The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-10-07
AWFUL LOUISIANA STORM
The Winds Velocity Reached t25
Miles an Hour.
Irsat Damage to Property and Several
Lives Los...New orIe ms Terrified.
Orange Groves Completely
Stripped of Their Fruit.

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storm struck New Orleans late Sunday
night, coming from the northeast, and
ragged here all night and part of yester
day, keeping to the south from here
along the Mississippi river, through
the parish of Plaqueymines to the gulf
The storm was one of tho worst thai
ever visited this part of the coun.
try and as far us can be
learned twenty-four or more per.
sons were killed and probably
three times as many were injured
some of them fatally. The wind had
reached velocity of forty-eight mile,
an hour at s o'clock Sunday nigh.
when the thermometer of the weather
bureau was destroyed and it constantly
increased in force until 2 n. m., when
it's velocity was estimated at sixty
miles an hour.
Among the buildings destroyed were
the Snraparata street market which
crushed several buildings in its fall,
the Burdette street mission church, the
cotton yards of the Northeastern rail.
road, Coleman boiler shops, the Pythian
hall, and Il number of other buildings
were wrecked. The Revvettent levee
on Lake Pontchartrain, which pro.
tected New Orleans from overflow on
the rear was washed away, the water
sweeping over it fifty feet or more.
Many of the yachts there were sunk o,
injured. On the Mississippi the coal
feet was scattered, the transfer boat
of the Texas and Pacific railroad
badly damaged and several wharyes
carried away. The New Orleans
and Northeastern had its track
flooded for seven miles and SO badly
washed that it can run no trains. The
track of the Louisville and Nashville
was badly washed for fifteen miles and
it will be several days before it can run
trains
Three deaths and one person
wounded severely, if not fatally. is tho
mortality record in New Orleans. BE.
low the city it was worse, especially in
Plaquemines, where the wind reached
velocity of 100 to l25 miles an hour,
sweeping everything before it. The
parish seat of justice, Point 10
Huche, u town of 5000 people, was
the worst sufferer. In the town not a
single house escaped injury. The
court house aud the Catholic church,
the principal buildings in Che town, ard
some twenty other buildings We're de
stroyed, while four people are knowr
to have been killed in Point Ia Ilache
and several children, how many is not
exactly known. Among the killed
are Mrs Leon French, wife of one OF
the leading merchants of the town,
and Mrs. Il. LeNalders, wife of n well
known lawyer. In the immediate vi.
cinlty of Point n Ia Hache, three other
deaths are reported and fifteen in the
country below. 1t is probable that the
mortality will be materially increased
when full reports are received from all
points on the gulf coast below Point
Ia llache in the orange country ol
Louisiana.
The orange crop was com.
pletely destroyed with the loss
of S35o.oO0 or more or
this one item. The crop on the orange
farm of I'randish johnson, one of the
largest in the south, had been sold
to fruit dealer of New Orleans
Mr.. Otcrl. for SG5, 900. 1t is said
that there is not an orange left on the
trees and it is tho same all the way
down the coast. The loss is very heavy
in other crops and property, but it is
no use to form estimates as to the
amount.
Ulrch Dauer. policeman, was killed
in this city by q falling building.
Pilot Il. S. Rhodes of tho Canal street
ferry, while steering the boat through
this morning, dropped dead ut the
wheel from heart disease aggravated
by the excitement.
The street car system suspended
operations and walking was almost
impossible.
On the river the transfer and ferry o1
the Texas Pacific was blown against
the Illinois Central wharf aud badly
crushed and the other ferries are
more or less interrupted. Algiers' ferry
landing was blown away, the coal flee,
was scattered and the tugs were en-
gagged all night rescuing the barges.
Telegraph communication was cut of
with nearly all places. Yesterday skiffs
were sent out in the swamps about
Lake Pontchartrain. Forty persons
were rescued who were in more Or less
danger from the storm. The storm
came from the north and northeast and
southwesterly directions The sugar
distriSt escaped the wof3t of the blow.
There is much damage to rice and
sugar cane.