Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-22
WIND AND RAIN.
Terrific storms in Louisana-Great
Damage to Railroad and Steamboat
Prcperty-Loss OF Life.

Terrific storms in Louisana-Great
Damage to Railroad and Steamboat
Prcperty-Loss of Life.
NEW ORLEANS. August 22-Passengers
arriving by the Texas Il Pacific railroad
from Shreveport. report damage to build
ings and crops similar to that done at Dom
aldsonyille and Plaquemine. Sugar houses
and other buildings were damaged or de-
stroyed and crops were blown down. A
similar condition of affairs is reported from
many points on the Morgan road. A sugar
house in the Nigenies Magnolia plantation
was demolished. Five sugar houses in the
vicinity of Jaennette IRE reported to have
been badly damaged. The steamboat War
rem had her chimneys blown overheard at
Baton Rogue on Sunday night, and during
the excitement which followed, John K.
Tuckett, one of the best known clerks on
the river, fell to the boiler deck and broke
his neck. His body was sent TO Louisville.
The signal service reports the rainfall Tor
the twelve hours ending at O'Clock Sun
day morning, 7.S6 inches. The total for
twenty-four hours was 81 inches. the
highest velocity of wind observed was
sixty miles an. hour at 6 o'clock on the
evening of the 10Th, which blew the wires
OFF the anemonter and prevented observa.
ton of the maximum velocity, but the av-
ID SiNOh a. lOl pei houl.
Great damage was done in the city and
throughout the sugar belt from Baton
Rogue to the Gulf, including the rice
section of the state. Much of the sugar.
cane and rice was blown fiat on the
ground and many sugar houses and dwell
ings were damaged. The damage to the
sugar crop is roughly estimated at from 10
to 20 per cent and to the rice crop 20 to 81
per cent.
In the city, many houses were unroofed
fences prostrated and trees uprooted. The
heavy rain on the night of the 10Th for q
time flooded the entire city. That portion
of the city west of Clayborn street is still
Inundated, the water in the canal being SC
high that the drainage machines are com
paratively useless. The city was in dark
ness on the night of The 18th, the electric
light wires coming in contact with the wires
of the telegraph and telephone companies
necessitating the cuttingsof some of the
electric current. The greatest damage done
by the storm about the city was along the
river front.
The greatest damage was done along the
river. Fifty coal barges were sunk, valued
at S., 900 each. The small steamers w. G.
Little, Laura and Borataria were also sunk.
The steamboat Ed. Richardson went adrift,
had her chimneys blown overheard and
sustained other damage. There are hun.
dreds of minor losses throughout the city,
that will in the aggregate amount to thou
sands of dollars.
The storm drove the waters of the gull
up against and over the Louisville & Nash.
vile railroad embankment extending from
Michon to Lookout station, distance OF
twenty miles, causing many washouts and
the suspension of traffic over that portion
of the road.
The loss on coal barges sunk is estimated
at $500, 900. The crops along the river fol
distance of over twenty miles have been
entirely destroyed. A number of vessels are
over due and undoubtedly encountered the
storm in the gulf