Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-01
Two Million Loss
 in New Orleans
RESULT OF HURRICANE THERE
 WEDNESDAY,
SEVEN LIVES WERE LOST
At Least 1so Persons Were Injured by Collapse of Buildings, Failing Signs or Flying eIass-Wind Blew 12o Miles an Hour.

New Orleans, Sept 30. via Baton Rouge.-Unoff1cial estimates today placed the property damage in New nearly $2,o00,0 ,000 and the loss of life at T. 1t was estimated that at least 150 persons were injured by the col lapse of buildings, falling signs or flying glass.
 Hundreds of Structures Unroofed.
 Scarcely large plate glass win dow remains intact in the downtown section and many stocks of goods were damaged by wind and rain. Signs. telegraph, telephone, electric light poles. wires and debris from damaged | buildings filtered streets today and | hundreds of structures were unroof- | ed or demolished.
 In the Cumberland Telephone com pany's exchange. t5 persons. mostly girls, were injured when all the win dows in the east front on the floor where they were working crashed in. | Wind 12o Miles an Hour.
 The maximum velocity of the wind was reported by the weather bureau as between 120 and 130 miles an hour. The wind blew at this rate for one minute, between 5.30 and 6 o'clock last night. The highest sustained velocity was S6 miles. about $40 p. m.
 Barometer Fell to 2s.11. For more than seven hours the hur- rtcane swept over the city at a rate of more than SO miles an hour The lowest mark registered by the bar ometer was 28.11 at 5.30 p. m, which, according to local weather bureau of- I ncials, is the lowest mark ever reg istered in the United States
 Police and Fire Departments Kept
 Busy.
 Police and fire department forces were kept busy responding to calls for assistance. Two hundred young women were removed by the police in automobiles and police vehicles from a cigar factory threatened with destruc- tion just before nightfall.
 s,ooo Telephones useIess. 4 Numerous school buildings and 7 churches were lestroyed or badly damaged by the wind. Approxinafeiy 5000 telephones were rendered useless and trolley service was suspended aft CT 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Lake Rose 12 Feet. ,l Lake Pontchartrain rose IF fee, during the storm sending water over the sea wall and flooding the streets | in Mpneburg
 Communication with Louisiana points on the gulf coast was cut of early yesterday, but last reports were
 
 ground further inland before the storn broke.
 | Wireless the Only Communication. Oflcials of railroad and telegraph companies said today it would be sev- eral days before normal service be- tween New Orleans and the outside world could be restored With the ex- , ception of the wireless plant aboard the Southern Pacific steamship Excel. sior, in port here. all the radio sta tions also went out of commission. Land Marks Demolished. New Orleans, via Baton Rouge Sept. so-From every part of tn } city came reports of property damag, and a number of widely known land marks showed the effects of the wind
 The Felicity Methodist church. brick structure at Felicity and Chest nut streets, was almost demolished The Masonic Temple at St Charle and Union Streets sustained damage estimated at S20.000 through the col lapse of ornamental chimneys am gables. The Beauregard publi 5 school building and the St. Vincent 5 Orphan Asylum also were badly dam , aged.
 ' Fire shortly after midnight de stroyed part of the plant of tn Sterns- Orleans Acid company at Ely sian Fields and Florida Avenue, wit a loss estimated at $s0.000. The fir is believed to have been caused b lightning.
 Small Vessels swamped. On the river front many small yes sells were swamped and the municips warehouses in many insances strip ped of the corrugated iron sheathinl which was bolted to the steel fraI : work and formed walls of the struc . ture.