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Show n; ONE MAN KILLED AS STORM HITS COAST igt A A. A A A A A A 1 ' WARNINGS IN A TIME PREVENT !' J fiBEff LOSSES I Full Force of Tropical Hurri- f cane Believed to Have 7 W Been Spent JA TREES UPROOTED AND J I MANY WINDOWS BROKEN f mt Washington Weather Observer f Reports Worst of Distrub- J ance Has Passed IPH NEW ORLEANS, La . Sept, -- K J i. i t i i I hui n. I U.'iit hit .l4s ' the Louisaha coast, strlkin v-"" '"" Hfl force at a point do.-,- ' Morgan Cay. M Dr. I. M. Cllne. district forecaster or the local weather bureau, announced H With wires down between here ami rm ) points along the Gulf coast to the west I weather bureau official were H experiencing extreme difficulty In oh- H lalnlng information from the section H v,hTc the storm passed Inland. I s mthci P cific railway off said their trains from that section wer l A being gr-atl- del..v,,l because of high J Lfl water and destruction of telegraph m wires. SUGAR M' RICE H Anxiety w.is expressed here for H sugar and rich rice crops Morgan B Cltv is close to one oi the greatest LH r:ce growing sections of I.ou'slana. To H ih north sugai plantations of the IH Tcche country wcro believed to have H been In the direct path of the storm H Indications were- today that the flshr m,m Ing villages along I l; ' I : . r-n . which figured lb last nights storm reports, were hit by a series of gales and die! not experience the force of the main disturbance Only the customary damage v.hieh follows h'-.tvv wind was reooit, d from the villages although railroad bridges wero thrown out of plumb and tralfl delayed on the Louisville and NffSli-j illc railroad. WASHINGTON, Sept 23 The ..liter ..li-ter of the tropical hurricane pat sed Inland vest of the Mississippi river during last night and 'v how over northern Louisiana, the weather bureau bur-eau announced earl) today. The bureau bur-eau said the storm would diminish in intensity. Warnings on the Gulf i coast wero ordered down at 9:10 B Da. j DODGES N I AN ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS, La., Bepi 82. The tropical storm reported tobe; sweeping slowly toward the Gulf coast had not struck the mainland In thl vlclnitv early today Weather bureau Indications were thai the greatest force --- of the hurricane would be felt en the H " coast cast of the Mississippi river, I probablv during the day H After dropping last night to M.6I, IH the barometer was rising steadily this' HK morning and the wind which reached) HB. a maximum velocity here of -18 miles, an hour, had dn.pp, ,1 to IS miles an, hour. This favoiildc turn In eondl-J eondl-J Hons led to 1 1. ' I" !n f t ha l t h- disturh- HBVJ ancc might have dissipated itself, j HBlHJ somewhat at least Tin storm was, B reported last night to bl approaching H the mainland at a rate of 12 miles an I'll l I it VI ST N DSTTLL H No loss to shipping has thus far been H reported here. Traffic on the i-ouis- H ville and Nashville railroad, however. H was at a standstill one bridge having B been washed out near here while the HBVJ tiacks wero reported under water at I H several H Trees were uprooted, window-B Were I broken and signs were blown down by Bf the wind hre One Identified rnan HSS was killed by a faHi'in power wire. H Considerable damage from high winds H and tides war reported from coast points east of here, the wind at Bay i si Louis ami GUlt Menteur having' I been estimated at sixty miles an hour. during the night. In some localities i wires wcru down or out of comml.s-l |