Louisiana & Alabama Hurricane, Sept - Oct 1860 - Damage in the Parishes

The Daily Picayune, Morning Edition
October 9, 1860

Louisiana Intelligence
The effects of the late storm in the Parishes are disastrous beyond anything before on record. The Thibodaux Gazette of the 6th inst. Says, in that town a parallel has not been witnessed in that part of State. The wind carried everything before, uprooting trees, tearing down fences, and in some instances blowing down tenements. The Presbyterian church, at the corner of St. Louis and Thibodaux streets, was seriously damaged. A two story tenement, corner of Green and Budget streets was also damaged. Fortunately no lives were lost in the town. The only instance of serious personal injury was a severe wound of a negro received from the bricks of a falling chimney. The Gazette gives the following list of losses by planters in addition to those published by us immediately after the catastrophe.

Lafourche – Messrs. Adam Perilloux, Gaude Bros., Taylor Beatty, H. E. Ledet, Caillouet Bros., P. J. Theriot, Billiu and Perkins. David McLeod and Capt. C. Dalferes have had the purgery of their sugar-houses blown down. Messrs, C. M. Gillis and Geo. S. Guion have had but little damage done on their plantation. Nelson & Donaldson have had their purgery somewhat damaged. On the Rienzi place, one of the sugar-houses and purgery blown down. Mrs. Leufroy Trosclair and Mrs. Andrew Collins have had the purgery of their sugar-houses blown down. Mr. C. F. Gaude had his bagasse chimney blown down. On the estate of J. W. Tucker the purgery and cooling-room were blown down. Legarde Bros. had the chimney of their sugar-house, corn crib and stable partly blown down. Messrs. Achille Braud and H. Folse, Jr. & Bro. had their sugar-houses entirely blown down.

Assumption – Messrs. Miles Taylor, W. W. Pugh and Mr. Simoneau, sugar house blown down; Mr. P. Landreaux, Trinity Plantation, purgery blown down; Mr. Charles Kock, sugar house and purgery blown down; Dr. Ford’s warehouse blown down in the road.

Terrebonne – Messrs. Thibodaux Bros., Leufroy Barras, W. D. V. Downing, W. J. Minor, H. T. Collins, and Mrs. M. J. Ellis, had the purgery of their sugar houses blown down; Mrs. V. P. Winder, Ducros Plantation, purgery and cane shed blown down.

Little Caillou – Messrs. Bush & Gueno, and J. B. Robinson, purgery and boiling room blown down. A man employed on the plantation, named John Malbroux, killed, and Mr. L. Thibodaux hurt.

Bayou Black – Messrs Evariste Porche, K. M. Boykin, A. Miltenberger & Co., Tobias Gibson, and W. J. Minor, purgery blown down; Mrs. A. Butler and Mr. A. McCullum, cane shed blown down; Mr. M. H. Daunis purgery and boiling room blown down; Messrs. Bodin & Bonvillain, sugar house blown down.

This list is far from complete, says the Gazette, news being obtained every hour of still further disasters. The cane fields are almost level with the ground.

The Pointe Coupee Democrat, of the 6th says:
The open cotton was scattered, so as to make the ground in some places white, as if covered with snow. The cane, too, has greatly suffered; thus blasting the last hopes of our sugar planters for this season. The warehouse of Mr. Trudeau, at the Hermitage, was completely demolished. The storm has committed ravages, at least from Natchez to New Orleans.

During the storm on Tuesday the river rose at Baton Rouge from six to seven feet.

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