New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-13
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GbIuptHS VI LHS p4u LDhi3 HefS out '''N4sN' ''4
their polite invitation which they extended to US
to accompany them on their contemplated excgr'
sion over the lake yesterday Unlucky We were
unable to be with them. We regret to know that,
owing to the high wind and rough water, the
steamer Arrow was unable to take them over to
Mandeqlle but then, again, we are glad TO know
that they made out their day at Milneburg, where
the dinner at least was equal to anything to be
found on the other side. The Crescent Fire Com
psny like the Crescent newspaper, is always right
side up.
TaE GALE OF sATrRDkY.-saturday was, if We
mistake not, the anniversary of the great storm
and Last Island disaster, four years ago. The day
was signazed by as severe gale as we have felt
in this city and vicinity FOR number Of years.
| Along the Pontchartrain it was pronounced the
soyerest visitation of the last twelve years.
| strong and steady north east wind, blowing
| all day, and accompanied most Of the time with
rain (the rain once in while being golden from
the sun peering n) told the city what was progress
| ing on lake and gulf The stiff gusts sent many
hat and umbrella kiting; sheds and fences got the
ricketts,, and some foppedover and this important
| fact was shown in numerous lstances-that ladies'
who acM hoops and tgilj expose themselves to
| the vagaiies of high wind, should be prepared
for disaster, and seme part of their raiment,
| Or more thereof than usual, inside their hoops. We
heard of ofseveral ptiable spectacles OF ladies cut
| ragged by the wind, on the public streets.
/ A good part OF the ruins or jagged walls Of the
Royal street fire were blown down during the day.
An officer Of the Underwriters Department was
stationed at end of the ruins, to caution people
not to pass in front of the ruins. One self-eon-
eeited individual, upon being warned, gave the
officer an insulting answer and passed on II hap
pened that as he passed, portion of one of the
tottering walls fell, and flying brick mashed his
hat and cut his head badly. He Immediately took
the back. track and as, with the blood streaming
down over his face, he passed the officer whose
warming he had so insutngiy lisregarded, he said,
'tThank you, my friend I'll see you some other
day!n
A wall of threestory building recently de.
stroyed by fire, on Tchoupitoulas street, between
Julia and st. Joseph, was blown over about noon.
1t fell upon and crushed Davidson & Co.'s brass
finishing shop, one-story house, in which some
ten or twelve were working at the time.
These men would probably have been crushed to
death, but for the timely warning given by some
one who saw the wall when it started to fall. The
| moulders rushed to the rear Of the shop and the
fpiabers rushed out into the street, all Just in time
to save their lives.
The father of waters v was never mere angr,
: or turbulent. He writhed and ehafed like ggan
tic muddy serpent in the pangs ofcholera. On th'
= river and the levee, the gale had a gay sweep
= Ships and steamers butted the wharves right cordi
ally; whilst the steamer Belle Gates manifesto,
her dislike of Algiers by breaking loose and ktn!
. over, broadside on, to this side of the river.
! In Lake Pontchartrain, things were lively in tn
extreme. At AIilneburg the Pontchartrain Railroa
wharf was badly shattered from the shore to it
outer end. The piles and the railroad seepers re
L Inained firm enough; but the uprising wave
u washed away and piled into wreck nearly all tn
u woodwork between and outside the rails. Nea
Il the shore the lake washed over the railroad tE,
or three feet deep, covering the track with drif
IS of logs boats, planks, stones, shells and sand
B. which il cost much trouble TO remove. One win
of the ladies' bath-house entirely washed away
l. together with all the bridges leading to the othe
lighthouses. The damage to the railroad wharf
d from s2500 to $4,000. The cars were not alloTe
G TO go out on the wharf yesterday morning.
a The town Of Milneburg was thoroughly inun
u, dated Women and children, Tin the evening, whe
rs the gale was at the highes) had to be rescue
20 from their houses in skifis. Boudros and othe
50 gardens close to the shore were washed over an
almost ruined whilst some OF the shade trees
ID front Of the Washington Hotel were torn up by I'll
at roots so strong was the wind. The elevated ban
rn in course of construction for shell road from u
re town to Bayou St. John, was washed over al
II. ruined. Yesterday morning when we were ther
OF most Of the inha abtants had to wade to and fro
their dwellings; the boys were padding about tt
streets in pirogues and some felix's were catchir
lis fish in their back yards, for breakfast.
al A good many of the fishing boats were swampe
and the yacht Ripple was sunk at the piekets
the Bayou st. John. The maiboat California, IL
he Mobile left at noon, and doubtless gave her pa
Gu .engers good shaking before getting over. Son
N, three hundred people were ready to leave on Il
III Alabama. at S o'clock, for the watering places
nj hut wind and water were then SO high, that Il
e, captain gave up the trip. About 5u OF the passo
TO gers remained on board, whilst the rest return
~ ~ to the city, The boat got of about nine o'clo
mt Yesterday morning. The little steamer ARROW, I
ne Vaudeville, attempted to leave during the gale
% Saturday afternoon buthad to come to anchor a
NJ, dance the waves all night. Yesterday morning 8
nd attempted to leave again but still 30 high was
By wind, (now a nor'wester,) that she had to give
@ @ea up; greatly to the disappointment Of many pc
in sons and our friends of Crescent Fire Compa
or No. "a, who had laid out for dinner and irotic
ig- Ben Butman's, in Mande vile.
m, Damage was done all along the lake shore,
ID, far as we could hear. AT Dan Hickok's we he
nd the damage was trifling. At The lake end OF t
a., an Jefferson Railroad learn that the fishermen
,es ehanties were inundated and Frank Rhodes pis
ost gallery swept away; wind and water hitting 1t
-. the bulls eye. The poor fishermen, wet as tI'
,ed and with their scanty effects, took refuge at
the Hickoks.
md BY persons who came up yesterday morning
f1 a the Mexican Gulf cars, learn that the gale
,se food were terrible at ProetorVille. The Satnrd
ses evening cars could not get within four miles OF
hie town for the water on the track the water bel
IN four feet deep on the track near the town. ]
shell banks and many of the houses were wasf
arc away, tina people escaping in boats. 1estert
Glel' G morning, the wind having changed to the nor
bav west the food had in great measure snbslded
Of The Mobile mail boat Florida, due early yes
lse. day morning, did not arrive till five O'Clock
aSe 1Ss evening She and her passengers doubtless
the sights on the way.
ea'' From the above, it is highly probabie that
shall hear of numerous disasters to vessels on
Gulf
oug THE STORM on THE RivER.--Wc learn from