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with a 30 per cent probability of daytime rain, 20 per cent at night, and southwest to south winds 8-18 miles an hour, is the Weather Bureau forecast. High Tuesday, 88-92; low, 74-78. High Monday, 92; low, 74. Weather map, details, Sec. 4, Page 6.
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STATES COAST
HUNDRED DEAD Hsus AS TOLL RISES
Camille Wrecks Buras, Could Be Costliest Hurricane on Record
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Civil Defense officials said the mounting death toll reached 100 Monday night as reports trickled in from Mississippi’s ravaged coastal strip — shattered by the worst hurricane ever to hit America's mainland.
State Sen. Nat Cassibry, Civil Defense coordinator here, said the toll included the dead from all along the Mississippi coast. “We know where there are more bodies,” he said. “We estimate the final toll will be between 150 and 200. There were over 2,000 injured.”
By CLARENCE DOUCET Her fury reduced to a North Mississippi storm, Camille Joomed Monday as possibly the costliest hurricane on record.
The number of known dead rose to 46 Monday night when it was learned that 18 were killed in Pass
Pictures of hurricane devastation appear in Sec. 1, Page 16, and Sec. 4, Page 2.
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the Mississippi Gulf Coast is this destruction of the ifront in Biloxi. The scat-din?
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Christian and six died in Long Beach. At least one died in Plaquemines Parish.
Other known storm fatalities were Biloxi, 16; Gulfport, two; Moss Point, two, and Ocean Springs, one.
Stunned workers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, surveying the wreckage in the harsh light of day, initiated the grim ordeal known as “mopping up.”
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