Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-17

Tuesdays New Orleans Delta has these
additional particulars of the great storm of
Saturday night; xxx.
At Proctorville the storm commenced with
great violence, coming suddenly and unex-
pectedly. The water rose over twelve feet,
entirely submerging the entire place, and
carrying every house, save one, away. This
house is the one occupied by the Superin-
tendent of the Fort-works. ...-....l
The greatest CONSERVATION prevailed, and
every possible method of floating escape was
resorted to. Only forty to fifty persons were
saved, aud from thirty-fve to forty lost. The
population was principally composed Of fish
ermen, but there were visitors in the place
for their health.
These visitors are also lost; their names
are: Mr.. W. F. Wells, wife and two children,
and his wife's sister; also a nurse of Mrs.
Wells.
1t appears that Mr.. Wells was an invalid,
and went with bis family to Proctorville for
his health's improvement. When the storm
came on, he was situated on the upper floor
Of a two-story building. He said to his
wife: "Go on the roof and take the children
with you-save yourselves-I have but a
little while to live any way--save your
selves" The wife and others, however, had
little time even to save themselves, for
they were, house and all, washed away and
lost.
A Mr.. Fagot and his wife and five children
were also lost, being carried off on the roof
of house, which was seen to break in
pieces, when the strugglers for life i'm.
mediately sank Two Of Mr.. Fagots child
ren, however, he having seven, were saved.
Mr.. Mccarthy, ofthe firm Of A. B. Soulie,
Conti-street, had a narrow escape. He
| foated on the roof of house for eight hours
| during the night, and managed, by great
presence of mind, to save himself He lost
his negro servant boy, who could not with
| stand the fearful food.
We have also learned of family, COM
posed of nine persons, who have been all
drowned.
We are also informed that Mr.. ]. Curiel
grocer, Couti-street, has been lost.
Up the river, near Algiers, the turbulence
| Of the Father of Waters" was perfectly
grand to behold. Banks became braes often,
| and some Of the small craft moored along
side the wharves bid adieu to their cables
| and danced on the wave-tops like young kids
| on Switzerland crags. The steamer Belle
| Gates was carried from her moorings, at
| Algiers, and neer firted belle like she,
down the river. However, she soon found q
haven, and is but very slightly damaged.
On Lake Pontchartrain, every craft looked
as if the captain was insane, the crew in
toxicated, and the vessel without rudder or
compass. Confusion worse confounded was
the order of things generally. At Milneburg
Old Boreas was extremely rude, for he not
only stripped the wharves naked, but he
actually exposed the bed of the railroad
most unhandsomely.
The piers and their uncountable wood
works were driven high and dry; bath
houses were swimming on their own hook
and that very slender one; the railroad
track had its sleepers aroused, its Trails per-
fectly transformed into Ps and Qs, neither
of which rude b. seemed to mind Bridges
became sinks, ,-and right wings of dwellings
became left, and left ones were right in a
molting condition, and their flying powers
turned into floating ones. The damage in
this section, that of the railroad included
can not be repaired short Of 81, 500.
The keeper of the Fort at Proct6rville has
also been drowned. His wife and two chill
dren were found floating on a raft, and were
drifted ashore. Her left arm was found
broken, and the right one surrounding, with
a mothers grasp, the. two children. Mr.
Armstrong, Superintendent of the Mexican
Gulf Railroad, picked her up in prostrated
condition, and took her 10 a place of rest
where restoratives were given her and her
children, and when she told, in wild accents
of grief, the loss of her husband.
The Mexican Gulf Railroad, for four miles
toward Proctorville, is submerged to a depth
of at least six feet, and consequently those
persons who left this city for Lake Borgne
and Proctorville, have been saved from the
fury of the storm, those points being, at that
time, unapproachable. ~