New-York tribune., 1901-08-17
WATER REcEDEs AT MOBILE.
NO LIVES LOsT-MUcH DAMAGE WROUGHT
BY THE STORM

Mobile, Ala. Aug. 1S-The Gulf storm. which
began with wind and rain on Wednesday, reached
its severest force about O'Clock on Thursday the
maximum velocity Of the wind being sixty-two
miles an hour Considerable damage was done in
Mobile in the way OF uprootng trees, unroohng
houses and topping ohimneys. The water was
backed up by the southeast gale over the cotton
wharf, and Front, Commerce. Water sts. and part
Of Royal-st. FOR several blocks north of St An
thony-st were covered. The water was eighteen
inches deep in the Cotton Exchange. and the West
Union and Postal Offices were flooded The
power houses Of the electric railway were flooded,
and the electric car service was stopped after
O'Clock All business in the wholesale district was
suspended. Care had been taken TO elevate goods
on temporary platforms, and the grocers suffered
little loss. The grain men caught 10 some ex-
tent Owners Of cement lost twelve hundred barrels
The tracks Of the Louisville and Nashville South
ern and Mobile and Ohio railroads pass through
Commerce-st.. and were under water, traffic, of
course. being stopped. The Mobile and Ohio is
operating trains from Whistler. ten miles out. and
the Louisville and Nashville received train this
afternoon at Magazine Point from the north. No
afternoon and night trains came over that road
from the south. and are expected tonight.
The bay boats made their morning trips from the
eastern shore Of the bay 10 Mobile. but no after
noon trips were made TO the other side. They went
up the river when the storm and took refuge
behind Twelve Nile Island
The schooner George +. Bentley, Captain Ed
wards, sailed few days ago for Cienfuegos, but,
meeting the storm, put back, arriving here yester-
Cay. The schooners Mary E. Morse and Mary E.
Judge sailed Monday. and have il is feared been
involved in the storm. hTe fruit steamer Espaha
from Puerto Cortez with General CabeI on board
due yesterday. but waited outside and came
in to-day. reporting heavy weather. The schooner
Asa T. Stowell, bound from Havana to Pascagoula
outside Thursday morning. and when
caught in the storm put into this port Her an
chors would not hoo, and she drtfted all the way
W the bay and lies upright on the fats of Little
Island, opposite the city. small schooner laden
with FIVE hundred barrels of rosin for New-Or-
leans. was overturned at the rosin wharf. The
tugboat Venture sank al this wharf
The pleasure yacht Mayhower with Joseph Nc
PhiIps Mr. and Mrs. william PattisOn.. Miss
Retta Heutis and Miss Marie Davis on board.
Thursday. The party took refuge in small house
there. and were rescued to-day by a searching
Several yachts and naphtha launches owned here
canning factory at Bayou la Batre the south
An the wharves and lighthouses at Port Clear.
eastern shore Of the bay. washed away The
Bay Shell ROAD, the noted drive on the western
saa9re OF ne bay was washed out for distance
oi bail mile and the entire road is covered with
One Afe wss lost in this city. and four people
supeTihiendent Charles Marshall Of the New
Orleans division Of the LouisVe and Tssbyt NgM
road reached Mobile on a hand car at a m re-
work train from the Montgomery division had bY
the time repsireo he damage above the city and
superintendent was not able 10 say when trafHc
would be resumed.
PEOPLE PASS A MISERABLE NIGHT.
while the storm not so severe as the record
breaker of 1892, there was much excitement among
the people because of recollection Of the great
damage by the earlier storm The people feared =
repetition OF that disaster and spent a nlsera Bile
night. Out Of doors every one was thoroughly
drenched BY the heavy rain that was blowing al
most horizontally The rainfall was 5s4 inches An
incident Of the afternoon was the appearance of
vic DuA IN The streets. He was chased by men
anc boys. The animal turned and chased them
however, goring one man. Charles Wacker badly
The bun Was shot by the police al 7 o'clock after
being IN possession OF the streets for three hours
The steamboat Lady Jane went 70 the rescue OF
the truck gardeners who live IN the marshes he
tween Mobile and Spanish rivers In the flood OF
lsss the people there suffered greatly and half a
oozen were drowned. The Lady Jane rescued ell
mat could be reached and brought them 10 the
city one marsh dWeer and his family named
stauter ten IN sll spent the night in an open boat
near hie house and rowed the city this morning
De does not think anything is left Of his place
The other marsh people returned to-day. News to-
nlght IS that the pleasure yacht Ariel bound for
Fish River. with Robert and Winthrope Halet, Of
Mobile and some others on board. pounded 10 pieces