The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-08-20
Feared Loss OF Life Has
Been Heavy.
CASUALTIES LARGE
Fears For Steamers That Went
Out, Also For People Along
the South louisiana
Coast.

coast from Pensacola and moving
westward prostrated telegraph and
telephone wires to such an extent
that news from the outlying sections
were hard to get. The greatest fears
have been entertained for the safety
Of the people living at Port Eads,
which Is the mouth Of the Mississippi
river, and for the ships that started
to sea Just before the storm began.
The wires to Port Eads have been
prostrated since Tuesday night at
o'clock, but The Picayune reached
O man who left there at o'clock on
Wednesday. He was at Buras, which
IL go miles down the river and the
farthest point with which there was
wire connection at this writing.
A Regular Tidal Wave.
This man described the storm which
swept that section as a regular tidal
wave, similar to the one which re.
suited 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 Is
miles from the mouth Of the river.
The house Of man named Golden,
half mile above the quarantine sta
lion, was swept away and the Is
members of the family, including nine
children, were drowned. The quaran.
tine buildings were badly damaged,
but no one injured. The big towboat
Chamberlain was driven high and dry
in the marsh, but her crew are safe
lhe government boat General Peese
is believed to have been lost. Captain
O'Brien's house was swept away, but
he vas on the boat, which was be.
Geved to be outside. The pile driver
at Port Eads was sunk. The steam.
boat Buras was driven ashore near
tie lighthouse and later 1t was re-
ported that she had SUNK. Her crew
were said to have been saved. The
tugboat Velasco went down to Pass
L'Outre, which Is the western mouth
OF the river, with two barges. When
last seen she had her decks awash,
and is believed to have gone down.
Twenty May Have Drowned.
II this boat and her barges have been
lost 20 more people may have been
drowned. There are numerous re-
ports Of individual casualties all along
the river from Buras down to the
passes. All the steamers which start
Ell for the sea Tuesday remained in
side the passes until Wednesday
evening and then went out safely.
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 con.
corning the Cheniere Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the South
Louisiana coast, west Of the Missis.
sippi river, where 1000 lives were
lost in 1898 by the tidal wave. Up
to this writing no word has been re-
ceived from that section, which is
largely inhabited by fishermen, most
ly Chinese and Malays.
Up to Wednesday night everything
seemed to be safe at sthe 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 reports Of
damage so far received are destroyed
bath houses and uprooted trees.
Reports Of Loss Of Life.
There has been much damage done
at Shell Beach, settlement on Lake
CITY. and connects with Lake Ponchar.
train. All the buildings there have
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