With fierce competition in the timber industry the Schlösser brothers quit the business and converted to farming.

For several decades the export of Frenier sauerkraut to the French Market and Chicago served as the main source of income for these families.

Some of the locals sought refuge in the railroad depot, which collapsed during the hurricane and killed the 25 people hiding inside.

[6][7] Some of the surviving locals began telling stories of a voodoo priestess named Julia Brown that predicted the event.

[8] Survivors said that a few weeks before the hurricane arrived she began sitting on her front porch rocking back and forth while playing her guitar and singing: When I die, I take the whole town with me.