HURRICANE STRIKES
Washington Post
Sep 21, 1909
Communication With New Orleans
Is Wholly Cut Off. MAN BLOWN FROM BRIDGE Gulf ... With the city of New Orleans entirely stripped of wire communication
New York Times
Five Dead at New Orleans
The Conservatory in City Park after the hurricane
of
September 1909. The storm killed at least 350 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. This
is one of a small group of photographs given to New Orleans Public Library by the Sonoma County (California) Library in 2004.
According to staff at the Sonoma library, the photographs were in an album that "belonged to a man named Eugene M. Weaver
who lived at one time in Sonoma County."
Text and photo
http://nutrias.org/photos/recent/morere ... nt1039.htm
Kendall:
The land was allowed to lie unimproved till 1884, when the Cotton Centennial
Exposition was held within its limits. Considerable improvements were made by the management of this enterprise in the section
lying between Magazine Street and the river, but the larger part, between Magazine and St. Charles Avenue, was at this
time denuded of the stately oak trees which had formerly embellished it, to make way for the buildings necessary to house
the exhibits. All of the exposition buildings were subsequently removed except the Horticultural Hall, an immense structure
of iron and glass, containing exquisite collections of trees and flowers. This was badly damaged in the great storm of 1909,
and was shortly thereafter demolished. In 1886 the park was placed under control of a commission, with J. Ward Gurley,
afterwards United States district attorney, was the first president. The work since carried on in the park has been in accordance
with a plan prepared by the great landscape artist, Olmstead. The lake which now winds its sylvan way through the St. Charles
Street side of the park was excavated in 1919 and 1920.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans/_Texts/KENHNO/42*.html
The
Conservatory in City Park after the hurricane of September 1909. The storm killed at least 350 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.
This is one of a small group of photographs given to New Orleans Public Library by the Sonoma County (California) Library
in 2004. According to staff at the Sonoma library, the photographs were in an album that "belonged to a man named Eugene
M. Weaver who lived at one time in Sonoma County."
Text and photo
http://nutrias.org/photos/recent/morere ... nt1039.htm
category 4 storm in 1909 killed hundreds in the area
Wiki:
The
8th storm formed south of
Hispaniola on September 13. It reached hurricane strength south of Cuba, and eventually hit southern
Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane, making landfall at
Berwick, Louisiana on
20 September with a 15 foot storm surge. It became known as
the Grand Isle Hurricane, after its devastation of
Grand Isle, Louisiana. Heading inland on a path in between
New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, it produced flooding in New Orleans in a pattern similar to that of
Hurricane Katrina almost a century later, but low lying areas within the city limits at the time had little residential build up, the consequences
of the flooding were much less severe than those of the more recent storm. It dissipated over Southern
Missouri on September 22. This storm ranks as one of the deadliest to hit the U.S. with 350 being killed with damages estimated at
over 5 million dollars (in 1909 dollars).
More at http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/tsunami_database/or_stormsurge.html
The
8th Atlanic hurricane or 1909 formed south of
Hispaniola on September 13. It reached hurricane strength south of Cuba, and eventually hit southern
Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane, making landfall at
Berwick, Louisiana on
20 September with a 15 foot storm surge. It became known as
the Grand Isle Hurricane, after its devastation of
Grand Isle, Louisiana. Heading inland on a path in between
New Orleans and
Baton Rouge, it produced flooding in New Orleans in a pattern similar to that of
Hurricane Katrina almost a century later, but low lying areas within the city limits at the time had little residential build up, the consequences
of the flooding were much less severe than those of the more recent storm. It dissipated over Southern
Missouri on September 22. This storm ranks as one of the deadliest to hit the U.S. with 350 being killed with damages estimated at
over 5 million dollars (in 1909 dollars).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909_Atlantic_hurricane_season
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NEW
ORLEANS CLAIMS AUDUBON.
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 21, 1909
