The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-10-12
THREE STORMS
A DAYS RECORD
Cyclonic Tornadoes Hit City ofHew
Orleans and Vicinity.
A SCORE OF LIVES LOST
Country Sections Furnished the VIC
Tins While City Suffered Property
Loss Reaching Into Millions

The region about New Orleans was
the center of cyclonic disturbances
Friday, at least three of which were
tornadocs and caused the loss OF six
lives with nine persons fatally in.
jured.
About daylight heavy storms broke
through the country for 100 miles
west, north and east Of New Orleans.
Reports of sugar cane and cotton
crops blown down or sugar mills de-
moHshed are reaching the city from
the entire section. The damage, in
GLIDING that done in New Orleans,
is placed at over one million dollars.
The worst Of the torDadoas was
north Of New Orleans, where between
$50 and 700 o'clock Friday morning
it devastated PORTIONS Of three par
ishes. New Orleans was visited by an
other tornado, and third passed
nor5hward Of Biloxi on the gulf coast.
The frs tornado struck West Baton
Rouge parish about s o'clock, killing
Mrs. Theodore Fcret and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. White Mrs. Foret's body was
found in Il field near her demolished
house. Two children in Mrs. F0ret's
house were fatally injured and i've
men were injured in the collapse OF
a sugar refinery on the st. Delphina
plantation. The city Of Baton Rouge
was slightly damaged. In ST. James
parish one woman whose name has
not been learned, was killed, while
Mrs. H. R. Weber and daughter ana
Mrs. John Never and also a negro,
were reported fatally injured
In Pontchatoula, which the tornado
reached about Z o'clock, George
Halves and son were killed in the
collapse Of their house and two other
children of Nj. Halves were fatally
injured
Another tornado struck New Or
leans about 8 o'clock While no lives
We're lost III the city, property dam
age reached $D00,J0O and about fifty
persons were injured, one fatally
Fully 800 Buildings were damaged,
about seventy-fve Of which were
blown down. Most Of the demolished
buildings were small negro cabins
and it was here that nearly all the
injuries occurred. The path Of the.
tornado through the city was about
two miles long, entering from the
Mississippi river at Audubon park.
and travelling northwest to Mareng1.
and Carondelet streets, and then, af-
ter a circu1tous course to Grayior
and Magnolia streets, it went north
ward out Of the city In places tie.
storms path was but thirty feet wide
and only at two or three points did
it reach a hundred feet in width.
The tornado here appeared at a dis
lance as 4 cloud sweeping along the
surface Of the earth. Its course was
undulating, some buildings being
skipped entirely as it bounded up
ward. Frequently it demolished veraa-
das and fences on one side Of the
street, while not an object on tie
other side was disturbed. The cloud
occupied several minutes in crossing
the city and hundreds of persons who
saw and heard it approaching had
time to run out of its pathway One
exciting race of this sort was made
by a Carondelet street car, which
was loaded with passengers on their
way to work. Another street car was
derailed by the wind.
A small negro girl was blown SO
far across the new basin canal as to
be rescued by persons on the oppc-
site bank
The saving of the Charity hospital
from more than nominal damage was
attributed to q big gas tank which
stood between the hospital and the
tornado The tornado struck full
against the tank which withstood the
shock, although it's iron sides we're
denied by flying timbers.