The New York herald., 1875-09-22

pecially cotton. The interior parishes did not
escape, the hurricane sweeping all the way
inland to Canton, Miss, prostrating crops
and unroo6ng houses. Fortunately there were
not many vessels in port and there little loss of
life Nearly the entire parish of Plaquemines SUBJ
merged by the overflow Of the Gulf that rolled its white
caps' in upon the inhabitants with the fury of the
bore that has made the Bay Fundy celebrated over
the whole world. In St. Mary's parish great damage
was done. Indeed all the coast parishes of Louisiana
were the greatest sufferers and hundreds fed in alarm
to the higher lands fearing that they
and their plantations would be carried by
the receding waves out into the broad
Gulf On the Lafourche alone twenty buildings were
blown down, on Bayou Black 6ve in Terrebonne parish
five and in Little Gallon number were carried down.
with the loss of one life AS the angry waves rolled in
from the agitated Gulf old inhabitants represent that
they believed the entire State was TO be submerged
and taking the upper stories of their houses or deep
rooted trees, they awaited tho worst in supplication
and prayer No estimate of the loss by this storm has
ever been arrived at but the best authorities place il
at So 100000
THE GALE ABOUT KEY WEST, OCTOBER 1865
Key West, the leading seaport of Florida and the
coaling station for Gulf squadron has been sub
jected to many calamtes from tempest and wind One
of the most severe that visited the island COM
menced on Saturday evening October 81, 1866, with
rain and wind, and continued until eight p NJ. Sunday
when the rain ceased and tho wind increased. Naval
officers at the station who had spent the greater part of
their lives in all parts of the world represented
it to be the severest storm they had experienced
and moro terrific than the gale of 1916,
when so many vessels were lost mum.
Der Of houses were unroofed, several wharves.
including two belonging to the government were sunk
the mn
damaged boat and bath houses carried out to sea-
the United States Tortugas was sunk and the
streets srewn with uprooted and the debris
of buildings. More than twenty vessels riding at
anchor or at the wharves were forced from their moor
ngs ashore sunk in the troubled waters of the bay
The whole coast far the glass could reach and the
adjacent keys dotted with vessels Every wharf
in the town was destroyed rendered useless
The United States steamship John Rice from
New Orleans to this port encountered the hur
rcano on October % from the northwest
and driven into the Dry Torugas where the storm
wasvcry severe, having damaged Fort jefferson killed
the post quarermaster, blown down chimneys and up-
rooted trees The steamship Mississippi and other YES
sells caught in the gallo at sea reported the storm un
usually severe Among cAe disasters was the loss OF
the steamship Republic, plying between New Orleans
and this city, which went down of the Georgia coast
steamer Wabash from Philadelphia for New Orleans
disabled and put INTO Savannah after the loss Of
two overheard. This storm extended into the in
terror swept the lakes and did great damage to
the commercial marine of Lakes Huron, Superior aud
Erie.
The gale continued until the 2sd, doing much damage
to coasters between Cape Fear and Galveston and ex
tending all over tho West India Islands The shipping
in the harbors of Havana, Matanzas and New Proyi-
donce suffered severely and probably 200 vessels were
wholly or in part destroyed by it along the coast on
the lakes and in the isles of the Gulf
THE GALE NDIANoLA, TEXAS, IN JULY, 1866
terrific gale began at Indianola Texas on the 18th
July 1866, and continued three days Four vessels
were totally wrecked and not vestige of two was LEFT
Houses sorehouses, wharves and lighthouses suffered
severely The "oldest inhabant" reported that no
such storm had visited the port but as the place
then small and only few vessels were IN port the
loss not very great
THE DEVASTATION on THR GRANDE IN OCTOBER 1867
In October, 1861 the most storm of the cen
tury swept up the Rio Grande. and writer states that