Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-07
FLOODS IN THE SOUTH.
A Furious Gale from the Gulf mandates
the city of Mobile, Causing Great DAM
age-High Wind at New Orleans Wrecks
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age-Hgh Wind at Now Orleans Wrecks
Buildings and Destroys Plantations,
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 3-A southeast |
gale broke here Monday morning about
4 o'clock, and the wind, blowing at
least so miles an hour. sent the water
in from the gulf until the river reached |
Royal street, which is four blocks from |
| the river and at an elevation of about |
10 feet from the river level. All |
the wholesale and portion of the re-
tail district of the city is some 4 feet |
under water and thousands of dollars
worth of goods have been damaged.
The pilot boat Ida Low was driven
on the wharf at the foot OF st. Francis
street. The bay boat Heroine was
driven on the Mobile II Ohio wharf and
| almost totally wrecked The Crescent
| City, another bay boat, left Point
| Clear at the same time the Heroine
did in the morning and has not
since been heard from. 1t is re-
ported that three dredges working on
the channel have been lost. 1t is also
reported here that some 80 miles of the
Louisville e. Nashville railroad along
the coast are under water and that the
Biloxi bridge has been swept away by
the gale. Nothing has been heard
from the gardeners in the marshes east
of the city and the worst is feared
In this city houses have been un-
rooted, trees blown down and one cot
ton warehouse has succumbed to the
fury of the gale. All the smokestacks
of all the manufacturing industries
have been blown down. Street
car traffic has been totally sus-
pended because of the damage to
the electric wires and the city will no
doubt be in darkness, as the waves are
fast encroaching on the electric works.
The busiest thoroughfares of the city
are being navigated in boats and per-
sons are now wading up to their arm
pits in order to save goods. 1t is now
conceded by all to be the worst storm
that has ever visited Mobile.
The southern part of the city presents
scene of wreckage as if it had been
bombarded. The towers on the court
Dredge No. 5 turned over near
the lighthouse and three men
were thrown into the angry waves.
AT great peril the crew of the
tug Capt Sam steamed to the rescue
and saved two of the men, the other
being lost. An unknown white man
lost his footing while wading from the
Union depot at the foot of government
stand and was swept under the bridge
and drowned.
The storm reached its height about
o'clock p m, when the wind reached a
/ velocity of 75 miles an hour. From that
; hour the fury of the gale began to in
crease and the wind gradually changed
from southeast to west. The rain has
, been falling in torrents the entire day,
i and the city is in darkness and there
is not an electric light of any kind
/ burning.
, Nearly every bathhouse along the
i western shore was blown down, and at
Morgan's an attendant named Graham
was swept away with five lighthouses
; and drowned. The Magnolia and
: Cooley's warehouses We're blown
: down, and two unknown negroes
were drowned in the cotton yard
= Magnificent oaks all over the city
d are laid low, and the earth is GOV
cred with the green leaves whipped
! from the trees by the fierce winds
Houses all over the city have been un
n rooted and fences blown down.
+ New ORLEANS, Oct. "a very higl
4 windstorm, amounting to almost cy
clone, visited this city late Sunday
e night, doing great damage to telegraph
and telephone wires and causing con
g siderable loss by blowing off tiles, etc
3 Patrolman Ulricll Bauer was STRUCK
e and killed by falling bricks from al
Q office building at the corner o
:, Tchoupetoulas street. No further los
of life is reported.
: The Louisville & Nashville suffered
i the most disastrous washout in the his
y tory of the road The line is impassabl,
J, east of Chefmenteur, IS miles from
2. New Orleans, for a distance of 10 miles
=, and from the statements of the train
- men it is learned that the entire line t,
10 Mobile has suffered more or less. Tw'
h bridges are reported down-one at Ba,
!, st. Louis, Miss, and one at Biloxi
= Miss.-and traffic is entirely suspended
ID Miles of telegraph lines along the roa
le are down and communication has no
X yet been reestablished.
n. Reports of a serious accident hav
been received from Point La Hache an
vicinity. The steeple of the courthous
and the steeple of the Catholic churc
10 were blown down. Several house
We're wrecked and it is said that fou
s. persons were killed. Almost ever
g plantation ON the lower coast has SUI
fered.
TX 1t is reported that three children wer
n killed in one of the little settlement
IN below Magnolia plantation, Ever
is stick of sugar cane is down, but ma
L ha do ba
10 liable to recover from the blow. Coy
IN Warmoth said that this storm was tn
N worst experienced since 1911. The hun
he ricane of 1883 was not half so violer
a and destructive
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