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[ ly Swept Away, Including "Warfcl louse * and" &tt>ck I Packed Shrimp, Total Value of Less From $175,000 t<p , $2100,000—Beach Front and Street Completely. Engulf | ed By High Tide In Many Places, and Every Building | Mong Front Damaged. Some Bliwn to mtoms; Oth* ers Partly Wrecked. Total Loss Cannot B£ Esttaat&d^
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When the sun attempted toriseThura-a| morning over the placid waters cf he bay of Bay St. Louis and the wave# of the Mississippi sound in front of fijiteland, the curtain of night was ifted and the damage of a tropical, storm of unusual magnitude was brought yview.
The damage is general, very little pn *he beach front seemed to have been pared, and to figure* the loss in dollars could not be attempted, nor will the iSfc ever be known. t?he loss alone to 4e Peerless Oyster Company is conservatively estimated at from $175,000 io $200,000. The new Bay Ski Louis iawall from Carroll avenue to the store I Miss Welch, stood tbe awful strain, >iit from this point to the head of
»yM at Cedar point is no more, heavy timbers frojoa a high ?sea completely de» inolishing all that Was once a roomy and comfortably home, Neirby the Hale
ing timber demolished the foundations on one side of the housd. The jloors caved in, fulrnitured toppled over and was either; wrecked .ot otherwise damaged by the high and angry water thai flooded thei house all night.
John D. ^Grace’s summer home had 8 closecaU from the high water. Tty front pillars and porch were swept .a* way; the house battered and the interior damaged by high water. And neat by every dwelling, suffered more or lest serious damage, The storeo! Chas. P Taconi, wijih contents* was wrecked tc