New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-06
Effects of the Recent Storm In PIaquemInes
Parish.

Certain citizens of Plaquenines parish furnish
the Rice Planter with the following statement:
Mr.. Edaor-There have been so many different
accounts, all more or less exaggerated, Of the
effect of the late storm in this parish, in Justice to
all we deem it our duty to make the following
| statement which may be relied,on as true to the
letter and will be vouched for by every gentleman
whose name appears in it, By giving it place in
the columns of your valuable journal, you will do
justice to all and confer favor many sufferers
On the evening of the 10th, brisk breeze sprung
up from the Southeast, accompanied with driz-
| zlng rain. Tt continued troughout the night and
until about midday of the llth, when the wind
veered round to Northeast, blowing up the salt
water from Black Bay and flooding the country
4 from few miles above this point to the Baze.
/ At O'Clock the river at Pointe la Hache had.
risen four feet, and it was feared would soon be
/ over the levee, but fortunately the wind having.
| changed it was driven back. The water on the
road in front of the court house did not at any
time exceed two feet in depth, and in front of MF.
/ Urquhart's plantation, three feet.
| If the individual who spread the report that the
water was four feet deep at Point Ia Hache, and
| nine feet on Mr.. Urquharts plantation will come
down here and give us a few lessons in his method
of calculation, we promise he shall not go away
unrewarded. If there is difference of five feet in
the level Of the above places, we must say we are
ignorant of it. About O'Clock on the llth the
wind died off, and at 10 O'Clock there no water
ON the road. Mr.. Urquhart suffered considerable
damage, and it is feared he will lose nearly all his
| cane. DR.. W. Penrose, who has cotton planta
ton, will lose his entire crop. Below the DOCTORS
are few small farmers, who Will lose their corn
and potato crops Their loss is the most to be de-
| plored, as the greater number of them will be re-
duced to absolute want 1t is to be hoped some.
project may be devised to relieve their wants.
Mr.. Robert Wilkinson's brick.yard was next in
order; his sheds and fencing were blown down and
washed away also quantity of wood which was
piled on the leyee. Mfr. Henry Wilkinson lost
about 200 cords of wood; he suffered other dam
ages but of little consequence. DIR. Wilkinson,
who came next, lost one negro man and not six,
as previously reported. He, with two others, were
in skiff attempting tosremove the contents of O.
. cabin; they were carried by the force of the cur
rent to the bank of the river, when two of them
| jumped out and saved themselves. The last was
late in jumping out, and waited until he got over
his depth, in consequence of which he WAS
! drowned. Had he remained in the skiff he would
have been saved, as it was afterwards foundon the
other side of the river right side up. N@
X At the Quarantine boat house was, blown down
and nearly all the levee washed away. AT the Salt
|. Works, below the Quarantine, eleven negroes are
9 missing and are supposed to have been drowned.
! Opposite the plantation of Mr.. Grant, tive men,
Mr.. Carr and Mr.. Moustache with negro, woman
and two children, in attempting to cross the river
in skif were upset, and with the exception OF
] Mr. Carr, all were drowned.
The rice crop on the left bank of the river Is
tirey destroyed by the salt water as it was not
near ripe, owing to the drought we have had this
season. The principal damages on the right bank
of the river consisted in the partial washing away
of the levees and injury to the orange crop in Bu-
ras Settlement. The accounts of the storm at the
t Balize are correct. Other papers which may have
published an account differing from the above will
please insert this, and obge Zz