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GREAT LOSS OF LIFE

Twenty-Five Hundred Are Said to Have Perished In the Storm Which Swept the Gulf Region. The Loss of Life Something Appalling. AWFUL RECORD AT CHENIRE Vhero the Death List Numbers Over Twelve Hundred. Stench from Putrifying Bodies at Bayou Cook Where Two Hundred Corpses Are Still Unburied. iThe Hod lea DIaflirared in n Shocking .Mannrr AVli lie Some of Thfm Have Been Looted Destruction of the I nlt-l Stuten QnarKntlnr Station at Chandelier Inlanda-The Work of HeHe by the Red Cross Society and Other Organization. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 4. Over, two thousand killed and nearly five million dollars -worth of property annihilatel is the record of the great gulf storm in Xoubiana. There has never been anything approximating it since the coun1 JLry was settled. . More than half the population in the fc-egion over which the hurricane swept in dead. Everything is wrecked and not b. house Is left standing-, while the survivors are left In the most destitute condition, without food or even clothing, for most of them were sleeping in their bes when their homes were crushed by Ihe wind or waves. There have been several similar disasters on the coast. At Lost Island, where 2S5 people lust ttheir lives, and at Johnston's bayou the Post numbered 220 six years ago. but .3Iondays disaster far surpassed this in .horror. The weak and injuted were all llillWl, and in the settlements "where the. storm was worst not a child survived ond very few women. The survivors are the young men in the vigor of manhood. Not one of them but has a terrtlle story to tell; not one but i.s badly truisel and injured. They escaped "mainly on raft3 or lops. Coating for twenty to ninety hours in the water, with the wind at 113 miles an hour. The deaths t-o far as reported and whl-h ere confirmed, aggregate over two Oiousand. At the time the storm visited Chemc, tanunada, 120 fishing vessels were in the gulf fishing-. Not a word has been heard from them or their occupants. A Ion the Mississippi the loss of life was to Borne extent due to falling buildings. In the bay It was caused wholly by drownIn??. The pecuniary damage, while heavy. Is not as large as might have been expected, as the sugar plantations and the richer portions of Plaquemine parish were not worsted by the storm, and It was the smaller farms and fishing settlements which suffered most. iusastkii iAp.tRiM,r.t,i:n. ITüe Tidal Wave Which Destroyed I.lfe nnri Property. The disaster at Orand Island and Cheniere is i:r paralleled. The loss of life is terrible. The tirst authentic news ram this morning h-n several survivors reached here. They tell heart-rending stories. A tidal wave swept over the Island, destroying- lives and property on ell sides. ir. Frye. a prominent physician, and his wife wore croivn?d. One hundred and fcrty-fie families are said to have perish' d. Trc death list will run up into the hundreds. The stennicr Joe Weber wan biown to pieces and several of her crew were lost. There is t'-day only sadness in the news from 15.'. you Cook and the varl us fettlements that are tributary thereto. There has bf n a frightful loss of life throughout tliat section. Houses have been Mown to piece. There will never t' any means of correctly estimating the exact loss which humanity has pffered. Many of the bodies have Wen carried Into the marshes and will never Y'. found. Perhaps some of these are still lining, but without food and water they will be likely to perish unless assistance Is ent them. The country Is a scene of wreck and devastation. An arriving pas-anger this morning said not fewer than eighty-seven dead Wdle were seen along the route. He said he had witnessed harrowing Heenes thiftiighout the Bayern Cook country and the news received Is to the effect that the JPdxens Is appalling. The trains that arrived this morning t.rought nuiny of the Bayou Cook survivors to the city, many of them wretch rdly attired and their face bearing the jna.rU of fearful suffering. Thor were men and women and children In the party and they were met at the depot by fellow country men and brought to the tity where they received kind attention. The population on Bayou Cook consisted of nn.-!y all fuen. Itnlhuis and A'ntralluix. There were few If uny icjrroe In the settlement. n$tt i;pereae. Tony Negovilch mm dl red from tu you Cook. He said that during the Light of tl. storm lie saw Ms wife wept by lil nt appealing plteously for help. He waa unil.l to extend her a helping hnnl and she perished. II witnet.j acori-s of people drown about him, men and women whom he hud known all Ida life. Many of them did not drown, but wer dashed against their housr.l od their live wero crushed out. . Others

