Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-10-19
UNDER WATER.
The City OF Mobile Meets with a
Dire Calamity.
Streets Deeply Flooded. Boats Wrecked,
Houses Unroofed. Telegraph Wires
Destroyed-Seversl Lives Lost
Wind at New Orleans.
eRFAr DAMAGE Done.

gale broke here Monday morning about
o'clock, and the wind. blowing at
least 50 miles an hour sent the water
in from the gulf until the river reached
Royal street, which IS four blocks from
the river and at an elevation OF about
Is feet from the river level. All
the wholesale and portion If the re-
tail district OF the city is some feet
under water and thousands of dollars
worth OF goods have been damaged
SEVERAL BOATS WRECKED.
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 & Ohio wharf and
almost totally wrecked. The Crescent
City, another bay boat, left Point
Clear at the same time the Heroine
did in the morning and has not
since been heard from 1t is re-
ported that three dredges working on
the channel have been lost 1t is also
reported here that some 30 miles of the
Louisville Il Nashville railroad 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
HOUSES UNRooFED.
In this city houses have been un-
rooted, trees blown down and one cot
ton warehouse has succumbed to the
fury of the gale. All the smokestacks
of all the manufacturing industries
have been blown down Street
car traffic has been totally sus-
pended because of the damage to
the electric wires and the city win no
doubt be in darkness, as the waves are
fast encroaching on the electric works
The busiest thoroughfares of the city
are being navigated in boats and per-
sons are now wading up to their arm
pits in order to save goods 1t is now
conceded by all to be the worst storm
that has ever visited Mobile.
SCENES or wRECKAGE
The southern part Of the city presents
a scene of wreckage as if il had been
bombarded. The towers on the court
house and Christ church are lettering.
Dredge No. turned over near
the lighthouse 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 unknown white man
lost his footing v lille wading from the
Union depot at the foot Of government
stand and was swept under the bridge
and drowned
VELOCITY OF THE WIND.
The storm reached its height about 1
o'clock p. m, when the wind reached
velocity of % miles an hour. From that
hour the Jury of the gale began to in
crease and the wind gradually changed
from southeast to west The rain has
been falling in torrents the entire day,
and the city is in darkness and there
is not an electric light Of any kind
burning.
Nearly every bathhouse along the
western shore was blown down, and at
Morgan's an attendant named Graham
was swept away with five lighthouses
and drowned. The Magnolia and
Cooley's warehouses We're 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 Gov
cred with the green leaves whipped
from the trees by the fierce winds.
Houses all over the city have been I'M
rooted and fences blown down.
DAMAGE AT NEW ORLEANS.
New ORLEANS, Oct. "a very high
windstorm, amounting TO almost a cy-
clone, visited this city late Sunday
night, doing great damage to telegraph
and telephone wires and causing con-
siderable loss by blowing off tiles, etc
Patrolman Ulricl1 Bauer was struck
and killed by falling bricks from an
office building at the corner of
Tchoupetoulas street. No further loss
of life is reported.
The Louisville Il Nashville suffered
the most disastrous washout in the his
tory of the road. The line is impossible
east Of Chefmenteur, IS miles from
New Orleans, for distance Of Is miles.
and from the statements of the train
men it is learned that the entire line to
Mobile has suffered more or less Two
bridges are reported down-one at Bay
ST. Louis, Miss, and one at Biloxi,
Miss and traffic is entirely suspended.
Miles Of telegraph lines along the road
are down and communication has not
vet been reesta blished.
WORST STORM IN YEARS
Reports of serious accident have
been received from Point La Hache and
vicinity. The steeple of the courthouse
and the steeple OF the Catholic church
were blown down Several houses
were wrecked and it is said that four
persons were killed Almost every
plantation on the lower coast has SUI
fered
CHILDREN KILLED.
1t is reported that three children were
killed in one Of the little settlements
below Magnolia plantation Every
stick of sugar cane is down, but may
not be much damaged, as the cane :
liable to recover from the blow. GOV.
Warmoth said that this storm was the
worst experienced since 1911. The hur-
ricanc 81 1855 was not half S. violent
and I'D destructive.
Death N Z strau2e banner.