Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-05
WORSFSINCEIHI.
A Very Destructive Storm
Along the Gulf Coast.
Great Damage Done at New
Orleans and Mobile.

The Latter City Flooded by the Wind
Glowing the Waters Fifteen Feet Above
Their Mean LeveI-In Some Places the
wIad's Velocity Was as High as las
Miles an Hour-Lozs Heavy.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.--One of the
worst blows this city has ever exper-
ience struck here late Sunday night
from the northeast, and ragged all night
and portion of Monday, sweeping to
the south from here, along the line Of
the Mississippi river, through the par
ish Of Plaquemine.
The wind reached a velocity of 4s
miles an hour at 8 o'clock. Then it de-
stroyed the thermometer at the weather
bureau. 1t constantly increased in force
until o'clock, when its velocity was
estimated at 80 miles an hour.
The crash of sheds and buildings
blown down, trees torn up, and houses
unroofed, caused intense alarm, and
most of the residents of the city stayed
up all night expecting their houses
would be blown down.
Among the buildings destroyed were
the Sarsparu street market, which
crushed several buildings in its fall,
Burdetts street mission church, cotton
yards of the Northwestern railroad, the
boiler shops, Pythian hall and a num-
Der of other buildings were unroofed.
Lsvees Washed Away.
The revetment levee on Lake Pont-
ehartrain, which protects New Orleans
from overflow on the rear, was washed
away and the water swept over it is
feet or more.
Many yachts there were sunk or in
jured. In the Mississippi the coal feet
was scattered, the transfer boat of the
Texas Pacific railway badly damaged
and several wharyes carried away.
The New Orleans and Northwestern
had its track flooded for several miles,
and so badly washed that it can run
no trains. The track of the Louisville
and Nashville was almost wholly
washed out for Is miles, and it will be
several days before trains can be run.
The storm was one of the worst
which ever visited this part of the
country, and as far as can be learned
"a or more persons were killed and
probably three times as many wounded,
some of them fatally.
Three deaths and one wounded se-
verely, if not fatally, is the morta' ity
record in New Orleans.
Relow the city it was far worse, es-
pecially in Plaquemine. Here the wind
reached velocity of 100 to 1876 miles
an hour, sweeping everything before it.
The parish seat Of Justice, Pointe a
Ia Hache, town of 1900 people was
the worst sufferer. In that town not
a single house escaped injury.
1t is probable that the mortality will
be greatly increased when news is re-
ceived from the far away settlements
on the gulf coast below Pointe la
Hache, in the orange country of Louis
lana.
Telegraph communication was cut off
with nearly all places Monday. Sliffs
were sent out in the swamps about
Lake Pontchartrain and 40 persons
were rescued who were in more or less
danger from the storm.
The storm came from the north and
northeast and southwesterly direction.
The sugar district escaped the worst of
the blow. There is much damage to
rice and sugarcane.
Ex-Governor Yarmouth brought
news Of the storms work on the lower
coast. 1t was the worst experience Lou
isiana has had since 1911. The wind
blew 100 miles an hour, devastating the
fields, blowing the fruit off the orange
trees, damaging the sugar houses and
demolishing a number of homes.
The loss to the orange crop will prob
ably reach $500, 900.