The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-20

| The fire alarm telegraph post ut the corner OF
Bayou Road and Dorgenois streets was uprooted,
and in falling broke in half.
The draining machine on Jordan Avenue was
out Of order and had stopped work this morning.
but later In the day 1t was reported to be work
ing agein. The break in the New B sin, at the
corner Of Julia and Claiborne streets, was STOPPED
by the city hands.
| THE RIVER FRONT,
| The steamer Katie, that YVES moored at the foot
of Third street, broke loose from her moorings,
but WAS captured by q tug and made secure 10
her wharf by new hawsers.
Several breaks In the levee along the left bank
having been reported, one at sorapuru market
and quite number above First street, hands
were immediately put to work TO repair them.
The north wind that prevailed for number OF
hours yesterday forced the water IN the rear Oh
the city to retire rapidly.
A number of coal boats are reported to have
bten swamped In the river.
The break in Buffers canal in the rear of the
| Third District caused good deal Of damage.
The breaks that occurred in the Old Canal, on
Toulouse street. between Claiborne and Der
bigny, were repaired by gang of ten men.
The Melpomene, Dublin and Claiborne canals
we're all three overfowed Wednesday morning
A gang was put to work on the Claiborne canal.
The fence around the City Insane Asylum was
| blown down and washed away. Steps were taken
| to save the lumber.
small break was reported underneath the
| Perseverance boathouse on the New Basin.
| RIGHT BANK OF THE RIVER.
| The levee below McCoys, in McDonoghville,
| urodi in, faedo md cd tn ha in n
dangerous condition. At last accounts it had not
been repaired.
| coal fat loaded with 1000 barrels of coal, be-.
longing to Brown & Jones was swamped. Flat
and cargo total loss
coal boat belonging to D. B. Woods broke
loose from her mooring, drifted into the steamer
| st. Mary and broke one of her wheels.
The swift wind on the river carried away the
arboard smokestack of the steamer Tensas.
The steamboat Chickasaw broke loose from her
mornings and floated rapidly long distance down
stream, but was captured by a tug and tied up
before doing any damage.
The life boat OF the tug Jerry blew off the
latter's hurricane roof into the river and was
swamped.
| The doors OF the truck house OF the hook and
ladder company on Ax street, Algiers, were
blown from their hinges and destroyed. The
fence around the Olive graveyard was also blown
down.
| MrLNEBURG.
At Milneburg the scene was heartrending
families were drivea from their homes and forced
| to take refuge in the swamps.
There was more property devastated at this
point than at any other point in outside Of the
city. The water was thirteen inches deep in the
village, and several houses had been wrecked by
the gale. The lighthouse wharf is washed away.
The railroad track from the ladies' and gentle
mems bath house to the lake met with the same
fate.
Nothing remains to show where the ladies' and
gentlemen's bath-house stood. Trisconi's house
was still standing, but signals Of distress
floating over the house. or the new bulkhead
not a vestige remains, and TIE foundation of the
public school was also washed away. The houses
on the eastern shore are all destroyed.
| The milkmen drove their stock into the swamps
for protection. The loss at this point is estmat-
ed at $50, 900.
Mr.. Miguel was very kind to those whose prop
erty had been destroyed. He took them into his
house, sheltered and fed them.
THE DRAINING CANALS,
| Considerable anxiety had been felt as early sc
Tuesday afternoon for the safety and security of
| the levees bordering several Of theelargest of
our draining canals. The backwater had before
brought about such disastrous results, like ones
we're feared from the easterly gale, and true to
the prognostications, several breaks occurred
At the Morgan levee, on the Marigny canal, the
embankment succumbed, although but little
damage followed from it, as it protected but 3
| small area Of low land. On the New Canal, at
the junction Of Claiborne street, another break
occurred, which was soon repaired. On the
Butler Canal, back of the Luzenburg Hospital,
the levee broke, allowing much water to flow into
the rear of the Third District. On the Old Basin
in yesterdays DEMOCRAT full account of the
breaks were given.
CUTTING A LEvEE.
At about 2 o'clock Wednesday morning Sergt.
Bachemin, in making his rounds along the Old
Basin, discovered a man busily engaged, spade
i'll hand, digging at the levee near Miro street.
When the presence of the Off Ger was detected,
the man beat hasty retreat, not forgetting to
throw the only clue to his identity, shovel, into
the water The officer chased the villain, firing
al him, but without success, and the fugitive
escaped over fence on Miro street, the darkness
preventing further pursuit.
AT GENTILLY STATION
the water from the lake reached depth of two
and half feet. Wednesday at o'clock a. M, the
water was up to the floors OF the houses, and
skiffs run up to the galleries. Fences were blown
down and valuable trees uprooted. The whole of
GENTLY Road, from the lake to Nuremberg Hos
pital, is now under water. The water is said to
be higher than it was in 1871. 1t is estimated
that the losses to fences, trees and gardens ex.
coed 1915, 900. Several orange orchards are de-
stroyed.
The Winds Velocity.
At the signal Office the Sergeant in CHARGE Mr..
Nelson Gorom. reports that, at midnight on Tues
day, the wind blew between thirty-nine and forty
miles an hour, and at O'Clock yesterday MORN
ing its velocity had decreased to twenty-eight.