The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-01
FIVE SCORE LIVES
WERE SACRIFICED TO
THE STORM DEMON
HEAVY DEATH LIST SHOWN AS
FULLER REPORTS
COME IN.
RAILROAD LOSS WAS HEAVY
Waters Of the 5ayous Float csrcasses
Of Horses, Cows, Hogs, muskrats
And other Animals-capitol Dome
Damaged.

Those engaged in the work of rescue
and repair made necessary by the
West Indian hurricane which swept
Louisiana and Mississippi last Mon
day. have found their task far more
colossal one than they expected. Prac-
tically all of the isolated country sec
tions of the storm-swept area have
now been explored, but as only in
definite reports have been received
from relief parties, it is not possible
10 form anything like an accurate list
of the dead and injured A conserva-
tive estimate of the number of peo-
pie who lost their lives as the result
Of the hurricane places the total at
hoo.
In spite of the work of the thou
sands of men brought in by the rail-
road, telegraph and telephone compa-
MES, New Orleans and many other
smaller cities in Louisiana and Missls-
sippi are still seriously handicapped
in the way of communication with the
outside world.
Many miles of track, trestle and
bridges are yet to be replaced by the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and
at the present time It's depot at the
foot of Canal street has the appear
ance of a deserted village. The trains
of this road are being sent out over
the Queen & Crescent Route
The main line of the Illinois Central
Railroad is still blocked, as eight
miles of the track and roadbed were
washed out at Manchac. Sections of
the rails and ties were carried clear
out of the right of way by the rushing
waters. and it will be several days
jbefore through traffic is resumed over
the main line The trains are now
being detoured over the Yazoo & Mis-
iissippi Valley Road
The other railroads have succeeded
in clearing their tracks, and traffic
| mas D06u ISSuulCus
Telegraphic communication to all
points out of New Orleans is gradu-
ally being re-established, under great
difficulty.
Five hundred sufferers from the
storm in Terrebone Parish have eth
er been rescued or struggled to aid
md shelter at Houma, the parish seat
of Terrebonne, and in surrounding
neighborhoods. A few fishermen, with
the almost forlorn hope that missing
relatives and friends may be found
or at least their dead bodies discov-
cred. or that they may resurrect some
of their lost belongings, remain upon
the scene of their desolated homes.
The families of Thomas and Walter
Rhodes, numbering fourteen people,
, are now reported as being almost GER
tainly among the dead in Terrebonue
| Parish. Others who have not been
located, and who are believed to have
persisted, are Dick Gray, wife and
seven children; Inez Verret and fam
ilv of four: C. Bolt and wife, and Nor
way Foray.
The carcasses of horses, COWS, hogs
and dogs strew the prairies for miles,
| and thousands of dead birds and musk
rats are floating on the waters OF the
bayous.
Thursday night refugees continued
to arrive in Houma, some coming IN
their own boats and others In boats
: which had been sent out to aid In
the work of rescue. Today nearly
800 storm victims are being cared FOR
and housed by the citizens of Houma.
While it, is now generally agreed
that the death list in Terrebonne Far
fish will run between rs and 100, it is
also agreed that the full list will never
be known, owing to the nature OF the
disaster.
The bodies of three fishermen were
found near Three Mile Bayou in the
: Louisiana mashes some miles south
east of New Orleans, it was reported
) here today.
Two children near Boise Du Tucre'
La, were drowned when skiifs IN
which the families were fleeing struck
distractions.
Two were killed by the collapse 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
of New Orleans, has been discovered
A relief expedition, equipped by the
Louisiana Game Commission, left New
orleans Thursday for the Gulf coast,
going direct to Lake Catherine. From
there 1t will make its way toward
Gulfport distributing supplies and
rendering aid to the sufferers.