Show I 1 m 11 H P I 1 I 1 WORST WORM YET fil T 0 chousa i lid lives I 1 a are e lost BY THE GU LF STORM I 1 hundreds of corp corpses S e s lie decomposing I 1 on tha shore sickening Sio kenins scenes I 1 NEW oct 4 over 2000 people killed and nearly worth of proper property Cv destroyed is the revord record of the great gulf storm in louisiana there never has been anything it a bince n ce the country was settled more than tb an half of the lion in the devastated rez region ioa is dead everything was waa wrecked and the tha sur livors are without food shelter or clot ciot luni over seventy others are reported lost in bogs and at bariou places over ove r 50 fishing vessels were in the gulf fishi nir when the storm broke over Ohi Chi enier not a word has haa been heard from them or their occupants since disaster at grand isle aale and chenier I 1 is unparallel in this section T the JU e first authentic news came this morning when several survivors reached hero here they tell a heartrending heart rending story A tidal wave swept oyer over the island destroying lives and property on all sides one hundred bundled ard forty five families are said to have per perished aishe d the death list will run up into the hund hundreds reft among the dead are dr frey S prominent physician and wife fihs ihs steamer I 1 joe weber was blown to pieces and several of the crew loit benior Car minada opposite grand Isle was less exposed than the latter it is the home of quite a settlement of fiso fishermen ermen has haa a catholic church a school house in course of construction several stores and a number of rests real dences I 1 the people here are familiar with the typography of grand isle and incline to think the stories stones of destruction there exaggerated this is not the first time the island has been reported washed away T aba he island is practically prati cally cut off arcin communication the only means of communication is through the pas benger steamer that wies dies between this city and the island and the leggere in the oyster trade LA at barras the bodies of three little girls evidently sisters were found clinging together horribly mangled by the barbed wire fence against which they had been thrown by the force of the wind A man wife and two children went aboard a ac ech boDner oscer outside of bayou bayon C cook ook the schooner was wrecked and the husband and children drowned thu the woman lashed herself to a broken mast floated in the angry east se all night and was rescued in the morning by a passing teasel and brought here to day john A sebut a asherman fish trman from ati ane 8 chores of bayou cook told a representative of the associated press that nothing was left either on the shores of it he ha bayou or the islands on bayou simon situated in the grand bay were fourteen fishermen all of whom were drowned it Is sal said d that not a house is left on bayou cook where the people are the Almi almighty aleigh gh oni only v knows the family of john barbier a asherb mari man in bayou bayon cook was washed away the husband and two children were drowned an and the wife and four children rescued reec ned in a house adjoining a man was saved but tle the wife and two 1 children were drowned the house of george brochie was washed away with his family his wife and three children were all drowned the next neighbor a man named barton saw his two daughters drowned only ove ope person was waa saved from the oyster bayba catastrophe cat astrope he be was found hanging by one hand band to A post unconscious he will die the wile wife and child of thomas mary orich were vere lost at bayou bayon cook john I 1 an italian boy was waa instantly killed luke De lost four daughters his cifa and two of his hia sailors Bai lors on simon isla there were eie heen of the 0 oyster y ster camps sixteen were drowned on bird island abrat one hundred bundre dand and fifty people lived all drowned on in grand bank eight persons pr aona were killed mathew hertze and dominic mer godich i sailors Bai lorB were aera rescue ti by one of i the longare loe lu gare the story they chev tell of the Ai disaster at grand isle is horrify horrifying inz in the extreme during daring the recil at a of the scenes ot of that terrible trev wept bitterly they said the sea was waa using rising all day and increased alarmingly toward night about 10 p ns the wind shifted toward the southwest these men lived on the west end of the island far out at sea as the flashes of lightning illuminated the darkness a mammoth wave could be a een been tra velling with wonderful rapidity toward the island accompanied by a noise like thunder on came the terrible thins thing growing larger momentarily the island was wrapped in slumber the men too frightened to go to their homes remained in their boat during the terrible terri blo night horrified they watched the tidal wave approach the island until it struck then all was darkness and the island as far afaf as the ibe eye could reach was covered with water when the next flash of lightning camu cam the two fishermen found themselves far off to the north of the island and look ing about could see nothing but bat a sheet of water the island having totally disappeared upped red matthew of borro one of the survivors Buru ivors ot oi the chenier Car Carm minada calamity arrived this morning he brought a harrowing tale of loss of life there he was at that place constructing a school house he be boarded in a house where twenty five people lodged the house was as demolished and he believed all the inmates were killed himself was frightfully knocked about and bruised and his bis clothes torn to shreds ebrens he estimates thoss the lose 0 of f life on grand lale chenier and in grand and adams adama B ty ly and the cook chalton and oyster bay settlements at eight hundred to a thousand when he left chenier island yesterday yest arday he counted but bat fire houses standing out of a total of about three hundred theland the land was cohered with corpses the chenier settlement was even more thickly populates populated thon than grand isle 1910 it comprised a of 1400 r onto the spanish race predominating hundreds of fishing smacks owned by the residents were either beached or demolished moli shed the priest who looked after the spiritual affairs of the is islanders landera was among those saved and the lady who occupied the house with him as housekeeper was likewise spared scores of bodies lying around were beginning to show signs of decomposition and for the safety of the rest of colony it became necessary to bury them immediately there was no time to m make ake coffins nor material or menta so the living dug trenches i n which to deposit the remains up dp to 12 19 assisted in the grow grew some tas task k and participated in the interment of not less lees than fifteen persons men women and children irwill never be accurately known how bow many lives were lost the copulation of chenier was wag about 1400 and thinks at least 1000 are mi missing aBing it is a impossible as yet to give the financial loss but it runs into the hundreds thousands of dollars steps are immediately taren taken for relief it ic is not unlikely that many will peri ah h from starvation and thirst all the provisions on OB the island were swept away fresh water is so scarce that it is not sufficient to relieve the thirst of the hundreds who are now without anything to eat and scarcely anything to wear |