The Forrest City times., 1893-10-06
RUIN AT THE SOUTH.

the Crescent Clty-A Nuhper o'
 Persons Killed and Levees, Corps and
 Buildings to Unestimated Amount Dam
 aged or Destroyed-The Orange Crop
 Completely Destroyed.
 NEW ORLEANS, Oct 2.-A terrific tor nado struck New Orleans late Sunday night, coming from the northeast, and ragged here all night and a portion of to-day, sweeping to the south from here along the line of the Mississippi river, through the parish of Plaque mine to the gulf.
 The storm was one of the worst which ever visited this section. and as far as can be learned killed twenty four or more persons and wounded probably three times as many. some of them fatally, besides destroying large amount of property.
 The wind had reached a velocity of forty-eight miles an hour at s o'clock, when the aerometer of the weather bu- reau was destroyed. It constantly in- creased in force until a. m., when it's velocity was estimated at sixty miles an hour. The crash of sheds and build ings blown down. trees torn up and houses unroofed. caused intense alarm, and most of the population of the city stayed up all night, expecting their houses to be blown down.
 Among the buildings destroyed were large market house, which crushed several buildings in it's fall the Bur- dette-street mission church, the cotton yards of the Northeastern railroad, Coleman's boiler shop and the Pythian hall number of other buildings were unroofed.
 The revetment levee on Lake Pon- chartrain, which protects New Orleans from overflow on the rear, was washed away, the water sweeping over it fif- teen feet or more, and many of the yachts there were sunk or injured.
 In the Mississippi the coal fleet was scattered, the transfer boat of the Texas & Pacific railroad badly dam- aged and several wharfs carried away. The New Orleans X Northwestern track was flooded for seven miles and so badly washed that it can run no trains. The track of the Louisville x Nashville was badly washed for fifteen miles and it will be several days before it can run trains.
 While only four deaths and one per- son wounded severely, if not fatally, is the report from the storm in New Orleans, below the city it was far worse, especially in Plaquemine par ish. Here the wind reached velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour, sweeping everything before it.
 Pointe la Hache, town of 2,000 people, was the worst sufferer. In that town not single house escaped injury. The courthouse and Catholic church, the principal building in the town, and some twenty other buildings were de- stroyed, and the situation was so threatening that the greater part of the people, fearing being crushed to death in their buildings, camped out in the street all night in heavy rain.
 The air was filled with debris, and the wind blew so fercely that many had to anchor themselves against trees to prevent being blown away. Four grown persons and several children are known to have been killed in Pointe de la Hache, but how many children is not exactly known.
 In the immediate vicinity of Pointe a Ia Hache there are other deaths re- ported and thirteen others in the country below. It is probable that the mortality will be greatly increased when news is received from far-away settlements on the gulf coast, below Point a Ia liache In the orange country of Louis jana, the crop was ripe upon the trees and about to be harvested. It was completely destroyed by the storm, with a loss of s350,0 ,000 or more on this single item.
 The crops in the orange farm of Bradish Johnson. the largest in the south, had been sold to fruit dealer of New Orleans, Mir. Oteri for S65 O00 1t is said that there is not an orange left on the trees, and it is the same all the way down the coast. The loss is very heavy in other crops and property, but the news is too vague yet to form estimates as to the amount