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Show FOURTEEN DEAD AND MANY MORE MISSING NEAV ORLEANS, Oct. 1. Fourteen dead aud as many more missing is tho result of last Thursday's hurricane in the vicinity of New Orleans. Twelvo persons;, were drowned in Mississippi : sound, two wero killed in interior towns I of southern Mississippi, and .more than a dozen fishers are reported missing in tho delta region -ot the Mississippi river riv-er south of this city. This summary is -based on reports from almoit every town or settlement in or abouf the regions named, such ns eould be Communicated with by tele- fjraph or tv boat or horse. New Or-eaus Or-eaus is till without sufficient telegraph tele-graph .mmunicatiou, and Eastern , Itiaiart thxeo or fyux days OTcrdue. |