Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-08-22
LOST IN A STORM,
Much Damage Done BY Wind ana
Rain.
A AFAMILY OF FIFTEEN DROWNED
The Great Gulf Storm Has Swept All
Telegraph Wires Away Heavy
Loss of Property.

LoSS OF property.
New Orleans, Srecial.-The storm
which has been sweeping the CHI
coast from Pensacola and novin,
eastward during the past two davs
has pE9strated telegraph and te!C
phone wires to Sucn an extent tha
news from the outlying sections i!
nara TO get at. The greatest fear.
nave been entertained for the safety
OF the people living at Port Eads
"hlch is at the mouth Of the river
and for the ships that started for SCI
Just before the storm began. Tbs
wires there have been prostra.e
since Tuesday night at O'Clock. bul
The Picayune reached a man VIII,
left Port Eads at 2 o'clock on Wednes
day he was seen at Buras, which is
6O miles down the river, and tbs
tarthest point with which there is
wire communication at the present
time. This man describes the storm
! which swept that section as a regular
| TIDAL wave, similar to the one which
| resulted in such an awful loss of life
| IN 1893. He says all the people living
| on the east bank Of the river have
| moved up to the jump which is IS
miles from the mouth of the river.
| The house Of a man named Cobden
half mile above the quarantine sta
ton, was swept away and the fifteen
| members of the family, including nine
children, drowned.
The quarantine buildings were bad
ly damaged, but no one injured The
big tow boat Chamberlain was driven
high and dry in the marsh, but her
crew are safe. The government boat
General Reise 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 piledriver at Port Eads was
sunk. The steamboat barge was
driven ashore near the lighthouse and
later it was reported that she had
sunk. Her crew were said to have
been saved. The tug Velesco went
down to Pass L'Outre, which is the
eastern mouth Of the river, with two
barges. When last seen she had her
decks awash, and it is feared she has
gone down. If this boat and her
barges have been lost, 20 people more
have been drowned. There are num-
erous reports of individual casualties
all along down the passes. The steam
ers which started for the sea Tuesday
remained inside the passes until We'd
nesday evening and then went out
safely, among the number being the
Cromwell liner PrOteuS, and the
British transport Mechanician, which
was dynamited while in port few
days ago. Not a single vessel has
passed up the river since the storm
began and great fears are entertained
for the ones which are expected. There
is SeriOl ) apprehension concerning
the Che1iere, Caminada and Grande
Isle sections, on the south Louisiana
coast, west of the Mississippi river,
where 1000 lives were lost in 1893
by the trial wave. Up to this writing
no word has been received from that
section which is ;. 'gely inhabited by
fishermen, mos+i1 Chinese and Nal
ayS.
Up to THU 5day midnight every
thing seemed to be safe at the Mis-
sissippi coast towns, Bay ST. Louis
Pass Christian, Biloxi, Mississippi
City and Ocean Springs, but since then
not a word has been heard from them.
All wires are down. The only reports
of damage SO far received are of de-
stroyed bath houses and uprooted
trees. The Louisville and Nashville
teur, 80 miles from this city. The big
steel bridge there is safe, but beyond
there are several washouts on the
road. The New Orleans and North
eastern road is also blocked by wash
outs and it's big trestle over Lake
POntchartrain has been shaken by the
heavy seas breaking against it. There
has been much damage done at Shell
Beach southwest of the city, and
which connects with Lake POntchar
train. All the buildings there have
been swept away, and there are re
ports of loss Of life among the fish,
erman, 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 Sill
burbs there has been considerable |
damage At Milneberg, one Of the |
Lake resorts, the railroad pier head |
running out into the lake for a dis |
tance of a thousand yards has been |
destroyed and all light buildings dam |
aged. The big buildings on shore |
the gale. There was no less
OF life. The steamer Neptune, tied up |
to this pier head, pounded herself |
to pieces and sank.