Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 1 | Toral of 300 Lives Lost in Hurricane

TOTAL OF 300 LIVES LOST IptK Enormous Amount of Damage Dam-age Done by Tropical Storm. By Internationa News Service. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. t It is believed be-lieved that the total of 300 lives lost will be the toll of the tropical storm that swept Louisiana and Mississippi Wednesday. The known dead are ISO. Two hundred have been reported as among the victims and 125 names are listed amoDg the missing. Ninety crews of fishing schooners figure fig-ure as a notable part of those who perished. per-ished. New Orleans and its environs suffered a loss of twenty-five lives. The fury of the storm fell particularly upon the shipping along the Mississippi river. The frail fishing vessels sheltered in the harbor at Gulf port and upon the New Orleans river front were swept high and dry upon the banks. More tlinn I.tH rxf tKr. c,q11 x 11 1 - ......... ,,wcui .not LD1S fate, most of them being totally wrecked. In the section of plantation laud about the river delta the havoc has been complete. Whole crops are destro-ed, orange groves leveled and the buildings swept out to sea. Lovees were crumpled and washed away for miles up the river. Hundreds of refugees are reported marooned upon the portions of levoes that remain stand ing. The water lies at a depth of from five to fifteen feet throughout the deluged districts.