mph (215 km/h), making the storm equivalent to a low-end Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Hurricane force winds began to spread onshore at dusk on October 1 and at around 08:00 UTC (3:00 a.m. CDT) on October 2 the hurricane made landfall on southeastern Louisiana near Cheniere Caminada at peak strength. Weather instruments in the path of the storm were all blown down or destroyed, leaving no surviving complete record of the winds and rain associated with the landfalling hurricane. While not directly measured, a central barometric pressure of 948 mbar (hPa; 27.99 inHg) was estimated by the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory to have accompanied the hurricane at landfall based on extrapolations from later measurements. The hurricane was likely small upon making landfall, with the estimated radius of maximum wind being smaller than the average Atlantic storm at a similar intensity and latitude. The center of the hurricane then passed between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Port Eads, Louisiana, before making landfall on the coast of Mississippi near Ocean Springs later on October 2. The storm had weakened by the time of its Mississippi landfall, with weather observations indicating that the storm's maximum sustained winds had declined to around 110 mph (175 km/h), making the storm comparable to a modern high-end Category 2 hurricane upon its encounter with Mississippi. A central barometric pressure of 970 mbar (hPa; 28.64 inHg) was recorded onboard the schooner B. Frank Neally at Moss Point, Mississippi; a period of near-calm coincided with the lowest air pressure. The storm then weakened as it progressed inland, diminishing into a tropical storm as it tracked over Georgia and the Carolinas. It reached Cape Hatteras and continued out to the Atlantic by October 5 where it later dissipated. The storm or its remnants may have persisted afterwards; the barque Comorin encountered a storm at an unspecified location along its voyage from Hamburg to Bermuda between October 7–9 that may have been a continuation of the Cheniere Caminada hurricane. Impact According to the National Hurricane Center, the Cheniere Caminada hurricane killed around 2,000 people, of which approximately 1,100–1,400 occurred onshore. Contemporaneous enumerations of the fatalities provided death tolls ranging between 1,884 and 2,448, including 779 deaths in Cheniere Caminada, Louisiana, and 250 deaths in Grand Lake, Louisiana. Most of the deaths occurred in southeastern Louisiana, particularly around the Mississippi River Delta and