More than a century before Hurricane Katrina, residents of coastal Louisiana were battered by a monster hurricane. According to some accounts, the hurricane of 1893 was the deadliest ...

Grand Isle, LA (WVUE) -In late 1893, Gulf Coast community of Cheniere Caminada must have seemed a paradise. Caminada, just east of Grand Isle, was something of a boom town, providing fisheries to ...

According to lore, Cheniere Caminada's chapel bell began pealing on its own as an unexpected and devastating hurricane blew ashore on Oct. 1, 1893. The town's priest, Father Ferdinand Grimaud, was ...

The 1893 storm best known for virtually obliterating Cheniere Caminada also devastated low-lying communities along the Terrebonne coast. One account of such destruction is preserved in a newspaper ...

Known locally as the "Great October Storm of 1893,” the hurricane killed an estimated 2,000 people, making it one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history, and effectively washed Cheniere ...

Wendell Curole’s family has been part of the Louisiana coast for five generations, but as he explains, hurricanes have forced the family to move north on several occasions. Originally, the ...