New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-24
SENDING OUT RELIEF
NEJV ORLEANS AT YORK.
Task of Succoring Storm pictims
{ More Colossal than Vas Expected.

New Orleans. Sept 2a-1hose engaged !" No
work OF rescue and repair made necessary by the
West Indian hurricane which swept Louisiana and
Mississippi last Monday have found their TASK d
far more colossal than they expected
Practically all OF the isolated country sections OF
the stor1n-svept area have been explored but
until definite reports have been received from re-
lief parties Il will not be possible TO form any
thing like an list OF the dead and injured
A conservative estimate tonight OF the number
OF persons who lost their lives a result OF the
hurricane places the total at one hundred
In spite OF the work Of thousands of men brought
IN by the railroad. telegraph and telephone compa-
slies. New Orleans and many smaller cities In
louisiana and Mississippi still seriously handi-
capped in the way Of communication with the out
side world
Many miles OF track trestIes and bridges are yet
20 be replaced by the Louisville 81 Nashville Rail
road. and the present time its depot at the
foot OF Canal street has the appearance OF de-
serted village The trains OF this road are being
sent out the Queen & Crescent route.
The main line OF the Illinois Central Railroad is
stin blocked. eight miles Of the track and road
bed We're washed out at Manchac. Sections Of the
rails and ties were carried clear out OF the right
OF way by the rushing waters and II will be sew
eral days before through traffic is resumed over
the main line. The trains now being detoured
over the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road
The other railroads have succeeded in clearing
their tracks. and traffic has been resumed.
The dozen or more relief expeditions which left
New orleans at inc earliest moment after the hur-
Tfcane were to-day pushing their way along the
coast and adjacent territory. dealing out food
clothing, medicines and emergency supplies of all
kinds 20 destitute and stricken people.
The reports from these expeditions indicated that
IN all directions the storm damage is far heavier
than at first reported. They have found crops
totally destroyed. dwellings iattened on the ground
and the families huddled in improvtsed shacks
still suffering from shock and fright
Several expeditions returned 10 New Orleans late
iso-day, but others VIII be sent out 10 take their
places The work OF is now principally d.
rected toward the remote sections Of Terrebonne
Parish where the loss OF life and property damage
were heaviest
A relief expedition. equipped by the Louisiana
Game Commission. left New Orleans to-day FOR the
Gulf Coast, going direct 10 Lake Catherine. From
there It VII make its way toward Gulfport dis
tzibuting supplies and administering aid 10 the
sufferers.
After battling with the hurricane for I'VE days
the fruit steamer Orleanian limped in to-day badly
crippled Captain Jerome Marullo was removed 10
hospital with three ribs broken and a badly
wounded leg. received by being hurled about dur
sng the gale The starboard rail stripped
clean and the deck shed and all movable equipment
were washed overheard
! AT Baton Rouge many state records In the Capt.
fol building were destroyed
; Biloxi. Miss, Sept G-About five hundred storm
sufferers are homeless al Bayou La Manure near
.the mouth OF the Mississippi River. and two lives
were lost there The water eight fest in the
houses and the people saved their lives by taking
10 boats and rowing up the Mississippi. A schooner
liies on the bed OF the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
sE'oad track Pearl River. The known dead TO-
lday az Bay ST. Louis. Miss. near here are three
1.-TWO OF them negroes.
Pittsburg, Sept 23.-Pittsburgers lost more than
s1000.0O0 q result of the tornado which swept
fhe Gulf coast on Monday. The Monongahela
sl2iver Consolidated Coal and Coke Company lost
practically all the coal il had alOat. the value OF
(which is estimated at over 100000
United States Weather Bureau were borne out
Indian hurricane which visited the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts last Sunday and Monday
! On September 70. according 10 the Weather Blu
Yeau, the approach Of the hurricane toward the
middle Gulf Coast reported and storm warn
Sings ordered along the coast from Eastern
Texas to Western Florida and the customary tele-
syraphic reports Of the storm sent TO Atlantic
land Gulf ports
The following day the warnings were changed TO
hurricane warnings the coast Of Louisiana and
}fhe morning OF the 10Th found the storm centred
inear the mouth OF The Mississippi Il was then
predicted that its next movement would be north
ward over Louisiana At p. m. OF the 2lth ac-
cOrding 20 the bureaus report. the storm was cen
from this point Il was announced that II would
travel noFthward Up the Mississippi. which state
ment was substantiated by the fact that at 3 a. m
OF the list the storm central west Of Vicks-
burg, Miss.