Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-05
Scores OF Lives Lost and Much Prop
erty Destroyed-Hundreds Of
Buildings Wrecked BY
the Elements.

as far as can be learned killed "a or
more persons and wounded proba-
bly, three times a many, some OF
them fatally, besides destroying. a
large amount of property at New
Orleans.
The fatalities in this city, SO far as
known, are as follows:
THE DEAD.
Ulrich Bauer, a policeman, killed
by a falling building.
Pilot S. S. Rhodes of Canal street
ferry, dropped dead at wheel from
excitement.
FATALLY INJURED.
R. Bandier, run over while blind
ed by rain.
I. Betz, probably fatally injured
by electric wire, which killed two
horses.
The wind had reached a velocity
of 4S miles an hour at 8 O'Clock when
the aerometer of the Weather Bu-
reau was destroyed.
BLEW SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.
1t constantly increased in force
until 2 a. M, when its velocity was
estimated al 60 miles an hour. The
crash of sheds and buildings blown
down, trees torn up and houses I'M
rooted 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
was a large market house, which
crushed several buildings in its fall
the Burdette Street Mission Church,
the cotton yards of the Northeastern
Railroad, Coleman's boiler shop and
the Pythian Hall. A number o.
other buildings were unroofed.
LEvEE WASHED AWAY.
The revetment levee on Lake
Ponchatrain, which protects New
Orleans from overflow on the rear
was washed away, the water sweep
ing over it Is feet or more, an(
many of the yachts there were sunk
en- or injured.
In the Mississippi the coal flee
was scattered, the transfer boat o
the Texas and Pacific Railroad bad
ly damaged and several wharve
carried away. The New Orlean
and Northwestern had its track
flooded for seven miles and so bad
ly washed that it can run no trains
The track of the Louisville and Nash
. vile was badly washed for Is mile
and it will be several days before i
can run trains. While only fou
deaths and one person Wounds
severely if not fatally is the repor
from the storm in New Orleans
below the city it was far worse, es
pecially in Plaquemine Parish
Here the wind reached a velocit,
of 100 to 1875 miles an hour, sweep
ing everything before it.
NOT A HOUSE ESCAPED.
2 Pointe a la Hache, a town OF 2,
1000 people, was the worst sufferer
In that town not a single house es
capped injury. The Court Hous
and Catholic Church, the principa
| buildings in the town and some q
other buildings we're destroyed ant
the situation was SO ehreatenin,
that the greater portion Of the PEG
pie, fearing being crushed to death il
their buildings, camped out in tn
, street all night in a heavy rain.
The air was filled with debris
and the wind blew so fercely tina
many had to anchor themselve,
against trees to prevent being blown
away. Four grown persons and
several children are known to have
been killed in Pointe a la Hache
but how many children is not ex
actiy known.
Among the killed are:
Mrs. Leon La Frsnche, wife of one
of the principal merchants of The
town.
Mrs. E.. Lavanders, wife of {
prominent lawyer.
MANY OTHER DEATHS REPORTED.
In the immediate vicinity o.
Pointa a la Hache there are othel
deaths reported and Ii others In
the country below. 1t is probable
that the mortality will be greatly
increased when news ia received
from far-away settlements on the
Gulf Coast, below Pointe q la Hache,
in the orange country of Louisiana.
The crop was ripe upon the trees
and about to be harvested. 1t was
completely destroyed in the storm,
with a loss $3.50, 900 OF more on
this single item.
The crops in the orange farms
OF Bradish Johnson, the largest in
the South, had been sold to a fruit
firm of New0rleans for $50 900. 1t is
said that there is not an orange
left or the trees, and it is the same
all the way down the cotast. The
loss is very heavy in other crops
and property, but the news is too
vague yet to form estimates as to
the amount.
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