The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-10-06
FLOODED.

inE torrent, Many OF " hom Are swept
10 Their Death Iiarbor Craft Wrecked.
MOBILE Ala, Oct ga southeast
gale broke here Monday morning about
4 o'clock and the wind has been increas-
ing In velocity ever since, at times
blowing nt least fifty miles an hour
The barometer is still falling The
wind has blown the water in from The
gulf until the river has reached Royal
street, which is four blocks from the
river ind at an elevation OF about ff-
teen feet from the main river height.
Thereof no possible chance OF esti-
mating the money damage. All the
wholesale and great portion Of the
retail district of the city is some four
feet under water, and thousands Of I
dollars worth Of goods have been dam.
aged
The pilot-boat Ida Low has Teen
driven on the wharf at the foot Of st. 4
Francis street
The bay-boat Heroine was driven on /
the Mobile and Ohio wharf and almost
totally wrecked The Crescent City, an
other bay-boat. left Point Clear at the (
same time the Heroine did Monday
morning and has not since been heard
from
1t is reported that three dredges
working on the channel have been lost
1t is also reported 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 Tele-
graphic communication Is cut off in al
most every direction, and from the pres
ent outlook Mobile will be entirely cut
OIL from the outside world for some
time. In this city, houses have been
unrooied trees blown down. and one
the fury Of the gale. All the smoke.
stacks OF all the manufacturing indus
tries have blown down. Streetcar
traffic has been totally suspended be-
cause Of the damage to the electric
wires, and the city is in darkness Mon
day night. The waves are fast en-
croaching on the electric light works,
which will soon be under water.
The busiest thorouyhfares Of the city
are being navigated in boats, and par
ties are wading up to their arin-p.ts in
their efforts 20 save goods is con
ceded by all 10 be the worst storm that
has ever visited Mobile. The southern
part Of the city presents scene Of
wrrclare as II il had been bomburded
The towers on the court house and
Christ church are tot;eriEg
Dreige No turneI over near the
Lighthouse, aud three men were thrown
into the angry waves. At great peril
the crew Of the tug Captain sam
steamed 10 the rcscuc and saved two OF
the men, the other being lost An I'M
known white man lost mis- footing willie
wading from the Union depot az the
foot Of Government street, and was
swept under the bridge and drowned
The storm reached is heighth about
/ p. m, when the wind reached vc-
locity Of seyenty-dyc miles on hour.
From that hour the fury Of the gale
began to increase and the wind
gradually changed from southeast 20
west The rain has been falling IN
torrents the entire day and Monday
night the city is in darkness and there
is not an electric light Of any kind
burning
The hay steamer Crescent City
dragged her anchor seven miles and
went ashore on the beach between Ar
lington and Monroe Park, about three
miles below the city on the western
shore OF the bay. Capt Frank Iums.
den and his crew and one passenger, u
cotton broker named Il. Lewis, donncd
! life-prcScrvers and swan safely ashore
through the angry waves.
Nearly every bath-housc along the
western shore was blown down, and
at MorFan's an attendant named Gra.
ham was swept away, with Ave bath
thouses, and drowned
The Magnolia and Cooley's ware
houses were blown down, and two un.
known colorci men were drowned in
the cotton-yard Magnificent oaks all
over the ity are laid low and the earth
is covered with the green leaves whip
ped from the trees by the fierce w!nds
ilouscs all ever the city have
peen unroofed and fences blown
down, and Monday night it is simply
impossible 10 give details. Nothing
has been heard from the eastern shore,
nor from the market gardeners in the
marshes, where Il is expected great
damage 20 property, and possibly loss
! OF life, has occurred. The storm at
this writing 40 p M has abated, and
the waters have rccpdcd There is not
wire in the Western Union Office AZ.
, fording int recourse with the outside
, world, and this is written to be sent
! several miles out of town, where it is
: hopel communication may be estab,
lished
The less Of the Crescent City
represents 81. eO9. Cleveland Brothers,
grain dealers, estimate their loss at be.
tween 81, 00g and $1,000 One merchant
lost thousand barrels of cement, an
other a thousand sacks Of salt, another
n quantity OF lime. A large quantity
: OF grain has been lost 1t will be sever,
! al days before details can possibly bc
known,
Newspapers sued.
TRENTON, n j., Get S-The Mon,
, mouth Park association filed ,lcclara'
:, tion in the supreme court Monday
! morning in libel suit for $4,000.
: against the New York Tribune and
!. New York Times for the publication in
J these papers that the park was gam
bling hell
Costlv Altar Servlce.