The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-18
WIDE DESTRUCTION,
DEATH WROUGHT
BY THE STORM
A Dozen or More Lives Are
Lost Below New
Orleans.
MUCH DAMAGE AT MOBILE
Hurricane at Pensacola Wrecks Sew
eral Vessels And the
Steamship Evelyn.
THE STORM NOW CENTRAL NEAR MEMPHIS
The Tennessee Rising Eight Inches an Rcu-.
All Growing Crops in Tennessee VAL
ley Ltfl by The May Flood
Have Gene Under
Have Gone Under.
CBy the Associated Press.)

New Orleans La, August 16.-The
storm has passed and seems to have
done no great damage anywhere except
along the river below the city. Sin
fatalities occurred near the river >
mouth. In the city the only injury was
to the lakeside resorts and to the sec
ton flooded by the break in the canal,
which was closed before morning. Rice
and orange farms on the lower coasts
were severely injured. The inhabitants
there believe that they were struck by
a tidal wave combined with cyclone.
The lives We're lost half mile above
quarantine A large house was over
turned with fifteen people in it and Mrs.
Rosa Walker, her l0-year old daughter,
Ida Walker, Miss Birdie Golden and
Miss Ella Golden were drowned. The
crew of the tugboat Biloxi sought refuge
n few hundred yards away and two OF
the sailors Blaine Davidson and Peter
Yeax-were drowned and the boat lost.
Both the Mississippi river and Lake
Ponehatrain are falling rapidly and the
storm has practically subsidized. The
water has rapidly receded from the sec.
ton OF the city overlooked yesterday.
Large bodies of men are repairing the
damage done at the various lake resorts
which bore the brunt of the storm.
Lite news has come thus far from
the Mississippi Sound; but there has
been no loss of life in that reach of
territory.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road is still badly crippled. No trains
have come in or gone out over the lines
since the night before last The sub.
sidence of water, however, makes it
probable that the damage to the tracks
will be quickly repaired and that traf-
fic will be resumed by night.
A large number of cotton and other
business men are still bottled up on the
coast and unable to get to their offices.
The Northeastern road has had sons
trouble but the Illinois Central has aid
ed both tho Louisville and Nashville
and Nor theasteIn in handling their pas
senGer traffic.
The Cromwell Liner Comus reached
the city today. She had no trouble in
the storm and saw no vessels in dis
trcss.
DIR. j. N. Thomas, of the quarantine
stat on, boarded the Comus near the
mouth OF the river and told Captain
Franklin that an unknown schooner and
a small boat had been wrecked in that
vicinity and six lives lost. No serious
damage was done at the quarantine sta.
ton.
Captain Stevenson. of the Esther,
which arrived today. brought up with
him Captain Samuel ]. Durham and -four
members of the crew of the tug Biloxi.
The Biloxi capsized during the storm
and the five rescued men made their
way to a tree to which they chung until
rescued. They reported that two Of the
crew of the tug was missing. Captain
Stevenson reported also that he saw a
ships mast. possibly fruiter, sticking
out of tho water about nine miles from
Southwest Pass. He was unable to
identify the vessel and saw none of her
crew.
The Esther had as passengers Juan
Y. Garlic. family of twelve and four
servants, all of Belize. They had been
at the quarantine station several days
and passed safely through the storm.
Captain Stevenson said house boat
and some small sraft had been battered
to pieces in the vicinity of the station
but he learned of no loss of life.