Connecticut western news., 1893-10-05
Great Damage at Mobile.

MOBILE, Oct. 3-A southeast gale broke here yesterday morning, and the wind in-
 creased in velocity for several hours. It blew at least 150 miles an hour. The wind has blown the water in from the gulf until the river has reached Royal street, which is four blocks from the river and at an ele- vation of about 15 feet from the mean river height.
 There is no possible chance of estimating the money damage. All the wholesale and 8 great portion of the retail district of the city is some four feet under water, and thousands of dollars worth of goods have been damaged. Y. ~.i - The pilotboat Ida Low has been driven on the wharf at the foot of St. Francis street. The bay boat Heroine was driven on the Mobile & Ohio wharf and almost to-
 tally wrecked. The Crescent City, another bay boat, left Point Clear at the same time
 as the Heroine, and has not since been heard from. a n '|' r. ..4.
 It is reported that three dredges working
 on the channel have been lost. It is also reported here that some 50 miles of the Louisville and Nashville railroad along Biloxi bridge has been swept away by the gale. Nothing has been heard from the gardeners in the marshes east of the city, l and the worst is feared.
 The City In Darkness.
 Photographic communication Is broken in almost every direction, and from the pres ent outlook Mobile will be entirely cut off for 8 time from the outside world. In this city houses have been unroofed, trees blown down and one cotton warehouse has suc- cumbed to the fury of the gale. The smoke stacks of all the manufacturing industries have been blown down. Street car traffic
 has been totally suspended because of the damage to electric wires, and the city was | in darkness last night, as the waves en- | croached on the electric works The busiest thoroughfare of the city is being navigated in boats, and parties are wading up to their armpits in an effort to save goods. It is given up by all to be the worst storm that has ever visited Mobile. l The southern part of the city presents 8 scene of wreckage as if it had been bonn. | barded. The towers of the courthouse and | Christ church are tottering.
 Dredge No. 5 turned over near the light | house, and three men were thrown into the waves. At great peril the crew of the tug | Captain Sam steamed to the rescue and | saved two of the men, the other being lost An unknown 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.
 | Fury of the Gale Increased.
 The storm reached it's height about p
 m., when the wind attained velocity oi
 75 miles an hour. From that time the fury
 of the gale began to decrease, and the wind | gradually changed from southeast to west | The bay steamer Crescent City dragged her anchor seven miles and went ashore or | the beach about three miles below the city l Captain Frank Lumsden and his crew and
 one passenger, a cotton broker named R l A. Lewis, donned life preservers and swan
 safely ashore.
 | Nearly every bathhouse along the west | ern shore was blown down, and at Morgan't | an attendant named Graham was swept | away, with five bathhouses, and drowned l The Magnolia and Cooley's warehouses | were blown down and two unknown ne | groes drowned in the cotton yard. Magnifi
 cent oaks all over the city are laid low, ant | the earth is covered with green leave. | whipped from the trees by the winds
 Houses all over the city have been unroof | ed and fences blown down.
 The storm abated at 10 p. m., and tn,
 waters receded. There is not a wire in tn,
 Western Union office affording intercours,
 with the outside world. It will be severa
 days before the loss can be known.