in Plaquemines Parish; the Weather Bureau reported that over 1,500 of those fatalities were the result of drowning. This death toll ranks the hurricane as the deadliest in Louisiana history andalongside the Sea Islands hurricane earlier in 1893as among the deadliest to ever strike the continental U.S., eclipsed by only the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The swath of coastal damage spanned , extending from Louisiana's Timbalier Bay eastward to Pensacola, Florida. The hurricane exacted its greatest impacts in southeastern Louisiana between New Orleans and Port Eads. There, the combination of high winds and storm surge wrought significant impacts, including the complete destruction of property and much of the area's crops such as orange, sugar, and rice; around 60 percent of the orange crop in Plaquemines Parish was destroyed. Crop damage was considerable on both sides of the Mississippi River and outlying islands were stripped of their vegetation. Scores of buildings were destroyed, leaving behind only their foundations while the residual debris lay scattered. The damage toll associated with property losses amounted to around $5 million. The storm brought with it a significant tidal surge that swept across southeastern Louisiana. The storm tide at Cheniere Caminada reportedly reached high. Storm tide heights also reportedly reached high along the Chandeleur Islands and along Louisiana's other bays. However, modeling conducted by the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory using the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes model (SLOSH) indicated that a storm with the estimated intensity and size of the hurricane could only produce at most a storm tide reaching in height. Nonetheless, the storm surge was sufficient to inundate much of low-lying southeastern Louisiana. Though instrumentation in the storm's path failed to withstand the intense conditions, observers in southeastern Louisiana estimated winds exceeding at Pointe à la Hache and on the Chandeleur Islands. Cheniere Caminadaat the time a fishing village with a population of around 1,500bore the brunt of the storm. The New York Times reported that Cheniere Camianda and Grand Isle had "shared the fate of Last Island" and that the resulting disaster had surpassed the 1856 Last Island hurricane. The Thibodaux Sentinel described Cheniere Caminada as having been "swept out of existence." The storm surge had submerged Cheniere Caminada under of water within minutes, cresting to a depth of around . Over half of the community's residents perished in the hurricane, either swept away by the