perished In the destruction of their homes. Negovitch's cabin was splintered and he was thrown into the water, tossed about by the wind and wave. He clung to a plank until picked up by a friendiy tug. He is authority for the statement that eighty-seven bodies had been found. George Sigoroviteh saw his wife and children drown before him while the water stood up to his chin. The mother had taken one child on her back and the father another. A third shifted for herself. The mother and babe and the third child were lost, but the man succeeded in climbing to the toy of a cabin and saved himself. These instances of loss of life were multiplied in every locality. Ilnndreda Perlah. It is variously estimated that from two hundred to five hundred people perished on Bayou Cook and in that section of the country. The deaths at other points all the way from Bayou Cook to Grand Island and Cheniere will swell the total to more than twelve hundred according to the best information now obtainable. At Grand Bayou not less than twentysix perished. ' One of the saddest sights witnessed by a party of survivors waa the bodies of three women lashed to a plank and being buffetted about by the waves. They were floating in Grand Lake, which is the entrance to Grand Isle. A log was floating between the bodies, and from that appeared to be that of a body of a boy. It is learned that on Rosario and Linion islands the loss of life has been considerable. It seems to be pretty well understood that the old fort on Grand Terre has been considerably damaged, but the light-house, which is on a neck of the same island, is till standing, but it is difficult to establish the correctness of

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ntssissim THE STOn.M-SWEPT ItErtlOX the report that there has been great loss of life on tJrand Isle. The houses on Grand are built on a ridge that mns through the middle of the island and as many of them are sheltered by th trees, it is difficult to calculate from the water what the result of the storm there ha.s been. There are only about two hundred residents on the islands and no one has yet arrived directly from there. The Grand Isle train, which does not run to Grand Isle, was very late tonight, the track being In wretched condition and locomotion being slow, beside that the train stopped frequently to take aboard survivors and to transport baggnge to the citv. The road is bringing the unfortunates to the city free of charge and has offered free transportation for provisons and water and any relief parties that may be organized to go to the rescue of those who are still living. There was very few people from New Orleans at Grand Isle, the season having already ended, but it is known that a son of Mr. J. U. Payne; a relative of th late Jefferson Davis, and a Mr. Hammold were on the Isle. Capt. John Krause was also at the island. He Is reported saf, as are those of his family who are there. Itelief for the Sufferer-,. Several boats have already left th city ptocked with hundreds of loaves of bread and other provisions for the sufferers at Chenl-re and Grand Isle and Bayou Cook. As soon as the news reaced th city that the people were suffering for la( k of water, relief parties were Made up to carry barrels of fresh water to the sufferers. As many as may desire will be brought to the city by the boats that have been sent d uvn to the sene of the disaster. It is quite possible that many will take advantage of the opportunity to return to town. It was learn-d h re tonight that Shell Heath was visited by the storm and twelve or thirteen person lost their lives. No names are known except that of Martin Honfaclo, a fisherman, and wife and two children. A mall Island, St. Malo, just off Sh Tl Heach Is also reported to have been swept by a tidal wave. It had a population of twenty-five souls and, as far as known, none are lft to relate the story of the disaster. Ex-Congressman Dudley Coleman and a party succeeded In reaching the city from Woreland. one of the Mississippi sound resorts where they have been penned up for several days owing to the washouts on the Ioulsvllle & Nashville road. Mr. Coleman nays that two schooners owned by I'ochevant ond "I u troubled Ii! b rrltil pain la tnj ck ! had alo kidney difficult jr. For 27 Ycnro I Suffered, I took Hood't Parinparlll and be nun to eel belter. I bar not had aa attack ultiro I began to Uta IL I wai alio cured uf catarrh in . ttia hand and am now In g'od health." I. M. ltoK, JJcnlaon. Iowa. loo ürwq ot tlolUr. Hood's" Cures HOOD'S Pill eur Urer Uli, Jauo'lU,

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that is the best place to keep the huge.oldfashioned pilL Just as soon as you get it inside, it begins to trouble you. what's the use of sufferinj with it, when you can get more help from loctor Pierced Pleasant Pellets f These tiny, sugarcoated granule do you permanent good. Thay act iruidJT and natorally, and there's no reaction afterward. Constipation, Indigestion. Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the liver, stomach, and bowels are prevented, relieved, and permanently cured. They're the smallest, the easiest to take, and tno cheapest for they're gxmranteea to give satisfaction or your money is returned. You pay oidy for the good you get. Novhing else urged by the dealer, though they may be lietter for him to sell, can L " just as good " for you to buy. Favre, had been lost and that the crews of each, numbering altogether ten, lost their lives. These are the only fatalities that are known to have occurred on the Mississippi sound. The railroad company has chartered a tug to bring all Wlated passengers to the city. Along Bayou Senet they are many Chinamen engaged in the occupation of drying shrimp. They were within the track of the storm and many of them have probably perished. The Xewii Confirmed. News received tonight from correspondents of the Picayune's relief steamer en route to Bayou Cook, Grand Lake and Cheniere Island fully confirms the reported loss on the southern Louisiana coast during the storm of Sunday night last. Capt. Terrebonne does not think that more than 500 persons were saved on Cheniere out of a population