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A., TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 19,
hrewn Over Bridge
—Photo by Philip Guarisco of The Times-Picoyune Staff.
A OF BAY ST. LOUIS SPAN
luardsmen were being activat-d for assistance on the Gulf loast. The 150th Transportation iattalion, headquartered at Me-idian, left during the afternoon or the coast.
Water supply was considered a critical need on the coast, and fresh water was being rush to the area.
Meanwhile, three Agricul-ure Department teams from Washington were dispatched to he hurricane-stricken areas to
along and either side of the hurricane through the state.
Mayor Russeii Davis of Jackson offered assistance to Gulf Coast towns and quickly dispatched fire-fighting equipment and police personnel to the area.
Both Jackson and Hattiesburg quickly became evacuation centers with additional refugees flowing into the cities Monday. Hotels were quickly filled to capacity and area residents offered homes for displaced fami-
In Pass Christian, every j Monday, carrying doctors, home appeared damaged.	‘nurses and technicians to the
Gulfport Veterans Administra-Bogalusa Mayor	ition Center and returning with
Orders Curfew	: nt Patients ^ transfer to hos-
pitals in Hinds and Rankm
In Pascagoula, nearly 90 per! cent of structures showed somej
damage. Waveland was reported completely destroyed, although there had been no communication into the town.
The Red Cross reported its
Counties.
Gulf Coast hospitals have been crippled by a loss of power and other damage.
A group of New Orleans fire officials who reached isolated
shelters housed more than 70,-! sections of the ravaged Missis-
000	in Louisiana, Mississippi and sippi coast said Camille blew Alabama Sunday night. j apart chunks of buildings and The Alabama coastline around;woodland.
Mobile suffered wind and water j “Pine trees at Waveland, damage, but not nearly what;some Qf whkh are 3Q inches in had been expected as the storm	.
left its predicted path Saturday.:diameter, were popped like kin-However, "heavy destruction! dling wood,” said Capt. Victor was reported from isolated Dau-; Ratine Jr., planning officer for-phin Island, an unprotected va- .^ ^ew Orleans Fire Depart-cation spot just off the coast;
ment.
Gov. Williams of Missis-
at the mouth of Mobile Bay.
Deputy Sheriff Pete Patron-j as, who weathered the storm onj sippi said he expected that the island with 51 other persons, i damage in his state would run said a large Holiday Inn motel!	“hundreds	of	mil-
received heavy damage.	:	J;
The island became isolated! *I0ns-Sunday afternoon as approaches j A preliminary estimate of were washed out to the almost (damage in South Louisiana suf-four-mile-long causeway and fered by insured property own-bridge which links it with the|ers was placed at $6 million by
mainland.
At Bayou La Batre, a fishing village on the Alabama coast, 25 to 30 homes were destroyed in the Portersville Bay area. Most downtown businesses
insurance adjusters.
No major damage from the hurricane was reported by the Port of New Orleans, which recorded only two minor inci-
, , .	,	x , .dents: a small section of tin
had four to five feet of water. jwas Wown off the Bienville St.
Similar destruction was report-, wharf shed, and the pedestrian ed at Gulf Shores, another coast- to the Canal st f suf. al resort village.	(f	£	damage
The Florida panhandle also °	8	‘.
. , In New Orleans, scores of felt some of the storms winds.jijUrgjar alarms were set off at
State Rep. Jim Simpson of;p0ijce headquarters as wind Pass Christian ,who rode outbroke the windows of business the storm in a friend s home. firms, triggering the alarm after rising water forced him | meGhanisms. to leave his, summed it up:
“Undamaged homes in Pass Christian — zero. There isn’t a house or building in Pass Christian that is undamaged.”
In Louisiana, Mayor Curt Siegelin of Bogalusa set a 7 p. m. curfew for all citizens Monday night. The mayor said that with no water, no power and considerable tree and power line damage the city was in a critical situation.
Slidell was hardest hit in St. Tammany Parish losing most telephone facilities and wtih 25 to 30 per cent of the homes suffering some damage.
Despite the grim reports of extensive damage, at least one federal official speculated that Camille’s damage might not be as extensive as Betsy’s. Gen. George A. Lincoln, director of the Federal Emergency
Police reported about 60 residence and business burglaries between 11 a.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday.
Some 250 wires were reported downed in the city between 3 p.m. Sunday and 3 a.m. Monday.
All major bridges out of New Orleans were closed Sunday night except the twin Interstate 10 span to Slidell. The bridges were reopened to traffic Monday morning.
A spokesman for the New. Orleans Public Belt Railroad said that top winds of 74 miles an hour were recorded atop the^ Huey P. Long Bridge in Jeffer-1 son.
Estimates of the time that will be required to clean up the wreckage on the Gulf Coast
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