Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-20
More than Sixty Lives Lost---ProctorviIIe
La, Inundated and swept away.

In, Inundated and swept away.
a terrible storm ragged in and about New
Orleans on the llth, which did much dam
age in that city. But it was much more dis
astrous to life and property elsewhere. The
True Delta Of Tuesday says:
"The storm on Saturday at one point has
been, we are panied to say, attended with ter
rible disaster. Along the coast Of Lake Pont-
chartrain the damage TO water craft, wharves
&c, has been great but fortunately no report
of loss Of life has reached us.
Unhappily not 30 in regard TO Proctorville,
on Lake Borgne, which, from the direction Of
the wind, must have been exposed to the full
fury Of the gale, for the town has been swept
away 80 persons are known to have perish
ed, and mall probability many more lives
have been lost.
The storm ragged Friday night and Satur-
day, and at 3 o'clock that afternoon not a
house in Proctorville was standing. Every
tree, shrub, dwelling and store was sweptoff,
and nothing but the government fort with.
stood wind and water
It is shocking to think Of the loss oflife at
this locality-husbands and wives, and chill
dren, carried into eternity by the pitiless wa
ters. Below we publish a list of the victims
as full as we could ascertain it this forenoon:
W.F. Wills, Of New York; Mrs. W. F. Wills
one child; Miss Bertrand, cousin Of the
wills; servant name not known; -
Fargo; Mrs. Fargo and six children; Linn
eriek and three children; - Nicholson
and three children; a watchman, his wife
and one child, name not known; - Com
bray, the lighthouse keeper; Mr.. Wells and
family, FIVE souls in all; the barkeeper Of
Raymon's cofee-house, name not known; a
eolored boy, name not known; and several
fishermen. In all, between thirty and forty
lives lost
Then follows a list of disasters on the lakes
and the river. These comprise great damage
by inundation of the towns and plantations,
the running ashore of several boats, the cap
sizing of a schooner, with the probable loss Of
all on board, the loss of several lives at the
Passes, and elsewhere
At the Plaquemines, the storm was terribly
severe. The true Delta says:
The storm of Saturday last overhowed the
entire parish from DR.. Wederstrandts door
to the Quarantine Station. The water rose
to the depth of four feet on the public road
at Point-a-la-Hache, and',atU tUrquhart's planta-
ton it rose in some places nine feet. Mr..
Urquharts crop was greatly damaged, and 20
or 30 persons lost their lives on his place
Many of them had taken refuge in tree tops,
and were either blown off by the force of the
wind or they were blown down with the trees.
At Mrs. Wlkinson's plantation there were
five or six negroes lost; also, two carriages,
the stables and Kitchen were blown away
The large new storehouse at the Quarantine
station was blown down. There were many
other sufferers by the storm, but the above is
all the names and particulars that we can OBJ
tain at present. The water continued to rise
for "a hours, when it subsided, leaving death
and destruction in its path. The orange and
rice crops, all along the lower coast are en-
tirely destroyed.
At Terre Beuf Madame Gill and her ne
gro servant lost their lives.