estimated by h-m at l.soo. He thinks that about S'X) lives were lost there. The Picayune also has information from Grand Isle indicating that not more than eight lives were lost, as follows: Old man Raspia. of Rayou Heggio wan lot at Grand Ise with his two daughters; his two boys were saved. Mme, Raspia, with thr?e or four negroes, were also lost. The captain was unable to state how many houses wre wrecked. yn. stui iiirs story. V rictnre of Ilenolntion Itarely Seen Some of the I.nwt. Mr. Matthew S!mrb of Goldshorn, just opposite this city, was one of the survivors of Cheniere Canilnda. calamity, who arrived this morning on the schooner Good Mother. He. brought with lim a harrowing tale of hi; experiences Hod of the loss of life at Cheniere. Mr. Schurb went to the island about four weeks ago with Mr. George Thompson and a negro bricklayer named Louis Roberts for the purpose of constructing a school house. He engaged board in a liou.e i ti which there was a very large f;rniiy. not less than twentyfie in ail. The house was a rude af.air of boards, but it had withstood many gales and the occuparis of it felt reasonably safe f r. m storms. It turned out to be the bier of probably twenty-live people. Mr. Schurh on Sunday night had an experience severe enough to turn -a man's hair gray, and when he reached the city this morning he showed the results of the p-ril he had been through. He was almost naked: what clothes he had on Were tjin to shreds; his face was bruised and he had not yet recovered from the excitement he had undergone and the fright till scenes of death he had witnessed. Mr. Schurh estimates that the los of life will reach SW to 1.000. When he left Cht-niere island yesterday ho counted but five houses standing out of a total of about three hundred, while the land was covered with corpses. As the wind increased in severity the houses began to go to pieces. The wind picked the root's off as though they had bcn shaved from the rafters with a huge carving knife. Then the buildings began to ruck violently and one by one they wire torn to pieces, crashing down upon and killing thief ocoupints and then rapidly drifting away with the terrible current thai was sweeping across the land. The shrieks and groans of the unfortunate people was heartrending as they were buried ruins of their fragile homes. Mr. Schürt. Mr. Thompson and a negro brl.klu.ver were in a house in which there wert- fully iwtnij-'ivc pe.ple all huddled together and tu ror-sti i ken at the mighty agony of the elements. Suddenly there was :t icaiful crash of timbers and the roof cacd in. burying nearly every one of the party, only Mr. Schurb and the negro l.rieklayer escaping. Mr. Schurb clung to lioating debris until he saw a light twinkling in a house not far away. 11 wmt to the house and was admitted. There were several people in this house. Mr. Schurb had hardly entered, however, when the structure went to pieces and out of those who were in the house only Mr. Schurb, a lady and a child escaped. Mr. K.hurb succeeded In getting the lady and baby to a tree and there the parly slaved until 4 In t he morning when the wind began to ebatc. The negro managed to reach the jMie to which the lishing smacks are usually tied and clung to it during the whole of the awful night, finally being rescued. Mr. Thompson, who lived at Harvey's canal was lost fight of and ho was probably drowned. Mr. Schurb estimates that there were twenty people killed in the house from which he escaped. It wa.s the ' residence of Mrs. Ducros. Mr. Schurb is certain that no less than nine hundred to a thousand persons perished in this awful cyclone and tidal wave. A Picture of Denotation. "When daylight broke the picture of desolation was awfu to behold. Only here and there ftood a house. Everywhere there were merely foundations to mark where homes stood. Trees lay prostrate upon the ground. Timber was lodged in plies In Indiscriminate confusion where it had been thrust by the mighty rush of water. Hulned chimin ya augKested atorlea of stricken hearths. Furniture, bedding, clothing. Ptovcs, kitchen utennila and household goods of all kind wire floating In promiscuous confusion wherever the vision was able to reach. And here, there and cvtry where were the ghastly facea of corpses tinned upward to the peaceful tke, now blight and beautiful nnd bearing no trace of the awful perils of the nkht. I'poit muuy of them were still evidence of the terrible iigonh's they had Buffered before death tame to relieve them of their troubles. Some had l"t their Uvea In th wreck of thvlr home, some hud been drowned after cHcuplng from the shells which could not shelter them from the J.lat of that frlKhtful gale and who were dependent upon them Pr protection. Many of the potT fcloV, pinny of Iii women mill Milieu had lived through the nlttht, but mortally wounded and with nothing to quench tli'r (hint and no medical aellaiier at hand hud Klevti up a Mingale Hint vetlly Irb-d men's hoiiIh. There wer broken arm and broken len, brubt-d nnd haftetet bodic, fan h HaHin out of all human form. Muuy it pile of del.rla waa the temporary nruve of a family, Ntrt br the Flood. Cyilere Cltmlndu lie Hor from Grafel Jn and In Hepar ted from die Island by Cheniere bay. It head hi sliu k out of the Ktilf and when the Mmm came up the mUhly wavci of lh ocean washed over the face of the Hlrlulun land and awept everything before litem. The Cheniere rtcltleineiit was even tnor UiULly populated than wtut Urand laic.

