The Washington times., 1915-10-03
GULF REGION TO Do
own RELIEF WORK
Death and Property Toll Enor-
nous, But New Orleans
Needs No Outside Aid.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. a-Five hum
dred dead and property loss variously
estimated at from s25.ooo.ooo to $4,000, 900
sums UP the result Of the storm which
swept Louisiana and Mississippi We'd
nesday.
Wires have been down over since the
first blow Of the storm, railroads have
been tied up and the news has been
trickiins in slowly because tho points
which suffered the most have been in
accessible b> boats.
Tho death toll In New Orleans and the
immediate vicinity was twenty-one.
Most Of the others who perished were
In the unprotected fishing villages in
the Baratita section and in the waters
lying between Mississippi and Louisiana.
Thousands Of persons have been loft
homeless. but New Orleans and Louisi-
ana and Mississippi are fully able to
afford all the relief needed. More than
seventy.five boats. loaded with food.
medicines. bedding and physicians have
been dispatched to various points.
Wires Being Restored.
The telephone and telegraph wires
leading to the places which suffered the
greatest are being gradually restored
and every hour or so messages are re-
ceived telling OF additions to the death
list
The estimate OF 800 dead is conserva-
tive and 1t Is feared that within the
V -f0,ar hpttr. n h,,nAraA
will be added.
Scores Of houses were wrecked and
hundreds damaged at Gulfport, Pass
Christian. Bay st. Louis. Waveiand. and
Mississippi City. Ocean Springs. Biloxi
end other resorts along the Mississppi
the section Just behind these summer
colony settlements.
The Peerless shrimp factory. at Bay
st. Louis. Miss. was destroyed. entail
ing a loss of 10000
The Iish and oyster industry of South
east Mississippi. which. under normal
conditions gives employment to thou
sands OF persons. is at q standstill. and
sea food will be absent from Southern
markets for several weeks.
See Families Die.
Word has been received here Of Ave
prominent planters who had enga ged u
snail boat to carry them to safcty were
helpless witnesses to the drowning Of
their wives and nineteen children.
Three Of the boats crew also perished.
The loss OF the Illinois Central rail-
road In and around New Orleans Is esti-
mated bv officials to be $4,000, 900 The
Louisville and Nashville is another
heavy loser. Four OF Its large bridges
miles In length. have been wiped out.
over 200 fishing boats and sasolene
boats went down. A hundred more
have not been heard from. These are
manned bv about 800 fishermen.
vim ~H iiner eeS city OF Of M Tsmpieo @ 0 which I va" ar.
rived here from Vera Cruz three days
late, after battling with the hurricane
thirty-six hours. we're washed over
board. The ships crew and passengers
donned life preservers and awaited
death In the main salon. where there
were prayers. The passenger list IN
cluded the wife and little son of Ger
man Amba ssador GeitZ. at Mexico City.
The cargo included a quarter of a mil
lion dollars In gold.
Sixty Die in One Place.
The greatest loss of life in any
single place was at Quons's platform.
| nthe Barataria section. sixty miles
from New Orleans. where over sixty
were drowned when a storm house
caved In. The shelter had been built
by Quong. wealthy Chinaman. He
tied $4,000 in gold around his belt and
when the blow splintered the haven
1t Is believed the money caused ais
body to sink.
Amedee Favre. an eighteen-year-ol
hoy, equipped with only a r0w-boat.
alone saved los lives at Doultut canal.
A revised compilation issued by the
Weather Bureau office here stated that
the barometer reading here last We'd
nesday. q. II. was the third lowest In the
history of the world. 1t went down to
27l5 in Bengal. India. In 1885. and to
27.SO in Royal. Porto Rico. in ls999