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ken buildings and boats . . . lumber strewn across wide areas like tossed match-sticks .. . trees felled everywhere ... power lines down.
From the air, it appeared that the worst damage — at 1 least from the water — reached only 200 or 300 yards back off the beach. But wind damage to homes all over the Gulfport, Biloxi area was extensive.
Waveland appeared totally : destroyed. A church stood, but it looked like the inside had been gutted by water. The toll
Most High wavs In Louisiana Are Re-Opened
As floodvvaters receded in St. Tammany and trees were cleared from roadways in Washington Parish, the Louisiana Department of Highways said Monday night most major Louisiana highways were again open to traffic.
State Route 433 between U.S. 90 and U.S. 11 at Slidell remained closed and State Route 23 in Plaquemines Parish south of Myrtle Grove was still closed.
U.S. 90 between Mississippi's Gulf Coast and New Orleans is now open to emergency traffic only, and authorities are asking that persons traveling that direction use the interstate highway.
U.S. 11 between New Orleans (Continued on Page 10-A, Col. 21
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has been destroyed. Empire, :he Mississippi River in lower slightly, if any, better, as showed at least 50 per cent Camille left a waterline midway l School.
said “Another foot and a half and the water would have reached us.”
Sheriff Herman Schoenberger said Monday night the damage in the parish is conservatively estimated at three times as much as suffered five years ago in Hurricane Betsy.
Louisiana Hwy. 23, the only route down the west side of the river to Pilottown, is open as (Continued on Page 10-A, Col. 1)
: three ships were stacked side, by sk’ ■ on the beach, two of ] them h their screws out of! water^dne still had steam. } The “hurricane proof” ma-j I rina at Gulfport tppeared to j have survived with little dam-1 age, however a sailboat was; blown on top of it.	i
Trailer homes were twisted; around and overturned ... the Gulfarium on the coast of Gulf-1 port was completely destroyed.
The damage of the hurricane : was by no means confined to: ^(Continued on Page 10-A. Col. 7)i
Looks like we weathered the storm in these pa-And the forecast is ibt for Tuesday.
The weather bureau forecasts clear to partly cloudy weather Tuesday with the high, near 92, with a low, near 73.
Believe it or not, the Ryan Airport station only recorded .14 inches of rainfall for the duration of Hurricane Camille.
For more weather details, see Page 12-A.
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were ordered in.
Gov. Williams spent much of the day here, conferring with disaster rescue officials.
After a jeep ride over stretches of broken pavement between Gulfport and Biloxi, the governor said: “I just couldn't believe it could be this bad until I actually saw it.”
Estimates of monetary damage along the Mississippi coast remained sheer guesswork but Williams said it would be “in (Continued on Page 10-A, Col. 3)
Baton Rougeans Quick to Aid Storm Victims in Mississippi
By CAROL JUDICE
Between 1.500 and 2,000 cars streamed in'o Memorial Sta-dir.m dur’ng the first two-and-a-half hour period after calls went out. for food, clothing, bedding, drugs and water from Mayor-President Dumas Monday afternoon to aid victims of Hurricane Camille in Mississippi.
Dumas issued the emergency call about 4 p.m. Monday and at 6:30 p.m. 11 trucks and a mercy caravan loaded with volunteers, reporters, photograph-★ ★ ★
ers, a nurse, representatives ifrom (he Baton Rouge Chamber tof Commerce, sheriff's deputies, civil defense workers and i the wife of an airmaVi stationed j at Keesler Air Force Base left i Memorial Stadium for the Gulf | Coast area.
1 The caravan will travel to ; Hammond, Bogalusa. Wiggins, jMiss., and Poplarville, Miss, 'where it will be met by a Mis-jsissippi State Police escort, and ; continue on Mississippi Hwy. 49 into the coastal area.
Dumas described the scene at
FROM HERE TO THERE — Baton Rougeans responded quickly Monday to calls for food, clothing and bedding for hurricane victims on the stricken Mississippi Gulf Coast. This huge truck was being loaded with blankets and other goods from Baton Rouge at Memorial Stadium late in the day.	—Advocate staff photo by Larry Odom
! Memorial stadium as “splen-! did, the most heart-warming ; thing I’ve seen in a long time.'’ j He said he had been in con-I tact with Gov. John Bell Williams of Mississippi who e» | pressed his appreciation to the i people of Baton Rouge.
Bread and trucks were supplied by several bakery concerns, dairy trucks were donated to carry water, a nationwide moving van was loaded with clothing and bedding and a laundry supplied a van and clothing that had been unclaimed at the cleaning facilities.
Drugs were donated by a wholesale distributor and by physicians throughout the city and a group of grocers donated ■more than $1,000 in food stuffs, Dumas said.
The stadium deposit station was open until midnight Monday and reopens at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Dumas said he expects to have another mercy caravan ready for departure about 10 a.m. Tuesday. Depending on the response, Dumas said, other trucks will leave as soon as ample supplies are loaded. The station will be open all day Tuesday, he said.
With the assistance of Baton Rouge police directing traffic, members of teenage service clubs and city-parish workers loading trucks, Dumas said car load after car load of clothing and bedding poured into the sta-diuh parking lot from private citizens
Jay Little, Chamber of Commerce manager of civic affairs; Smiley Anders, Chamber of Commerce director of public relations; and Advocate staff reporter Jim LaCaffinie are among the group on the mercy caravan headed for Mississippi.
Not a member of the chamber or any other helping group, but a private citizen from California, Mrs. Douglas Ward, accompanied the group in her Volkswagen.
Her husband, Airman Ward, is (Continued on Page 10-A, Col. 2)