The age-herald., 1901-08-16
Portion of City of New Orleans Is Inundated By
 Overflow of Canal
FAMILY OF FIFTEEN DROWNED
By House Being Swept Away at Port Eads-Feared Many Boats Have Gone Down-Many Telegraph
 Lines Are Paralyzed.

WhicH HdS pSeH sweeping the BulI coast from Pensacola and moving westward during the past two days has prostrated telegraph and telephone wires to such an extent that news from the outlying sec- tions is hard to obtain.
 The greatest fears have been entertained for the safety of the people living at Port Eads, which Is at the mouth of the river, and for the ships that started for sea just before the storm began. The wires there have been prostrated since Tuesday night at o'clock but the Picayune reached a man who left Port Eads at 2 o'clock on Wednesday. He was seen at Buras, which is sixty miles down the river and the farthest point with which there is wire communication at the pres- ent time.
 Regular Tidal Wave.
 This man describes the storm which swept that section as a 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 Jump" which Is fifteen miles from the mouth of the river. The house of man named Golden, half a mile above the quarantine station, was swept away, and the fifteen members of the family, including nine children, were drowned. The quarantine buildings were badly damaged but no one was injured. The big towboat 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 outside. The pile driver at Port Eads was sunk. The steamboat Bu- ras was driven ashore near the lighthouse and later 1t was reported that she had sunk. Her crew were said to have been saved.
 Twenty May Be Lost.
 The tugboat Velasco went down to Pass A LOutre, which Is the eastern mouth of the river. with two barges. When last seen she had her decks awash, and Is be- and her barges have been lost.s twenty people or more have been drowned. There are numerous reports of individual casu- alties all along the rives from Buras down to the passes.
 All the steamers which started for sea Tuesday remained inside the passes un- til Wednesday evening and then went out safely, among the number being the Cromwell liner Proteus and the British transport Mechanician, which was dyna- mited while in port a 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 serious apprehension concern ing the Chenier Caminada and Grand Isle sections, on the South Louisiana coast, west of the Mississippi river, where 2000 lives were lost in 1893 by the tidal wave. Up to this writing no word has been re- ceived from that section, which is large ly inhabited by fishermen, mostly Chinese and Malays.
 No News Since Midnight.
 Up to last midnight everything seemed to be safe at the Mississippi 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. but no great fear Is entertained. The only re- CA destroyed bath houses and uprooted trees.
 There has been much damage done at Shell Beach, settlement on Lake Bor- gue, which is southeast of the city, and connects with Lake Pontchartrafn. All the buildings there have been swept away, and there are reports of loss or life among the fishermen, but the exact ex- tent of this Is not known A tidal wave swept over the land today, as it did nine years ago.
 Damage in New Orleans.
 In the city of New Orleans and suburbs there has been some damage At Milne burg, one of the lake resorts, the pier heading running out into the lake for a distance of a thousand yards has been destroyed and all light buildings demol- ished. The big buildings on shore with stood the gale There was no loss of life. The steamer Neptune tied up to this pier head and pounded herself to pieces and sank.
 At West End the lake rushed over the revetment and destroyed nearly all the buildings. The big dancing pavilion at Lake View was pounded to pieces by wreckage washed up by the waves. The shellroad leading to west End mas been under three feet of water, and Buck town" a gambling resort at the end of the revetment, has been swept away. It was at the mouth of canal and the sweep of water from the lake into the canal carried everything before 1t.
 The old basin canal coming into the city on Toulouse street overfiowed its banks. inundating the entire second dis trict. A thousand men have been put to work and are raising it's banks
 
 Has Hayes Resigned?