Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-03
TELEGRAPHlC.
WIND AND WAVES.
A Terrific Gale Strikes Mobile, Ala,
and Other Places
RAIN FALLING IN TORRENTS.


MOBILE, Ala, Oct. IA tetfihc
gale struck this section Of coun'ry'
coming from the southeast before
dayllghtthls morning, and this ei'oi'
noon II was still blowing over my
miles an hour. water was blown III
from the gulf until the river reach'l
ROYAL street, four blocks from II ana ~
An eleyatlsnoi about fifteen feet from
the main river heights. Rllthe whole'
sale and large portion Of tue re'ail
districts Of the city IL four feet unusr
wntsr. aud thousands Of dollafS worm
OF goods are damaged,
1btsc dfedges working ON tho chan
nal have been lost. Finy miles OF Tue
I.oulsyiile A Nashville road along Tue
coast are under water anu biloAi
Jrldgo han been swept away, tue re-
toft says. Telegraph comuunlo"''Oh
il cut oii In almost ovory difucuoh'
la the city many houses were un.
ryofeI, and tho smoke stacks OF al Wv
manufactures have boon blown uoNn'
The street car tfaflc II totallS ru',
PENDED. Tho businesa thotoukhl ~, ~, "
ihr city ire being navlgnlsI III uV ~.
and as this dispatch 10 sent 70 p,m' ~
people arc wading up 70 1he.i u,,.iP ~
trying to rave goods. IL 10 conVtus ~. W
Thn storm reached iia height about 2
nm yhen tire wind reached n velocity
~ srventy.iiye miisn per hour. lhe
min was falling In torrents the enut,
Inv and touig nj the city Ia In darkness
and NOT an electric light OF any kind j.
burning, Tho hay steamer Cfesconl
civ dragged her anchor ana VEN
ashore on ihe beach below the city. Inc
crow were saved. 49,.
Nething il heard from the eastern
shors. nor from the market gardeners Va
the mafshcs. At IL Pun. the storm
nbatcd. and toe waters roccdud,
INV ORLEANS, La, Oct. s'-HA
goyernpr Mnrmouth aud family cam'
h. town to-day from their Mhgnohi
fIantntiou. because OF the havoc
,rfourbt by the storm sunday Ih'
furiuug wind tore such n number o
slates from the great plantation hous'
that tic upper part OF the house wa
dnoJed by rain md all the other prop
CIV on the plantation badly dam god
The arrange crop all along the lowe
coast haa aufipfed inoalculablc injury
Fnit literally strevs the ground.
R.rorts OF seriuua accidents are 10
criy,L from poiuto Le Haohe am
Vicinity. Governor Yarmouth SAL
the sto1m WAS tho worst experiences
In Louisiana siuce ISL.
Durlng the high wind and rsinssorn
Sunday night and Monday the Louii
willie 4 Nashville suffered the mo-
disastrous wAshout In the history
the Tonl. The line IL impassable eat
of Chementeur, eighteen miles itot
New Orleans, for distance OF elBl
teen miles, and from the statements
trainmon II ~ learned mat tho emu
line 10 Mobile suffered grtally'
As far "a can be learned, tweniy'lol
or more persons IN this vicinity WeI
killed Rnd probably three uin's
many wounded, some lalnlIyi peslu,
DESTROYING "A large amount OF proper
ut New Orleans.
IN, large market, which crushed sew
rnI igrge buildiuga In TO fail; the Bu
dette mission church; the cotton var
of the Northeastern railroad, the Col
man boilsr chop anu the Pythian IA
a number OF other buildings were u
below the city the results OF =
stofm arc inr wouo. In flAquonl
pafish the wind reached o velocity
iUO miles an hour. In Justice paris
At Polnto La Haohici TOW
of 1000 inhabitants, not hot
ESCAPED injury. Four grown pofs,u
and several children were klll'
Among the killed arc Miss Leo
Frauche aud Mrs. T., LAVanderr, q
Of the most prominent ladies IN I
city, In the Immediate vicinity on
deaths are reported, and still thif'e
othois In he country below
When the news from the dul' c9'
IL received It IL feared the mortar
list will be- greatly Increased, u
loss 10 the orange Industry IL eslimA'
At over s85O,O0O. The loss l. W
heavy in other crops and property,
the news IL too vague TO yet form e'
mates as TO the amount.