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It was the home of fishermen and storekeepers and it comprised a colony of 1.400 souls with churches and schools and other evidences of modern civilization. Nearly all its residents were white people, the Spanish race largely predominated. Hundreds of fishing smacks were owned by the residents and many of the.se were moored to their landing places on the Cheniere lake when the storm came up. Others that were rot were either on the way to or from the city or were engaged In fishing for oysters which is the great industry of the islands. , Some of the I.ont. The fate of Dr. Frey and his family is unknown, but Mr. Schurb says they were missing when he left and that probably the entire family have perished. Dr. John Frey was well known in the city of New Orlenas where he had lived for many years. The fate of his family seems to have" been death by drow ning. A dozen years ago he moved to Gretna with a wife and several children, opening an apothecary shop and establishing a prosjerous business. Two of his children were drowned, one of them being but a few weeks old. Another married daughter was drowned also. The whole family were probably drowned. Mis Annie Douglass of New Orleans had been engaged at Cheniere in the capacity of a teacher. She was well known in this city and was highly esteemed at the Island. How Miss Douglass lost her life no one seems to know, but she must have had a terrible experience. On Monday morning her body was found among the wreckage. She was quite dead and her remains were buried near where she had met her sudden death. Under the circumstances, for the safety for the rest of the colony, it became n-'essary to take prompt step to bury those who had lost their lives. There were still many people who were alive and able-bodied and they were immediately organized for the work of dutv and charily. There wtis no time to build collins. If there had been there were no tools with which to construct them, no board that could be nailed together, no receptacles for the bodies lying everywhere. So the living merely hunted up shovels and commenced the task of diggu.g trenches into which to deposit the renalns. Up to 12 o'clock Mr. Schurh assisted in the grewsome task and during the night time he participated in the interment of no less than fifty persons men, women and children, some of them not having a mark upon their persons to show what had caused their death; others on the contrary were badly lacerated. Into one grave Mr. Schurh assisted In placing no hs than six people. There was little time for the ceremonies as usual upon the burial of human beings. A Hero. Rube Rendo proved himself a hero. He Was the head of a family composed of his wife and two children. Their house had been torn to pieces by t h hurricane find they -were in imminent peril of losing their lives. Just about this time the Weber had parted from her moorings and was sweeping down past Cheniere with the tide. Many plarks h;id b.-en blown from her and were drifting ashore. Rendo swam about in the water until he had gathered enough to make an impromptu raft and with this raft he succeeded in saving his family from a. watery prae or from a worse rbatlt. Mr. Schurb s.iy:- a gentleman from New York is among llm;;i lost. He had gone to Cheniere for his health and occupied a howe near th.it in which Mr. Schurb slept. During the nicht of the storm Mr. Schurb heard him crying piteously for help. Put no succor was near and the gentleman perished with hundreds of others. Tom Valence is a well-known citizen of this city and highly esteem d in Gretna and other parts of Jeffers'ii parish. He lrrol a wife and six children and Mr. Schurb believe that every one of them is gone. Tony Val n:e, his brother, suffered the same fate and so did Tony's wife. John Valence, still another member of the family, was among the saved, but hi wife and three children were r.mong the missing when Mr. Schurb left Cheniere. It will never be accurately known iust how many lives were h st in th storm. Itollof ri'rMir-. Unless steps are immediately taken to organize relief companies It is likely that many will perish from starvation and thirst. The wind and waves destroyed all the provisions upon Cheniere Island and swept away all the cisterns of the residents. The result is that fresh water s scarce that it Is not sufficient to relieve the thirst f f the hundreds who are now without anything to eat and scarcely anything to wear, and who are about as homeless and as shelterless as was Robinson Crusoe on his lonely island. Mr. Schurb was one of a party of thirteen that came to the city on the Good Mother. Each one of them bad a thrilling story to relate. On their way up they had not water to drink; fortunatelv they saved several pieer s of ice with which they slaked their thirst. Intimate of Hie l.o. The damage is now estimated as follows: Towns and Articles. Financial Loss. New Orleans :;;o.ivo Plaqtiemine Parish r.'io.oou Orange crop E'iO.ttO') Other crop 2Tit,0fM Cattle, etc 2Um) Shipping schooners, luggers, etc.. 2."i0.li) Fishing settlements 4'o.ouo Railroads KOO.OdO .Miscellaneous 3.".0,n00

