Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi Hurricane, Sept 1860 - More Losses
Posted December 22nd, 2009 by Nancy Wright
Daily Picayune
Wednesday morning, September 19, 1860
Loss at Pass a l’Outré – Capt. Riley Knight, who arrived in the city this morning from the Pass, informs us that ten lives were lost there in the late gale. The names of the victims are Capt. Gay, with four of his family. The name of the other is unknown.
Capt. Knight says that the suffering at the Pass was very great. Capt. Knight loses his all. Most of the inhabitants were for hours in water up to their necks. It is a wonder that so few were lost.
Loss of the Ship Richard H. Dixey, of Boston – Loss of Life- We learn from a letter, received this morning from Mobile by Messrs Creevy and Farwell, that the ship Richard H. Dixey, Capt. Dixey, from New York for Mobile, was blown ashore at the lower bar of Mobile bay, during the late gale, and is a total loss. Capt. Dixey, together with many of the ship’s crew, were lost, seven of the number escaping from a watery grave.
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