Show i THE HURRICANE tts Disastrous Effects Along the SeaCoast Sea-Coast NEW ORLEANS Oct 12But little damage has been done in the city The lake and shell roads are submerged Mieuburg and Spanish Fort are flooded At the shell beach the water is a foot deep on the railroad track and the inhabitants nearly all left for the city last night The Louisville and Nashville road from Mioheaud to Pearl river is inundated and several bad washouts are reported The company is making efforts to keep the rails in line The telegraph wires along this section of the road are all down GALVESTON Oct 12The storm which was reported by the signal service as entering the Gulf of Mexico last Saturday night reached Galveston today and at this times time-s p m a furious gale is blowing from the north Symptoms of the coming storm were apparent last night and the brisk breeze which set in at an early hour this morning has gradually increased until it is now blowing blow-ing fortyfive miles an hour The tide on the gulf side of the island has been very high ever since Saturday and the waves were so powerful today that they washed along the streets for five squares right in the teeth of the gale from the north This extraordinary extra-ordinary tide is undoubtedly due to the hurricane hur-ricane prevailing in the West Indies The northern gale has done much towards checking the encroachment of the Gulf On I the island on the bay side of the city the water is very high and is washing over the 1 docks The damage to shipping will doubtless doubt-less be very heavy as half a hundred large I steamers and sailing vessels are pounding against the wharves Two barges from I Houston each laden with 1C30 bales of cotton cot-ton are being submerged by the waves and the cotton will be ruined Along the Gulf tide the waves have torn up the street railway rail-way track and submerged several houses The barometer has fallen sixty points since 7 oclock this morning indicating that the storm centre is very near Galveston Telegraphic I Tele-graphic communication with the main land will probably be entirely suspended before I morning as the gale seems to increase in velocity ve-locity every moment Since sunset the wind has shifted slightly to the west The storm js now coming from the northwest and is blowing fiercely The gale has increased in velocity and at this hoar 1030 p m is blowing from the northwest at the rate of fifty miles an hour The baccmeter has ceased falling and it is thought the storm has reached its maximum The water on the bay side is still rising but no serious damage to business property is possible so long as the wind holds its northwest north-west course as it counteracts the strong inflowing high tide The tracks of the Gulf Colorado t Santa Fe Railroad have been washed away and it is possible that daylight may reveal a good deal of damage along the wharves NEW OnLEANs Oct 12A special to the TimesDemocrat from Mississippi Quarantine Quaran-tine Station says One of the most terrific and damaging hurricanes since 1861 prevailed pre-vailed in this neighborhood yesterday and I last night For thirtysix consecutive hours 1 the wind blew a regular hurricane from the 1 northwest driving the waters from the bay and destroying property of the unfortunate inhabitants of this place who had hardly become reconciled to their hard fate of haying hay-ing no orange crop this year caused by the heavy frost of last year This latter trouble trou-ble however would have been surmounted had it not been for this very disastrous I storm which leaves the majority of its most industrious and deserving people almost penniless This storm or more properly called cyclone was of such violence as to I tear away the old levees of seven years I standing carrying destruction to the late rice plants Last night all the inhabitants of this nlaoe waded a distance of a mile in water three feet deep to the United States Custom House for protection Dr Abey quarantine physician and his family were driven from their home and forced to seek refuge in the Customs House Distressing news has been received from tue oT er coast regarding the effects of last niRhta storm The water in the town of ronteaieacaoue in Plaquemine parish is several feet deeP having been driven from tho gulf Many versons took refuge in the court house and Jail The water rushed in wIth such force that < it carried everything efore It The levees which along this see tlon are very low were overflowed and swept away and the water rushed into the Mississippi Missis-sippi river carrying with it the rice stacked on the farms m the vicinity In Pontealea cache and for a distance of twenty miles below the damage is estimated at 100000 |