Total $.V,20.0fk Between here and Mobile the amount of damage done is placed at $r,un, ijOO, and in and around Mobile $:;oo.ona. Total damage. $4.420,000. The total loss on oranges is T." per cent., vhile about 20 im- cent, of the orange trees were killed or blown down. Of the railroad the iAudsvIlle & Nashville I th heaviest suffers, and the damage Inflicted on it will run from five to six hunred thousand dollars. The greater portion of the line between here and Motile, 142 miles, Is damaged. Nine thousand feet of the Ray-st. bridge is swept away any u.l'-.'O feet of An Open iMtcr to Women. Laurel Ave, San Francisco, May 1 8, iSq2. " Dear friend of women: " When my baby was born, five years ap;o, I got up in six days. Far to'j soon. Result: falling- of the womb. Fver since I've been miserable. ' I tried everything: doctors, medicines, apparatus ; but grew worse. "I could hardly stand; and walking without support was impossible. "At last I saw an advertisemcnt of Lydia J:. J'iidtam's Vegetable Compouud and derided to try it. The effect was astonishing. Since I took the first bottle my womb has not troubled me, and, thnnks f)nly to you, I am now well. Kvcry mi. lemur woman rv.Cv should know iY i how reliable C S if-? four :tmnntinrl I V-i is, It is a sure cure." Mrs. A. .'v(1;

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At quik o$ teat ! Cares toothache lo one minute. It cures ant pain Immediately Dr. Fenner's Goldf a Rellet It cures corns and felons, and It also cures bronchitis nd consumption, snd the trouble ts not to get the cures, for they follow its use as surely as the day follows night it never disappointshut the real difficulty Is how to tell of them without exciting incredulity. And it is not to be wondered at, for there is a wide chs?m between "a corn" and a " pulmonary consumption." Still it is true snd Dr. Fenner has got somehow to maks "the people" know it Is Golden Relief a "cure all ' ? Well, not exactly. It is known to cure oss disease. It is a veritable specific In it. That d'sease is Inflammation. It cures It wherever found! Many diseases have Inflammation for their base. The list is long. It includes corns snd consumption. No inflammation, no corn. No inflammation no consumption. Isn't this the solution? No opiates or mineral poisons In It. Safe and certain. Never disappoints. Money refunded if satisfaction not given. Take a bottle home to-day. the Bixoli bridge is gone, while the Seranton and Jackson bridges are all so badly injured they cannot be used. Five miles of embankment and trestle work and fifteen miles of track are washed away. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 5. The return of several of the relief parties sent to the storm-stricken districts of the state fully confirms the views of yesterday and corrected lists put the total number of dead at 2,041. This may be Increased ?ome 500 by the news from the St. Bernard marshes. Lake Borgues swamps and from the vessels lying off the Louisiana coast. Such news as is had from the latter shows them to have suffered greatly, few of the smaller ones escaping. The loss of life at Chenire Ganumada is now put at 1.230; at Bayou Andre seventy-two Instead of forty, and at Grand Isle twenty-four instead of ten. Fears are entertined for the fishermen to the number of 200 living at Lake Borgues swamp. This was directly in the line of the storm and since Its occurrence not one of its Inhabitant have been seen or heard freom. A relief boat was sent out today to hunt them up and see if any survived. There is great complaint all throughout the Bayou Cook section of the stench from the dead bodies lying in the swamp. A large number have been taken out and carried to Tropical Pond for burial, but there are still over two hundred unburied. Some of the dead were buried under the wreckage of their houses, which evidently collapsed without warning. The bodies were mutilated and torn in a most horrible manner. Arms and legs had been pulled from the bodies and were either floating In the pools, in the depressions in the fields or lodged on elevations where the water had cast them when the tidal wave receded. It is claimed that an examination of the bodies shows them In have been looted. Some of the drowned men were known to have la i ge sums of money in their pocket when they were drowned, but not a cent was found when the bodies were recovered. Wreck of n ((nnriintlnr Station. The damage at the Chandelier islands, lying off the coast of Louisiana east of the Mississippi, prove today more serious than thought at first. Nearly all the vessels anchored there were wrecked. The United States quarantine station was destroyed and everybody on the quarantine inland was lost except the United States government physicians. The islands are very low, rising only a few feet above high tide. The immense waves which dashed over them washed miles of soil away and a large portion of the main island is gone and nothing but a bar of reef submerged at ordinary tides is left, and the service will be temporarily susienöed and transferred to Ship island. The loss to the government in the destruction of the buildings and the wreck of the transfer steamer W. H. Welsh, will be $130.000. The steward, nurse and three patients were drowned. Relief for the sufferers has poured in today. The city of New Orleans subscribed $2.500 and the Parish An Jefferson and Plaquemine voted much