The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-16
MOBILE CUT
 ;" OFF BY STORM
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 ing with the same relentless fury that had been the order since morning, and the tracks on Commerce Street, in Mo- bile, were under water. There was wa ter all the way from Magazine Point into Mobile, but the main trouble seem- ed to be at Chickasabogue. and Three Mile Creeks.
 Train No 5, which left here at 7:so o'clock yesterday morning. went through to Mobile. This is the tram which does the local work between here and New Orleans. Train No. l is C fast through train carrying the connec- tion brought into Montgomery by the Southern Road from New York and | the East, and the Louisville and Nash vile from Cincinnati. This train car ried a through dining car and several Pullman cars, so that the passengers will not suffer as long as the supplies In the dining car hold out. There were 1 forty-three passengers on this train. | eighteen for Mobile and twenty-five for points beyond. Conductor Walter Scott and Engineer Albert Mason were Tn charge of this train.
 A telegram was started to H. G. Bar clay, General Agent of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Mobile. in structing him to send conveyances to Magazine Point and take the passen- gers off the tied up train into Mobile. Just about this time the railroad wires | beyond Magazine Point went down and 1 the Western Union wires were tried, but none of the wires of that company were working. The mefsage could not be sent.
 The Dixie Lurnber Mills. two miles north of Mobile. were blown down, and 1t is reported th1t several of the em- ployesa were killed. Nothing definite is known, however. as 1t was impossible to get C. wire through to Mobile.
 The New Orleans Division.
 The effect of the storm on the New | Orleans Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad seemed to be fear | full. Chef Menteur appeared to be the principal sufferer. Chef Menteur Is station twenty miles east of New Or | leans. It is not very far from Bay St. Louis, and in the midst of the marshes with which that country Is filled. The last message received from there was yesterday afternoon. The message said that the citizens of Chef Menteur were congregated in the depot into which water was running in streams, and the probabilities were that they would be washed away.
 l A local train was tied up at St. Cath crime, ard the sender of the message said that If possible he would send the tram % t0e TeIleL OL me SneL NenleuI | people. Whether he succeeded or tot is not known.
 | At Pennington there was an ocean tug anc barge which the sender of the | message said could be secured. but whether 1t was secured or not has not been heard.
 The Chef Menteur bridge was unsafe, and the track at the sixteen mile post was washed away completely. ntx,.. AIn nA taI A,,A here at 6:15 and 6:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, were not sent out of New Orleans.
 Sent Out Relief Train.
 At ' o'clock last night a special trs in made up of an engine and caboose, left here in charge of Conductor John Hous ton. Superintendent Mckinney ard Master of Trains Mizell were n board. A lot O. section and bridge men iIUm Montgomery were taken down and mLre were picked up between here and Tlo- mdton. All the avaiiaule sea,tpl rien have. already been sent to Magazine PoInt.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon a train made up of an engine, two day coaches and a caboose, was started out of Flomaton to do the local work of train No. between there and Mont gomery. It arrived here about mid night.
 Train No. for the south, leaving at | 9:S0 o'clock left on time last night, but no tickets were sold beyond Flomaton Through passengers were informed that the train would not go beyond Flom- aton and at that pla oe he train will be turned and started back to Mont gomery as train No. ?. due here at 6:10 o'clock this morning. The running cf | trains between here and Mobile or New Orleans is problematical. Nothing can | be learned until the extent and scope of the storm has been made known.
 Trouble on the Southern.
 The Southern Railway seems to be having trouble, caused by thu storm.
 The Western Railroad train No. 35, due here yesterday morning at 10:55 o'clock diG not arrive until 3:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon and it was a made-up train. Train No. 35 connects with the Southern train arriving in At 1 lanta at o'clock in the morning and after waiting on 1t until Il o'clock the Western trainmen made up train and sent it to Montgomery.
 Last nights Western train due here at 9:2O o'clock. arrived at o'clock this morning. The cause of the delay was due to waiting on the Southern h Atlanta.
 Chief Engineer Montfort and General | Manager Evans of the Louisville and 1 Nashville road will reach here on train l