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CURATE’S HOUSE, BAY ST. LOUIS, surrounded by fallen ? trees, received mostly interior damage. Three autos in the TRINITY CHURCH, PASS CHRISTIAN, is on- four - building complex and much of its, beau-rear were blown or washed into the fallen trees.	>y rubble amidst a craggy, fallen oak. The tiful setting were completely destroyed.
(Continued from page 1) breathe. He was pinned in the wreckage from ihis waist down from about midnight until 6:30 in the morning. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Hardin were incomplete when the paper had to go to the printer.
A parish by parish survey revealed the following damage to Church - owned property.
Bay St. Louis On the western side of the eye of Camille, Bay St. Louis was battered by the tidal wave coming up from the south and by the counterclock winds coming down from the north. Christ Church on Beach Blvd. downtown and the school and rectory further down the beach to the west were all victims of this one-two punch.
The white frame church’s roof and steeple were blown toward the beaoh and the walls collapsed onto the water-raised floor. The small parish house to the rear was left standing, but the building as a whole ils a total loss. Father Charles Johnson, rector, and his family; Father M. L. Agnew, curate, and his family; and a neighboring Lutheran minister and his family — all took refuge from the storm in the two-year-old brick rectory, which is on a rise of ground 16 feet above the normal level of the bay.
About 11 o’clock Sunday night, August 17, the tidal wave broke in the front door, forcing the Johnsons and Agnews to cross 80 yards through neck - high water to the old rectory, where they climbed to the attic. The Lutheran family climbed into the
attic of the new rectory. All of them thus escaped injury.
While there was extensive damge to the interior of the houses and school buildings and their furnishings, they seem to be in reparable condition. The opening of school will, of course, be delayed several weeks.
Pass Christian Pass Christian and Long Beach apparently were nearer the eye of the storm and received the most damage.
In Pass Christian where once historic Trinity Church, built in 1851, and its parish house and educational annex looked out to sea through the craggy branches of moss hung oaks over a block long yard of neatly mown grass, there is now nothing but rubble.
All that remains of the gleaming white, green trimmed buildings are three sets of steps leading nowhere and the clean - swept floor of the annex. The rest has been blown across the street
to litter the grass and graves of Live Oak Cemetery. The rectory, in which Mrs. Hardin died, is a pile of debris across Church Street to the east.
Two blocks to the west, a bent over iron fence encloses all that remains of what was to have been, for the first time this fall, Coast Episcopal High School—some concrete steps leading up to a concrete ■porch. The stately old Simmons mansion has been blown away.
Long Beach
Twice-founded St. Patrick’s Mission, Long Beach, first in 1894 and then in 1962, is forced now to start again. Its spacious beach - front lot is covered only with the steps and foundation piers of the white frame church, the bare concrete slab floor of Gray Hall and the broken litter of the house and two-car garage which these buildings once were.
The vicarage, which is ev-eral blocks inland, losts its
living room and den completely, and suffered considerable damage otherwise. The ir, the Rev. W. Ray Worthington, and his wife and daughter were in Sewanee, Tenn. when the storm struck. Father Warthington was attending a summer session of the Graduate School of Theology. Fortunately, a communicant recovered most of their furnishings that had been blown away.
Gulfport
St. Peter’.s-by-the-Sea, Gulfport, withstood the storm best of all the churches on the west side of the Coast. The upper portion of its glass front remains almost intact, alth^ngh it was built to withstanc ,ly 130 mile-an-hour winds. The lower portion, with the glass doors, was broken probably by the many wind- and tide-driven wooden crates of sand bags which were washed ashore from a freighter bound for Viet Nam. Inside the
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August 1909	Mississippi