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5 New Orleans hurricane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_New_Orleans_hurrican
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.
Only 21 of the storm-related deaths were within the city.
Southeast Louisiana
First Presbyterian Church on
Lafayette Square, destroyed by	A 13-foot (4.0 m) storm surge rolled into St. Bernard Parish, the Rigolets, and the Lake
the great hurricane of 1915	Catherine area.
Areas along the Lower Coast (south of New Orleans) were hit even harder than the city. A telegraph report states the situation:
" Whole country between Poydras and Buras inundated. Levees gone, property loss appalling. Life toll probably heavy. Conditions estimated worse than ever before. Relief needed. No Communications...”
There were 23 dead in Venice, Louisiana, with similar numbers in coastal towns of Frenier and LaBranche. The town of Saint Malo was destroyed. In Plaquemines Parish, there was severe flooding and miles of levees were washed away. Thousands of people were left homeless. The hurricane also wrecked many of the oyster boats, damaging the local economy.
Though it was not as deadly as the 1893 Chenier Caminanda Hurricane, this hurricane was the deadliest Louisiana hurricane until Hurricane Betsy 50 years later, rka^k st’H’(9^3
See also
■	List of tropical cyclones
■	List of Atlantic hurricanes
Sources
■	"New Orleans 1900 to 1920" by Mary Lou Widmer, Pelican Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 978-1-58980-401-2
■	1915 Hurricane (http://members.aol.com/donald529/pagel2/) - excerpts from contemporary newspaper accounts
■	The Hurricane of Sept. 29th, 1915,and Subsequent Heavy Rainfalls. New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board Report (http://penelope.uchicago.edU/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/New_Orleans /_Texts/l 915_Hurricane*.html)
■	Great Storm of 1915 track (Weather Underground) (http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/atl91505.asp)
■	Great Storm of 1915 track map (unisys) (http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1915/6/track.gif)
■	Louisiana timeline (http://www.enlou.com/time/yearl 915.htm#octoberl 915)
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