The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
HUNDREDS OF PERSONS ALONG
MISSISSIPPI AND INTERIOR
POINTS ARE NARROWED IN
FLOODED SECTIONS.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN TWO
STATES NEAR $12,000,00d
Dunbar, La, Virtually 10 Swept Away
and Many Arc Drowned-Tidal
Wave Twelve Feet High Strikes
Chef Menteur--Many Vessels
Are eAnk.

new Orleans, Oct. 2.-Reports from
scattered sections of hurricane area
in Louisiana and the Mississippi gull
give $50 known dead, 100 report
ed dead and 113 reported missing
Hundreds Of persons along the Missis
sippi and interior points are maroon
ed in flooded sections.
The known dead in Louisiana in
cluded: New Orleans and environA
"a; Rigolets, FL; Lake Catharine, %;
near Premier, rs. Eight drowned in
sinking Of packet Hazel near Grand
Isle.
Reported dead and missing in Louis
lana: Shell Beach, St. Barnard parish
16; Island De La Croix, %; YoloskH
IL (negroes.)
Tremendous Property Loss.
Couriers by boat and train as well
as mail advices brought in reports
Of tremendous property loss and ru
mors of many drowned along both
sides Of the Mississippi river south d
here.
Boat passengers arriving from EN-
pire, near the Doulloth canal, about
SO miles down the Mississippi, report
ed that only four large houses still
stood at Empire and that about 20e
persons were marooned in them. Thu
state conservation commission her4
started rescue vessel for that point
Many inhabitants of the flooded SEQ
tons on both sides Of the river were
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 i'm the two
states is roughly estimated at SIP,
100000.
Telsgraphic communication between
New Orleans and the outside world
cut Of since Wednesday noon, wal
re-established at 1888 Pm.
The town of Dunbar, La, near the
Mississippi state line, virtually wal
swept away, according to w. o. Pow
eal, survivor from that: section, who
arrived here. He could give no estt
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 embankments aad fill
across the marshes, was washed oui
for miles.
Whole Country Inundated.
Only meager reports have been 70
ceived from the delta section south
and southwest of New Orleans. A
wireless message from a staff CORE
spondent Of a New Orleans pape4
said:
Whole country between Poydrea
and Buras inundated. Levees gone
property loss appalling. Life toll prof.
ably heavy. Conditions worse thai
ever before. Relief needed"
Reports from Chef Menteur, direoo
IT, south Of this city, Indicated that 1
tidal wave from 9 to IL feet h1gt
struck that section.
From below the Houma and Terra
bonnie sections, no reports have been
received. The country here Is low
and there Is practically no protection
from wind and tide
Seventy Baraes Sink.
South of New Orleans for 60 mile,
the territory on both sides OF tho Mie
sissippi river Is under from to Is fee,
OF water. Along the Mississippi coas,
tho greatest property damage occurred
1t Bay St. Louis, and Wavs3aad.
Seventy barges OF coal owned b. thu
West Kentucky Coal company saal
opposite Donaldsonville, with 4 lesi
estimated at $245,e0o.
Five Of the crew and white WON
a. aboard the steamer F. e. Owena
which sank near Lookpozt. were RI
psrtsd naassins.