Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-09-30
SIXTY KILLED
New Orleans and Surrounding Country
Struck by Hurricane.
PROPERTY LOSS MILLIONS

Dwellings, Cotton Gins and Sugar
Mills Levelled-Miles of Territory
Laid Waste-New Orleans Recov-
ering from the Blow.
Gradually New Orleans and the
territory surrounding the Crescent
City is recovering from the first eff
feet of the tropical hurricane, which.
starting Sunday, continued. through
out Monday and Monday night
Sixty-three human lives arc now
positively known to have been claim
ed as victims of the storm, and for
ty others are reported to have been
lost In lower Terre Bonne Parish.
but as yet this report has not yet
been authenticated.
The property loss will run into the
| millions.
Miles and miles of territory have
been laid waste. Crops have prac-
tically been ruined.
Dwellings, cotton gins and sugar
mills have been leveled. New Or
leans Is sadly crippled in the way
or railroad facilities and telegraph
and telephone communication with
the outside world. 1t was not until
Wednesday night that the Western
Union Telegraph Company was able
TO get a working wire out of the
city. For two days the city's only
communication with the outside
world was over an imp ovised long
distance telephone circuit Of the AS
ISOLATED Press. Both the Illinois
Central and the Louisville and Nash
vile railroads have suffered heavy
loss. miles of their tracks having
peen washed away. II will be sew
erai weeks before the Louisville and
Nashville Will again be running
'rains over their own tracks. From
carly Wednesday morning. the death
list in the lower portion of Terre
Bonne Parish increased az detsils
or the hurricanes destruction we're
hourly received until "Wednesday
night 1t mum bercd twenty-nine. II
Is reported that at least fifty Others
are missing, they are said to have
Deen drowned or crushed in the Gy-
ing debris of wrecked mills. dwell
lings and fishing camps. Thrilling
tales of narrow escapes and daring
rescues came from the storm swept
area.
One of the victims of the storm
IN Terre Bonne Parish was NJ. F..
smith. of New Iberia, who with his
brother. A. f. Smith. and dozen
friends. made up fishing party at
D
'eabreeze. The brother of the
irowned man reached Houna. La.
Wednesday. bringing the news OF
his brothers. death
Pleasure craft and shipping of all
kinds in the bayon inlets were total
y destroyed and the loss will be
heaVy. Store houses, sugar mills
and other villages suffered heavily
ana scarcely structure was un-
tounched by the hurricane
The damage done by the storm at
Grand Island. Cheniere, Caminda.
was very heavy, but at these places
here was no loss of life. The crops
u these Islands were totally destroy
I'd and the orange groves were strip
ped clean of fruit and foliage.
The first news from these islands
was received Wednesday when the
mFnl steamer Grand Isle eached
New Orleans. 1t was feared before
he arrival of the boat that hundreds
hed lost their lives. In the tropical
storm of 1898 no less than fifteen
hundred were drowned on Cheniere
Camlnds. One man lost his life
at bay st. Louis, a fisherman, name
unknown, who was drowned Monday.
number of other places are yet
10 be heard from. The long railroad
bridge at Bay st. Louis is a COM
fore 1T is repaired.
| When the storm struck this bridge
| Geo. Doherty. Il Western Union line
man. was attempting to repair the
| wires. He and three negroes were
| carried down. "The waves were run
| ling mt least fifty feet high" said
| Dohetry, and If we had not dashed
| ourselves to raft with wire we
would have been drowned. The
bridge went down Sunday and we
| We're washed around in the bay until
Monday afternoon, when We were
picked up by a fishing schooner"
Refugees were arriving in New
Orleans oil day Wednesday,
List of the Dead.
Terre Bonne Parish, La. definite
20; reported 40.
| New Orleans. definite :.
Premier, La. definite 4
Desair, La. definite 3.
Jackson. Miss, definite Q
Baton Rouge, La, definite /.
Vaudeville, La, definite 1.
Bay ST. Louis, Miss. definite 1.
Donaldson, La, definite /.
Gramercy. La. definite T.
Grand Point. La, reported T.
Barataria Bay. La. reported T.
Pass Mauchae. definite g.
Total definite So. reported As.
Morgan City. La. definite 10
Eastford, Miss. definite T.