The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-20
NEW ORLEANS STILL GR0GCY AFTER STORM
Floods Rage After Hurri- edne-Properiy Damage
 Runs Into Millions


 ' NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20.-tR-- Hurricane-groggy New orleans grimly battled serious floods today as the 11-day-old tropical storm born in the Atlantic moved beyond Shreveport with fitful gusts and heavy rains
 There were unconfirmed reports of at least dozen deaths, but only one known fatality was officially recognized The body of an elderly man, dressed in denim dungarees, was thrown ashore yesterday morn- ing near Gulfport at the storms peak
 Property damage will run into the millions, hurried survey revealed.
 Lake Borgne backed into Bayuo Bienvenue, broke through a rail- road embankment and flooded a sizeable section of eastern New Or leans.
 1000 Evacuated
 Police said 2,000 had been evacu- ated from an area 25 blocks long and l6 blocks wide now under water. There were no estimates of it's depth.
 The storm. as it hit Shreveport and moved northwest into Texas and Oklahoma, was nothing like the terrific, 100-mile terror that struck the coast yesterday.
 Winds had slackened to about 40 and 5o miles an hour. Rain was heavy. No damage was reported in the Shreveport area.
 Dozen Deaths
 Reporter James H. Gillis of the Times Picayune in communication filed from Gulfport. Miss. via Naval Reserve radio last night said there were unconfirfned reports of at least a dozen deaths from drowning and other causes
 No bodies have been recovered, he said. but added five were known to be dead in the Pass Christian, Miss, area.
 The entire coastal area was isolat- ed. Communications still were diff ficult this morning.
 Fires Break Out
 At least 20 persons were treated here for minor injuries resulting from the storm Most were cut by flying glass or hit by debris sailing through the air The Central Fire Station said that between 200 and 300 fires were extinguished yester- day and last night Most were blamed on broken electric connec- tions and falling wires. l The Weather Bureau said the hur- ricane in it's dying convulsions would make its way with rain and squalls into southern Arkansas and that by this afternoon the winds should have diminished to 25 to 35 miles i per hour with rain confined to Arkansas and portions of adjacent States.
 Six Killed 400 Injured
 With seven already reported dead in southern Florida in the wake of the storm, meager radio report received by ham operator in Jack son, Miss, from the Naval Reserve Station at Gulfport. Miss. told of six being killed by the storm in the Gulfport- Biloxi area and some 400 being injured.
 Only bare information was ob- tainable, but the picture in that gulf resort was grim. Battered houses. splintered boats and first aid work CTS driving themselves through the night to administer first aid by flash light to some 400 injured collected in the Naval Reserve Armory at Gulfport.
 And, as an aftermath of the hur- ricane, tornado rose at Apalachi- cola, Fla, cutting 250-foot wide swath for three miles through that northwest Florida town. One hun dred were injured, IA seriously enough to require Disqualification. From Biloxi westward to New Or leans information poured in by every conceivable means which indicated that region was mass of wrecked houses. ruined vacation cottages. de- stroyed crops and boats staved in from stem to stern.