Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-01
SEVEN DEAD, 100 INJURED,
IN NEW ORLEANS STORM
Property Damage Estimated at More
Than S2,OOO,OOO Following
Tropical Hurricane.
CITY FEELS ITS FULL FURY
Wind Attains Velocity of 13O Miles
an Hour, and Barometer Reaches
Lowest Mark Ever Registered in
United States.

NEW ORLEANS, September 30 tvia
Baton Rouge, La.).-seven persons
dead, at least $50 injured. and property
damage estimated at more than $1,000
600 was the result of the tropical hurrl-
cane which swept this city and section
yesterday and last night. Weather
Bureau reports showed that 1t was the
worst storm ever experienced here.
| Attaining at one time velocity of
from 120 to 1870 miles an hour, the wind
| unroofed hundreds Of buildings. de-
molished others and blew down tele-
/ phone poles, signs. trees and wires.
| When the storms fury had pa ssed
! this morning, the streets were Uttered
/ with debris. Scarcely a large plate
| glass window remained intact in tho
downtown section, and many stocks
of goods were damaged by wind and
rain. In the Cumberland Telephone
Company's exchange fifteen persons.
mostly girls, were injured when all the
windows in the east front on the floor
! where they were working crashed in.
The maximum velocity Of the wind
! was reported by the Weather Bureau
as between 120 and 40 miles an hour.
! The wind blew at this rate for one
minute between $40 and o'clock last
night. The highest sustained velocity
was eightysix miles, about $40 p. NJ
I For more than seven hours the hurri-
| cane swept over the city at n rate Of
more than sixty miles an hour.
The lowest mark registered by the
barometer was 2s.11 at $40 p. NJ,
which. according 10 local Weather
Bureau officials, is the lowest mark
ever registered in the United States.
YOUNG WOMEN REMOVED
FROM DANGEROUS BUILDING
Police and fire departments were kept
busy late yesterday responding to calls
for assistance and investigating re-
ports OF collapsed buildings. Two hun
dred young women were removed by
the police in automobiles and police
vehicles from a cigar factory. threat
ened with destruction. just before
niShtfall. They were housed in the
Criminal Courts Building until the
storm abated.
Numerous school buildings and
churches were destroyed or badly dam
aged by the wind. Approximately
5000 telephones were rendered useless
and trolley service was suspended after
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Lake Pontchartrain rose between
twelve and fourteen feet. sending
water over the sea wall at West End
and Spanish Fort. and flooding Miln-
burg Street. Communication with
Louisiana ports on the Gulf coast was
cut off early yesterday. but last re-
ports were that the inhabitants had fled
to high ground further inland before
the storm broke.
Omcials of the railroad and telegraph
companies stated it will be several
days before the normal service be-
world will be restored. With the ex-
ception of the wireless plant aboard
the Southern Pacific steamship Excel
sior in port here. all the radio stations
also went out Of commission. The plant
on the Excelsior was damaged. but
the operator, by sending messages to
the steamship Creole. anchored inside
the bar near the mouth OF the Missis-
sippi. was enabled to reach the Marconi
station at Mobile. The Associated
Press. by this means. forwarded the
only press dispa tches from New Or
leans after S o'clock yesterday after
noon.
THREE OF SEVEN KNOWN
DEAD ARE DROWNED
or the seven known dead. three were
drowned. Four were killed in the ruins
of structures which collapsed. Two OF
those drowned were blown overheard
from the steamer Creole. which left
yesterday morning for New York. hut
anchored near the mouth of the ri ,er
to wait better weather. The body OF
an unidentified white man was washed
ashore at West End. Two unidentified
men met death when the veterinary
hospital on Rampant. near Toulouse
Street. was demolished. and two un
identified negroes were Killed in the !
ruins OF building at Poydras and
Saratoga Streets
The steamship Creole reported by
wireless early to-day that a number OF