money and at once sent relief expoditieti3 to Bayou Cook and Caratavia bay. Work of the Red Cross. The lied Cross society, the Seamen's and several other benevolent socieUes have taken action. Relief boats with clothing and provisions and eight physicians will be sent out at once. It is n 'W well authenticated that several people have lost their lives since the storm front exposure and lack of foed and attention. The greatest suffering is for water. A dozen lugger reached New Orleans from Orand Isle and other portions of the storm country today. All were crowded with refugees and there are now between two and three hundred In town. They arrived here nearly naked and in a bruised condition. One man named Oeorgorlch had actually been flayed alie from the debris and timbers against h!m and did not have a piece of skin on him as large as a dime. He Is not expected to recover, but with this and a few other exceptions the refugee will all get well. The failure of the signal service to Issue any warning of the storm Is explained by the fact that it came without the slightest warning, without atmospherical or barometric distu rhances. Whence It came there Is not the slightest Idea. Lieut. Kerkam. in charge of the weather bureau, declares that the government ought to have additional stations on the gulf to warn the people of the apponranou of these storms. Swept Off the Slilon. According to a Republic special, the losa below New Orleans to shipping and the numler of lives lost aboard ships Is as follows: Number of persons Rwept off ships and drowned Off the American-, 15; Nlklta. 12; Annie It.. 6; Laura 11., 6; New Untoii, &; Annie ICads. 13; Lurd. 4; Gen. Vtxli. 4: Three Hrothers. 3; Rolla Smith. 3; Slno Rosalie. 4; Anglllqule, ti; other vessels. 6. Most of these were drowned In Mississippi sound or off the Chandeliers, the outer frlnr,e of Islands tit the delta. Tho thrc-nMsted schooner Anna M. Stammer, Capt. Stephens, for Vera Cruz via Fronteta, Mx with a cargo of mahogany Is ashore In two feet of water In West Pay, l&.t where nhe was driven during the hurricane of Hunday night last. She was built nt Hath, Ate., In lsi'0 and s owned by Hnry Pudding of New Orleans. The- fate of the crew Is hot known. NNW OULKANH. Oct. Wllh the teternph wires sinking more regularly, with u vein of communlctit Ion being oponed, und more especially with the lapse of time, (mo Milt ting score of reporlei N to rather tli" news, the full extent of ti e disasters In this section of the country In becoming Known, und every meMSHKe btlnt'N additions to tlio number of vernein wiv kfd und liven lout. The Ptorui was the woitd that has ever been experienced In the Mouth, but It bus never any w her been cqunled In lis dent melton of propCity und Ii nan lib en f huiu.-in Ihr by any rtoiiu conum-d to nn limited an area of country. Shipping has suffered lo nn extent that U utmost Incredible that would lie lilt redltlble f up) HI lied craft Mtid Murk bod lew did Hot bear Uinph' rvltlelle tin lelo. ll.-lldh' je tllUtt u.'iO craft were wrecked and lit many In Mance nil of their crew wern lost. Nine out of ten of thofe w ho were sn vi d underwent expeilenoe that will be terrible ntghtmnrcM to them during thu remainder t f their lives More than 200 4ll"i'a hava Lccu lust u.t dlffuivnl uolntm

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when the storm burst In all its fury. The total property loss will run Into the millions and corporations and humble citizens suffered without discrimination. On the Mississippi sound and on the gulf in that direction scores of boats are known to have been lost and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property de stroyed. From veems Island on the rigolets. all around through the bayous and little latces out into the Mississippi sound and the gulf the havoc Is beyond the power of pen accurately to describe. "Weems island was swept clean. Every summer resort along the Mississippi sound was damaged which to repair will foot up to a fortune. Roads have been washed away, bath houses demolished, residences injured and factories damaged. AVrecU on the L. A X. The wreck of the L. & N. road is the worst in its history and it will be weeks before the line i? running regularly again to this point. The Ocean Springs bridge is damaged and three- miles of track between Scranton and West Pascagoula Is missing. The magnificent bridge across Biloxl bay, except the draw and about seventy spans, has been completely destroyed, and the bridge at Bay St. Louis, one of the finest in the country, has been almost entirely ruined. A raft of logs broke loose here and pounded the bridge to pieces. One of the tenders was drowned. Along the coast dozens of people were drowned, some two or three close to shore, and at Waveland one man drowned in full view of a hundred people with no hand that could be raised to save him. The stories of heroism run jointly with the stories of remarkable escape and thrilling experiences. Over on Martin Island a sloop was beached as upright as she stood In the water, with her crew unscathed. An arriving schooner at Biloxi reported that many bodies are floating on the shore at Cat Island and Ship Island and Chandelier Island. Not less than seventy of them were counted on Cat Island alonev They had