Show WINDS WORK J J j A Terrible Gale Around About the Gulf J THE BLOW CiTJSES HIGH TIDE i j Turf TalkImportant Bank Case eu tfn g for a Home In the Pen j OtherN ws rote ll I A Gale NEW ORLEANS Ociobe J3 Thi wmcl Was blOwing a gale here last night Dispatches from towns on Mississippi coast report a gale prevailing all day on the Mississippi Sound The Steamer Chalmett from New Yorkwhich arrived yesterday reported that she came by the inside route along the Florida coast and encountered heavy easterly gale with heavy rains From Tortugas to Port Eads heavy gales were experienced experien-ced with high irregular seas On Sun dayOctober 10 she encountered several hurricanes lasting seven hours and backing from east to north thence howling to the south The seas ran high continually flooding the vessels deck and also her staterooms fore and aft Lake Is de Chartrain was filled with water from the Gulf and the gale yesterday from the same direction caused an increase of the lake tidewater tide-water overflowing the marshes in rear of the city and filling the canals bank full A break in the old basin levee on Broad street was reported at midnight last night The velocity of the wind was 36 to 40 miles and increasing The easterly gale continues But lUtte damage has been done in the city The Lake and Shell roads are submerged sub-merged Mienburg and Spanish Fort are flooded At Shell Beach the water is a foot deep on the railroad track the inhabitants have nearly all left for the city The Louisville Nashville road from Micheaud to Pearl Rueis Inundated Inun-dated and several bad washouts are reported re-ported The company is making efforts ef-forts to keep the rails in line The telegraph tel-egraph wires along this section of the road are all down GALVESION October 12The storm which was reported by the signal service ser-vice as entering the Gulf of Mexico last Saturday night reached Galveston today to-day and at this timeS pma furious gale is blowing from the north symptoms symp-toms of the coming storm were apparent ap-parent last night and a brisk breeze which set in at an early hour this morning has gradually increased in-creased until it is now blowing fortyfive miles an hour The tide on the gulf side of the island has been very high ever since Saturday and the waves sere so powerful w = day that they washed along the streets for five squares right in the light of the gale from the north The extraordinary tide is undoubtedly due to the hurricane hurri-cane nrevailing in the West Indies The northern gale has done much towards checking the encroachment of the gulf on the island on the bay side of the city The water is very high and is washing over the docks The damage to the shipping will doubtless be heavy as half a hundred large steamers and sailing vessels are pounding against the wharves The water is constantly con-stantly rising in the bay andl is encroaching on the city for a squar es or so but no dtfnges is vapprehended or damage to business property Two barges from Houston each laden with one thousand bales of cotton are being submerged by the waves and the t cotton will be ruined Along the gulf side the waves have torn out the street railway track and submerged several houses The barometer has fallen 60 points since 7 oclock this morning indicating that the storm centre is very near Galveston Telegraphic communication with the main land will probably be entireiy suspended before morning as the gales seems to increase in velocity every moment Since sunset the wind has shifted slightly to the west The storm is now coming Irom the northwest north-west and is blowing fiercely MOBILE October 12The storm last night was heavy along the coast and vessels were detained from sailing The tide rose higher than ever before knows The telegraph office at Fort Morgan at the entrance to Mobile Bay was flooded and the operator reached dry land by swimming Thirtv New Orleansbound passengers are detained here by the washout on the Louisville Nashville Railway this side of New Orleans GALVKTON October 12The gale has increased in velocity and at this hour 1000 P mis blowing from the northwest north-west at the rate of fifty miles an hour The barometer has ceased falling and it is thought the storm has reached its maximum The water on the bay side w still rising but no serious damage to i business property is possible so long I 48 the wind holds its northwest course I as it counteracts the strong inflowing I tosh tide The tracks of the Gulf of Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad have J been washed away and it is possible I that daylight may reveal a good deal of I Damage along the wharves 1 MA special to the TimesDemocrat from Muiissippi Quarantine Station says One of the most terrific and damaging hurricanes since 1860 prevailed in this aeighborheod yesterday and last night For 30 consecutive hours the wind New a regular hurricane from the northeast driving tae waters iresi the bay and destroying the proP pro-P rty of the unfortunate inhabitants oft of-t us place who had hardly become reconciled to their hard fate having no grange crop this year caused by the f eavy frost of last year This latter trouble however would have been sur Jionnted had it not been for this Qis tOns storm which leaves a maionty of its most industrious and Qeserving people almost penniless This Storm or more properly called a cyclone was jf such violence as to tear away the old levees of seven years I standing carrying destruction to the iaj ence plants Last night all the inhabitants in-habitants of this place waded the dis t fn ce of amye in water three feet deep i Owe United States custom house for ai S on tjPr Abev quarantine phy Leiai1aii1 his family were nvenfrom I isw 1 w i their home and forced to seek refuge in the Custom House NEW ORLEANS October 12 Distressing Distress-ing news has been received from the lower coast regarding the effects of last nights storm The water in the town of Point Alacache in Plaquemine Parish Par-ish is several feet deep having been driven front the gulf Many persons took refuge in the court house and jail The water rushed in with such force that carried everything before it The levees which along this section are very low were overflowed and swept away and the water rusbed into the Mississippi River carrying with the it rice stacked on the farms in the vicinity In Point alacache and for a distance of twenty miles below the damage is estimated at 100000 |