Show STORM SWEPT TOWNS Two Louisiana Towns With Their Inhabitants Flooded THE INDIAN LAKE MISSION I A Disastrous Conflagration at Eastport Statue Involving a Lou of S500OOO Hurricane 5500000 in England Another Disaster NEW OBLEAN La Oct lGIt is now learned that over eightyfive of the inhabitants inhabi-tants of Johnsons Bayou lost their lives in the storm Forty of their bodies have been recovered and consigned to graves in the Shell Reefs while the decomposing corpses of remaining fortyfive festering the marshes Badford was very thickly settled and whenthe storm began Tuesday everybody took to their homes and waited with bated breath the fate which they foresaw The waters began rising thewind swept through the lower stories of the buildings driving the frightened people into the attics and upon the roofs pople 10 oclock the first ridge which was twelve feet above sea level was ten feet under water House after house fell in or was swept away either burin the doomed people in the debris or hurling them into the hissing waters The villages of Radford and Johnson Bayou were destroyed as completely as if an invading army had done the work For twelve hours the storm raged Of 8000 head of stock which once the bayou boasted GOOO are drowned while the remainder will die of thirst as all the water is salt There is no way of ascertaining the valuations hence suffice it to say that the towns are destroyed and abandoned |