The record-union., 1893-10-03
Special to the REooRD-Ux1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
MOBILE (Ala.), Oct. "A terrible gale
struck. this section of the country, COM
ing from the southeast, before daylight
this morning, and this afternoon it was
still blowing over fifty miles an hour.
Water was blown from the gulf until the
river reached Royal street, four blocks
from it, and at an elevation of about fif-
teen feet from the main river hight.
There is no way of estimating the money
damage tonight. All the wholesale and
a large portion of the retail district of the
city is four feet under water. and thou
sands of dollars worth of goods are dam
aged. Several tugboats and other small
craft were driven ashore, and it is re-
ported that three dredges working on the
channel have been lost.
1t is also reported that fifty miles of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad along
the coast is under water and that the BIZ
loxi bridge has been swept away.
Nothing has been heard from the garden
ers in the marshes east of the city, and
the worst is feared. Telegraph commu-
nlcatlon is cut Oft in almost every direc-
tion, and from the present outlook every
thing will be gone before late at night in
the way of wires.
In the city many houses were un-
rooted. One cotton warehouse was de-
stroyed and much minor damage has
| been done. Smokestacks of all the man
ufactories have been blown down. Street
car traffic Is totally suspended, because of
the damage to electric wires. The busiest
| thoroughfares of the city are being navi-
gated in boats, and as this dispatch is
sent e P. NJ people are wading up to
their armplts trying to save goods.
1t IS conceded to be the worst storm
ever known here. the southern part of
the city presents a scene of wreckage as
If it had been bonn barded. The towers
on the Courthouse and Christ Church are
tottering. Two men are known to have
been drowned so far.
The storm reached it's highest about 8
P. NJ, when the wind reached a velocity
OF seventy-five miles an hour. Rain was
falling in torrents the entire day. and to-
night the city is in darkness, and not an
electric light of any kind burning. The
steamer Crescent City dragged her anchor
ana went ashore on the beach below the
city. The crew was saved.
Nearly every bathhouse along the west
ern shore was blown down, and at Nor
gan's an attendant was swept away with
i've bathhouses and drowned. Magnolia
and Coley's warehouses were blown
down and two unknown negroes drowned
in the cotton yard. Magnificent oaks all
over the city were laid low, and the earth
is covered with green leaves whipped
from the trees by the fierce tempest.
Houses all over the city were unroofed
and fences blown down.
1t IS simply impossible to give the de-
tails tonight, as there is no way of ascer-
tanning them. Nothing has been heard
fro hn nnctG chn AZ
market gardeners in the marshes. The
storm at this writing I'll P. NJ has abated,
and the waters receded. There is not "a
wire in the Western Union office afford
ing Intercourse with the outside world,
and this is written to be sent several miles
out OF town, where it is hoped commune
cation may be established.
RAILROAD TRACKS WASHED OUT.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.-During high
wind and rainstorm Sunday night and
Monday the Louisville and Nashville suf-
fered the most disastrous washOut in the
history of the road. The line is impossible
east of Chefmenteur, eighteen miles from
New Orleans, for distance of fifteen
miles, and from statements of trainmen
it is learned that the entire line to Mobile
has suffered greatly.
SEVERE STORM IN LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2.-Ex-Governor
Yarmouth and family came to town to-
day from their Magnolia plantation. be-
cause of the havoc wrought by the storm
on Sunday. furious wind tore such q
number of states from the roof of the
great plantation house that the upper part
of the house was flooded by the rain, and
all other property on the plantation was
badly damaged. The orange crop all
along the lower coast has suffered incal-
culable injury, the fruit being literally
strewn on the ground.
Reports of a serious accident have been
received from Pointe La Hache and vicin-
ity. Much property was destroyed and
four people are said to have been killed.
Almost every plantation on the lower
coast suffered. 1t is reported that three
children were killed in one little settle
ment below Magnolia.
Nearly all the sugar cane is down, but
NAV not be much damaged, as the cane
is liable to recover from the blow. Gov
ernor Yarmouth said the storm was the
worst ex perienced in Louisiana since 1911.
The storm was one of the worst which
ever visited this section, and as far as
can be learned twenty-four or more per-
sons in this vicinity were killed, and
probably three times as many were in
/ iured, some fatally, besides destroying a
| large amount of property at New Or
leans.
THE AUGUST HURRICANE.
| PHILADELPHIA, Oct. AT the Marine
| Exchange to-day it was stated that the
! August hurricane was the most destruct-
i've in the history of the country. The
marine underwriters value the property
| loss to sailing vessels at over $4,000, 900.
| The loss of life is placed at 564 Forty
vessels foundered, eighteen were aban-
doned at sea, forty-six stranded, 130
damaged and the fate of nineteen is un-
| known. The Atlantic Coast from Maine
| to North Carolina is in dangerous con-
dition on account of floating weckage.
ROARING MASS OF FLAMES.
! Farnham Theater at Omaha Destroyed
by Fire.
! OMAHA (Neb.), Oct. 2.-While the stage
hands at the Farnham Theater were set
ting the scenery for the production of
"Waifs of New York." just before
o'clock this afternoon, piece of canvas
caught fire from a gas jet and in very
short time the whole inside OF the theater
was a roaring mass of flames. The whole