The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-02
Ferry Boat and Street Car
Service Suspended.
RAILWAY TRAVEL lMPEDED
CoastWiSe Wires All Down and
No Trains Running.


By Associated Press to The News.
New ORLEANS, Oct. This
city was visited last night with a
gale of wind, closely approaching a
hurricane in violence. Rain fell off
and on during the day, and az dark
ness approached the storm increased
until about o O'Clock. The wind
reached a velocity*of AZ miles an
hour. A violent gust shortly after
8 blew away the signal service
bureau wind self register, render
ing further register impossible.
However, the barometer continu-
ed to fall steadily with the wind
varying from northeast to east,
showing the storm more intense in
the gulf than here. The wires
we're down to Port Eads and moth
ipg could be learned from that
point. In New Orleans many houses
were unroofed or damaged, fences
blown down and many vessels were
damaged by being blown from their
moorings on the river front, but
fortunately the direction of the
wind drove the vessels against the
city side, where they were made
secure.
All ferryboats ceased running and
street car passage on most lines vas
stopped by number of fallen trees.
The wind was SO violent that two
pedestrians we're blown from the
sidewalk into the street, but escap.
ed serious injury. Two hack
horses we're killed at the corner of
st. Charles and Carrollton avenues
by coming into contact with a tele.
phone wire which was crossed with
trolley line. The occupants were
shocked but not dangerously.
A short time after midnight, the
Soraparu street market, large one
story structure, fully two hundred
feet long, was blown down. For
tunately, at that hour, none of the
market people were around 1t was
impossible to examine the ruins
until this morning, when no one
was found under them. Reports
from the coast are meagre, but it is
known that the storm ragged with
even greater violence than here the
entire distance to Mobile.
On the Louisville and Nashville
road, twenty miles from New Or
leans, three freight trains were
stalled, and it was only by combin.
ing the three engines Roadway could
be made against the storm. Speak.
ing of the storm, one engineer said:
81 never experienced such night.
1t was simply terrific. So great was
the roar of the wild winds as they
swept over the black marshes tina.
when I'd give signal for brekes
they could not hear it. You could
not see your hands bsfore your face.
Rain came in torrents, not falling,
but blowing square in your face, and
the wind simply made it impos
sible to walk the cars. The marsh
country was a jat black wilderness
of bowling winds. We could only
make it in by helping one another,
and there was imminent danger of
thu cars being blown from the track
at the curves"
The wires are all down today,
and it is impossible to secure par
ticulars of the storm damage in the
adj acent country. No trans have
reached the city over the Louisville
and Nashville today, and it is be.
lieved washouts have occurred
Many business men are detained at
Mississippi Sound summer resorts.
No lives were lost in the city.
The storm about subsidized at 5
O'Clock this morning, but the sky is
at1ll puarooct ard