New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-11-05
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This terrific storm, account of which we
gave a few days ago is thus further described By
the Ouachita Telegraph:
Old sailors assert that file Evening Star was
caught by screw huFrieaIe,n and from that
moment she was doomed, rs no ship can be built
which WI outride the fury of one Of these tenn
pests Something nearly relating To the s.screF''
family of winds passed over portion Of jackson
and linton parishes last Sunday. The storm
seems IA have had 40 particular course, but beat
about i'll an eccentric manner, unlike the hRrFi
canes that usually visit this region. Its dessruc
Ave forge seems not to have been diminished but
augmented by this popularity. The first intelli-
genee We had of its destructive appearance was
from MFR. Herndon, the telegraphic operator at
Glfis place who informed that he had word that
three miles Of the line west of this had been
blown down. We next heard that that portion of
the Claiborne road embraced in these three miles
was impossible not only for vehicles but also for
MOrseinen; that the trees were not torn up bY the
roots, but were snapped abruptly off by the storm
IN It's maddened turg Gins and screws, res
ldences, fences, etc., had been blown down, one
negro killed and several other casualties reported
Yesterday we met Mr.. John Nelson, Of Jack
son, who passed near the scene of the hurricane,
as near IS amy open road would allow. He repre.
SCENTS the scene Of the disaster as frightfal Dir
John Woodward, with neghbor and his neigh
boris little daughter, were just driving up to
Douglas when the storm was observed coming on.
Quickening his horse. he barely had time to reach
b house with the little girl. when the storm, com
ing to the assistance Of his companion, who was
uahitching the horse, seized the buggy and blew
lit off over and over like hat, leaving it q com
E piete wreck. Logs that lay half covered up by
dirt III the fields rndelg torn from their beds
and made to roll along the surface of the earth as
q lad would trundle his hoop. Mr.. Washington
Pipes had his house blown down and some Of his
family injured. "A carriage house was blown
down, and buggy that stood in it hoisted twenty
feet and deposited on the top of The trunk Of d
tree which had been broken off twenty feet above
the ground! Mr.. John Stout's cotton pen, con-
tanning 1000 pounds OF seed cotton, was upset by
the wind, and the contents, the fruits Of YEARS.
hard labor, il few minutes scattered through the
trees and over the woods and field in every liree-
ton. Mr. Yining's cotton pen, and the pens Of
several other citizens, were served iii manner
similarly dishearteIing.
The particulars given above relate mostly to a
portion of the hurricanes path few miles in
Ieng th probably some tive OK six. We sympa-
thise deeply with The sufferers, and shall be pre-.
pared to hear that their more fortunate neighbors
have contributed freely of their stores to supply
some Of the wants caused BY this sorrowful
disaster.
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