New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-22
A WIDE AREA OF STORM.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE IN MANY PLACES
RUIN IN LOUISIANA AND DELUGE IN THE
UPPER OHIO vALLEY-DAMAGE IN
OTHER PLACES.

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] OTHER PLACES.
| New-Orleans, Aug 21.-At 6 80 o'clock Friday
night fresh castery wnd set in. which increased
| In force accompanied by occasional showers, until
| 7 O'Clock Saturday morning During the day the W nd
| continued from tho eastward, but had so moderated
that no attention paid to It. AT @ 80 p. m. the
| wind aga.n strengthened and by a m. Sunday was
| blowing a gale, which held from the eastward until
3 O'Clock Monday morning, when It veered to south
| west At q. N. the storm began TO lull ana Dy
| noon had about ended.
The Srnal Service reports the rainfall for the
| twelve hours ending O'Clock Sunday morning as
| Z $4,000 inches Tho total for twenty four hours
1-2 inches Tho highest velocity OF md OBJ
served sixty miles an hour at O'Clock on tho
evening of August 10, which blew the wires Off the
thermometer and prevented observations of the maxi
mum velocity, but the average is given as forty miles
per hour.
IN Great damage was done In tho city and through
oft the sugar belt from Baton Rouge to tho Gulf,
including also the rec section OF the state Much
of the sugar cane and rice was blown nat on the
ground and many sugar houses and dwellings were
damaged The damage to the sugar crop is roughly
estimated at from 10 to 90 per cent, and to the rice
crop 90 to so per cent
In the city many houses were unroofed fences pros
trated and trees uprooted. The heavy ra n on the
night Of August 10 for time Hooded the entire city
Tho rear portion Of the city, west of Clayborne-st Is
stu inundated the water In the canal being SO high
that tho drainage machines are comparatively useless.
The city was I'm darkness Sunday night, the eectrc
light wires coming in contact with the wires Of tho
telegraph and telephone companies requiring the
cutting of of tho electric current The greatest
damage done by the storm about the city was along
the river front Fifty coal boats belonging TO Pitts-
burg and Southern companies were SUNK valued at
So 900 each The small steamers W. G. Little, Laura
and Bara.arian were also sunk. The steamboat
adrfft bad herr
overheard and sustained other damage. There are
hundreds OF minor losses throughout tho city that
will IN the aggregate amount TO thousands OF dollars.
Tho storm drove the waters of the Gulf up against
and over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad en-
bankmcnt, extending from Nlchon to Lookout Staton'
a distance OF twenty niles, caused many washouts
and the suspension Of traffic that portion OF the
road Connection with this city IS now made by
boat from the YER On the Illinois Central Railroad
a washout occurred at Desar station delaying the
movement OF trains until the damage can be repaired
A dispatch from Baton Rouge announces the loss
OF tho steamer Keokuk during tho storm last eht
No lives were lost. All telegraph wires were pros
tratcd last night, entirely severng teegraphlo COM
munlcat on with other points.
News received at late hour last night show that
tamage was done 10 the rice crops all along the river
from Point la Hache TO the Quarantine station
The Gulf water driven in by the wind covered me rice
fields in many places to depth OF several feet causing
the almost total destruction OF the crop for distance
of about twenty les. Two years ago the farmers In
that section met with a similar disaster The tele-
graph wires at Port Eads have been down snco Fri
day night and no news has yet been received from
that point.
News from Morgan City is to the effect that the
storm there was severe. Dozens OF houses were
wholly or partially unroofed. and fully fifty buildings
are off their foundations The floating elevator
George Gilchrst, valued at $4,000, was destroyed
.
Among the heaviest losers Of property along the
river are tho coal dealers. Tho work OF destruc-
ton began among their boats and barges Sunday even
ing and continued up to late hour last evening At
D. m when tho last news was received from dincr-
ent places eighty loaded coal bargcs and boats and
one boat OF coke had sunk, and number OF others
were reported sinking The total loss is 100000.
The steamer Keokuk, wrecked at Baton Rouge, was
valued at 1000, and Insured for $4,000 In
Western companies.
Further particulars Of the damage have been re-
cervcd The news Is all OF the same tenor, cabins,
sugar houses and dwellings being blown down in all
directions
Last Friday Mr Cafrrey, accompanied BY his three
SONS and several OF their young companions, left Belle
Islc for Lost Island on pleasure trip Ur to to-day
no news has been received from them and grave ap-
prehenslons for their safety entertained.
The up-coal fleet is total wreck. Wood, Bodley
& Co. lost nfty-seven coal-boats, and Coyle wilmot
8 Co. twenty-five, entang a loss OF about S29O,OOO
Wood Bodlcy Co. also lost two coal elevators at the
city wharf, but they can be raised.
At St. James great damage was done throughout the
parish by the storm.
The steamboat Warren had her chlmneys blown
overheard al Baton Rouge Sunday night, and during
the excitement which followed John II. Luckctt, one
Of the best known clerks tha river fell to the boiler
deck and broke his neck His body was sent TO
Louisville