The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-16
GULF STORM SWEPT
,xn AND WAVE DOES HEAVY
" DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.
LOSS OF LIFE is UNKNOWN.
TEARS ENTERTAINED FOR THOSE
ON COAST ISLANDS.


,,on.r l.. and N. and N. o. and N. Il.
p,,Iroads-MobiIe Entirely Cut on
From communication With Out
lido wOrId-GaIvestOn, So Far, I'm
harmed.
New orleans, Aug. 15.-The storm
Ghich has been sweeping the Gulf
coast from Pensacola and moving
westward during the past two days has
prostrated telegraph and telephone
wires to such an extent that news from
+he outlying sections is hard to get
at. The greatest fears have been enter
tanned for the safety of the people liv-
ing at Port Eads, which is the mouth
of the river and for ships that started
TO sea just before the storm began.
The wires there have been prostrated
since Tuesday night at s 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 so
miles down the river, and the farthest
point with which there is wire COM
munication at the present time.
KeSulnf THAI 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 mics from
the mouth of the river. The house of
man named Cobden half a mile
above the quarantine station was swept
away and the fifteen members of the
family, including nine children, drown
ed The quarantine buildings were
badly damaged, but no one injured
The big towboat Chamberlain was
driven high and dry in the marsh, but
her crew is safe. The government boat
Gen. Reise is believed to have been
lost. Capt. OBriens 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 Buras was driven ashore
near the lighthouse and later it was
reported that she had sunk. Her crew
were said to have been saved.
The tugboat Velasco went down to
Pass POutre, which is the eastern
mouth of the river, with two .barges.
Nhen last seen she had her decks
aWash and 1t is feared she has gone
down. If this boat and her barges
nave been lost twenty people more have
neen drowned. There are numerous
reports of individual casualties all
along the river from Buras down TO the
passes.
All the steamers which started for
the sea Tuesday remained inside the
passes until Wednesday evening and
theh went out safely, among the num-
Der being the Cromwell liner Proteus
ana the British transport Mechanician,
winch was dynamited while in port a
lew days ago. Not a single vessel has
passed up the river since the storm be-
gan and great fears are entertained
LOT the ones which are expected
there is serious apprehension con-
cerning the Cheniere Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the South Loui-
sidha coast, west of the Mississippi
ilNer' where two thousand lives were
lost IN 1898 by the tidal wave. Up to
thls writing no word has been received
rom that section, which is largely in
Hdolted by fishermen, mostly Chinese
and Malays.
Gulf Towns Safe as Yet.
UP to last midnight everything SEEM
ed to be safe at the Mississippi coast
towns, Bay st. Louis, Pass Christian,
6SLoXl' mississippi City and Ocean
Sprlhgs, but since then not a word has
9een heard from them. All wires are
uoWn. The only reports of damage so
far received are of destroyed bath
houses and uprooted trees.
me Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road IS blocked off beyond Chef Men
tseur' thirty miles from this city The
uls steel bridge there is safe, but be-
!ohd there are several washouts on
eLe eLe road The New Orleans and North
EASTERN Railroad is also blocked by
.Mdshouts on the lake and it's big tres
M ue over Lake Pontchartrain has been
shaken by the heavy seas breaking
against il.
mere has been much damage done
a. a. smell Beach, a settlement on Lake
pViEhe' southeast of the city, ana
t%nich connects with Lake Pontchar-
pLdIn' All the buildings there have
r 81 swept away, and there are re-
~ Nv, Is OF loss of life among the fisher
not put the exact extent of this is
tL ol khown. A tidal wave swept over
'ne land there as it did nine years ago
New Orleans and Suburbs.
,,.l IN the city of New Orleans and sub
u Us there has been considerabl dam
- AT Milneburg, one of the lake
on. U.s. the railroad pier head running
tL ~. INTO the lake for a distance of a
oWrouSahd aW yards has been destroyed and
bn nSht buildings demolished The big
M, TTIllldlngs on shore withstood the gale.
NaeIe was no loss of life. The steamer
np'.he' tied up to this pier head
''euaed herself to pieces and sank
~ west End the lake rushed over
~ IeVetment and destroyed nearly all
nulldings there. The big dancing
piG'lllon at Lake View was pounded to !
1 p,eees by wreckage, washed up by the
bs. The shell road to West End
a11 Deen under three feet of water,
n, hucktown," a gambling resort at
sn, thd OF the revetment has been
i,ept away. The old basin canal com |
o,od INTO the CITY on Toulouse street |
er,i.Howed its bsnks, inundating the |
ba,I second district. A thousand men |
80 peen put to work on and are |
''ISIng its banks.
o. coal fleet of 124 barges. belonging |
p,.e me Monongahela Coal Company of |
ni'Spurg and anchored at Coal Port, |
c. miles above the city, had a rough |
.'Iehce and every tug I'm the harbor |
cI sent to save them Six Of them. |
,.NH an aggregate capacity of 5000 |
WIS of coal. sank.
IN ~, ne towboat Henry Marx, belonging |
na1.. ne interstate Transportation Com |
NJ ~ pounded a hole in her bottom |
HIetha this morning, and sank.
Hattiing With the Elements.
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