The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-17
fierce TROPICAL STORM
DEALS GREAT DISpeT TER
Most Damage Was Done to Shipping and It Is
Believed Few Lives We're Lost
Mobile the Chief Sufferer, Where the High Flood Was
Accompanied by a Hurricane.

Mobile, Ala. Aug. 16.-The tropical
storm which came up out of the south
Wednesday and increased in force dur
ing the day following. is believed to
have been the severest in the vicinity
of Mobile. The highest wind blew at
the rate of seventy miles an hour for
some time Various reports Of the
drowning Of men in the bay have
reached here, but it is impossible to
confirm them, owing to the complete
demolition Of all means Of cOmmunlca-
ton.
The pleasure yacht Ariel, bound Cor
Fish river with q party Of Mobile no
pie on board, is reported to have
pounded to pieces on the wharf at Bat
ties on the eastern short OF the bay
Nothing has been heard of the crew.
The pleasure yacht Mayfiower of this
city, with a party of prominent people
on board, reported as lost this morning,
has been heard from All on board
found refuge on Cat island, but the boat
was wrecked.
Nothing has been heard from Fort
Morgan. Two companies Of the coast
artillery are stationed here. The bar
racks undoubtedly .ceiVed the full
force Of the blow.
No communication can be had with
any of the islands in the Mississippi
sound, just outside the bay. forty miles
below here All the news concerning
the fate of the islanders must come by
boat, and this is anxiOusly awaited
The fruit steamer Harald. from
Puerto COrtez, arrived late tonight. she
reports speaking two-masted schooner
sfxty-ffve miles southeast Of this port,
totally dismantled The captain Of the
schooner declined assistance.
Logging Camps Suffer.
Logging camps and mills have sUf-
fered considerable loss by the break Of
bOOms. Saw logs and squared timber
drifted into Mobile all day, much of 1t
coming up on Royal street. three blocks
from the water front.
The Dixie sawmill and the mill Of
Hiercymus brothers, located at Maya
zine Point, were badly damaged, parts
OF the plants being blown away.
Much damage was done in Mobile IN
the way OF uproOting trees, unrOohng
houses and topping chimneys. A fall
ing wall demolished the rear end OF
! Charles AIObr & Sons drug store, 10l
Dauphin street, badly damaging his
stock
The food water was backed by the
I southeast gate over the cotton wharf
Z and Front. Commerce and Water streets
and part of Royal street, several blocks
4 north of St. Anthony, were covered Inc
/ water was eighteen inches deep IN tne
! cotton exchange, and both the Western
Union and Postal offices WeT6f hooded
/ The power houses OF the electric rail-
way were flooded. and electric car ser
vice was shut down after 3 O'Clock All
+ business in the wholesale district was
: suspended.
I Care had been taken to elevate lower
! floor goods upon temporary platforms,
/ and the grocers suffered little loss. The
! grain men were caught TO some extent
/ Owners Of cement lost 100 barrels
Railroad Traffic Interferred With
The tracks OF the Louisville & Nash
! vile. Southern & Mobile & Ohio pass
{ through Commerce street and were IN
! der water, traffic of course being
E stopped entirely. The Mobile & Ohio
/ IS operating trains from Whistler. ten
miles out. and the Louisville & Nash
/ vile received one train during the
afternoon al Magazine Point from the
I north No afternoon and night trains
+ came over that road rom the south, and
none is expected -Onight. The bay
/ boats made their morning trips from
/ the eastern shore OF the bay to Mobiek,
but no afternoon rips were made to
/ the other side.
/ The steamer Asa T. Stowen, bound
! from Havana to PascoUgala, was out
side on Thursday morning, and when
/ caught in the storm put into this port
! Her anchors would not hold and she
drifted all the way up the bay and lies
/ upright on the flats Of Little island, Op-
pOsite the city. A small schooner laden
/ with 500 barrels of rOsin for New Or
/ leans overturned at the ROsin wharf
+ The tug boat Venture sank at this
| wharf.
! The pleasure yacht Mayfiower, with
/ Joseph McPhiIiips, Mr. and Mrs. Will
/ liam Pattison. Miss Retta Heustis and
. Miss Marie Davis on board, was blown
upon Cat island, Mississippi sound,
/ Thursday afternoon. The party took
( refuge in a small house on the island,
4 and were rescued today by d searching
/ party.
! Several launches owned here and at
POrtersville are reported wrecked, and
/ the canning factory at Bayou La Batre-
on the southern shore, is damaged All
! the wharves and bath houses at Port
/ Clear. eastern shore of the bay, were
washed away
J The Bay Shell road, the noted drive on
! the western shore of the bay. was
( washed out for a distance of half mile,
and the entire road is covered with logs
/ and driftwOOd.
From the Fowler river, on the western
/ shore. it is reported that the schooner
! Marguerite was taken up bodily and
/ left high and dry on the beach. y ames
/ Mcmahon and four other men were on
; board Mcmahon says house on Dol
Dhfn island was washed away. and
; afterward found in the woods. Nothing
is known as 20 the fate OF the Occu-
pants.