The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-06
The Vessels and Shipping Sustain Immense
Damages. Several Schooners Wrecked.
SHUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE WORLD.
Railroad Washed Up and Telegraph
Wires D0wn-NO Malls for Three Days.
Pascagoula Beach Washed Up to the
House Fronts -Houses Destroyed.
Mill Men Among the Great Sufferers Al
most Total Destruction Of Beach and
River Fronts. Vessels Ashore.

be soon forgotten by the people alonI
Mississippi Sound. Nothing in tn
way Of a strong Sou'easter ever aI
preached this coast with as much We
locity and duration as did the on
that swept this section Monday morn
ing. This coast has for years ant
years enjoyed a perfect immunit.
from destructive gales, and this on
was a complete surprise to the mos
worthy weathervane. 1t began t,
blow during the night and worked in
to perfect storm of wind and rain a
about I O'Clock arm, increasing grad
ually until about 10 o'clock. Puff af
ter puff was accompanied by sheet!
and flames of rain, as If the entir,
Pascagoula bay was being emptied or
the land, and all backed up by an EN-
bryo Kansas cyclone. For about two
hours no one dared to brave the fury
of the roaring, seething and tempest.
uous elements. The torrents of rain
flooded everything, the ground hat
become so softened that trees were
uprooted promiscuously and without
any apparent resistance.
Since 1860 has there been such a dis
astrous visitation On this coast 0
anything in the storm calendar. II
was bowling hurricane and the dam
age it wrought cannot be approxima
ted.
The damage to Scranton Wa great
numbering among the heaviest losses
the Methodist and Lutheran Churcl
buildings, which were both leveled tt
to the ground in bursting the walls
and every part to pieces-total wrecks
the destruction of Tony Gatti's
foundry and machine shop, the cavine
in of the roof of Mead Bros. mill, the
loss Of the tin roof off Capt. p. Feore's
residence and the damage done to the
Odd Fellows Hall in knocking the
building about two feet out OF plumb
The Lutheran school building neal
the Lutheran Church was lifted of
its pillars, and the residence of Mr.
Chas. Hudson, near the Pascagoul;
Ice Factory, shared the same fate
There was a general wrcckage among
the buildings and lumber piles at
Farnsworth Lumber Company's mill
and all along the liver front batl
houses, wharyes and everything less
than houses and strongly rooted trees
were easy victims to the mad vino
and waves, and were scattered alone
shore in Il perfect mass of debris. The
old oyster saloon on the river at the
foot of Delmas Avenue, partially sue.
cumbed, the front part entirely gone.
Drifts of logs, hewn timber, shingles
and general rubbish were washed
ashore and piled uncercmoniously
with fclled trees, boats and skifs,
The schooner Mary Theresa was
blown across the river from Irving's
mill and ran high and dry on the op.
posite shore. The steam launch
Mascot, at Farnsworth's wharf went
to the bottom of the river; Harbor
Master Brash's schooner Fred S. fol.
lowed the Mascot's example and went
down. Two charcoal schooners, the
Webb and Franklin were in the river
and at the general wind-up the Webb
was found capsized in Irving's lake
and the Franklin is high and dry on
the railroad dump several hundred
yards below the bridge with cargo in
tact. The water swept over the
whole of Lowry Island and swept
away every vcstige of railroad track
between Scranton bridge and West
P~ascagoula. The track iron and
cross-ties were left somewhere in the
marsh and the roadbed badly washed,
The brig Mary G. Mariner that was
lying in the river was carried in the
marsh near the bend and is now high
and dry.
At Frcntz's ship yard the schooner
Palos was grounded the pilot boat
Matte George had her stern smashed
and the Fairwind, the schooner that
had such a disastrous experience in
the gulf several weeks ago, was put
across the ways and is damaged ire,
parably.
The schooner independence wa.
capsized at Mead's boom. The Dove
was carried ashore at Frentz's. The
charcoal schooner Amelia was landed
across the railroad dump midway be
tween Scranton and WestPascaguola
The damage to fences and outhouse'
was considerable; the colored Baptist
Church down on Pascagoula street
rendered unsafe, the colored Baptis,
Church on Jackson avenue was almos'
a total wreck, and the new A. NJ, e
Zion Church on Jackson street wa
demolished. S. r. ThompsOn's stor,
front and the Ice Factory each receiv
ed some damage.
The lighthouse at the mouth of tn,
river suffered greatly. 1t was badl,
cracked, the interior drenched an,
the range lights smashed.
On Greenwood Island everythin,
bowed to the god of Jove, and tn
Norwegian bark Pheoba al ashorv
with a heavy loss to rigging.
George Delius had a close call hi
house was destroyed, aud ii took har,
work to save his family. Loss, $3.50.
One of the remarkable incidents O