been buffeted by wind and wave and they were in a state of decomposition, and are being burled as rapidly as the sorely tried relief parties ce.n dig graves for them in the sand of the beach. Cat island had scarcely any inhabitants and the bloated bodies that have been washed upon its white sands are those who met watery graves when their vessels had been wrecked or those of people drowned upon the other islands. Capt. Singer knows personally of -the loss of eleven men in the storm on Lake Borgne. and he estimates roughly the total death list, so far as Lake Borgne is concerned, will range between thirty and forty. Some of the. boats that are missing may still turn up. The losses at Slidell and at Mala have already been reported. Roughly speaking the death list in that section will reach thirty. Down at Port Eads the storm did heavy damage, but only one life is reported to have been lost. Piled In Trenchen. A large number of bodies have already been thrown into trenches and covered up. but those still lying exposed to the hot sun are rapidly decomposing side by side with dead animal and fish and give forth the most sickening of odors, adding a further peril to the situation. It was to relieve this terrible condition that the board of health this morning sent down the coast a large quantity of lime and disinfectants to be used for sanitary purposes. Parties arriving today from down the coast say that the stench from the marshes is unbearable and that the gases frorh dead bodies and animals is a menace to the health of the men and women who are camped in the vicinity, and who. because of lack of strength and facilities, and because of the high and tangled growth of bushes, are unable to penetrate. f;n.iD isi.t: i moirmxg. Stories of Tliose "Who Sarvlved the Terrible Storm. The party on the relief boat McSweeny found Gi and Isle In mourning. Where on other days it lay on the bosom of the shining sea a tiny section of the earthly paradise, radiant with flowers and bright with sunshine, it is today a wilderness of crumbling ruins a charnel house, w here a dozen victims lie cold and stark in death. The whole lower coast has been devastated by a storm without parallel in history. The historic gale of 1S56. which destroyed Lost Island, while terrific. Indeed, was but a bagatelle In comparison. In Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminda t ASS FLEASÄNT THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor av It acts ppntly en the stom-ri, liver and kirtnev. and n a piaant laxative. This drink 18 ma.le from her!, aud ts prepared for use neily as tea. HisrallM LAHE'5 MEDICINE A U dn:rcilMse!l it at .Vie. ami l iparoie. It yon ran not fvt It, mnil your adUrens for a fre rtampla. I.ane'a Family Medicine motu the bowel ench Hy. in oMor t he l-nlthv thl m nerewirv. Addrvaa UHATOJt F. WeKJDWA HP. Lk Hoy. 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nearly a thousand people have beea drowned by angry waters, or crushed to death by wreckage. Everything bear the impress of an immense horror. The history of the whole has left behind it souvenirs which abound in strange and romantic Interest. Terrific as was the work of the 6torm elsewhere on Cheniere Caminda it reached a climax of horror. Cheniere is one of that group of islands which extend along the lower coast, and to which belong Grand Isle, Tamballer and Lost Island. It is along, low, fiat strip of earth about three miles long by one In width. It was one of th old haunts of Lafitte end his band. Of late it was a station for .fishing boats. It contained one town, Caminadavllle, of about eighteen hundred population, the majority of whom are fishermen, and all of whom did a great of business with New Orleans through the firms selling fish In the French market. The destructive work of the elements nowhere finds better illustration than at this place. The condition In which that once prosperous little town had been left is appalling. It is said that on Sunday evening there were 1,200 dwellings within its limits; but today twenty-five remain standing, and of ths- there Is rot one uninjured. The very ground upon which hey were built Is torn and rent as though some gigantic plowshare had passed capriciously over It. Just imagine fathers and mothers burying their sons and daughters, and children in their extreme sadness burying their dead rarents. It was touching to see this; but then it was only the truth, for everywhere one could sej little graves wherein as many as ten people were buried. Some were drowned; others killed in the wrecked buildings. Still there are hundreds of bodies that are still unburied; some are under the wrecked buildings while the balance are floating on the bottom of the bay of Caminada. Beneath some of the wrecks there are many decaying bodies; they cannot be taken out and given a Christi n burial; the brave little band of gravediggers are exhausted. They have already buried in the rude graves on the island 9"0, and are still burying what bodies they can find. fi roup of (irRT DifCfcera. Fiction would be usele in describing that scene, for the cruel truth Itself surpasses any possibility of Imagination. Vthin a few yards of the wreck of the Valence store there was a band of grave diggers, consisting of three men, two women and a