The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-09
THt DAMAGE IN LOUISIANA
MUCH HAVOC WROUGHT TO RICE
AND CANE.
Two Persons Thought to Have Been
Drowned Are safe--No Loss of
Life Reported.

New Orleans, September Sowing to
news triokled into this city tonight very
slowly with respect to the twenty four
hours storm that swept the country last
night for miles around but the wires
brought at least one cheering piece OF In
formation and that was that Dr. O. II.
Buford aud Sergeant Quinn OF the United
States military forces. VINO were reported
drowned, had been miraculously saved and
had turned up safe and sound at Fort ST.
Philip today. The damage done about New
Orleans was trhlng amounting onIy TO
tho ccet Of fences blown down and truck
farms on the outshlrts flooded. At tie
resorts on the lake snore, where 1t was
feared there would be considerable dam
age, none OF any very serious nature oc-
CURED. Wharyes and revetments both
withstood the fury or the blow and IN
spite of the shallowness of Lake Poncha-
train and Its choppy sea, no water craft
seems to have sGccumbed 10 the gale. The
most costly damage dcnb by the storm
ms been 10 the rice and cano crops. AT
the hotels tonight there were some forty
louisiana planters from various sections
OF the state. They gave different esri-
macs Of the cxrlage done, but both in the
southeastern and southwestern portions of
the State the cano crop Is badly blown
down ana tho rice fields damaged. Both
the young cane and the maturing stake
suffered and many tho asand acles lay fat
this morning. with favorablS weather,
the damage to cane VIII probab y be mate
rally reduced The damage ~ ffered by
the rice. however. is likely TO be- con
siderable.
There was large crowd at the depot
Of the Grand Isle train when II pulled
into the station tonight. Those present
expected dire tldings from below. super
lntendent Landry and other officials of
the road. however, said that the tinews
they had to bring was both good and bad.
II WIS good In that definite Information
came OF rescue OF tho two army officers
and bad in that il had been learned fat
very heavy damage had been done To the
growing crops. The Grand Isle road
traverses some of the finest sugar and
rico plana--~ls In the State.
So far as can be learned tonight the
storm seems 10 have been attended with
practically no loss of life. The owners OF
the telegraphic line running from here
to Port Eada were able to get commune
cation as far down az Fort St. Philip
Gangs have been sent out to restore the
break in tho communications.
Adyices from Fort s.. PHILIP late tonight
say that the water backed lroa lntc
/ the Mississippi so rapidly that Il @ant cieai
over the levees and luggers were carri d
into the marches by the waves and with the
recedlng waters were strewn along the river
/ rank high and dry for a mile. A siern
wheel steamer on the way to Biloxi MAs.
| now LES on dry land in the back Of h uso
five miles above Fort St. Philip The blaI
was carried a distance OF two miles ross
1 Tho marsh ia ten minutes.
The most damage appears IA have bser
done on the east bank of The river. The
I east wall OF the ietties was damaged and
many rice folds In which the harvest q ice
wss piled up we're inundated and he CT ~
destroyed.