Newspaper Data for New Orleans - presented by Genealogy Trails

Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 23, 1822 Page 2
The cotton house, and other buildings, on the plantation of Dr. Flood, near New Orleans, was burnt on the 21st ult. Loss estimated at 14,000 dollars.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 25 1823 Page 1
By the Decatur, we have received advices from N. Orleans to the 22d May. The waters of the Mississippi had subsided, four or five feet, and no fears were entertained that further damage would be done by the flood. – Amer. Sen. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

The Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA)
29 Oct 1823 Page 3
New Orleans, Sept. 22
In the late gale Gen. Hampton’s sugar house was unroofed – and his sugar crop is expected to fall short 300 hogsheads, in consequence of the destruction of cane.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]

Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
August 4, 1824
New Orleans
Accounts from New Orleans, of the 2d inst., mention a great rise of the waters in the upper country, occasioned by long and heavy rains. The heat had been so very oppressive in the city, more so, it is said, than it had been for 15 years. The deaths from the 22d to the 28th of June were 52, three of which were by malignant fever. A man who had been confined in a dungeon under the mayor’s office, called the black hole, for resisting a constable, died of suffocation. – Nat. Intel. [submitted by Nancy Piper]

MANGLED BY A DUMMY-A DISASTROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE CARROLLTON LINE.
On Saturday morning, at about half past eight, Mr. Gabe Caryialls and a man known as Charley, (formerly gardener for Dan Hickok) were driving down St. Charles avenue, in Carrollton, and at a point about midway between Hillary and Adams streets, met Carrollton Railroad dummy No. 8, driven by C. W. Dodd, and bound up, there being in the car but two passengers, a gentleman and his daughter.
At the sight of the dummy, the horse manifested signs of fright, and all at once making a plunge he jumped toward the dummy and into the ditch which there divides the roadbed from the shell load—both highways being about level with each other.
Almost Instantaneously with the horse's leap, the right wheels of the carriage went into the ditch, and turning the vehicle completely over, threw the occupants upon the railway track, directly in front of the engine, which at that instant swept over the spot.
The events here related were so quick in their movement, that from the time the men were cast beneath the wheels of the dummy it seemed but an Instant. It was all done in a flash, and it was simply a matter of human impossibility for the driver of the engine to avert the calamity which, followed. Before he could know, it, before he could raise an arm to prevent it, the men were under the wheels
When the victims were picked up it was found that Mr. Caryialls had a leg broken, but none of his hurts are considered mortal. Charley's injuries are, however, more serious.
He was badly crushed in the right side, one of his ribs was broken, and his head terribly lacerated. Both men were conveyed to their homes in Carrollton and at once placed under competent surgical attendant.
Late last evening the unfortunate man died of his injuries.

submitted by Barb Z