The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-05
MOBILE SUBMERGED


District Four Feet Under water. While
the Terrific Wind spreads Destruction
MolifF, Ala, Oct IA southeast
gale broke licte this morning about y
o'clock, and the tind' has been in
creasing in velocity ever since until az
this hour q p. ny it is blowirg at the
Fate of az least fifty miles an hour The
baroiief~r Is still falling. The w,nd
has blown tJ;e water in front of the
gulf until the river has reached Royal
street, which is four blocks from the
river and on an elevation Of abont fit@
tcGh feet from the mean river height
There fs no possible chance of Sstt"
mating the motley damage. All the
wholesale and great portion of the
retail district of the city 10 some four
feet under water, and thousar rfds ~ dol
| lars worth of goods damaged.
Tte pilut boat Ida Low has been
driven tti tIr~ wharf at the foot of st.
| Francis street.
The bay boat Heroine was driven on
the Mobile & Ohio wharf and almost
totally wrecked. The Crescent City,
another bay boat, left Point Clear az
| Che same time the Heroine did this
inofrirg end has not since been heard
from.
1t is reportHd that three dredges
working in the CHANNEL have been lost.
1t is also reported here that some fifty
miles of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad along the coast is under wa
ter. and that the Biloxi bridge has
been swept away.
Nothing has been heard from the
gardeners in the marshes east Of the
city, and the worst is feared. Tcle-
graphic communication is cut off in
almost every direction and from the
present outlook Mobile rilt he entirely
cut off from the outside Wprld when
dark comes.
In this city, houses have been I'm
footed, trees blown down and one cot
ton warehouse has succumbed to the
fury Of the gale. All of the smoke
stacks OF the manufacturing indus
tries have been blown down. Street
car traffic has been totally suspended
because of the damage to the electric
wires, and the city will no donbt be in
darkness tonight as the waves are fast
encroachng on the electric lighs
works, which may be under water In
another Hour.
The busiest thoroughfarcs of the
city are being havigated in boats, and
people are wading Tip t0 their arm pits
in an effort to save goods. 1t is re-
garded by all as the worst storm that
has ever visited Mobile.
The southern part of the city pre-
scnts such scene Of wreckage that it
looks as il it had been bombarded.
The towers on the courthor and
Christian church are totterink.
Dredge No. : turned over ncar the
lighthouse and three men were throwis
into the angry waves. AZ great peril
the crew of the tug Capt. sam steamed
to the rescue, and saved two OF the
men. the other being lost. An I'm
known white man lost his footing
while wading from the Union depot at
the foot of Government street, and was
swept under the bridge and drowned.
Further Particulars.
MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 3.-Tlc storI
reached it's height IL midnight, when
the wind reach a velocity of sevcnty-flyc
miles an hour. From that hour the
fury of the gale began to decrease and
Int WlIlu IilihB'' ii'lii
southeast to west. The rain had fallen
in torrents the entire day. Tonight
the city is in darkness, and there is no
electric light of any kind burning.
The bay steamer Crescent City
dragged her anchor seven miles and
went ashore on the beach between
Arlington and Monroe park, about
three miles below this city Capt Frank
Lumsden and his solitary passenger, IL
coal broker named Lewis Donnell, PIT
on lfe.prescrvers and swan safely
ashore through the angry waves.
Nearly every bath house along the
western shore is blown down, and at
Fort Morgan an attendant named ira
ham was swept away with hvc BATH
houses and drowned.
The Magnolia and Cooley's ware
houses were blown down, and two I'M
known negroes were drowned in the
cotton yard. Magnificent oaks all over
the city are blown down. Houses all
over the city have been unroofcd and
fences blown down.
Nothing has been heard from the
eastern shore nor the market garden
ers in the marshes, where it is expected
great damage to property and proba-
BIZ loss of life has occurred.
The storm at this writing Il a. IN. }
has abatcd, and the waters have re-
ceded. There is not II wire in the
Western Union office atfording inter
course with the outside world, and this
is written to be sent several miles out
of town, where it is hoped communica-
, tion may be established.
,
Practically Acquitted.
PITTsBURGH, Pa, Oct. 81 nitcd
c..z IN;,.,;ot h++orpn,, Hall IN Sat.