Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-23
TOLL OF DEATH HEAVY
Storms Death List May Reach
Hundred or More.
PROPERTY LOSS MILLIONS
Relief Parties Busy Seeking Victims
in Terrebonne Parish.
FISHERMEN CLING TO HOMES
Carcasses of Cattle Strewn Over
Prairies-Dead Birds and Musk
rats Float on Waters.

| NEW ORLEANS. September 23.-At an
early hour today the list Of known dead
who persisted in Terrebonne parish during
Mondays hurricane had swelled to more
than forty It is believed . score or more
may be added to this number.
| Additional reports of death in other
sections of Louisiana are also being re-
ceived. The toll Of human life exacted
by the hurricane will count perhaps a
hundred people when the final count has
| been made.
Further details OF property loss. reach.
| ing millions Of dollars. come In with the
gradual restoration Of communication.
Relief parties in Terreeonne parish are
continuing their work today. Five hun
dred sufferers from the storm are being
cared for at Houma, parish seat OF Terre-
bonne and in surrounding neighborhoods
A few fishermen, with the almost for
lorn hope that missing relatives and
friends may be found. or. at least. their
dead bodies discovered. or that they may
resurrect some Of their lost belongings.
remain upon the scene Of their desolated
homes.
Whole Families Gone.
The families Of Thomas and Walter
Rhodes, numbering fourteen people, are
now reported almost certainly among the
dead Others not located who are be-
lieved to have persisted are Dick Gray.
wife and seven children. Ines verret and
family Of four, c. Bolt and wife, and
Carcasses Of cows horses, hogs and dogs
strew the prairies for miles. Thousands
of dead birds and muskrats are floating
on the waters of the bayous.
The bodies Of three fishermen were
found in the Louisiana marshes several
miles southeast OF New Orleans. 1t was re-
ported today. Two children near BOISE
du Tacre. La. were drowned. when ski1s
in which families were fleeing struck OBJ
structions Two we're killed by the col
lapse of a house near Clinton, La.
No trace of the crew of nine men on the
sloop Seven Brothers, wrecked near the
Rigolets. twenty miles east or new Of-
leans, has been discovered.
A relief expedition. equipped by the
Louisiana game commission, left New Or
leans today for the gulf coast. going
direct to Lake Catherine. From there 1t
will make its way toward Gulfport. dis
tributing supplies and rendering aid to the
sufferers.
Weather Bureau Warning Given.
Weather bureau warnings Of the West
property.
Ports in the storm district were warned
of the approaching disturbance. Vessels
in the extreme south Atlantic and Gulf
OF Mexico were advised to remain in the
harbor.
The storm seemed to have its inception
near the middle islands Of the Lesser
Antilles September 12. and moved west
ward over the Caribbean sea for two
days, when a center Of cyclonic action
appeared both north and south OF the
island Of Jamaica.
The northern disturbance disappeared.
while that to the south increased in
intensity and moved northwestward. The
storm arrived at the Yucatan channel
the morning OF September H.
Up to this time the storm had not ap-
preached q station Of observation. CAL
culations Of its location and direction
of movement had been made from tele-
graphic reports from stations in the
West Indies, far away from Its center.
The course Of the hurricane was told
In advance, and on account of the warn
ings issued by the weather bureau q
large amount Of merchandise was pro-
tected.