1831 Barbados -Louisiana Hurricane

Category 4 hurricane, killing 1500 people, most persons died because of the storm surge or crushed under collapsed buildings. Barbados was in ruins after the hurricane. No house in the island escaped the impact of storm being either torn down of their foundations or being unroofed, leaving many families without shelter

Destructive to lives and property in every corner of the island. The Government House-unroofed and nearly destroyed. Many ships were driven on shore, these ship wrecks on the beach mingled with the ruins of the bay.

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