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WIND, RAIN AND WATER WHIP ACROSS LAKESHORE DRIVE AT STORM’S HEIGHT
Known Dead and Missing in Hurricane Area Listed
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nconfirmed and unofficial reports from the Mississippi Gulf coast listed the following casualty information:
Joseph St. Gabriel Antonci. Gulfport.
Two unidentified Negro women. Long Beach.
Five unidentified persons. Waveland.
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Two unidentified persons. Lake-shore.
One white man. Long Beach.
One white woman. Long Beach.,
Mrs. Lula Mogabgab, Clermont Harbor.
Mrs. Benjamin Hart, Bay St
Louis.
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i Mrs. AliceOlnotgomery, Bay St. Louis.
Beatrice White, Negro, and six-year-old stepson. Bay St. Louis. George Wiltenmuth, Biloxi. John Bargates. Lakeshore. Bargates' nurse. Lakeshore. Bargates' cook. Lakeshore.
Mrs. Effie Spreen. Waveland. Frank Spreen. Waveland.
Mr. Faltzer. Waveland.
Roy Krutcher of Texas, Lake* shore.
Reported missing:
Frank Stupeck, Pass Christian, Mrs. V. M. Smith, Mississippi City.
Chester Fayard, Pass Chn»-
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Only 175 Feet Of Sea Wall Is
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i Onlj/l75 feet of the 25 miles : sea wall in Harrison county we i down during the September hurricane, Hobart D. Shaw, d signer and engineer of the projei told the Biloxi Rotary Club Tue day. One of the sections th went out, he said, was broki down by an obstruction that wou have gone through most any r sistance.
Mr. Shaw praised the work the sea wall commission whi< served without pay, and told his search for information on s walls and their construction.
He said one of the defects in tl sea wall was its drainage, but th in spite of lack of adequate mai: tenance since its construction tl I wall had withstood a storm wi a tide four feet above that f I which the wall was designed.
1 In speaking of the sidewa ! back of the wall, he said it h ] served its purpose in falling b : hind the wall and stopping tl ' sand from washing out.
Gordon Hudson, Biloxi manag S. H. Kress Co., was introduci as a new member, and Bobl i Hicks was introduced as the junl | Rotarian for October, i Warren Jackson, program chai j man who recently returned fro his vacation presented Mr. Shaw


Hurricane 1947 Emma Times Picayune Sept 22 1947 (4)
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