The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-03
MOBILE SWEPT BY A GALE.
Two Men Drowned Up to Noon and
Great Damage Done.

Men Wading Through Business
Streets Up to Their Arm Pits in Wa
ter-several Boats Blown Ashore.
Heavy Loss of Life in the Marshes
Feared-Boats Used in Navigating
the Streets of the City.
Mobile, Ala Oct. 2, p. ma south
east gale broke out here this morning
about o'clock, and the wind has been in
creasing in velocity ever since until, at
this hour, it is blowing at 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, and at an elevation of
about fifteen feet from the rivers usual
surface.
There is no possible chance of estimat-
ing the money damage. The wholesale
and 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
BOATS DRIVEN ASHORE.
The pilot boat Ida Low has been driven
on the wharf at the foot of St. Francis
street.
The bay boat Heroine was driven on the
Mobile and Ohio wharf and almost to-
tally wrecked. The Crescent City, an
other bay boat, left Point Clear at the
same time the Heroine did this morning
and has not since been heard from.
1t is reported that three dredges, work
ing on the channel, have been lost.
1t is also reported here that. some fifty
miles of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road 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.
Telegraphic communication is cut off in
almost every direction and from the
present outlook we will be entirely cut of
from the outside world when dark comes
HEAVY DAMAGE IN THE CITY.
In this city houses have been unroofed
trees blown down, and one cotton ware.
house mas succumbed to the fury of the
gale. All the smokestacks of all the man.
ufacturing establishments have been blown
down. Street car traffic has been totally
suspended because of the damage to the
electric wires, and the city will no doubt
be in darkness tonight, as the waves are
fast encroaching on the electric works
which may be under water in another
hour.
The business thoroughfares of the city
are being nayigated in boats, and parties
are wading up to their armpits in an effort
to save goods
1t is given up by all to be the worst
storm that has ever visited Mobile, The
southern part of the city presents scene
of wreckage as if it had been bonn
barded.
The towers on the court house and
Chr ist church are tottering.
TWO MEN DROWNED.
Dredge No 5 turned over near the light.
house and three men were thrown into
the angry waves. AT great peril the
crew of the tug Capt. Sam steamed to the
rescue and saved TWO of the men, the
other being lost.
An unknowu 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.
BLEW 75 MILES.
Mobile, Ala, Oct. 40 p. m.-The
storm reached its height about l p. m,
when the wind reached velocity of rs
miles an hour. From that hour the fury
of the gale began to increase, and the
wind gradually changed from southeast
to west. The rain has been falling in
torrents the entire day, and tonight the
Guy Is III udEhu6SS anu Gl6E6 Is uOB an
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 the
city on the western shore of the bay
Capt. Frank Lumsden and his crew and
one passenger, a cotton broker named r.
A Lewis, donned life preservers and
swan safely ashore through the angry
waves.
Nearly every bath house along the
western shore was blown down, and at
Morgan's, an attendant named Graham
was swept away with five bath houses
and drowned.
The Magnolia and Cooley warehouses
were blown down, and two unknown
negroes were drowned in the cotton yard.
Magnificent oaks all over the city are
laid low, and the earth is covered with
the green leaves whipped from the trees
by the force of the wind.
Houses all over the city have been un-
rooted and fences blown down, and to-
night it is simply impossible to give the
details. Nothing has been heard from
the eastern shore, nor from the market
gardeners in the marshes, where it is ex-
pected great damage to property and pos
sibe loss of life have occurred. The
storm, at this writing, 1has abated and
JO6 waters nave TeCeuGu-
There is not a wire in the Western
Union Office affording intercourse with
the outside world, and this is written to
be sent several miles out of town, where
it is hoped communication may be estab-
lished.
The loss of the Crescent City represents
81 200; Cleveland Bros, grain dealers, es-
innate their loss at between s., 900 and
81 600; one merchant lost 1000 barrels Of
cement, another / 900 sacks of salt; an
other quantity of lime. A large guam
tity of grain has been lost 1t viii be
several days before all the details can
possibly be known.
ALMOST A CYCLONE.
New Orleans, La, Oct. "A very high
wind storm. amounting almost to a cy-
clone, reached this city, doing great dam
age to telegraph and telephone wires and
causing considerable loss by blowing Off
tiles, etc. Patrolman Ulrick Bauer, of
the Boylan private police, was struck and
killed by falling bricks from an office
building at the corder of Tchopitoulas
street and the levee. No further loss of
life is reported