New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-16
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yI,E1E ATE STORM.

TIKI EsAtEkt
Tile storm which eonnie ilced on satuEday hlstas
4last, has EXTENDED over great section Of coJnlrl
From the Eastsin the gicnityof Mobile
II ,as not appear to have been of q serious
From The seashore suburbs, accounts up 70
lead TO the superstition that no dafnag has
hesn sustained. From Vaudeville, LeWisbnr eng L
I'M neiglborhood &c the Tchefuneta consider
able damage has been sustained IN the Washing away
n hath houses wlltrves the demolishing Of fences
s,, ,ha nrostsatia1 of Sfees and the almost total
os,ens o,,yes ana artificial Improvements.
F4n the W. have the most melancholy
lions regarding Last Dernier Island and if
craence Il ID Be- given to the accounts already at
hand. TIE loss of life has been anlentably large.
These storms Of wind and rain perYade every sec
tio, 81 tits continent. 1t is only few days since
VI ave an account Of d most destructive gale Of
wind at Labrador almost Eastern habitable ey-
trsu,isy Of this continent the loss Of over
thirty vessels and three hundred lives. So it ap-
pears no part of this continent is exempt these
terrible convulsions Of the elements.
The most destructive storm during the present cen
fury 80 far as property was concerned anu Whlch
passed over Louisiana was the hurricane on me l9tf
August, 1872. The damage among the shipping was
| immense. The US. vessel 4Etna was sunk at the
leFee. Fort st. Philip, seventy miles below the CITY,
was submerged and many Of the soldiers drowned.
The market house located on the site Of the present
in the Second District was blown down,
md The injury tothe crops, houses, fences and gar
deus though they were small compared to those OF
tie present day. amounted to million Of dollars
in the wear l5 on the Esd eptenber, most de-
sructive gale passed over the seashore Of the New
England States causing greatloss Of life and prop
erty Of all descriptions The tide in many places rose
4 higher than it was ever BEFORE carrying before it,
with the force Of the wind and waves buildings OF
II every kind DESTROYING RhnrVes and causing the de-
i structon Of the outstanding crops Rvllets turned
Il into brooks brooks into creeks creeks into rivers,
and rivers became part and parcel Of the sea- This
4 was far the most severe storm that memory and his
tory rive lis as passing over the Few England States,
Of rather the entire Atlantic coast from the Carolnas
to the Bay Of Fundy. If B,
In the month Of July, 1919, New Orleans and its
environs was visited by storm Of wind and rain OF
unusual duration The water in the lakes rose as high
I as they have at many times SINCE the population
being very sparse back Of what's now called Ram
part street. the DANA sc triing compared to the
i hurricane Of the 10th August, 1872 There only
one outlet to the lake, and that was via Carondele5
canal and the Bayou st. John. On the Gulf shore.
/ the village of Shiedsborough ebay ST. Louis the
Il only settlement Of note At this place the gale was
4 severe and caused great damage. The most serious
n loss on the lakes was that OF the United States
schooner Firebrand, which foundered at her anchors
9 off Henderson:s Point and every soul Of her crew
thirty-nine in number, persisted Pass Christian, Mis-
sissippi City and Biloxi were not then known as
"A villages.
The next severe gale, attended with loss of Life
and property, was in 1922 During this gale, which
was about as heightened and fatal as any, the Mobile
T packet schooner Washington, Capt 5IcCloud, witt
thirty passengers, hound Mobile, capszed off thu
Bay St Louis, or rather, it is believed she strncl
on the Mesila Bank, or Square Handkerchief, as it
called, and was totally lost with every soul severa
other vessels met the same fate at the same time, witt
f all their crews The Coroner of Hancock county
Miss. held nquests fortyeight bodies, which cam
, ashore after the gale. During the same month al
equally disastrous gale passed over the Atlantic coasts
:, causing great loss of both lives and property.
Although it isgeneraly believed that within tropc
hurricanes are more frequent during the months Q
Juiy, August and September, yet history seems t
confirm that Northern ATTITUDES are equally as sui
!, ject to them. Is 5j.s
: Learned astronomers have, from time to time, al
tempted to account for these periodical yistatons 70
favored with any satisfactory solution Of their cause
n and severity, aud can only submit TO the laws
E. nature regarding them.
E II is an old adaee chat all signs fail in dry weathe
at this time it can be reversed and made to read tina
! all signs fail in wet weather. Gh ~
Iii August, 1881, another severe storm passed owe
tie southern part Of our State, extending its ravage
Eastward Of Mobile, ana Westward as far as til
Oft +Iott
Our city suffered considerably, so did tine countr
# sugar and cotton crops included. The shipping
port suffered greatly. Among the disasters tho
y offthe new ship Boy {of 400 tons) Of Newport
Z large ship in those days-which was forced by I'll
wind and waves Of the Mississippryer high and d.
,e on the leyee, in front of where stands the Re
4 stores-hetween the two markets of the now Secor
il District This ship was abandoned and sold for a
" count Of the underwriters. Smaller vessels West
Ii dia and Mexican traders-were also driven on shor
m The damage among the pirogues and minor trade
i'll was very large
zis The next great gale was in 1887, which was vel
disastrous and fatal on the Lake so faras the loss
II property was concerned. The damage to the POI
IL chartran Railroad at the Lake. was very grea
We The steam marine employed on the Lakes sntfi
IL ed heavily. The low pressure steamer Merchant W
totally wrecked, a few hundred yards from the pit
h head Of the railroad. The packet Columbia W
Il driven ashore !; and the damage to Mlneburg was
heavy, it does not appear to have fully recover
10 from its effects to this day. The water from t
Lakes was forced into the swamps, and finally back
up as as Rampant street, of course inundating
entire area between the outskirts of the city and
3 Lake.
Il Although we have had pretty damp and aqueo
l. p;,, jhn of ba 1raSo