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1915 New Orleans hurricane...
1915 New Orleans hurricane...
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September 30, 1915
THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, September 30, 1915
* 1915 New Orleans, Louisiana hurricane
* Early 1st report
This 24 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include:
* HURRICANE SWEEPS OVER NEW ORLEANS
* Kills Ten Persons and Causes Property Loss of Millions of Dollars
* ALL TRAINS CANCELLED
and more. (see) Early 1st report on the 1915 New Orleans hurricane. Nice to have in this famous NYC title.
Other news of the day. Usual browning with some margin wear but no text loss. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: The New Orleans Hurricane of 1915 was an intense Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana during the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane killed 275 people and caused $13 million (1915 US dollars) in damage.
In New Orleans winds of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) reached the city at 7am, climbing to 60 miles (97 km) an hour over the next 5 hours. Hurricane conditions were experienced from the afternoon into the night, with steady winds of 86 mph (138 km/h) and gusts up to 120 mph (190 km/h). There were reports of damage in New Orleans, with roofs blown off buildings and the Presbytère on Jackson Square losing its cupola. The clock on St. Louis Cathedral stopped at 5:50pm, the height of the storm. The hurricane damaged the Times-Picayune building, hampering newspaper production. More church steeples in the city were blown down or significantly damaged than remained intact.
First Presbyterian Church on Lafayette Square, destroyed by the great hurricane of 1915
The landmark Presbyterian Church on Lafayette Square collapsed, as did St. Anna's Episcopal Church on Esplanade Avenue. Half the rides at Spanish Fort were destroyed. Horticultural Hall in Audubon Park was destroyed. Wind damage was worse than the most recent previous hurricane to hit the city in 1909, but flooding was much less widespread; however, there were reports of waters from Lake Pontchartrain being forced backwards into the city's drainage canals by the storm, an event which would be repeated more catastrophically with Hurricane Katrina 90 years later. After power to drainage pumps failed, parts of the Mid-City neighborhood suffered significant flooding.
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