The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-23

New Orleans, September 2.-Gradually New Orleans and the territory surround ing the Crescent City are recovering from the first effects of the shock and results of the tropical hurricane which, starting Sunday, continued throughout Monday and Monday night.
 Thirty-eight human lives are now known to have been claimed as victims of the storm and 50 others are reported to have been drowned or perished under debris in lower Terrebonne parish, but as yet this report has not been authenticated
 The property loss is even far heavier than was first believed and instead of running into thousands of dollars 1t will run up into the millions by the time the final details of havoc and destruction left in the wake of the hurricane are tailed
 Country Laid Waste. Miles and miles of territory have been laid waste by the storm. Crops have prac- tieally been ruined Dwellings, cotton gins and sugar mills have beelE leveled but already, with the progressive spirit of the south, the people have expressed the determination to repair as fast as possible the damage wrought and will in
 
 ing and terrible as it was
 New Orleans is still sadly crippled in the way of railroad facilities and tele- graph and telephone communication with the outside world. It was late today be- fore the Western Union was able to get working wire out of the city. The only communication the city had for the last two days was an improvised long distance telephone wire used by the Associated Pres.
 The Illinois Central is sending its northbound trains out by the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley tracks as far as Baton Rouge and then detouring them across to Hammond. where the main line Is tapped. The Louisville and Nashville is moving trains out of the city over the New Orleans and Northeastern. Both the Illi- nois Central and the Louisville and Nash vile have suffered a heavy loss, miles of their tracks having been washed away. It will be several weeks before the Louis- yilel and Nashville will be again running over their own tracks. The other roads running out of the city are tonight moving trains on schedule time under cautionary orders.
 Around New Orleans.
 It is the territory surrounding New Or leans. especially lower Terrebonne parish, which now commands the attention of
 
 and today. and from whom the least bit of news is seized upon oy the anxious people who have friends or relatives in the storm visited area.
 From early today the death list in the lower portion of Terrebonne parish in- creased as details of the hurricanes de- structon were hourly received, until to- night it numbers 19.
 It is reported that at least 50 others are missing, said to have been drowned or crushed in the flying debris of wrecked mills. dwellings and fishing camps.
 Thrilling tales of narrow escapes and daring rescues come from the storm swept area One of the victims of the storm in Terrebonne parish was M. F. Smith of New Iberia. who with his broth CT, A. F. Smith, and a dozen friends, made up fishing party at Seabreeze. The brother of the drowned man reached Houma, La, today, bringing the news of his brothers death.
 A ,ha1f-dozen or more fishing camps along the gulf in Terrebonne parish were totally wrecked, fishing outfits being car ried by the wind out for miles and the fishermen are heavy sufferers, as all of their worldly possessions, In the ma jorty of cases, were represented by these outfits.
 Losses Will Be Heavy. Pleasure craft and shipping of all kinds in the bayou inets were totally destroyed and the loss will be heavy. Storehouses, sugar mills and dwellings of every char acter at Houma and other villages suf- fered heavily and scarcely structure was untouched by the hurricane.
 The damage done by the storm at Grand Island, Cheniere and Caminada was very heavy, but at these places there was no loss of life. The crops of these islands were totally destroyed, as the water