Evening star., 1915-10-02
WIDE AREA NOW IN RUINS;
DANGER IS NOT YET OVER
Washing Out of Lower Mississippi
Levees Threatens Still Wider
Destruction.
RELIEF WORK UNDER WAY
Many Persons Reported Still to Be
Marooned on the Tops Of Un-
damaged Levees in Flooded
District.

NEW ORLEANS, October e.
The number of known dead. re-
ported dead and persons missing
in Louisiana and Mississippi as
result of Wednesday nights
tropical hurricane, was put at sos
in a total compiled here today
from reports that came in from
many points on the gulf coast and
in the interior.
Property damage was estimated
at $I2,ooo,ooo.
1t was considered certain early
today that the total dead in the
storm would number at least 800.
The known death list already
stands at 181, with 2o8 reported
dead. In addition there are II7
known missing.
Details Of the Losses.
The list at midnight was apportioned
~ follows:
Known dead:
Twenty-Five New Orleans and environs.
"a Rigolets. u Polnte la Hatche. II
Lake Catherine. II Yoloskey. 16 Shell
Beach. II Bayou Cook. Cheniere
caminda Island. dxQXnsd when pack
ct Hazel sank near Grand Isle. Pass
Christian, Miss; Bayou Portage, 3
crew launch Buffalo Portage, Daisy.
3 Bay st. Louis, Miss: Hammond.
Ostrica, 2 Nestor. 1 Nichols. l New
Platform, Bayou Dufon. Total. 224.
Reported dead: One hundred along
Mississippi river from Myrtle Grove to
Buras. 80 New Platform. rs La
Branche, Is Island de la Croix. II st.
Sophie, 4 crew steamboat Mary Whit
man near Harvey, Kilma, launch
J. n R., 2 near Houma- Total. 20S.
Missing: Ninety crews ifteen fishing
schooners missing In Bayou lie Mare,
II Rigolets s Leeyille, New Orleans
and environs 2 Bayou Rigaud. Total.
1T.
Many Vessels Ashore.
More than $50 schooners were OBJ
served ashore between Gulfport and
New Orleans; many total wrecks.
Others were intact. but as high as If
were far inland.
While undoubtedly there has been
some duplication In tabulation of re-
ports of bodies found. 1t was said there
were nd'cations that the dead would
not be fewer than $50.
Property damage throughout the
storm swept territory has been enor-
nous, and many places the destruction
complete. Relief parties returning to-
dAY from the delta section sad that
the rich plantations in that section had
been wiped out. crops ruined, orange
trees destroyed, buildings demolished
and washed out to sea, and that the
country for miles was under water
four to fifteen feet deep.
Levees Are Washed Out.
The levees in many places have been
destroyed. adding new menace to the
Inhabitants and rendering more diffi-
cult the work Of rehabilitation. River
pilots expressed the opinion that 1t
would be impossible to construct the
levees In many places.
Many people today still were report
ed marooned on the tops of undamaged
levees. where they took refuge when
the full fury of the storm broke.
While no official estimate has been
obtainable OF the damage In this state
and along the Mississippi coast, per-
sons familiar with the territory be-
lieve that it will approximate $4,000
600. This estimate is considered con-
servative.
Relief work Is progressing rapidly.
due In great part to the quick recovery
effects Of the hurricane. Vessels left
yesterday from practically every point
along the coast to. visit isolated VIII
lages, fishing settlements and camps