by
fishermen, mostly Chinese and Malays.
Up to last midnight everything seemed
to be safe at the Mississippi coast towns,
Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Biloxi, Mis-
sissippi City and Ocean Springs, but since
then not a word has been heard from
them All wires are down. The only re-
ports of damage SO far received an of
destroyed bath houses and uprooted trees.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
is blocked off beyond Chef Menteur thirty
miles from this city. The big steel bridge
there is safe, but beyond there are sew
eral washouts on the roads. The New
Orleans and Northeastern Railroad is also
blocked by washOuts on the lake and it's
big trestle over'Lake Pontchartrain has
been shaken by the heavy seas breaking
against it.. iss
There has been much damage done at
Shell eBach settlement on Lake Borgne
southeast of the city and which connects
with Lake Pontchartrain. All the build
ings there have been swept away and
there are reports OF loss of life among the
fishermen but the exact extent of this is
not known A tidal wave swept over the
land there as it did nine years ago.
In the city of New Orleans and suburbs
there has been considerable damage. At
Milesburg. one Of the lake resorts, the
railroad pier head running out into the
lake for a distance of a thousand yards
has been destroyed, and all light build
ings demolished. The big buildings on
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loss of life. The steamer Neptune tied
up to it's pier head pounded herself to
pieces and sunk.
At West End the lake rushed over the
revetment and DESTROYED nearly all of
the buildings there. The big dancing pa
vilion at Lake View was pounded to
pieces by wreckage washed up by the
waves. The shell road to West End has
been under three feet of water and
sBucktown," gambling resort at the
end of the revetment has been sept away.
The old basin canal coming into the city
on Toulouse street overfiowed it's banks,
inundating the entire second district.
thousand men have been put to work on
and are raising its banks.
coal fleet of 124 barges belonging to
the Monongahela Coal Company, of Pitts
burg, and anchored at Coalport, nine
miles above the city, had a rough expe-
rfence and every tug in the harbor was
sent to save them. Six of them, with an
aggregate capacity Of 5000 ton Of coal
sank. ls ~ #
The tow boat Henry Marx, belonging to
the Interstate Transportation Company,
pounded a hole in her bottom at Gretna
this morning and sank.