The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-03
Mobile, Ala. Under Four Feet of
Water.
GREAT DAMAGE is DONE.
The Worst Storm Experienced in
Ninety Years.
Many People Are Homeless-The Burning
of the Farnham Theatre in Omaha
Attended by Loss of Life and
Big Money Damage.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. "a terrific gale
struck this 'section of the country, com
ing from the southeast before daylight
this morning. and this afternoon was
still blowing over fifty miles an hour.
Water was blown in from the gulf until
the river reached Royal street, few
blocks from it and at an elevation OF
about fifteen feet from the main river
heights. There is no way of estimating
the money damage. Tonight ali the
wholesale and large portion Of the re-
tail district OF this city is four feet under
water, and thousands of dollars worth Of
goods damaged.
Several tugboats and other small craft
were driven ashore, and it is reported
that three dredges, working on the chan
mel, have been lost. 1t is also reported
that fifty miles of the Louisville & Nash
vile road, along the coast, are under
water, and that Biloxi bridge mas been
swept away.
Nothing is 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, everything will be gone
before late at night in the way OF wires.
the civ many houses dTc u4IOOl6u,
one cotton warehouse destroyed and much
minor damage has been done. The smoke
stacks of all manufactures have been
blown down. Street car traffic is totally
suspended because of the damage to the
electric wires.
The busiest thoroughfares of the city
are being navigated in boats, and as this
dispatch is sent q p. M. people are
wading up to their arm pits trying to save
their goods.
It 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 bombarded. The towers on
the court house and Christ church are
tottering.
Two men are known TO nave Deen
drowned so lar.
Nearly every bathhouse along the vest
ern shore was blown down, and at Nor
gan's an attendant was swept away with
five lighthouses and drowned. Magnolia
warehouses were blown down ana two
unknown negroes drowned in the cotton
yards.
The magnificent oaks all over the city
are laid low and the earth is covered with
leaves whipped from the trees by the fierce
tempest. The houses all over the city are
unroofed and fences blown down.
It is simply impossible to give the de-
tails tonight, as there is no way OF ascer-
tanning them. Nothing was heard from
the eastern shore nor from the market
gardeners in the marshes.
The storm st this writing III p. NJ
has abated and the waters receded. There
=, not 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 storm reached its height about 8
p. M, when the wind reached velocity
Of seventy five miles per hour.
Rain has been falling in torrents the
entire day and tonight the city is IN dark
ness and not an electric light OF any kind
is burning.
The bay steamer Crescent City dragged
her anchor and went ashore on the beach
below the city. The crew was saved.