chili of ten years. They were burying an old man and a young and beautiful girl of seventeen years. All of the grave diggers had spades and they were digging as fast as they could In the moist earth. Soon the depth they soughr was reached and tenderly they took the body of the old man. wh- was named Kingston, and placed it in the grave. The girl was Mken up rnd rlaced on top of the dead body of her father. In that band ef grave diggers therwas a son. He was ten years old end his name was Alexarider Kingston. There were no tears in sny eyes, even in thoof the son and brother, for every mm and woman had a tal of equal sdness. They had wept until they wer exhausted and the tears cea.ej to flwbut the grief in their brave hearts wi'l be for the rest of their llvs. The grave diegers threw in baste the pile of earth over the bodies of daughter and father and were soon on the search for others. Tl.ey had walked but a short distance when the body of a man was peon floating in the bay by one of the men. A rop was procured and the drowned body was hauled Into Fhore. It proved to be that of a colored fisherman. With ha.te. but tenderly, they buried it on the bay shore within a short distance of where It was found. Entire naitilly I.ol. In the house of Mr. H. Terreborfne the grave-diggers found bis body and J hat of his wife and six children. The body of the husband and father was lying on th kitchen floor and it was taken out of there nnd buried about fifty yards from the wreck. It was not maneled in the least. The little band went to the front portion of the house and there they foumi Mrs. Terrebonne's body. Clinging in her arms was a babe. The two bodies were taken out and burled in the SKtne grave where the father and husband was interred. Near where the mother was found there were five children of Mr. L. Terrebonne ranging from twelve to four years. The oldest had met death by a big piece of lumber falling and crushing his skull. The others were drowned. They were taken out of the portion of the house that still stood and carried to the graves of iheir parents. In the rear of the island one could see hundred e-f little mountains, graves of those who were drowned and killed in the terrible storm. There were a number of men. women and children going about with big poles and hooks. They were sesrrhing for the dead. As seon ns they found a body they would immediately dig a grave and place it in it. Those that took the most prominent part in the burial of the dead were V. Nacoste, Felix Hizani. Andrew Bizani and his wife, Louis Broussard. the majority of the Lefeau family, AndVew L.ewls, Kdward Andrews. Henry' Faulsmlth, Frederick Colan, Jr., his wife and Vito Karch. not to speak of many that came from Bayou Lafourche. Two Score In One House. In Mme. Bucros's house there was found fully forty bodies unidentified. They .ill were manned in some manner. They were burled ten and fifteen in the same grave. Mad-une L. Cidioc and her daughter Delphie were found many yards away from their wrevked home. They had been drowned in one of the gulches in an attc-mpt to reach the store of Mr. Valence. In their home was the drowned bodies of n girl and a boy of Madame Cidioc. These bodies were burled all together in the same grave. The Bizani family, with the exception of Felix and Andrew, was wiped out of existence. Arthur Plzanl. Loo Paul, their wives nnd children with numerous cousins, nunts and other relatives, were all drowned in the homestead of the family. This family consisted of twenty-live people. The bodies were dragged out and they were buried In the wet center of the inlands In three graves. Thomas L. Orlol was killed by a falling tree. Florentine Proursart, the wife of leiuis Biouxsart. and two children were drowned. In the Btoussart house the following others were drowned: Ferdinand Brousart. Bernard Broussart. Regina Broussart and Bernardo BrousEart. Hundreds of bodies have been found since Monday morning ami they are burled without even a prayer over their remains. An Apel to the Conn try. The following was telegraphed to the commercial exchanges nt Chicago. Si. Louis, Cincinnati and Knnsas City, New York. PhllndclphiH. Itoston. lUltlmoj-e, Pittsburg. Minnenpolls. St. Paul. Omaha and other places: "Office of the Bortrd of Trade, Limited. "New Orleans. Oct. . "A terrU'lo disuster lias tleslroyed a majority of the Inhabitants of the Mind and marshes adjacent to this city and the survivors are left penniless, their stock, houses, boats and tneatiH of livelihood pone and they are 111 dire dIstrchN. "The people of LotiMan will bury the dead at nl feed the starving but HppeHl to a gelieren! puoilc to aKot In contributions which will enable thouund of deserving people to MKabl follow their tivocnt Ions dim! nuppott tluir families. "Subscript tons of every -bander w Ml be IhnnKfiilly received and be disbursed bv the executive committee of the board of trade, act.nn Jointly with committee of Other riillllilfri-l.il bodies. "JOHN M. HARKF.lt. JR.. President." SI Iren Iti-fiittcra. Shortly after 1 tMl.uk thh morning th hiRKcr i;llena pulled up at tlu whaif nt Survey's cunnl. it whs crowdel with refiners from Cavartmche, & Mnitll si I II iie-iit on tlrun l It.tyou, Thcio wire flxtccn people all told on thj lukacr und the llrt thing thi