The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-24
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New Orleans, La.-Gradually New
Orleans and the territory surround
ing the Crescent City is recovering
from the first effects of the shock
and results of the tropical hurricane.
Forty-six human lives are now posi-
lively known to have been claimed
as victims of the storm and fifty 9TH
ers are reported to have been drown
ed or persisted under debris in lower
Terrebonne parish, but as yet this re-
port has not been authenticated.
The property loss is even far heay-
Ter than was. first believed, and in
stead of running into thousands OF
dollars, it will run up into the mil
lions by the time the final details of
havoc and destruction left in the
wake of the hurricane are tailed.
Miles, and miles OF territory have
been laid waste by the storm.
Crops have practically been ruined.
Dwellings, cotton gins and sugar
mills have been leveled, but already,
with the progressive spirit Of the
south, the people have expressed the
determination to repair as fast as
possible the damage wrought, and
will in the end profit by the expert
ence, narrowing and terrible as it
was.
A half dozen or more fishing camps
along the gulf in Terrebonne parish
were totally wrecked, fishing outfits,
being carried by the wind out for
miles and the fishermen are heavy
sufferers, as all of their worldly pos.
sessions in the majority Of cases,
were represented by these outfits.
Pleasure craft and shipping of all
kinds in the bayou inlets were totally
destroyed, and the loss will be heavy.
Store houses, sugar mills and dwell
ings of every character at Houma and
other villages suffered heavily, and
scarcely a structure was untouched
by the hurricane.
The damage done by the storm at
Grand Island, Cheniere and Caminada
was very heavy, but at these places
there was no loss of life. The crops
of these islands were totally destroy
ed, as the water swept across them
two or three feet deep, washing them
away, and the orange groves we're
shipped clean Of fruit, and foliage
alike, hundreds of them being uproot-
ed or broken short off to the groumd,
carried swirling and twisting away
with the first wind.
The long railroad bridge at Bay St.
Louis is a complete wreck, and It will
be weeks before it is repaired.
Jackson, Miss.-Informatio rela-
tive to damage inflicted by the hurri-
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character. The most gratifying news
received here was that the timber de-
struction in south Mississippi is not
of a serious character, very few trees
in the long-leaf yellow pine belt hav-
ing been blown down.
The crop damage, especially to cot
ton will also be much smaller than
indicated by the earlier reports.
The Mississippi Coast Traction Com
pany was hard hit, the track from
Long Beach to Biloxi being washed
up at innumerable places.
The damage to the east dome of the
new capitol will amount to at least
$4,000.
Biloxi, Miss.-Again and with n
days less than three years since the
last fiSlIoIlOh, biloxi mas IelJ the Ter
rible breath of the storm king from
off the wa.ters of the Gulf of Mexico,
and cnce more her beautiful beach
front lies dashed and torn, her piers,
bath houses and summer houses bro
ken to splinters and washed ashore
or broken up. The scene on the beach
was one Of terrible destruction. The
water came up higher than during
the storm Of three years ago.