New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-02
GULF STORM TAKES
TOLL OF 149 LIVES
Property Loss In New Orleans
and Along Mississippi Runs
Up to S1OO,OOO,OOO.

Baton Rouge, La, Oct. Reports
from scattered sections of the hurri
cane area in Louisiana and the Missis-
sippi Gulf Coast late to-day give l49
known dead, 1o6 reported dead and lo6
missing. Hundreds Of persons along
the Mississippi and interior points are
marooned in flooded sections.
The property damage was estimated
at approximately s1O0.0OO.O00
The known dead in Louisiana includ-
ed: New Orleans and environs. "a;
Rigolets, 81; Lake Catherine, %; near
Premier, 2s. The reported dead and
missing in Louisiana included: Shell
Beach, St. Bernard Parish, Is; Island
de la Croix, %; Yolosky. 10 negroes.
Couriers by boat and train, as well
a. mail advices, brought in reports OF
tremendous property loss and rumors
of many drowned along both sides OF
the Mississippi River south of here.
Boat passengers arriving from En-
pire. near the Doulloth Canal, cabout
fifty miles down the Mississippi, re-
ported that only four large houses still
stood in that town and that about 200
person, were marooned in them. The
State Conservation Commission here
Started rescue vessel for that point
MANY inhabitants of the flooded sec
tons on both sides of the river were
reported marooneE and some were said
TO be cinging TO tree tops.
Automobiles arriving here from
New Orleans early to-day reported that
the work of restoring order in the city
was progressing rapidly. Buildings left
in dangerous condition are being torn
down. Railroad traffic from the West
into the city has been partially re-
sumed.
Village Wiped Out.
Rigolet. and Dunbar, La, villages on
q narrow strip of land between Lake
Borgne and Lake Ponchartrain, north
east of New Orleans, have been wiped
out with large loss Of life by the tropi-
cal hurricane, according to a statement
given out here to-day by officials Of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
The full force of the storm apparent
IL swept over the neighborhood of
Houma, La, city of 5000 inhabitants,
and as the country Is low and level 1t is
feared that section suffered more
severely than any other. ST. Bernard,
adjoining New Orleans Parish, was
flooded by tidal wave to a depth Of
from two TO eight feet in the lower sec
ton of the parish, couriers arriving
here to-day reported. Crops through
out the district visited by the hurri-
cane we're almost totally destroyed, it
was reported.
Mississippi Out of Banks.
Fear is felt for the safety of resi-
dents along both banks of the Missls-
sippi south of New Orleans. The last
word from this section came to-day IN
a wireless message from a steamer
CAPTAIN who reported that the water
was flowing over the levees and that
many houses along the banks had been
swept away.
Captain Menges and three members
of the crew of the tug Corsalr were
drowned in the Mississippi, of Nine
Mile Point. when the Corsair md three
fleets of barges sank while the storm
was at it's height Wednesday night.
These fleets included more than 2OO
barges loaded with coal, valued at ST.
100000. Eleven small craft sank IN
New Orleans harbor during the storm
and six steamships were damaged.
The New Orleans naval station was
badly damaged by the storm, the dry
dock being carried 800 feet down
stream and hurled against a steel wharf.
the wireless apparatus being wrecked,
all temporary buildings destroyed and
the United States steamer Stranger
sunk