Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-13

ton with regard to labor matters eau be
transmitted to the country. The repre-
sentatives of farmers in the Convention
met to present plank in the Convention
by which Knights of Labor may form an
alliance with the Grangers and other al
! liances.
The General Executive Committee held
a meeting to-day to hear cases that had
| been presented to it, but took action on
none of them. 1t has more than 1900
cases awaiting its decision, and these do
not include all that are TO be brought be-
| fore it.
| Heavy Storm on the Gulf.
| New ORLEANS, October 12th-The wind
was blowing gale here last night Dis
patches from towns on The Mississippi coast
| report the gale prevailing all day on Missis-
sippi Sound. The steamer Chalmett, from
| New York, which arrived yesterday, re-
ports that she came by the inside route
along the Florida coast, and encountered
heavy easterly gales and heavy rains. From
Tortugas to Port Eads heavy gales were
experienced, with high, irregular seas. On
Sunday. October 10th, she encountered sew
eral hurricanes, lasting seven hours, and
| backing from the east to the north, thence
bowling to the south. The seas ran high,
continually flooding the vessels deck, and
also her staterooms fore and aft Lake
Ponchartrain was filed with water from
| the Gulf, and the gale yesterday from the
same direction caused an increase of the
| lake tide-water, oyerfloWing the marshes in
the rear of the city, and filing the canals
bank full A break in the old basin levee
on Broad street was reported at midnight
| last night The velocity of the wind was
| thirtysix to forty miles per hour, and in
| creasing.
LATER REPORTS.
| New ORLEANS, October 12th.-The east
| erly gale continues But little damage has
been done in the city. The lake and shell
roads are submerged. Mienbury and Span
| ish Fort are flooded. At Shell Beach the
water is a foot deep on the railroad track,
and the Inhabitants nearly all left for the
city last night The Louisville and Nash
vile road, from Micheaud to Pearl river, is
| inundated, and several had washouts are
reported. The company is making efforts
to keep the rails in line. The telegraph
wires along this section of the road are all
down.
| MOBILE, October 12th.-The storm last
| night was heavy along the coast, and YES
| sells were detained from sailing. The tide
rose higher than ever before known. The
| telegraph office at Fort Morgan, at the en-
| trance of Mobile Bay, was flooded, and the
operator reached dry land by swimming.
Thirty New Orleans-bound passengers are
| detained here by washout on the Louis
vile and Nashville road this side Of New
| Orleans.
FEARFUL GALE AND HIGH WATER AT GAIL
| WESTON.
| GALVESTON, October 12th.-The storm
which was reported by the Signal Service
as entering the Gulf of Mexico last Satur-
day night reached Galveston to-day, and
at this time Is P. NJ furious gale is blow
| ing from the north. Symptoms of the
and the breeze which set in at an early
hour this morning has gradually increased
until it is now blowing forty-five miles an
| hour The tide on the gulf side of the
! island has been very high ever since Sat
urday, and the waves were so powerful to-
! day that they washed along the streets for
| five squares, right in the teeth of the gale
from the north. This extraordinary tide
is undoubtedly due TO the hurricane pre-
| vailing in the West Indies. The northern
| gale has done much towards checking the
encroachment of the gulf on the island.
On the bay side of the city the water
is very high and is washing over
| the docks. The damage TO the shipping
1
hundred large steamships and sailing YES
| sells are pounding against the wharves. The
| water is constantly rising in the bay, and
is encroaching on the city for square or
so, but no danger is apprehended or dam
| age to business property. Two barges
| from Houston, each laden with LOCO bales
| of cotton, are being submerged by the
| waves, and the cotton will be ruined.
Along the Gulf side the waves have torn
| up the street railway track and submerged
| several houses. The barometer has fallen
sixty points since o'clock this morning
| indicating that the storm center is very
near Galveston. Telegraphic communica-
ton with the mainland will probably be
entirely suspended by morning, as the gale
seems to increase in velocity every moment
Since sunset the wind has shifted slightly
| to the west. The storm is now coming
| from the northwest, and is blowing fiercely.
| THE STORM AT IT'S HIGHT.
LATER.-The gale has increased in veloc-
| ity, and at this hour (12:30 p. NJ is blow
| ing from the northwest at the rate Of fifty
miles an hour. The barometer has ceased
falling, and it is thought the storm has
reached its maximum. The water on the
| bay side is still rising, but no serious dam
| age to business property is possible, so long
as the wind holds its northwest course.
THE WORST IN TwENTY-sIX YEARS.
New ORLEANS, October 12th.-A special
| to the Times Democrat from Mississippi
Quarantine Station says: One of the most
| terrific and damaging hurricanes since
| 1865 prevailed in this neighborhood yester-
| Gay and last night. For thirty-six consec-
utiye hours the wind blew a regular hurri-
cane from the northeast, driving the waters
! from the bay and destroying the property of
the unfortunate inhabitants of this place,
who had hardly become reconciled to their
! hard fate, having no orange crop this year,
| caused by the heavy frost of last year. This
| disastrous storm leaves the majority of our
most industrious and deserving people al
| most penniless. This storm-or, more
properly called, eyclone-was of such vio-
leDce as to tear away old levees of seven
| years standing, carrying destruction TO
/ late rice plants. Last night all the inhab-
itants of this place waied mile in water
three feet deep to the United States Gus
| tom-house for protection.
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION WROUGHT.
New ORLEANS, October 12th-P. M.-Dis-
| tressing news has been received from the
| lower coast regarding the effects OF last
| nights storm. The water in the town of
| Point la Hache, in Plaquemine Parish,
| is several feet deep, having been driven
from the Gulf. Many persons took
refuge in the Courthouse and Jail.
| The water rushed in with such
| force that it carried everything before it.
| The leyees, which along this section are
very low, were overAowed and swept away,
and the water rushed into the Mississippi
river, carrying with it all the rice stacked
on the farms in the vicinity of Point la
! Hache and for distance of twenty miles
| below. The damage is estimated at
100000.
| Official Bluudering.
| WASHINGTON, October 12th.-Hon. W.
w. Wiltshire, of Washington, ex-Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas,
and Hon. Albert Christy. OF Washington,
filed to-day with the Secretary of the
Treasury charges to the effect that the list
of judgments and decisions filed in the
State Department by the late Court of Com
missioners of the Alabama claims was
| illegal and deficient. The last of June they
were fled in the Treasury Department by
| Hon. j. d. Porter, Assistant Secretary of
State, but were not certified, as the law re-
quires. Consequently the Treasury De
partment was not in possession of any
legal list of judgments on which it had
| authority TO issue drafts, and all drafts
thereon issued were Illegal and void The
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