The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
100 KNOWN EAQ
Many MISSING N
HURRICANE AREA
NuNDRED9 or PERo0No ALONG
Mlo9l9olPPl AND INTERIOR
Points ARE MARoONkD ~
FLOODED eEoTl0No.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN TWO
STATES NEAR $4,000, ooo
ownbar, ID, Virtually 10 Swept Away
and Many Arc Drowned-Tldal
Wave Twelve Feet High otrikeo
Chef MonteurMany voooolo"
Ar Sank.


Chef Menteur-Many Veossle~
Ar Sank.
Row Orleans, Oct. 3.-Reposts from
scattered sections Of hurricane area
IN Louisiana and tho Mississippi gull
give 100 known dead, 100 report
ed dead and liz reported missing
Hundreds Of persons alpng tho Missis
sippi and interior points are maroon
Cd in flooded sections.
The known dead in Louisiana in
claded: Now Orleans and eavirons
-; Rlgolets, Fl; Lake Catharine, ~;
near Premier, 26. Eight drowned II
sinking Of packet Hazel near Grand
lsle.
Reported dead and missing in Louis
lana: Shell Beach, st. Barnard parish
II; Island De Ia Croix, "a; Yolosky
Il (negroes.)
Tremendous Property Loss.
Couriers by boat and train az well
~ mail advices brought in reporta
q tremendous property loss and ru
moxs Of many drowned along both
sides OF the Mississippi river south d
here
Boat passengers arriving from EN-
pire, near tho Doulloth canal, about
50 miles down the Mississippi, report
ID that only four large houses still
stood at Empire and that about 2o(
persons were marooned In them. Thu
state conservation commission her(
started a rescue vessel for that point
Many Inhabitants Of the flooded SEQ
tons on both sides OF tho river wer(
reported marooned and some are said
TO be olinging to tree tops.
Relief Vessels Sent.
Relief vessels were sent to rescue
them.
The property damage In tho two
states is roughly estimated at $12,
100000.
Telegraphic communication between
New Orleans and the outside world
cut OF since Wednesday noon, was
re-established at 1888 p. m.
The town Of Dunbar, La, near thu
Mississippi state line, virtually waa
swept away, according to w. o. Pow
ell. a survivor from that section, who
arrived here. He could give no estl
mate Of the number of dead at Dun
bar. The railroad drawbridge at Rigo
let's was wrecked, he said, and thu
track, built on entertainments and I'LL
across the marshes, was washed Out
for miles.
Whole Country Inundated.
Only meager reports have been 70
esived from tho delta section south
and southwest of New Orleans. A
wireless message from a staff core
spondent Of a New Orleans papsl
said:
Whole country between Poydra,
and Buras Inundated Levees goua
property loss appalling. Life toll prob
ably heavy. Conditions worse thai
ever before. Relief needed"
Reports from Chef Menteur. direct
y south Of this city, Indicated that 1
tidal wave from to IL feet HUI
struck that section.
From below the Houna and Tesre
bonnie sections, no reports have beer
received. The country hero - low
and there Is practically no protection
from wind and tide.
Seventy 7aress eInk.
South Of New Orleans for 90 mile,
The territory On both sides Of tho Mi
bissippt river Is under from 4 to Is Tee
ef water. Along tho Miisisstppi ooae
ehe.grsatest property damage occurre,
At Bay st. Louis, and Wave3sad.
9eventy ha18ss Of coal owne4 ~ tn
Wsst Kentucky Coal company ssnl
opposite Donaldsonva]3s, with 4 Ion
estimated 1t $4,000.
Five of The crew and white won
- aboard the steamer 3. II. Omsnl
Which sank near LooApost. were n
Dsrted mtsss1s.