The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18
DAMAGE is KNOWN
STORM SWEPT SECTION NOW IN
COMMUNICATION.
PRINCIPAL LOSS IN PROPERTY
NO VERIFIED REPORTS of Loss OF
HUMAN LIFE.

inc SArHhueu new NOrk-fensaCOAa
Steamer Evelyn Resting Easily
and Will BE Saved-Considerable
Loss to Property at Military Post
in Lower Bay-Dissemination of
Weather Bureau Warnings So
Thorough That Full Preparation
Was Made for Disturbance.
Mobile, Ala, Aug. 1.-THE Gulf
coast from Pensacola to New Orleans
is at last under view, telegraphic COM
munication being re-established from
one point which is central. The gen.
eral report is that aside from damage
to wharves and bath houses, sail boats
and smacks. trees, outhouses and
fences, the instances of serious loss are
few. There has been no loss of life
as far as is known here.
A tug was sent down the bay from
Mobile to-day to investigate the con-
ditions on Mississippi Island. where
there are many small islands, and
about which some apprehension was
felt. The representative of the press
on board was instructed to report from
the first point with which
he could communicate, but
up to midnight nothing had
been heard from him. The steamer
Evelyn is ashore near Pensacola; the
schooner A. c. Stovall is stranded in
Mobile bay; the schooner Rice is dis
masted in the Gulf and has been towed
into Mobile bay; a three-masted
schooner, name unknown, has been
sighted in distress fifty miles outside
of Mobile harbor, and the American
bark Julia is ashore and capsized on
the south beach of Horn Island These
are the marine disaster so far as known
tonight. The warnings of the ap-
preaching storms were SO thorough
that neadly every place in this region
was prepared.
The coast resorts suffered less dam
age than first reports indicated ac-
cording to adviceS received here. Point
Clear, Mobile Bay, the favorite resort
for this part of the state, lost a row
of bath houses and a part of the
steamboat wharf. Portersville on the
south coast suffered loss of a number
of pleasure craft and smacks. Bayou
LeBartre canning factory that was
most exposed to the wind, was mirac-
ulously protected by the waves wash
ing up a mass of oyster shells, that
served as a breakwater as well as a
wind break.
Pascagoula, Miss. had the full force
of the storm. Bester's cottage on the
beach was washed away. CAPT. Vol
ner Browns summer house went also.
The damage in bath houses and
wharves alone there is put at $4,000.
Several scows went adrift. one having
aboard lumber owned by the Dantzler
Lumber Company.
Moss Point, Miss, the sawmill town,
sustained heavy damage by logs be-
ing carried away.
At Biloxi, Miss, the beautiful new
club house was demolished, together
with several cottages. One fisherman
is reported drowned.
The most serious damage to Mobile
is the partial destruction of the ia
nous Bay Shore shell road. This drive
extends seven miles down the western
shore of the bay. 1t has been washed
out for a mile or more, the whole foun-
dation being carried off. and in its
place is a vast quantity OF tree trunks,
driftwood and saw logs. 1t will take
several months work to re-establish
the road and a longer time to get it
into its former perfect condition.