The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-23
STORM ON GULF COAST
GREAT FEARS ENTERTAINED FOR
THE SAFETY OF PORT EADs
PEOPLE.
LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED

trdtSG TO SuCn al CNiSHt tHah NS"S
From Outlying Districts Is Scarce.
Family of Fifteen Drowned-Gov-
eminent Boat General Reese and
Tuqboat VeIasco Thought to Be Lost.
New Orleans, Aug. 16.-The storm
which has been sweeping the Gulf
coast from Pensacola and moving
westward during the past two days
has Frustrated telegraph and tele-
phone wires to such an extent that
news from the outlying sections Is
hard to get. The greatest fears have
been entertained for the safety OF the
people living at Port Eads, which is at
the mouth of the Mississippi river, and
for the ships that started for sea just
before the storm began. The wires 10
Port Eads have been Frustrated since
Tuesday night at o'clock, but The
Picayune reached a man who left there
at 2 o'clock Wednesday. He was at
Buras, which is 60 miles down the
river and the farthest point with
which there is wire communication at
the present time. This man describes
the storm that swept that section as
q regular tidal wave, similar to the
one that resulted in such awful loss
of life in 1898. 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
Golden, half a mile above the quaran-
tine station, was swept away, and the
is members Of the family, including
children, were drowned. The quaran-
tine buildings were badly damaged,
but no one was injured. The big tow
boat Chamberlain was driven high and
dry in the marsh, but her crew are
safe. The government boat General
Reese is
Believed to Have Been Lost.
The piledriver at 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
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down to Pass L'Outre with two barges.
When last seen she had her decks
awash, and is believed to have gone
down. If this boat and her barges
have been lost, 20 more people have
been drowned. There are numerous
reports of individual casualties all
along the river from Buras down to
the passes. All the steamers that
started for the sea Tuesday remained
inside the passes until Wednesday
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
single vessel has passed up the river
since the storm began and fears are
entertained for the ones that are ex-
pected.
There is serious apprehension con-
corning the Cheniere Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the South
Louisiana coast, west of the Missis-
sippi river, where
TWO Thousand Lives Were Lost
In 1893 by the tidal wave. Up to this
writing no word has been received
from that section, which is largely in
habited by fishermen, mostly Chinese
and Malays.
The Louisville and Nashville rail-
road is blocked off beyond Chef Men
teur, 80 miles from this city. The
New Orleans and Northeastern road
is also blocked by washouts, and it's
big trestle over Lake Pontchartrain
has been shaken by the heavy seas
breaking against it.
There has been much damage at
Shell Beach, settlement on Lake
Borgne, which is southeast of the
city, and connects with Lake Point
chartrain. All the buildings there
have been swept away and there are
reports of loss of life among the fish
ermen, but the exact extent Of this Is
not known. A tidal wave swept over
the land there asst did nine years ago.
In the city Of New Orleans and SUI
burbs there has been some damage.
At Milneburg, one of the lake resorts,
the railroad pierhead running out into
the lake for distance of 1000 yards,
has been destroyed and
All Light Buildings Demolished.
The big buildings on shore withstood
the gale. There was no loss of life.
The steamer Neptune, tied up to this
pierhead, pounded herself to pieces
and sank.
At West End the lake rushed over
the reVetment and destroyed nearly
all of the buildings there. The big
dancing pavilion at Lake View was
pounded to pieces by wreckage, which
was washed up by the waves. The
shell road to West End has been under
three feet of water, and Bucktown, a
gambling resort at the end of the re-
yetment, has been swept away.
A coal fleet of "a barges belonging
to the Monongahela Coal company,
and anchored at Coalport, nine miles
above the city, had rough experience
and every tug in the harbor was sent
up there to save the barges. Six of
them, with an aggregate capacity of
5000 tons of coal. sank The ,towboat
Henry Marx, belonging to the Inter
state Transportation company. pound
ed hole in her bottom at Gretna and
sank. 1870.
Narionai SocIery OF rne Army OF the
Philippines Adjourns.
Salt Lake City, Aug. 16.-The sec
ond annual reunion of the National
Society of the Army of the Philinnines