Show WIND AND WAVES ala oct 2 A terrific gals eale struck this section bertion lot country cowing coming from the southeast before daylight gay light this thin morning and this afternoon it WM was still blowing over fifty allee iles au an hour water was waa blown in ID fro from athe the gulf until the river reached ro boja aal yal street ameeti ate eti tour four blocks from it and at an eleva elevation of about fifteen feet from tb the is main river heights heig hta all allabe the whole on gale le and a large portion of the retail districts of the city to la four feet under water and thousands of dollari dol doll larb arbs worth of goods are damaged three dredges working wor kinf on the channel have been lost loot fifty miles of the louisville nashville road along the coast are under water and biloxi bridge e has been swept away the report says aay telegraph communication to i cutoff cut kofl in almost every direction in the city many houses were unroofed and the stacks of all the manufactories manu factories have been blown down the street oar car traffic to Is totally sue SUB the business bu sineas tho thorough rought res of the city are being navigated in boats and BB as this dispatch is sent bent 6 p pm in the people are wading up to their armeite rm pits trying to save gode it to is conceded to be the worst storm ever known here the storm reached its ita height about 8 pm when the wind reached a velocity of seventy five miles per hour the rain was waa falling failing in torrents the entire day and tonight the city to is in darkness dargue dar knees and not dot an electric light ot of any kind is burning the bay steamer crescent Cree cent city dragged her anchor aillo and went ashore on the beach below the city the crew were saved nothing is IB heard from the eastern shore nor from the market gardeners in the marshes at 11 pm the storm abated and the waters receded NEW la oct 2 ex governor warmouth and family came to town today from their magnolia plantation because of the havoc wrought by the storm sunday the furious wind tore such a number ot of elates from the great plantation house hoube that the upper part of 0 the house was wai flooded by rain and all the other property on the plantation badly dam god ged the orange crop all along the lower coast has baa suffered buffered incalculable injury fruit literally strews the ground reports or of serious accidents aco identa are re from pointe lie le hache and vicinity governor warmouth said the otora was waa the worst experienced in louisiana since 1811 during the high wind and rainstorm sunday night and monday the louisville nashville suffered buffered the most moat disastrous washout la in the history of the roal the line is ie impassable east of Chemente ur eighteen miles from new orleans for a distance of eighteen miles milea and from the statements of trainmen it la Is learned that the entire line to mobile suffered buffered greatly As aa far as can be learned twenty four or more persons in this vicinity were killed and probst probably pro baily ly three tim 6 as aa many wounded some fatally besides destroying a large amount ot of property at now new orleans among the t k bildings ull uIl dinga dings destroyed was wan the large markets market which crushed obbe everal large buildings in its ite tali fall the burdette mission mabalon church the cotton yards yarda of the northeastern railroad the cole man boiler shop and the pythian hall A number of other buildings were unroofed below the city the results of the storm are far worse in Plaque nino parish the wind reached a velocity of miles an hour in justice parish ott at L lia LA A hachie a toan town of 2000 inhabitants not a house escaped injury poor four grown persons anu and several children were killed among the killed are mine aleona franche and mrs E lavanders LaV audera two of the most prominent ladies in the city in the immediate vicinity other deaths are reported and still thirteen others in be country below when the news from the gulf coast is received it is feared the mortality list will be greatly increased the loss lose to the orange industry try to is estimated at over the loss lose to very heavy in other crops and property but the news to is too vague to yet form estimates as an to the amount |