The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-10-10
MOBILE DELUGED.
WATER DRIVEN IN FROM TIE BY
FAIs UI IN TIE CITY.
Steamers Wrecked and the Number LOT Lost
Unkno1n-The WIND Blew AT the Eate
of IS Miles an Uour--LaJer News.

Mobile, Ala. October 2.-(Special.)-A
southeast gale broke here this morning
about / O'Clock and the wind increased III
velocity until at / o'clock. 1t was blowing
at least fifty miles an hour The barom-
eter was still falling. The wind had blown
the water from the gulf until tae river had
reached Royal street. which is four blocks
from the river and ut an elevation of about
fifteen feet from the main river height.
There is no possible chance 10 estimate
the money damage. All the wholesale and
great portion of the retail district OF the
city is some four feet under wafer and
thousands of dollars worth Of goods have
been damaged.
The pilot boat, Heorinc, was driven on
the Mobile and Ohio wharf and almost to-
tally wrecked The Crescent City, another
bay boat, left Point Clear ut the s;lne time
the Heroine did this morning aud has not
been heard from until tonight. 1t WAS
reported that three drcdges working ON
the channel have been lost. Ii Is also re
ported here that some fifty miles OF the
louisville and 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. Tclegraphic com
municatiou is cut off i'll almost every d.
rcction. All the Smokestaclls of all the
manufacturing industries have been blown
down. Street car traffic was totally Sll$-
pended ut midday because Of the damage
To the electric wires
Ihe Nrew had To Swim for 1t.
The bay steamer, Crescent City, dragged
her anchor seven miles and Went ashore
on the beach between Arlington and Mon
roe park about three miles below the city
ON the western shore of the bay Captain
Frank LumSdcn and his crew ana one
passenger, Il cotton broker named Il. \.
Lewis. donued life preScrvcrs and swan
safely ashore through the angry waves.
Nearly every bath house along lie west
en- shore was blown down and at Morgans
an attendant named Graham WAS swept
away with FIVE lighthouses and
drowned The Magnolia 4 Cooliy
warehouses were blown down and
two unknown negroes were drowned in the
All the Wires Down.
There is not Wire in the Western Mon
office affordiug intercourse with the outside
world and this is written To be sent Sey-
cral miles out Of town where if is hoped
communication may be established The
loss of the Crescent City represents Sl2tFD;
Cleveland brothers. grain dealers. estimate
t'ltir bys IL between $1,000 and 600
One merchant lost thousaho barrels or
cement. another a thousand sacks Of salt
and another Il quantity of lime a large
quantity of grain has been lost.
1t will be several days before al the de-
tails can possibly be known,
A-llos in the ~heiI Road.
Mobile, Ala, October s. Special J.
The beautiful shell road which wound
along the western shore of Mobile bay
Tor It distance of nine miles is almost
total wreck involving 4 loss-lf II can
he replaced at all. which is extremely doubt
ful-hat will take an outlay of between
$4,000 to $l0,GtO. 1t is washed out and
where the road once wound around the
bends of the shore there is nothing but