The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-23
Gulf Coast Towns Are
Devastated.
PROPERTY LOSSES WILL
MOUNT INTO MILLIONS
An Albanian Is Known to Have
Been Drowned.
Reports Frsm the Devastated Dastrict
Are stiu Measer asd Disaster
Feared - He Yet Under-
4 Estimated.

New Orleans. Sept. 23.-Death list
Of gulf coast hurricane:
Terrebone parish. La, definite, 20; re-
ported. 50: New orleans. definite. 81;
Frenier2 La. DEFINITE. -; Desair. La.
DEFINITE. 8; yackson. Miss. definite. o:
Baton Rouge. La. definite. !; Mande-
Vile. La. definits. /; Bay st. Louis.
Miss. definite. i: DonaldsonviIie. La.
Definite. /: Gramercy. La. DEFINITE. Il;
Grand Point La. reported. &; Barata-
ria Bay. La. reported. 1. East Fork.
Miss. repUrted. Z. Total definate, 81:
reported, 90.
New Orleans, La. Sept. 23-Gradual-
" New Orleans and the territory sur
rounding the Crescent City 10 recover
ing from the full effects Of the shock
ana results Of the tropical hurricane
which. starting Sunday. continued
throughout Monday and Monday night
Thirty-eight human lives are now
positively known to have been claimed
az victims OF the storm and fifty
others are reported to have been
drowned or persisted under debris In
lower Terre Bonnie Parish, but as yet
this report has not been authenticated.
The property loss. 10 even far heavier
than was first believed and instead Of
running into the thousands Of dol
lars. 1t viii run up into the millions
by the time the Anal 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. Dwell
lings, cotton gins and sugar mills have
been leveied but already. with the pro-
grssslvs spirit Of the scuth. the poo
pie have expressed the determination
TO repair as fast as possible the DAM
age wrought. and win. in the END. prof
It by the experience. narrowing ana
terrible as It was.
New Orleans is stiii sadly crippled In
the way OF railroad facilities and tele-
graph and telephone communication
with the outside world. It was not un-
ell tonight 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 word was over an
impoverished long distance telephone
circuit Of The Associated Press.
Trame 10 In5urea.
The Illinois Central Railroad COM
pany is sending its northbound trains
out over the Yazoo ana Mississippi VAL
ley tracks as far as Baton Rouge and
then detouring them across TO Ham,
mond, where the main line is tapped.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
is moving trains out OF the city via the
New Orleans and Northeastern. Both
the Illinois Central and the Louisville
and Nashville Railroads nave suffered
a heavy loss, miles of their tracks hav"
ing been washed away.
It will be several weeGs or more be-
fore the Louisville and Nashville will
again be running trains over their own
tracks The other railroads running
out of the city are tonight moving
traffic on schedule time under caution
airy orders.
It is the territory surrounding New
CLEANS, especially lower Terre Bonnie
tention of relief parties. which left
here Tuesday and today. and from
where the least bit OF news is seized
upon by the anxious people who have
friends or relatives In the storm Wis
tied area.
From early today the death list In
the lower portion Of Terre Bonnie Par"
ish Increased as details OF the hurri-
canes destruction was hourly received.
until tonight. IL numbers nineteen.
1t Is reported that at least nifty
, others are missing, said TO have been
drowned or crushed In the flying debris
or wrecked mills. dwellings and fishing
camps.
daring rescues come from the storm
sweut area. One of the victims Of the
storm In Terre Bonnie Parish was N. r.
smith, Of New Iberia. who. with his
brother, A. F.. Smith, and q dozen
friends, made up fishing party at Sea.
breeze The brother OF the drowned
man reached Houma, La. today, bring
ing the news Of his brothers death.
Fishing Camps Wiped Out.
A half dozen or more fishing camps
along the Gulf in the Terre Bonnie
Parish were totally wrecked, fishing
OUTFITS being carried DY 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
linRs of every character ct Houma.
and other villages. suffered heavily and
scarcely O structure was untouched BY
the hurricane.
The damage done by the storm at
Grand Island. Cheniere Caninada was
very heavy. but at these places there
was no loss Of life. The crops of these
islands were totally destroyed as the
water swept across them two or three
feet deep, washing them away and the
orange groves were stripped clean Of
fruit and foliage, hundreds of them be-
ing uprooted or carried swirlinR and
twisting away with the fierce wind
The first news from these islands
was received today when the nlEil
steamer Grand Isle. commanded by
Captain Mike Sweeney. reached this
city. 1t was feared before the arrival
of the boat that hundreds had lost
their lives. In the tropical storm Of
1898 no less than 1900 people were
drowned on Cheniege Caminada.
Additional news Of the havoc of the
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