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MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW.
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Capt. Galbraith, manager of the Western Union branch in the New Orleans local office. Weather Bureau, reported fcr duty shortly before 7 a. m., September 29. I informed him that wiro trouble would soon be experienced and requested him to take such precautions as would enable us to collect reports and get out forecasts and warnings and distribute- them early. The warring, based on pressure and weather conditions along
From Eiany office buildings and stores down town telep! sages case into the Weather Bureau at nightfall asking whei safe for ether crowds of men and women gathered in them I into the ttreete tc go hcne, but in every case the bureau ad they remain where they were until daylight cn account of da.! fallen ■nrires.'
following
jressuro anti weather conditions &lonw the Gulf coast ana on tide conditions at New Orleans and Morgan City, La., was issued at once:
-Advisory warning Louisiana coast, 8:20 a. m. Tropical disturbance will move northward over southeast Louisiana. Center trill probably pass between New Orleans and Atchafalaya Bay. Easterly piles probably reaching hurricane force in eastern Louisiana and strong northerly winds to moderate gales on west Louisiana coaBt to-day and tonight. High tides.
(Signed) Cline.
This warning was given the widest possible distribution by telephone, telegraph, and railroad offices throughout the threatened area and also by mail in New Orleans. Warnings for easterly gales and prcbablv hurricane winds were telephoned to all eastern Louisiana, and for northerly to westerly gales to all western Louisiana. We had just finished distributing forecasts and warnings by telegraph and telephone at 9 a. m. when serious wiro trouble set in.
Ail persons asking were advised to remain at heme and stay indoors; the principals of several schools were also advised.
This advice and the distribution cf the warnings through the police and fire-alarm departments kept people at home or in their offices and stores and reduced the number of people on the streets during the storm to a minimum, and this unquestionably n^ovsnj^-d much loss of life in N ew Orl earn.	^ M
When the barometer fell below 28.25 inches and continued falling so rapidly, I began wondering what the result would be. It was a great relief to us when the '^barograph pen stopped at a reduced h&rcmeier reading cf r2S.ll inches and then began to riso. Every minute
2&th I had to.d people
About 11 a, m., September 26, the chief clerl superintendent of the New Orleans & Nort: Railroad called and asked advice about takin (%?\over “iie ^our*>e'Q:'i	of trestle and abutment
— /Lakn Ponr.hs.rtrft.in. 'They were advised to
during the .afternoon of
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winds would continue for a few hours. Telephone calls came so fast that when wo wished to send a message we could not get. central and had to go to another telephone. Some one was on the line before we could hang up and
lift off the receiver. The strain of anxiety on the part 0f the public was the greatest I have ever witnessed.
The Daily States, September 30;. 1915. in commenting on the storm says:
When the fierce blasts, which ir. the morning hours ciine fr-,;m the northeast, shifted east, then south, and finally, about 10 p. m. southwest, were at their most terrifying height in the late afternoon, hundreds of persons, women, children, and men fcueht their way through the swirling, blinding mist of rain and flying fragments of roofs and cornices tc the substantial stone and marble post oflics building m Camp Street, in the top story of which the Weather .Bureau is located Ilcre they fell safer and could get some first-hand information as to what to espect. Among them were some 7.0 women who lived in the Christian Woeen’s Exchange, the roof of which had already been damaged
When night came and word still came from the Weather Bureau that, though the center of the storm had passed about 8 o’clock all danger was not yet over, more than 300 women, children, and men decidcd to remain in the building all ripfct. Toward midnight, exhausted with a.nxietv. many of them laid (!) down on the stone floor of the post-office corridor, their heads pillowed on mail Backs supplied them by Assistant Postmaster Georee \ . Fuchs, and snatched such sleep as they might under these bard conditions.
Net until daylight, did they leave for their homes.
trains as the storm would Increase in severity du
afternoon
Thf. witjxl subsided slightly bftt.wftan and 2 p. m., and thooiticials o: the railroad, bein» to keep up their train schedules, called again and it wouid not he safe for them to keep their trains I told them positively that higher winds wxai] than had been recorded' and that in my opinii would be winds which would bloy. trains offxthe and they then issued orders for fees Vrams c«Wl New Orleans to stop at Slid<T. on rvo otV?r~Sid lake and they canceled all outgoing trains.
Special observations were telegraphed to the office overv two hours during tho burricano, up including is p. m. At 5 p. m. all wires out of had gene down. Efforts were made to communic the Naval radio station in Algiers, tho Tropic station, and the Marconi station, but all were or out of commission, and New Orleans was ab cut of? from tho outside world. About 10 p. n1 29th Mr. Israels, manager of the Associated Pr< phoned that the Marconi Co. had rigged up a tei wireless station on the American steamship j at tho foot of Saint Ann Street, and that the; relay important matter through the American st Creole, at anchor near the mouth of the river, to where it would be put on the land lines. A me the Chief of the Weather 3ureau, giving the 8 p. m. observation of the 29th and a brief repor hurricane was thus sent from New Orelans about of the 2Sth. [This message was received at Was during the afternoon of the 30th], Tho regular < tions were sent and special reports were transm the chief of the bureau daily through the above c until October 2, when wire service was estabh the Western Union Telegraph Co. into the ioc of the Weather Bureau.
The warnings reached every locali ty in the thi area, as is shown by press reports and other repo: tho storm area, except that the water became s that the boat chartered could not make tho Grand Isle; however, tho previous notices relativ movements of the storm reached Grand Isle.
People in exposed localities, with a few exc acted promptly on receipt of tho warning and places where they thought they would be secure. Isle and the Barataria^Bay section is practically tated, nes.r!y all buildings having been destroy all live stock drowned. However, only 23 lives v in all this vast region, and 14 of these resulted f cansizing c: beats. At Burrwood the inhabitar
aboard the United States' dredsre Ben
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and other small craft sought refuge in bays and where they felt secure, but the storm tide of 2 fectjiavried many of them from their moorings them high and dry on tho prairies or far out in tho n Weather Bureau warnings held at- least 25 ocea steamers in tho river and at the wharves from t