Show Roosevelt attorney has date with By R. Earl Despite a number of well meant warnings of the possibility of a hurricane striking the western Louisana coast I decided to ignore them and try to get into Lake Charles and out before the This same indifference and disregard of advice was to cost hundreds of persons their The approach of the mildly-named hurricane was well known to the residents of the and most of the residents of the threatened areas were I evacuated to inland towns and there were many EDITOR'S NOTE Thc following account of the recent that struck the Lake area has been written by Earl local who was in this southern city the hundreds lost their lives and untold havoc and destruction struck the Dillman had gone to Lake Charles to attend to business in connection with his law who discounted the seriousness of the storm and in an attempt to take measures to protect their property delayed too The storm struck Lake where I was sometime i n the middle of the and j seemed to reach thc maximum intensity at around a.m. I had once been in a typhoon while aboard ship off the coast of but found this to be an entirely new Here parts of tree limbs and and other debris are blown through the air with tremendous It is a frightening sensation to look out of a window and see electric lines blowing portions of buildings collapsing and then blown away as though they were scraps of paper being thrown into the All electrical power is almost immediately terminated by destruction of communications are limited to and you feel completely isolated and at the of the Then thc ceases almost and you can begin survey the You are told not to leave the hotel as a number of persons have already lost their lives by contacting live electrical or stepping into pools of water where on Back DATE WITH on Rack PaceN there might be such a You can look out and see soldiers taking positions along all the mam streets to prevent which I am sure was the last thing in anyone's stepping gingerly to avoid contact with wires as though they were walking through a mine and all about you is the terrible There not i home in the entire area which escaped Many are totally the roofs all of the windows are broken out of the commercial and everywhere are I fallen utility poles and parts of The city which was a few hours before one of the most beautiful towns along the coast is now a Most of the trees are many falling onto homes or automobiles and inflicting Rumors start coming in as to the loss of life in Cameron and other caused not primarily by the but by a tidal wave following its destructive I was advised that one lane traffic was opening up to the and decided to immediately leave for an area where the winds carry only dust and sand and not flying houses or |