New Orleans, Louisiana Tornado
October 29, 1896
Fatalities Reported at New Orleans
About 4:30 Thursday a cyclone struck New Orleans
on the river front, just above Pension street,
and swept over a distance of about a mile and a
half, or thirty blocks from Pension street to
Robin street, the track of the storm being about
1,500 feet wide from the river to Annunciation
street. The first building damaged was the
Independence oil mill, situated at the head of
Pension street. It was unroofed and building and
contents damaged to the amount of $6,000. The
conveyors of the new elevator of the Illinois
Central railroad were slightly damaged and
John White Meyer
and John J.
Buck, employed at the elevator, were
severely injured.
Hundreds of buildings in the track of the
storm were damaged, many being partly unroofed
and chimneys prostrated, trees uprooted and
fences blown down. Some lives were reported lost
at first, but so far these reports have not been
verified. The property loss is estimated at
$100,000.
Gazette, Stevens Point, WI 4 Nov 1896
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