The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-08-22
GULF COAST STORM
Wind and Wave Play Havoc From
Pensacola to New Orleans.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED
Wires Are Frustrated and Hurricane
Stricken District is Totally lsolat-
ed-Many Vessels Face Grave
Dangers.

A New Orleans special says: Ine
storm which has been sweeping the
gulf coast from Pensacola and NOV
ing westward during the past two
days has prostrated telegraph and tel
ephone wires to such an extent that
news from the outlying sections is
hard to get at. 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 man has been
reached who left Port Eads at 2
o'clock on Wednesday. He was seen
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 which
SwCpI lu1S SCSIlou eo q iCSuiai IAoah
wave similar to the one which result
ed in such awful loss of life in 1893.
He says all the people living on the
east bank of the river have moved 10
the Jump" which is Is miles from
the mouth Of the river.
Family of Fifteen Lost.
The house of man named Golden,
half mile above the quarantine sta
ton, was swept away, and the fifteen
members Of the family, including nine
children, drowned. The quarantine
buildings were badly damaged, but no
one injured. The big towboat Cham
berlaiD was driven high and dry IN
the marsh, but her crew are safe. The
government boat at 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 Burns
was driven ashore near the light
house and later 1t was reported that
she had sunk Her crew were said
to have been saved. The tugboat We.
lasco went down to Pass A. L'Outre,
which is the eastern mouth of the
river, with two barges. When last seen
she had her decks awash and is be-.
lieved to have gone down. If this boat
and her barges have been lost, twenty
people more have been drowned.
There are numerous reports Of indi-
vidual casualties all along the river
from Burns down to the passes.
All the steamers which started for
the sea Tuesday remained inside the
passes until Wednesday evening, and
then went out safely, among the num-
ber being the Cromwell liner Proteus
and the British transport Mechanician,
which was dynamited while in port a
few days ago. Not single vessel has
passed up the river since the storm
began and great fears are entertained
for the ones which are expected.
Great Loss Of Life Feared.
There is serious apprehension con-
cerning the Cheniere, Caminada and
Grand Isle sections, on the south Lou
isiana coast, west Of the Mississippi
river, where 1000 lives were lost in
1898 by the tidal wave. Up to this
writing no word has been received
from that section, which is largely
inhabited by fishermen, mostly Chi
nese and Malays.
Up to midnight Thursday night
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 word has been heard from
them. All wires are down but no
great fear is entertained. The only
reports Of damages so far received
are of destroyed bath houses and up
rooted trees.
Storm Isolates Mobile.
The tropical storm which ragged
along the gulf coast completely iso-
lated the city of Mobile, Ala, from
the outside world.