Show HURRON HEWS I 1 SWEEPS THE SOUTH mobile and the gulf coast devastated WIND BLEW MILES AN HOUR impossible to estimate ahe the loss of life and property 8 and pa destroyed BILE ala oct 2 A terrific galo gale struck this section of the country coming corning from the tile southeast before daylight this morning and this afternoon was still blowing over fifty miles an hour the water witter was blown in from the gulf until the river reached koval roval street street four blocks from it and at aa an elevation of about fifteen feet from the mean ayer river height there is no way of estimating tho tile money damage tonight all the tile wholesale and a large portion of tho the retail district of the city is four feet under water and thousands of dollars worth of goods are dacard damaged several tugboats and other email crafts were driven ashore and it is reported that three dredges working on the channel have been lost it is also reported that fifty miles of the louisville nashville road along the coast are under water and that the biloxi bridge has been swept away aw nothing lias has been heard from the gar gardeners J in the tile marshes east of tins this city and the worst is feared telegraphic communication is cutoff in alm almost oat every direction and from the present ou outlook t everything wi will I 1 I 1 be gone before late a tonight on in the way WRY of wires in the city many houses were unroofed one cotton warehouse was destroyed and much minor damage lias has been done clone smoke slacks of all the manufactories have been blown down street car traffic ie is totally suspended bi because Nause of the damage to the electric wires tile busiest thor farca of the city are being navigated in boats and as this despatch is sent 3 p in people are wadine wading up to their armpits arm pita trying to save their good itis it is conceded to be the worst storm ever known hero here tho southern urt part of the cit city presents a scene of wreckage as if it lad had been bombarded the towers on the court house and ch christ rist church are tottering two men are known to have been drowned SO far the tile storm reached ita its height about 3 p in when the tile wind ind readied reached a velocity of seventy five miles allies an hour kain rain wa was falling in tor torments ants the entire jay ay and tonight the he h city is in darkness and 1 not an t etric light of any kind is bit bining ning the bay steamer crescent Ore scent city dragged its anchor and went ashore on oil the beach below the city tha crew was saved nearly every bath house along the tile w estern shore was blown down and at 31 morgane organs an attendant was swept awa away with five bath houses and drow drowned ncy the maenomia Ma enolia and colleys warehouses were blown down and two unknown negroes drowned in ili the cotton yard the magnificent oaks all over tile city ware were laid low and tile earth is co covered vereil with green leaves whipped from tho tile trea trees by the fierce tempest houses all over tho tile city were unroofed and blown down it is simply impossible to give tho tile details tonight as there is no way of ascertaining them nothing has been heard from the eastern shore nor from tile market gardeners in the marshes the storm at this writing lias has abated and the tile waters lave have receded there is not a wire in the western union ohice affording intercourse with the outside world and tills this is written to be sent several miles out of town where it is hoped communication mav may be established ta blis hecl the storm was one of the worst which ever vi visited cited this section and as far as can call bo be learned twenty four or porsper po more reper persons 10 in this vicinity were killed and arid probably three times a as many wounded some f fatally besides destroying if n a large amount of pr property at new orl orleans eans the fatalities in this city as far as known are as follows dead ulrich baner policeman killed by a falling building the tile bilot 1 I lo 10 t of the steamship rhodes of tho tile dal canal n al street terry ferry dropped dead at the wheel from excitement 1 fatally injured R baudier run over while blinded by the rain I 1 betz probably fatally injured by an electric wire wh which ich killed two horses the tile wind reached a velocity of forty eight miles an hour at 8 when the weather bureau instrument was destroyed st the crash of sheds and buildings blown down trees turned up and houses unroofed caused intense a alarm arm and most of the population of the city stayed up all night expecting their houses to ute be blown down among the tile buildings destro destroyed Ted was the large market which crushed several buildings in ita its fall bardette Bar detto street mission church the cotton yards of the north eastern railroad jhb coleman boiler shop and the pythian hall A number of other buildings were unroofed below the city the UIG results of tile storm are far worse in 11 parish ll r ish the wind reached a velocity of miles i I 1 es an hour in justice t I 1 parish all at pointe a la bachio Ifa chio a town of 11 2000 inhabitants not a house escaped I 1 in injury four grown persons and several children were killed among the killed are misa leon A franche and sirs ella vanders two of the most n 0 s t prominent 0 m 1 n e nt 1 ladies ladils in the city in t the 1 ie dr immediate n m e d i a te vicinity other deaths are reported and still thirteen others in the country bew W when the news from the gulf coast ii is received it is feared the mortality list will be greatly increased the loss to the orange industry ie is estimated at the losi is very heavy in other crops and property but the news is too vague to yet form an estimate to the amount I 1 NEW ORLEANS oct OCL 2 during the high wind and rain storm sunday night and monday the louisville nashville buffered suffered the most disastrous washout in the history of tho the road the line ie is impassable sable east of Chemente ur eighteen miles from new orleans for a distance of fifteen aft een miles and from the statements of trainmen it is learned that the entire line to Ifo mobile lolle has suffered greatly NEW ORLEANS oct 2 ex governor tit and family cume to town today from their 31 magnolia agnolia plantation because fol of tile havoc wrought by the storm of sundays sunday the furlos wind tore tor I 1 euch such a number of slates from tho tile root roof of the great p plantation lati t aaion house that the upper par part 0 of f t the i e houde waa was flooded by tho tile rain and all other I 1 1 Z property on the tile plantation waa vae badly damaged the orange crop all along the tile lower coast has suffered incalculable injury the fruit is literally strewn on the ground lie reports of 0 a serious erious ac accident c dent were ceceta received from froni pointe la biache and v vicinity i c anity much property was destroyed e d and n d four people are said to have been killed almost every plantation on the lower coast has suffered it is i reported that three children were killed in one little settlement below Ma magnolia enolia dearly nearly all the suar sugar cane is down but M may not bo be much damaged as the cane afi is s liable able to recover fro from the blow governor warmouth lh said the storm was tho the worst experienced in louisiana ea bince nce 1811 |