Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-30 | Page 3 | Hurricane Death Toll Reaches 25

HURRICANE DEATH lOLL REACHES 25 Hope lope for Five Others Abandoned Property Loss Five to Ten Million NEW EW ORLEA ORLEANS S Aug 30 AP AP- AP Twenty-five Twenty persons today were known cnown to have lost their UV lives R all Lopes hopes for the safety of an additional addition addition- al 1 five were vere abandoned and more than han a score of ot others remained to toe be e accounted for as a tt result of the hurricane which struck southern Louisiana last Wednesday Estimates Estimates Esti- Esti mates nates of property damage caused by y the storm have fluctuated vIolently vio- vio since rehabilitation machinery machin- machin cry ery ry w wits was s placed In motion They now range between 00 and The death list st was Increased to today today to- to day with the tue addition of the names of Captain George Georg TheIs of the tugboat tugboat tug- tug boat oat ration Patton and four negroes Their bodIes odies were found found yesterday in the Mississippi river near Convent La Nine ine persons were aboard the craft when It was swept from its moor moor- Ings near Convent Wednesday nIght and sunk The four remain remaining In members of the he crew are unaccounted for I Another unidentified body of aman aman a anan man nan was found shortly before re ml midnight midnight mid mid- night last night near Lutcher La