Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-10-05
A TIDAL WAVE.
Mobile, Ala, Visited by a Destruc-
tive Gale.
Considerable Loss of Life and Great Dam
age to Property-Wading Through
the Streets-The Storm in
Louisiana.
Storm at Mobile.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 3.-A southeast
gale broke here yesterday morning
about o'clock the wind blowing at
least fifty miles an hour. The wind
blew 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 main river height There is
no possible chance of estimating the
money damage. All the wholesale and
agricultural portion of the retail dis
trict of the city is some four feet under
water, and thousands of dollars worth
of goods have been damaged.
The pilot boat Ida Low was driven
on the wharf at the foot of st. Francis
street. The bay boat Heroine was
driven on the Mobile e Ohio wharf and
almost totally wrecked. The Crescent
City, another bay boat, left Point Clear
at the same time the Heroine did yes
terday morning and has not since been
heard from 1t is reported that three
dredges working the channel have been
lost. 1t is also reported here that
some so miles of the Louisville & Nash
vile road along the coast is 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 Mobile will be entirely
cut off from the outside world when
darkness comes. In this city houses
have been unroofed, trees blown down
and one cotton warehouse has sue
cumbed to the fury of the gale. All
the smokestacks of all the manufactur-
ing industries have been blown down.
Street car traffic has been wholly sus-
pended because of the damage to the
electric wires, and the city will no
doubt be in darkness, as the waves
were fast encroaching on the electric
light works The busiest thorough
fares in the city are being navigated in
boats and persons wading up to their
arm-pits in order to save their goods
Z 1t is conceded by all to be the worst
storm that has ever visited Mobile.
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.
Dredge No. 5 turned over near the
lighthouse and three men were thrown
lntO the angry waves AT SreaG peril
the crew of the tug Captain Sam
steamed to the rescue and saved two of
the men. the other being lost. An un-
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.
Louisiana Caught 1t.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 3.-Reports of a
serious accident have been received
from Pointe La Hache and vicinity.
The steeple of the courthouse and the
Catholic church were blown down dur
ing the storm Several houses were
wrecked, and it is said that four per-
sons were killed. Almost every planta-
tion on the lower coast has suffered.
1t is reported, that three children were
killed in one of the little settlements
below NTapuOlia DlautatiOn