The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-25
SIXTY KILLED
New Orleans and Surrounding Country
Struck by Hurricane.
PROPERTY LOSS MILLIONS

i-,-5
Damage to Crops Incalcuable-
Dwellings,, Cotton Gins and Sugar
Mills Levelled-Nfiles of Territory
Laid Waste-New Orleans Recoy-
ering from the Blow.
Gradually New Orleans and the
territory surrounding the Crescent
City is recovering from the lrst eff
feet of the tropical hurricane, which,
starting Sunday, continued through
out MONDAY ana 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 feveled. New Or
leans is sadly crippled in the way
of railroad facilities and telegraph
and telephone communication with
the outside world. 1t 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 over an improvised long
J distance telephone circuit of the As
sociated Pr Both the Illinois
J 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 twenty-nine. 1t
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
tales of narrow escapes and daring
rescues came from the storm swept
area.
4 One of the victims of the storm
! in Terre Bonne Parish was NJ. r.
Smith, of New iberia, who with his
brother, A. F. Smith, and dozen
friends, made up fishing party at
,Beabreeze. The brother or the,
drowned man reached Houna, La.
| Wednesday, bringing the news of
his brothers. death.
Pleasure craft and shipping of all
kinds in the bayon inlets were total
ly destroyed and the loss will be
heavy. Store houses, sugar mills
and other villages suffered heavily
and scarcely a structure was un-
tounched by the hurricane.
! The damage done by the storm at
Grand Island, Cheniere, Caminda,
was very heavy, but at these places
there was no loss of life. The crops
of these islands were totally destroy
ed and the orange groves were strip
ped clean of fruit and foliage.
The first news from these islands
was received Wednesday when the
n1irl steamer Grand Isle reached
New Orleans. 1t was feared before
the arrival Of the boat that hundreds
had lost their lives. In the tropical
storm of 1888 no less than fifteen
hundred were drowned on Cheniere
Caminds. One man lost bis life
at Bay St. Louis, fisherman, name
unknown, who was drowned Monday.
A number of other places are yet
to be heard from. The long railroad
bridge at Bay St. Louis is COM
plete wreck, and will be weeks be-
fore it is repaired.
When the storm struck this bridge
Geo Doherty, Western Union line
man, was attempting to repair the
wires. He and three negroes were
carried down. The waves were run
ming at least fifty feet high said
Dohetry, "and if we had not lashed
ourselves to a raft with wire we
would have been drowned. The
bridge went down Sunday and we
were washed around in the bay until
Monday afternoon, when We were
! picked up by fishing schooner.
Refugees were arriving in New
! Orleans all day Wednesday,
List of the Dead.
Terre Bonne Parish, La. definite
30: reported 40.
New Orleans, definite ,.
Premier, La, definite 4.
Desair. La. definite 3.
Jackson. Miss, definite ..
Baton Rouge. La, definite |.
Vaudeville. La. definite |.
Bay ST. Louis. Miss. definite |.
Donaldson. La, definite l.