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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 surreul-.Ig 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 are 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
Of railroad facilities and telegraph
and telephone communication with
the outside world. It 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 we an improvised 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
been washed away. 1t will be sew
eral weeks before the Louisville and
Nashville will again be running
trains over their own tracks. From
early Wednesday morning, the death
list In the lower portion of Terre
Bonne Parish increased as details
of the hurricanes destruction were
hourly received until Wednesday
night it numbered tw%enty-nine. It
is reported that at least fifty others
are missing, they are said to have
been drowned or crushed In the fly
ing debris Of wrecked mills, dwell.
lings and fishing camps. Thrilling
of narrow escapes and daring
came from the storm swept
area.
One of the victims Of the storm
In Terre Bonne Parish was M. F.
Smith, of New Iberia, who with his
A. F. Smith, and a dozen
friends, made up a fishing party at
Beabreeze. The brother of the
drowned man reached Houna, La,
Wednesday, bringing the news OF
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
and scarcely a structure was I'M
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
If 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
Vas received Wednesday when the
mIil steamer Grand Isle reached
New Orleans. 1t was feared before
he arrival of the boat that hundreds
had lost their lives. In the tropical
storm of 1893 no less than fifteen
hundred were drowned on Cheniere
Caminds. One man lost his life
1t Bay st. Louis, a fisherman, name
Unknown, who was drowned Monday.
4 number of other places are yet
o be heard from. The long railroad
bridge at Bay st. Louis Is a COM
,lete wreck, and will be weeks be-
ore it is repaired.
When the storm struck this bridge
leo. Doherty, a Western Union line
nan. was attempting to repair the
wires. He and three negroes were
:arried down. "The waves were run
ling at least fifty feet high" said
)ohetry, land IL we had not dashed
ourselves to a raft with wire We
would have been drowned. The
fridge 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
all day Wednesday.
List of the Dead.
Terre Bonne Parish, La, definite
%; reported 40.
New Orleans, definite 5.
Premier, La, definite 4.
Desair, La, definite 3.
Jackson. Miss, definite 2.
Baton Rouge, La, definite I.
Vaudeville, La, definite 1.
Bay st. Louis, Miss, definite /.
Donaldson, La, definite 1.
Gramercy. La. definite l..
Grand Point, Lu.. reported 4.
Barataria Bay, La, reported I.
Pass Mauchae, definite s.
Total definite SO. reported As.
Morgan City. La. definite 10.
E%astford, Miss, definite Z.