The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-10-06
SCORES PERISH
IN HURRICANE
Storm Leaves Trail OF
Ruin on Coast.
FAMOUS LAND MARKS GONE
Wind Blows 1870 Miles an
Hour At New Orleans
Loss $2,000,00V
MANY CEssELs ARE swAMPED

New Orleans, Sept. 3O.-Sixteen
are dead, scores are injured, tele-
graph and telephone wires are down
and probably damage to the extent
of millions resulted in New Orleans
from the hurricane CT yesterday.
Captain c. j. Menges, of Cincinnati,
of the Pittsburg Coal Company. and
several deckhands were drowned
Two thousand men started to work
this afternoon cleaning the streets
of the debris. 1t is believed that
the electric light plant will be in
operation by tomorrow afternoon.
Street cars are running on only a
few lines.
New Orleans, (via Baton Rouge) 4,
Sept. 30.-Of the seven known dead
of yesterdays hurricane, three were
drowned and four were killed in a
structure which collapsed. Two of
the drowned were blown overheard
from the steamer Creole. The Gre
ole reported by wireless early to-day
number of bodies were seen float
ing down the Mississippi and houses
for miles were demolished.
Many parks, scattered throughout
the city, suffered damage to trees.
Shrubbery that can not be replaced
in years, was ruined.
From every part of the city came
reports of property damage and a
number of widely known landmarks
showed effects of the wind.
On the river front many small
vessels were swamped.
Lake Ponchatrain rose twelve feet
during the storm sending water over
the seawall, flooding Milneburg.
Officials of railroad and telegraph
companies to-day said it will be sew
eral days before normal service of
New Orleans with the outside world
would be resumed.
The maximum velocity of the
wind, the weather bureau reported,
was 120 to $50 miles, the highest
sustained velocity being eighty-six
miles. An unofficial estimate placed
the damage at 100000.
Mobile, Ala. Sept. S0.-The West
Indian hurricane that spent its force
last night against New Orleans, took
toll of at least two-score lives, and
did extensive property damage along
the central gulf coast, according to
advices coming in slowly tonight
over crippled lines of communica-
ton.
Most of the loss of life was re-
ported at Premier, and Manshac, La.
The railroad agent at the former
town telegraphed eight white per-
sons and seventeen negroes were
drowned, and many injured when
the wind drove the waters of Lake
Ponchatrain into the streets.
At Manshac the section foreman
said sixteen negro laborers were re-
ported drowned.
Two children lost their lives at
Pascagoula, Miss.
Two men were electrocuted here
by wires torn down.
Several other deaths were report
ed in isolated sections.
The low districts in a number of
other cities along the coast are
flooded. Three foot of water is re-
ported at Slidell, La, on the east
bank of Lake Ponchatrain, and there
is heavy property damage. The
water is two feet deep on the streets
of Coden, Miss.
At Gulfport. Miss. four steamers,
including the British Brentwood, OF
1900 tons, were washed over the
wharves, and are now fast aground.
Sixty persons are marooned on
box cars at Premier, and miles of
track in that section were washed
away. The New Orleans Northwest
ern railroad bridge over Lake Pom
chatrain is under several feet of wa
ter.