Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-08-31
More than sixty Lives Loss--Proctor.
vile, La, Inundated and Swept Away.
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More than sixty Lives I.oss--Proctor-
: vile, La, Inundated and Swept Away.
t. A,terrible storm ragged In and about New
Orleans on the 1lth, which did much damage
: in that city. But it was much more disas
trons to life and property elsewhere The
, True Delta of Tuesday says :. ssr A..
The storm on Saturday at one point has
been, we are pained 10 say, ATTENDED with ter.
ribIe disaster. Along the coast of Lake
!, Pontchartrain the damage 10 water. craft,
WI wharyes &c, has beee great, but fortunately
no report Of loss II life las REACHED Us. :
/ Unhappily not 50 in regard TO Proctorgille,
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; 32 persons are known to have perishedI
! 93, apq la el PEeeebilisy tlsaa more lives have
/ The STERN ragged on Friday night and Sat
urday, and at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon no,
house in Proetorrille was standing. Every
! tree, shrub, dwelling and store was swept off,
and nothing but the government fort with
stood the wind and water.
/ 1T is shocking TO think If The loss Of life in
this locality-husbands and wives and children,
! carried into eternity by the pitiless WATERS
Below We publish list of the victims, as full
as We could ascertain ii this forenoon w
F. Wills, of New York Mrs. W. F. Wills
one child; Miss Bertrand, cousin of the Mills;
servant, name not known; Fargo Mrs
Fargo and six children watchman, his wife
and one child, name not known - Combray,
the lighthouse keeper MIR. Wells and family.
five souls in all the bar keeper of Ravmons
coffee house name not known; q colored boy
name not known and several fishermen In |
all, between thirty and forty lives are lost
Then follows list of disasters on the lake |
and river. These comprise great damage by |
inundation of the towns and plantations, the
running ashore of several boats, the capsizinp /
of a schooner, with the probable less 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 oveeflewed the
entire parish from Or. Wederstranlt s loor-to
the Quarantine Station. The water rose to
the depth of four feet onthe public road at
Point la Hachc, and at Urquharts planta-
ton it rose in some places nine feet. MIR.
Urquharts crop was greatly damaged, and 25
or 80 persons lost their lives on his place.
Many Of them hal taken refuge in tree tops,
and were blown off by the force Of the wind
Dr they were blown down with the trees
At Mrs. Wilkinson's plantation there were
i've or six negroes lost also, two carriages,
he stable and kitchen, were blown away
lhe large new storchouse at the quarantine $
tation was blown down. There were many '
'ther sufferers by the storm, but the above is a
III the names and particulars we eau obtain at 5
present. Tie water continued to rise for "a
lours when it subsidized, leaving death and des- c
ruction in its path. Tho Orange and Rice
rops, all along the lower coast, are entirely a
estFoyed. ==7 ----. f
AT Terra Beuf, Madame GiH and her ne '
no servant lost their lives. C