The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-20
HIGH WINDS FROM THE GULF LASTING
SEVERAL DAYS.
MUCH DAMAGE ALONG COAST
steamers Capsized and several
Boats Destroyed-Water Backed Up
Into the ~Cfty-Some Sections Two
Feet Under Water-TrafnS Delayed
and Others not Able to Leave the
City-Boats Along the City Front in
Danger.

tinued throughout the night, and a
heavy vino was still blowing today.
j. Wind and rain were general along the
coast, and many trains are belated.
Reports from the Mississippi sound
indicate considerable damage to small
bridges, bathing houses and wharVes.
Some small boats were damaged, but no
lives We're lost. Wires running to Port
Eads are down. The backing up of the
water caused the overlooking of much
land along and below the forts. Much
Of the low section of New Orleans is
under water and scows have been
brought into requisition to enable peo-
pie to get from their homes to the high
portions. Several factories ave been
compelled to shut down..
Lake Pontchartrain has been backed
into the old and new canals. Both
overflowed their banks for a cOnsidera-
BILE distance. The rear or low portions
!. of this city, q thickly populated terri
i tory two miles in width, is Hooded to
"a depth Of two feet. There is consid-
cradle suffering among the poor.
A Louisville and Nashville train from
the east due at 1925 o'clock a. m, has
uOI Z dI11NCu, IN u liz OO~SN
rains over that road. The high water
in the lake and the flood in the rear OF
the city doubtless have caused the de-
lay. Hundreds of business men OF New
Orleans live along the Sulf coast dur
ing the summer and thus far have been
unable to reach the city.
No advices nave been received today
by the Fort Jackson and Grand Isle
road from Grand Isle and Cheniere
Caminada. Many Louisiana people are
spending the summer at Grand Isle,
which is adjacent to the Chenlere.
At Milneburg the excursion steamer
New Camilla caIsized at it's wharf dur
ing the storm and is pounding heavily
against the pier. Those ABOARD eScap-
n ed. The tug boat Neptune IS also re-
I ported to have capsized.
The storm which has been sweeping
the gulf coast from Pensacola and
moving westward during the two days,
has Frustrated telegraph and telephone
wires to such an extent that news from
the outlying sections is nara 10 get
at. The greatest fears have been enter
tanned for the safety of the people Nv
ing at Port Eads, which is at the mouth
of the river, and for the ships that
started for sea just before the storm
began. The wires there have peen
Frustrated since Tuesday night at 3
O'Clock. but The Picayune reached a
man who left Port Eads at 2 O'Clock on
Wednesday. He was seen at BuraS,
which is sixty miles down the river anu
the farthest point with which there is
any communication up to the present
time.
This man describes the storm when
0wept that section as a regular uuaI
n&yaye. similar to the one which resulted
I'm such an awful loss of life in 1893.
He SAYS all the people living on the
east bank of the river have moved up
to he Jump which is fifteen miles
- u 5000, 4f tho iyrnr Tho house
of a man named Golden, half a mile
above the quarantine station was
swept away, and the fifteen members
of his family, including nine children
drowned. The quarantine buildings
were badly damaged, but no one in
jured. The big towboat chamberlain
was driven high and dry in the marsh
but her crew are safe. The govern
ment boat. General Reese, IS DelleVeC
to have been lost. Captain O'Brien's
house was swept away, but he was
on the boat, which was believed to be
outside. The piIe-driver at Port Eads
was sunk. The steamboat BuraS was
driven ashore near the lighthouse and
later, it was reported that she mac
sunk. Her crew were said to have beer
saved. The tug boat Velasco Wen
down to Pass a POutre, which is the
eastern mouth of the river, with two
barges. When last seen she had hel
decks awash, and it is feared she has
gone down. If this boat and her barge:
have been lost twenty people more
have been drowned. There are numer.
Gus reports of individual casualties al
along the river from Buras down to thu
passes.
Up to last midnight everything seem
ed to be safe at the Mississippi coas'
towns Bay St. Louis. Pass Christian
Biloxi, Mississippi City n Ocear
Springs, but since then not a word ha:
beer heard from them. All wires arr
down. The only reports of damage 81
far received are of destroyed batf
houses and uprooted trees.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
is blocked off beyond Chef Menteur
thirty miles from this city. The bi:
steel bridge there is safe, but beyon
Athere are several on tn
groad. The New Orleans and North
eastern railroad is also locked b,
on the lake and it's big tres
tie over Lake Pontchartrian has bee!
shaken by the heavy seas breaking
against it.
There has been much damage don
at She'll Beach, a settlement on Lax
Borgne, southeast OF the city ana Whlc
connect with Lake Pontchartra1n. A
the buildings there ave been swep
away and there are reports of loss o
life among the fishermen, but the eA
act extent OF this is not known. A tlda
wave swept over the land there as ]
did nine years ago.
In the City Of New Orleans and sub
urbs there has been considerable dam
age. At Milneburg, one of the lake re
sorts the railroad pier head runnin
out into the lake for a distance of Loo
yards has been destroyed, and all Igh
buildings demolished. The big build
ings on shore withstood the gale. Their
twas no loss of life. The steamer Nep
II tune tied up to it's pier head pounde
herself to pieces and sank.
At West End, the lake rushed owe
the revetment and destroyed nearly a
of h buildings there. h big dane
ing pavilion at Lakeview was pounde
70 pieces by w~reckage, washed up b
the waves. The shell road to Yves
End has been under three feet of wa
ter, and "Cuckstown," a gambling re
sort at the end of the revetment, ha
been swept away. The old basin cam