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  • New horrors discovered as search-and-recovery effort goes on

    09/05/2005 9:04:34 PM PDT · by Frustration · 162 replies · 6,985+ views
    Sun Herald ^ | 9/5/2005 | TOMMY TOMLINSON, LEE HILL KAVANAUGH AND MARTIN MERZER
    NEW ORLEANS - (KRT) - Ghastly new evidence of Hurricane Katrina's horror emerged Monday night when a sheriff reported the recovery of 22 bodies lashed together around a pole - a desperate, futile attempt to survive the storm. Sheriff Jack Stephens of St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans, said rescuers found the bodies tied with rope and wrapped around a pole in the tiny village of Violet along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. The bodies were found soon after the storm in a flooded area of the village but still haven't been identified, he said. He...