The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
Last Nights Dispatches.
THE ELEMENTS.

New ORLEANS, Sept. 3,-Reports Of
losses by Mondays storm continue to come
in. At Lewisburg and Vaudeville wharves,
bath houses and fences were destroyed and
residences damaged. The town of Lewis
burg was inundated. The light house at
the mouth Of the Tichifuncta river was
destroyed. At Madisonville water was
three feet over the wharf, flooding the
streets. The steamboat Trenton left
Baton Rouge on Monday morning, and
eight miles below encountered hurricane.
She was made fast TO the banks and the
wind increasing the passengers went
ashore to save their lives, The lines soon
after gave way and the boat went adrift
and capsized, the passengers and crew
losing their effects. The Trenton had SO
bales of cotton, 100 head of cattle and sun
dries. The steamer Cameron brought the
Trentons passengers aud crew and re-
covered 81 bales of cotton. The officers
of the Cameron report the destruction of a
dozen sugar houses on the coast below
Baton Rouge. Emile Lsfere had two
sugar houses destroyed at Conrad's Point
and Congan Il Kelly lost a magnificent
sugar house at Avery Place. The coal
and ferry boat at Baton Rouge were sunk
aud several buildings damaged.
In the storm on Monday three barges
Of the tow boats John Gilmore were sunk
above Baton Rouge and one of the pilots
drowned, The sunken barges had cargoes
of produce, including $4,000 bushels OF
| wheat.
The sinking of the Gilmore and barges
causes a loss of $l25,000. The steamer
Paragon, during the stor o., landed at New
ton Bend, twenty miles above Bayou Sara.
Her officers report the warehouse at Texas
Landing blown away. all sugar cane and
cotton back of the river at Texas Landing
destroyed three or four gin houses demol-
lshed and fences and cabins blown down.
Damage to sugar houses, dwellings aud
crops are reported along the coast. House,
were blown down in Bayou Sara, Baton
Rouge, at Port Hickory and other towns
So far as could be learned no lives were
lost.
The storm at St. john Baptiste was a
fierce continuous gale of wind and rail-
from = in the morning until i at night
An occasional lull Of few moments wa
followed by the increased fury of the gale
carrying away trees shaking houses an,
prostfating fences. Everybody seemed OF
the alert. Some sugar houses, stables an,
cabins were blown down. The orang
crop is badly damaged. The peach tree
were stripped of their fruit. Cane an
rice are in deplorable condition and ar
levelled close to the earth. as if cut for th
mill.
1t was reported at the Chicago, St.Lout
4 New Orleans railroad offices that a trai
ran off the track at Elipse. Mills,
brakeman, was slightly injured. No pas
sengers hurt
SUMMIT, Sept. 3.-Gloomy reports ar
arriving of the ravages Of the rain storl
Monday night. The creeks and rivers al
higher than ever known before. Theco
ten in the low lands is under water, A
open cotton OF the hills is in the grount
The crop is damaged at least one-thnd az
bridges and fences washed away.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. BY private tel
) grams it is learned that the Mississip
Valley Transportation Company, of S
Louis, loses heavily by the storm whit
swept over Louisiana, 1t is estimate
that there was at least $4,000 bushels
g wheat in the barges sunk on the Jol
Gilmore. The loss to the transportatit
company is about $4,000 and to Il
j.. insurance companies holding risks on Il
cargo nearly 100000
q FRANKFORT, KY, Sept. S.--A hea
v rain fell here last night. doing much dai
e age,