Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-24
TOLL OF HURRICANE
ONE HUNDREDL|V
Relief Parties, Searching in Ruins
Along Gulf Coast, Find Hun
dreds of Sufferers Who Es-
cape Without Food.


NEW ORLEANS, Sept. Pat an early
hour today the list of known dead who
persisted in Terrebonne parish during
Mondays hurricane had been swelled to
more than 40 persons and it is believed
that a score or more of other victims
will be added to this number. Addition
al reports of death in other sections Of
Louisiana are also being received and
the toll of human life exacted by the hur-
ricane will, it is thought count perhaps
100 people when the final count has been
made.
PROPERTY LOSS GREAT.
Further details of property loss, reach
ing millions of dollars. continue to come
in with >the gradual restoration of COM
munication with the stricken sections.
Relief parties in Terrebnnne parish are
continuing their efforts today. Five hun
dred sufferers from the storm have Ell
ther been rescued or struggled forward
10 aid and shelter, at Houma, the parish
seat of TeTrebonne and surrounding
neighborhoods.
A few fishermen, with the almost for
Torn hope that missing relatives and
friends may be found or at least their
dead bodies discovered, 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 IA people, are now re-
ported as being almost certainly amonS
the dead in Terrebonne parish Others
who have not been located and who are
believed to have persisted are Dick Gray,
wife and seven children; Inez Verret and
family of four; c. Bolt and wife, and
Norway Foray.
CARCAssEs ARE FLOATING.
The carcasses OF horses, cows, hogs and
dogs strew the prairies for miles and
thousands of dead birds and muskrats
are floating on the waters Of the ba-
yous.
The bodies of three fishermen were
found near Three Mile bayou in the
Louisiana marshes some miles southeast
Of New Orleans. it was reported here to-
day. Two children near Boise du Tucre,
La, were drowned when skiffs in which
the families fleeing struck obstruc-
lions. 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 Rig
Diets, 20 miles east of New Orleans, has
been discovered.
A relief expedition equipped by the
Louisiana game commission, left New
Orleans today for the gulf coast, going
direct TO Lake Catherine. From there.
1t will make it's way towards Gulfport,
distributing supplies and rendering aid to
the sufferers.
RELIEF PARTIES HURRY.
With the utmost rapidity, the dozen
or more relief expeditions, which left
New Orleans at the earliest possible.
moment after the fierce West Indian
hurricane of Sunday and Monday abated
are pushing their way along the coast
and into the interior of the parishes
bordering on the coast, dealing out food
clothing. medicines and emergency sup
plies of all kinds to the destitute and
stricken people. To some extent, the
sufferings of the storm victims have
been greatly relieved, but as each mile
Of coast line is traversed and as the eX-
petitions push into the interior, more
victims are found whose condition IS
most deplorable.
The reports received from these eX-
petitions up to an early hour today in
dictate that in all directions the storm
damage is far heavier than at hrst re-
ported, and they have found crops to-