Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29
es PERISH in THE STORM.
Loss of Life and Property Greater
Than SupDosed---The Dead.

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Than SupDosed---The Dead.
Terre Bonne parish, La, definite
20, reported 40.
New Orleans, definite 5.
Hrcnler, La, definite 4.
) Iiesair, La, definite 8.
Baton Rouge, La definite |.
Vaudeville, La, definite 1.
Bay st. Louis, Miss, definite l..
Donaldson, La, definite 1.
Gramercy, La, definite 1.
Grand Point, La, reported /.
Barataria Bay, La, reported /.
Pass Mauchae, definite s.
Morgan City, La, definite 10.
Eastford, Miss, definite Z.
Total definite So, reported 45.
Gradually New Orleans and the
territory surrounding the Crescent
City are 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 positive
ly known to have been claimed, as
victims of the storm, and forty 9TH
ers are reported to have been lost in
lower Terre Bonne parish, but as yet
this report has not been authenti-
Gated.
The property loss will run into the
Miles and miles Of territory have
been laid waste. Crops have practi-
cally 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. 1t was not until
Thursday night that the Western
Union Telegraph Company was able
to get working wire out of the
city. For two days the city's only
communication with the outside
world was over an improvised long
distance telephone circuit of the AS
Sociated 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 seve-
raj weeks before the Louisville and
Nashville will again be running
trains over their own tracks. From
early to-day, the death list in the
lower portion Of Terre Bonne parish
increased as details of the hurri-
canes destruction were hourly re-
ceived until tonight it numbers 20.
1t Is reported that at least SO others
are missing. They are said to have
Deen drowned or crushed in the fly
ing debris of wrecked mills, dwell
l1ngs and fishing camps. Thrilling
tales of narrow escapes and daring
rescues came from the storm swept
area.
$50 Left Dead by Storm.
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reports received here to-day Of death
and destruction from Mondays hur-
ricane in Louisiana and MississiDpi
show further loss OF life and prop
erty. The list Of dead now includes
more than hundred persons. With
little hone that q number oS utiiieis
reporting missing escaped, the total
number of dead may be brought to
not less than one hundred and fifty.
News of fifteen additional DEATHS
along the waterways between Nor
gan City, La, and the gurf and on
the adjacent coast have been receiv-
ed. Nearly all of these were fisher
men, caught in small craft by the
storm.
Child Found i'm Tree.
Stories brought here by persons
arriving from the stricken districts
reveal many pathetic and unusual
occurrences. A 4-year-old child was
found lodged in the branches of a
tree on the lower coast of Terre
Bonne parish, having survived for
three days without food or water.
Two other children, about the same
age, were found on a mound in the
middle Of the prairie between Terre
Bonne bayou and Little Caillou. No
other signs Of human life were in
evidence in the vicinity.
Travelling on foot to his home in
lower Terre Bonne, after being re-
leased from the penitentiary, where
he had served many years for man.
slaughter, an aged white man was
swept to his death just as he came
in sight of his house. Another story
is told of a man who, after searching
for hours for his wife and four chill
dren, discovered their dead bodies.
Without help in sight, alone he dug
their graves and buried them.
one OF the striking incidents Of the
relief work along the coast was the
rescue Of a family in a small boat,
in which. a baby had been born but
an hour before the relief steamer