Steamer Magnolia ~ 3-4 October 1877

Believed to have been the same storm observed over St. Vincent and Grenada on September 21, this long-lived and violent hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico and moved inland near New Orleans, Louisiana on October 2. It moved northeastward across North Carolina just east of the mountains, causing a terrific storm in the vicinity of the Albemarle Sound. The attendant floods carried away all bridges and wharves in that area and seriously damaged crops remaining in fields. The steamship Magnolia foundered off Hatteras, and ships were wrecked all along the Atlantic coast northward to New England.