New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-19
THE LATE HuRRIoANE.

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40 oten mark their with the destruction OF life
On Saturday the wind was from the East will
medun high tides and from the dark and heavy cloud
which appeared In the Southwark denoted that the
nens inmotion and gave unecuivocal signs Of thu
coming tempest On Saturday evening, the wind, being
from II. N. T., began to freshen and increase until
O'Clock Sunday morning, whsn IL temporarily fuled
It out again, feser than ever between 10 and
o'clock, from the s. u and then from s. H.. and
tiuued up to aor O'clock when in measure abated
and hauled around more to the South. At suudown
Sunday, the wind was from $. g. W.
The accounts from all parts the coast truly deplo
rabe The loss Of property is beyond calculation a. it
believed that not sailing craft Of any kind the coast
outrode the hurricane At all of tie Watering Places
many valuable shade treesthe pecuusry worth ofwbict
4 e,nnot be estimated-have been destroyed.
Notwithstanding the storm the mail steamer Oregon
Capt Myers Continued her regular trips The Califor
MIA left here for Mobile with the mails on Saturday
4 landed at the Pass shout O'clock r. and shortly
after the gale being severe she came to under thu
lee of Round Isapd where she rode at anchor in safety
fer eighteen honfa-
with Instrumentation before us il is impossible tt
estimate the by the gale Perhaps distress will
be occasioned by the osses among coastpg vessels
than in any other quarter they being generally owned by
the master and usually being his whols worldly wealth.
The Of the wharves at Bay St Louis Pass Christian
Mississippi City and Ocean Springs serious moon
yensnce the visitors and citizens of the respective vii
lagos The long wharves of Dr. Tegsfden and Colonel
Barnes at Mississippi City from their extreme length
being nine hundred yards and erected ct great cost
are serious Dr. Tegarden estimates his losses
/ $4,000. tg u.
This has been much the most gale experienced
on the since theyear 1929 In the month August
of that year the loss of life terrible One packet
schooner bound for Mobile-tbe schooner Washington
Capt Northumberland off the Bay Of St. Louis and
every soul pershedsaY twentynine passengers captain
and crew Several other vessels lost with their en-
tire crews The Coroner shedsborough held ipquests
on bodies which oated ashore that place
In the year 1919 another terrific storm, in which
tie u s. schooner Firebrand with crew of forty
persons lost haping struck where the lgh.shp
Is moored.
Pass Christian not village neither vas there
house at Mississippi City and not than dozen at
Biloxi at that period possibly greater LOSSES both
property and life, might have been recorded. But we
will return to our present subject. y
BAY
Not bathhouse or wharf left standing Tho entire
of the place swept clean Two three Lives
ported have been lost Several buildings blown down
others much injured The front is completely
up BY the surf being in many places impossible
PASS CHRISTIAN. II
This beautiful and favorte place of resort Is
its former self From extreme to the other Mon
day morning 1t presented Of devastation that
pen could accurately describe. Nota wharf left Of ali
the beautiful that lined its shores nought is
left bat heaps Of lumber piled the beach Nearly
every china the Pass succumbed to the storm king
while shade and ornamental trees the loss has been
meme. seyeta small buildings the front beach were
swept away One of the buildings attached to Mont
gomery's Hotel came down about daylight Sunday
morning. The ground floor was occupied ten pin
alley and the upper story servants apartments Two
men were injured though not dangerously by its fall
lumber schooner ashore and high and dry in front
OF the residence OF W H. Leveroh EsQ Lower down
the beach are the tmbers and what s left Of another
schooner Near the remains OF the steamboat wharf in
thu backyard of Mr. Hooks place. there Is good
schooner not much injured Below the hotel towards
Hendersons Point there is large-sized schooner on
shore, ten or twelve feet above hgh-water mark.
The yacht "Algerinen belonging to Mr.. Fassman; the
" Berthan owned by Mr.. Fisk; the Ed Sparrow and
Kenyon u belonging to Mr. Bsban, Injured IL Is be-
eved beyond repairs. Com. Story Venture - came
ashore the steamboat wharf and is injured her
arbeard side but not beyond being again made whole
The hotel stood the storm we'll ALI the old trees in the
front yard and the bank destroyed. Fences
blown down in every direction. .-9;=5 q.
30 far as could Learn, 1t not positively ascer-
tanned that any lives were lost although serious apprs
tensions entertained safety nine fsner-
who engaged in their avocations Of supply
ing the Pass with fish When left the Pass they had
not been heard from.
MISSISSIPPI err.
This place in its full share of the general de-
vastation.
Between and O'Clock on Sunday morning the large
buildings attached to the premises and hotel DR. Te
garden at Mississippi City, blown down The Sleep
ing apartments building of stories full of dodgers
the first to give way from the washing Of the founda
tcn by the waves causing the death of two OF our c
zeus, son of Mr.. George W. GiEens, and Mr. Joseph
Prentss attached to the actorag house Messrs Curry
Person and woundihg four other persons however
seriously The other building crushed at this place was
the billiard saloon and ten pin alley
The other damages sustained Mississippi City ere the
entire destruction of the two long wharves attached to
Rarness Hotel and Paradise Point with every priyats
bnth,hose and wharf In fact there not bath house
standing from Ocean Springs to the Rigolets
Fences were blown down. and the largest kind Of nine
trees snapped on like rotten wood.
5* BnoxI.
Deer Island afforded partial protection to this place,
and to 1t may be attributed the safety of two harves
that known as Browns wharf and the wharf of Pradat
Green Oaks Hotel all the other whsrves and ali the bath
houses are destroyed
The beach in front of the lighthouse and the resi-
denee Of Jno g. Robinson Esa lis much washed and cut
up by the surf.
We understand that schooner passed through ono Of
the streets and lies two squares from the ater,s
edgeearred there by the force of the gale Many small
crafts were driven ashore and destroyed Mr. Thomas
Byrne's fine yacht Edith, driven ashore and Ia
muchi injured. The Coqnette," 9sylphn and Ripple
were fortunately tho ways in the back bay of Biloxi
ecEAN SPRINGS
Our information leads suppose that this point has
had its full share the only remains OF all Its wharyes
is the pier head Of Captain Walkers new
wharf.
Pascagouia and the settlements on the Eastern Shore
OF Mobile Bay appear to have escaped with but COM
paratvely triingipjury although 1t must be confessed
eur accounts from those quarters not full Proctor
vile, on Lake Borgne, was much ipjured-haying met
with its foil portion of disaster.
We are indebted to friend who was on the Creole for
the following vivid of the occurrences Of the
trip:
THE HuRRIcAFs AND IT'S INCIDENTS. sEEv BY AN EYE
L.. wiTNEss.
The writer, In company with about one hundred and
ly Others toek passage board of the coast packet
3reo under command of Captain Post for the various
Watering places the Gulf Shore Saturday evening
sst, under the usual circumstances OF such trip The
eamer as usual, departed punctuay the arrival of
no four o'clock NJ train of the lake end of the
onohartran Railroad Atthe hour of departure there
vas pretty strong breeze blowing from about H. NJ
With considerable swell The weather was cloudy with
occasional showers Of rain The steamer continued stead