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Show SCORES PERISH liJ STORHJ SOUTH WEST INDIAN H U R R ICAN E CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE IN VICINITY OF NEW ORLEANS. Hurricane's Toll Reported to be Over Three Hundred Lives, While the Property Loss is Estimated at Twelve Million Dollars. New Orleans. Reports received here Friday placed the number ol known dead as a result of the hurricane hurri-cane which swept the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts Wednesday at 16C and the missing at 213. Property dam age in the two states was roughly es timated at $12,000,000. South of New Orleans for sixty miles the territory on both sides ol the Mississippi river is under from four to fifteen feet of water and hun dreds of persons are reported ma rooned in trees and wreckage. Relief parties with physicians and nurses left New Orleans Friday, aboard boats laden with food and med ical supplies for the stricken district It was stated Friday night that out side aid probably would not be need ed. The known dead in Louisiana in eluded : New Orleans and environs, 24; Rigo lets, 21; Lake Catherine, 22; Neai Frenier, 25. Eight drowned in sinking packet Hazel near Grand Isle. Reported dead and missing in Louis iana: Shell Beach, St. Bernard" parish, 16; Island De La Creix, 22; Yolosky, IE (negroes. |
