People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — STORM MORTALITY 2,008. [ARTICLE]

STORM MORTALITY 2,008.

Nearly AU the Detail* of the Great IMiw aater in the South at Hand. New Orleans, ©ct 9.—Making the necessary corrections and additions the mortality from the storm is now put at 2,008. It is not likely to vary fifty either way from the figure, as nearly all the vessels have been heard fromu. The vessels, now known to be lost in addition to those already mentioned! are the following: Independent, with six lives lost;: Innocent, with five; Sunnyside, two; Angeline, lour: Rosalie, three; Birdie, four; loalie, three; Estola, tour; Clementine, three; St Bartolomo,. none;: Apostolo, four, E. W. Elmer,- si®;. lona,, three;: Delia, two; Georgiana, two;: Antonio, two: Argo Del Rio, one: Cinderella). Audite-, Lupus, Jam bo, Borio, Daniela Five boats have been sailing through; the marshes and.islands of Mississippi and Louisiana picking up the living and dead. Some fifty shipwrecked sailors have-been found and carried, to Biloxi, Scranton or- some other of the neighboring towns.' Most of them were in a very bad condition), completely exhausted by their long- struggle and their lack of food and. rest. Incoming steamers from Central America report that they encountered wreckage, tables, chairs and other household goods 50 miles away from the month of the Mississippi.