The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
Tidal Wave Strikes Coast

Tidal Wave Strikes Coast
 Reports from Chef Mentuer, directly
 south of this city, indicated that tidal
 wave from nine to 12 feet high struck
 that section. From below Houma and
 Terrebonne section no reports have been
 received. The country there is low and
 there is practically no protection from
 wind and tide.
 The Honduran steamer Yoro arriving
 llere last night reported little damage
 at Pilot Town, at the mouth of the river.
 c. E. Bowers, wireless operator aboard
 the Yoro, said that property loss all the way up the river to a point within 15 miles of New Orleans was enormous
 Plantations were flooded and habitations demolished by the wind and water. AS far as he could see on either side of the river was flooded, Bowers said, and the glasses revealed dead horses and other farm animals and wreckage of buildings 1 floating in the flood. The damage to the levees was greatest a few miles be- low Magnolia.
 Seventy barges of coal, owned by the West Kentucky Coal company, sank op- posite Donaldsville. with a loss estimated at $245, ,000.
 The white persons aboard the packet Hazel when that steamer capsized neal Grand Isle, included Mrs Raoul Coulor
 and her child; Capt. Charles Mathis mas. ter of the vessel; John Eads of Norfolk Va. cabin boy ,and three deck hands. Bay St. Louis, Miss, on the Mis- slssippi gulf coast, reported one dead and propery loss heavy. Houma, La, reported the city safe and no lives lost. Burwood, the most southerly point on the gulf coast, also was re-
 ported to have weathered the storm without loss of life.
 Htxry mi urnr l. n ntpf1 r be dead at Rigolets and 22 at Lake Catherine, both small resorts on the main line of the Louisville and Nash vile railroad, a few miles west of the Mississippi-Louis state line, ac- cording to o. W. Powell, one of 12 sur vivors who arrived here early today. Fifteen negroes and one white man were reported dead at Shell Beach and 22 white persons at De La Croix Island, both small settlements in St. Bernard parish, south of here. Reports of 25 dead between Premier and Des Arc, on the west shore of
 Lake Pontchartrain, was confirmed to- day by railroad man arriving at Hammond, La.
 The sole survivor of a party of nine passengers and crew of the Grand Isle packet Hazel arrived here early today. The vessel capsized and was dashed to pieces near Grand Isle. The survivor. George Linden, engineer of the vessel, floated 15 miles on a piece of timber and was exhausted when picked up by & passing vessel.
 Five of the crew and white wom- an aboard the steamer F. M. Owens. which sank near Lockport. were re- ported missing.
 Of the 21 persons known to be dead at Rigolets. three were white persons and IS negroes. Mrs. Harris. wife of a railroad section foreman, her baby and her sister, Mrs. Fife Dawson, were said to be the white victims. Among the dead at Premier were R. L. Hazel grove, an Illinois Central roadmaster; Adam Schlosser and J. D. Ford, section foreman, and George Schlosser and his wife. according to reports received here
 Biloxi, Miss, October 1.-Biloxi sea food packers. alarmed as to the safety of their schoonere in the Louisiana marshes, today sent out a relief expedition for rescue | york in the marshes. All of the packing companies joined in provisioning tho schooner which was sent.
 The mayor and board of aldermen aist l sent out relief expedition on the Ursula C. to the Louisiana marshes. This schooner was stocked with provisions 1 blankets, oil and other articles needed | by the seamen. The city council held a special meeting and voted in appropria. | ton to stock the relief expedition. The | relief expedition was in charge of trust worthy seamen.
 l It is stated that there are about [; 1 schooners from Biloxi in the Louisiana
 marshes manned by 300 or 400 seamen.
 These schooners left Biloxi several days ago for tho purpose of catching shrimp
 in that locality and were unable to re- turf. to Biloxi before the hurricane. 1 Five Schooners have thus far returned l from the marshes. Captain John D. Silva on the Louise. states that he be. lieves all of the schooners with the sea men aboard are safe. Captain De Silva had a narrowing experience in the night hours of Wednesday, being battered by wind and storm which swept his little
 craft for 70 miles. The men stated that they had not eaten since Wednesday morning, but they were amply provisioned when they reached this port.