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SECTION TWO?PAGE FOUR
THE TI.
Camille Ruins Many
HELPINGVICTIMS GIVEN PRIORUT
Landmark Buildings Are
Destroyed by Storm
By WESLEY JACKSON
Churches and church-related facilities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the lower Plaquemines area and general areas affected by the winds and waters of Hurricane Camille suffered extensive damage from the. storm, hanging from ?extreme? on the Gulf Coast alone to ?total? in many instances.
Church officials in Louisiana and Mississippi have been unable to get any definite estimates of damages. Most nowi openly state they are ?more concerned with helping the victims of the storm than with any physical damage at this time,? as Dr. Mercer C. Irwin, execu-| tive secretary-treasurer of the New Orleans Baptist Association, stated.
A number of landmark churches, such as Trinity Episcopal Church in Pass Christian, the Episcopal Church of the Re-; deemer in Biloxi, where Jefferson Davis worshipped, St. Clare?s Catholic Church in Waveland, St. Thom'as Church in Long Beach and others are listed as being demolished by Camille.
PEWS SUBMERGED
Other churches along the Gulf Coast and in the flooded areas of Plaquemines Parish received extensive water damages, such as First Baptist Church of Gulfport, a new $1 million colonial edifice, where water submerged the pews, which are now reportedly falling apart.
Almost all denominations are currently conducting or planning relief campaigns for survivors of the hurricane and for assistance in rebuilding stricken church properties. Not only churches, but such facilities as the Kittiwake Baptist Assembly in Pass Christian find the Gulf Shores Baptist Assembly at Henderson Point, are completely demolished. According to Dr. J. Douglas Hudgens, Jackson, executive secretary of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, the two Southern Baptist facilities were damaged to the