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Show TROPIGAL STORM STRIKESJ-OUISIANA SOUTHERNERS GIVEN SCARE WHEN WIND SWEEPS OVER COUNTRY AT RAPID RATE. Considerable Damage Reported as Result Re-sult of High Winds and Tide, Trees Being Uprooted and Buildings and Crops Damaged. New Orleans. A tropical hurricane struck the Louisiana coast Tuesday night, passing inland near Morgan City, doing considerable damage. Morgan City is close to one of the greatest rice-growing sections of Louisiana. To the north sugar plantations planta-tions of the Teche country were in the direct path of the storm. Only the customary damage which follows heavy winds was reported from the villages, although railroad bridges were thrown out of plumb and traffic traf-fic delayed on the Louisville & Nashville Nash-ville railroad. Trees were uprooted, windows were broken and signs were blown down by the wind here. One unidentified mint was killed by a falling power wire. Considerable damage from high winds and tides was reported from const points east of here, the wind at Bay St. Louis and Chef Menteur having been estimated at sixty miles an hour during the night. In some localities wires were down or out of commission. commis-sion. Stores which took all goods from their ground floors are moving back. Industry generally has resumed operation, op-eration, while work on the water front proceeded as usual. Shipping circles considered the gulf safe for vessels. Eight ships departed depart-ed and three arrived Wednesday. |