The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-13
. Terrible Gale Around
About the Gulf.
TgE BLOW CAUSES HIGH TIDE
rurf TaIk-ImpOrtant Bauk Case
Eupting for a Home in the Pen
other News Notes.
Gale.


coast report q gale prevailing all day
m the Mississippi Sound. The Steamer
G6alnsett, from New York, which arrived
Yesterday, reported that she came by
the inside route, along the Florida coast
and encountered heavy easterly gales,
with heavy rains. From Tortugas to
Port Eads, heavy gales were experien-
ced with high irregular seas. On Sun
day, October 10, she encountered several
hurricanes, lasting seven hours, and
hacking from east to north, thence
bowling to the south. The seas ran
high continually, flooding the vessels
deck and also her state-rooms fore and
Aft. Lake Is de Chartrain was filed
with water from the Gulf, and the gale
Yesterday from the same direction
caused an increase of the lake tide
water. overlooking the marshes in rear
Of the city, and filing the canals bank
fnU A break in the old basin leYee on
Proad street, was reported at midnight
last night. The velocity of the wind
was IS to 40 miles, and increasing.
The easteTly gale continues. But
little damage has been done in the city.
The lake and Shell roads are sub
merged. Mienburg and Spanish Fort
are flooded. At Shell Beach the water
ige foot deep on the railroad track; the
Inhabitants have nearly all left for the
civ The Louisville & Nashville road
from Nicbeaud to Pearl Rivers inun.
dated. and several bad Washouts are re-
ported. The company is making eff
forts to keep the rails in line. The tel
egrsph wires along this section of the
road are all down.
GALVESTON, October 12.-The storm
which was reported by the signal ser
vice as entering the Gulf of Mexico last
Saturday night, reached Galveston to.
dav and at this times PIMA furious
Gale is blowing from the north, symp-
toms of the coming storm were ap-
parent last night and a brisk breeze
which set in at an early hour
this morning has gradually in
creased until it is now blowing
forty-fYe miles an hour. The tide on
the gulf side of the island has been very
high ever since Saturday, and the
waves were so powerful to-day that
they washed along the streets for i've
SQUARES right in the hight of the gale
from the north. The extraordinary
tide is undoubtedly due to the hurri-
cane prevailing in the West Indies. The
gale has done much towards
checking the encroachment of the gulf
on the island on the bay side of the
CITY. The water is very high, and is
washing over the docks. The damage
to the shipping will doubtless be heavy,
as half a hundred large steamers and
sailing vessels are pounding against
the Wharves. The water is con-
stantly rising in the bay and
is encToaching on the city for q square
or so, but no danger is apprehended or
damage to business property. Two
barges from Houston, each laden with
one thousand bales of cotton, are being
submerged by the waves, and the
cotton will be ruined. Along the gulf
side the waves have torn out
the street railway track and submerged
several houses. The barometer has
fallen so points since z o'clock this
morning, indicating that the storm
centre is very near Galveston.
Telegraphic communication with
the main land will probably
be entirely suspended before morning as
the gales seems to increase In velocity
every moment. Since sunset the wind
has shifted slightly to the west. The
storm is now coming from the north
west and is blowing fercely.
MOBILE, October 12.-The storm last
night was heavy along the coast and
vessels were detained from sailing. The
tide rose higher than ever before known.
The telegraph Office at Fort Morgan at
the entrance to Mobile Bay was flooded
and the operator reached dry land by
swimming. Thirty New 0rleans-bound
passengers are dsbained here by the
Washout on the Louisville q Nashville
Railway, this side of New Orleans.
GALVESTON, October 12.-The gale has
increased in velocity and at this hour
lO.5O .. m, is blowing from the north
west at the rate of fifty miles an hour.
The barometer has ceased falling, and
II Is thought the storm has reached its
maximum. The water on the bay side
: sui rising, but no serious damage TO
BUSINESS property is possible, so long
d The wind holds its northwest course,
as It Counteracts the strong inf1OWing
nigh tide. The tracks of the Gulf OF
colorado and Santa Fe Railroad have
Deen washed away and it is possible
mat daylight may reveal a good deal OF
damage along the wharYes.
A special to the TimeS-Den1OcrGt from
mississippi Quarantine Station, says:
One OF the most terrific and damaging
hurricanes since 1850 prevailed in this
4nelghborheod yesterday and last night.
Tor 80 consecutive hours the wind
OleF e regular hurricane from the
northeast, driving tae waters
NON the bay, and destroying the pro-
Perty Of the unfortunate inhabitants OF
tnls place who had hardly become
Ieeonciled to their hard fste, having no
orange crop this year, caused by the
tHsaVy frost of last year. This latter
trouble, however, would have been sur
counted had it not been for this
us strous storm. which leaves q
5Ilalorlty Of its most industrious end
deserving people almost penniless. This
S'oIm, or more properly called
SScyclone, was Of such violence as to
Iear away the old levees Of seven years
sanding, carrying destruction to the
iaSe nee plants. Last night all the in
+naoltants Of this place waded the dis
"a ta4Ge OF amile in water three feet deep,
~ me United States custom house foI
ss;1aG:t5clon. DR.. Abey, quarantine ply
'''-@A' and his family, were driven from